Singing with the drum is a remembering. A calling across time, weaving our voices with the echoes of those who walked before us. With every beat, we awaken the wisdom held in our bones, the memory carried in our blood.
The drum speaks, and our voi
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Why I Wake Early
Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who make the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and the crotchety –
best preache
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Because water is life, meditating with it can create a profound experience.
Our bodies are more than 50 percent water, so it makes sense that human beings have always considered water to be a sacred source of life and
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Auspicious Losar — Tashi Delek! May this year of the wood snake shed the skin of stale negative tendencies, freeing us to enable a positive collective future bringing merit, realization, love and harmony for all. Have confidence that our global re
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SOME THINGS WE CAN DO: Plant community food gardens (with flowers for butterflies and bees), Help your elderly neighbors, Organize local pot-luck gatherings and picnics, Play music in parks with others, Volunteer to help those who are suffering mo
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Welcome to this Mini Comprehensive Tarot Tutorial on Learn How To Read All 78 Tarot Cards in 30 Minutes!! A Lot Easier Than You Think by Maria Hayden from The Tarot Shop UK.
Maria has been teaching Tarot using her Unique Method of Image Association s
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HAPPY LOSAR, Tibetan New Year, to everyone. May this new year bring newfound freedoms for the flourishing of Tibetan culture, language, expression and religion. May there be an end to war and may all beings experience peace of mind. To cultivate p
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𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓. 𝐼𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑢𝑛ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠, 𝑑𝑜𝑔𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒.
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Black History is also American History!
"I am a human being.
I think everybody
is born with talent.
We all come from the
creator trailing wisps of glory."
~ Maya Angelou
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"The aim of [Indigenous] cultures is to let the whole world know that they too belong to the same family and to start caring for the land, for the environment, for the mountains and waterways and the trees and every other living thing on this ea
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Yeshe Tsogyel: The Mother of Tibetan Buddhism
Yeshe Tsogyel (Tibetan: ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ་) is one of the most revered female figures in Tibetan Buddhism. She is considered an enlightened dakini, the consort and principal disciple of Guru Padmas
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Tumi Bhaja re Mana is a mantra of great beauty and devotion. Chanting the names of God can be done inwardly or outwardly, with words or without, leading the heart to open to the Divine. Music by Manish Vyas.
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The "sarveshaam mantra" is one of the peace or shanti mantras
which may be used to invoke
harmony and tranquility
in the environment in which puja or prayers are performed.
This shanti mantra may be repeated three or eleven times, as time permits
Salutations to Lord Vishnu (Narayana) Vishnu, (from the Sanskrit root 'vish', to pervade) is the second god of the Hindu triad (see Trimurti) and as the preserver of the universe represents mercy and goodness. He is said to be the cosmic ocean nar
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Tibetan Buddhist Mantra - To eliminate not only pain of diseases but also help in overcoming the major inner sickness of attachment, hatred, jealousy, desire, greed and ignorance. Mantra chanted by Khenpo Pema Chopel Rinpoche from the CD 'The Bles
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When a female squirrel finds another baby squirrel, she gives him food and makes sure that he is an orphan and has no mother or father, she takes him gently feeds him, and makes him familiar with living with her and her young as if he were one of
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"There is a misconception that Buddhism is a religion,
and that you worship Buddha.
Buddhism is a practice, like yoga.
You can be a Christian and practise Buddhism.
I met a Catholic priest who lives in
a Buddhist monastery in France.
He told me th
This post is about common or European hedgehogs. They are a different species from an entirely different climate, this post doesn't apply to North America.
If you find a "dead" hedgehog during the cold months, do not bury it, do not throw it in th
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