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Search for Koreans origin leads to lake Baikal

Search for Koreans origin leads to lake Baikal

Bardo: life after death

Bardo: life after death

The doctrine of death and rebirth,  Bardo todrol, was born in Tibetan Buddhism. The information about it is presented in the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Death  is not the end, but the birth is not the beginning. Death means that the higher self “I”  leaves the gross body.
The term “bardo” refers to  “transitional state”  of consciousness and usually the state of existence intermediate between two lives on earth.



However, in a cyclic process of life-death-rebirth, there are four main types of Bardo, i.e transitional states of consciousness according to some schools in Tibet.

1. The first type of these states is Bardo of Birth, this is what we call life. It is also called Bardo of life.
Now we are born and live in the world of humans. Our individual karma, that is, the actions that we commit during our  present lifetime will determine the kind of world we will be reborn in our next lifetime.
Within Bardo of life we can distinguish three types of consciousness state: Bardo of sleeping state, Bardo of awaken state, and Bardo of meditative state.

2. Bardo of the moment of death is a state that lasts from the beginning of dying until the separation of the soul from the body.
Just before the death, the senses stop working, and this is  a sign of entering into the Bardo of dying. First, we no longer hear, then no longer see, then subsequently the sense of smell disappears, then the taste and the touch. After that, while we are still alive, our body begins to break down into four basic elements: Earth, Water, Fire and Wind. Upon the completion of this process we are considered dead.
However, after the death, the soul for a short time still remains in the heart center.

The seven laws of Hermes Trismegistus

The seven laws of Hermes Trismegistus

Hermeticism is associated with the personality of Hermes Trismegistus, who left the traces of his presence in different parts of the world for hundreds of years. In particular, he was the last king of Atlantis, a high priest in ancient Egypt and the one who contributed to the preservation and dissemination of ancient knowledge on Earth. Once during archaeological excavations researchers discovered some pottery smithers with strange inscriptions and deciphered them. These were the most ancient laws of humanity. And the most striking thing is that these laws still work in our times.  

The first law of Hermes "THE ALL IS MIND; The Universe is Mental." What does it mean? What is the mind ? Mentality is our thought forms. It means a presence of thought in any subject matter. Our planet is a thinking being. It does not matter whether you believe it or not. Try to imagine that there are thinking entities everywhere around you. Try to listen, to communicate with these entities. And see, what will be the result of this communication.

 The second law is the law of correspondence, "As below, so above. As above, so below. "
According to the second law, if you want to have something tangible in this world, your thought forms have to be clear and explicit. If you are not telling or defining clearly something, if you are not certain about your desires, they will never be fulfilled. Because the effect of mirror reflection is functioning here: "As below, so above. As above, so below. " So, if you have a disorder in your home and don't clean up, on mental level too you will probably be a mess. If you have a particular desire, it must be very clearly related to what you have on your physical level.

If you want to become a great writer, the desk you are working at should be in absolute order promoting your work: no dust, no dirt, minimum number of drafts, required books. When drafts are all over and get collected somewhere, you get chaos and it becomes difficult to move on. Suppose you have your own sewing workshop. You should clearly see what you are going to sew tomorrow, in a year or two. You need to be clear on the future of the workpiece, otherwise there will be no progress. If you store old dirty rags and do not find any use for them, it will stop your progress. In any business, you need to clearly see what you'll do. And do not wait for tomorrow, if you postpone all is gone.  

The third law is the law of vibration. "Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.”

seminarii online Inițiere în secretele Tarotului

 

Seria de seminarii online Inițiere în secretele Tarotului

Se bazează pe cartea “Inițiere în secretele Tarotului” de Raul Petrișor care va apărea curând.

Este o abordare din punct de vedere divinatoriu și hermetic.

Întreaga serie va fi ținută online prin webinarii cam o dată pe lună.
Pentru cei care doresc diplomă oferită de către Institutul Hermetic ca și Practician de bază cu Tarot trebuie să completeze toate temele de casă oferite, la fiecare seminar.

Pentru cei care pierd sau nu pot intra pe server online vor putea viziona înregistrarea atunci când timpul și posibilitățile o permit. Doar că nu vor putea dresa întrebări. In afara seminarului nu mai oferim suport, aceasta datorita timpului limitat și care trebuie direcționat eficient.
La terminarea tuturor serilor de webinarii online gratis ele nu vor mai putea fi accesat pe gratis și vor face parte din suport de curs plătit.
La sfârșitul fiecărui seminare se vor primi documente pentru tema de casa care trebuie completate și trimise.
Lector: Raul Petrișor


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Happy New Black Water Snake Year 2013 !

Happy New Black Water Snake Year 2013 !

On February 11, 2013 Buddhists around the world celebrate New Year according to the Buddhist calendar, the year of the Black Water Snake.  Tibetan New Year, or Losar (sometimes known as Losar Gyalpo – Imperial New Year) is celebrated for a maximum of 2 weeks, sometimes more, sometimes less.

Usually, during these days you can see many interesting things like animals and ritual dancing skeletons, black hats dance, dance with swords, battle stages between good and evil, fire performances and a mystery spectacle Tsam, with different historical and mythological characters.

For Buddhists Losar is the sacred period that should be devoted to family, feasts and celebrations. In order for the coming year to be successful, at the end of the finishing year it is good to do a spring cleaning in the house and paint it with fresh paint.

Homes are decorated with lights, and the roofs of homes with decorative umbrellas and prayer flags. The walls, pillars and beams of the house, and even the yard are decorated with drawings made of a special paint with flour or batter.

They represent different characters that are bringing luck such as the moon, the sun, or a flower or a vase. Also to decorate people use small flashlights and juniper branches, attached to the door. People throw out of their homes last year’s debris and junk, as it is considered a bad thing to enter the New Year with old trash and dirt.

In some areas, people make in advance a small sculpt,  a small figure named Linga, tying to it  pieces of expensive cloth, ribbons, coins and all sorts of decorations. Then, all family members perform a special rite, conjuring spirits of grief and unhappiness to  enter into Linga. On the last day of the last month of the old year a specially invited Lama comes, he takes the figure and burns it in a specially prepared fire.


To entertain family and friends, Tibetans bake mountains of cakes, and also some special buns for a divination, which are stuffed with a variety of items: chips, chunks of coal, scraps of paper, yak hair, medicinal roots, rice and even lumps of manure, or salt.

If a person finds a paper in his bun  in the coming year

Princess of Altai Mountains

Princess of Altai Mountains

Mountain plateau Ukok is located in the south of the Altai Mountains at a height of about three kilometers above sea level  and has long been considered a sacred territory.

The plateau borders with Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazahstan. According to indigenous Altai tribes, exactly here, at the foot of the great mountains Tavyn Bogdo Ola, the mountainous  world, the second layer of the heavens begins.

Even today modern day Altai residents believe that this is a a closed area,  which can not be disturbed in vain, and if a person comes into this place with bad intentions, his family will have an  inevitable punishment.
Local residents are afraid to go up to the glacier, firmly believing there are living spirits there and consider the mountains to be sacred. Any form of regular activities is prohibited, except for the ritual ones, which is allowed only for the shamans.


It is difficult to get here, from a helicopter you can see a breathtaking, beautiful and eerie view with giant, towering boulders, steep cliffs, and the river Ak-Alah. Perhaps there is no other  place in the Altai more fantastic and unearthly than this one.

There is the following explanation of the name of  Ukok plateau, in Mongolian uheg literally means extended cabinet, drawer, a massive mountain or large hill with a flat top.

Ukok in Kyrgyz language is used to describe  mountains with flat peak. The word “Ukek” was used as the name of the city in the ancient Bulgar kingdom, the ruins of which were found near Saratov.

Burial complexes on Ukok Plateau also have a sacred character. It was here, near the border with China, the researchers found a buried mummy of a young woman, who was probably revered as goddess during her lifetime. On her left shoulder there is a well-preserved tattoo with a depicted sacred symbol, the Altaic griffin. This wonderful lady was named the Altai Princess.

What makes this burial unique is that six chestnut horses were buried together with the woman … According to Chinese mythology, these horses were called cylin heavenly horses that were able to take a man to ascend to dizzying heights.

They were a mixture with a griffin and were associated with the image of the Mother Goddess, who gave birth to the whole human race.
The vestment of the woman is also very unusual. Her clothes were made of fine silk, and  framed with thick red belt.
Archaeologists believe that this is the sign mark of a warrior and of an initiate. Her tall hat with golden complex decorations says of her magic power, according to ancient beliefs she was a keeper of secrets of creation and immortality.
Local residents claim that they have always known about the burial on the plateau Ukok and their ancestress named Kadyn, but did not dare to disturb her sacred dream.
The ancient Greek historian Herodotus, a contemporary of the mysterious Princess, was writing about Scythians, the tribes inhabiting the mountainous Altai, who were able to shape-shift into griffins guarding the gold. These unknown beings were very tall and had  an unearthly appearance.
Herodotus says that the Scythians had their kings, which were governed by

Throat singing by Choduraa Tumat

 

Throat singing is a singing technique with an unusual articulation in the pharynx, and / or throat, characteristic of traditional (especially religious) music of Siberia, Mongolia, Tibet and some other nations.

Usually throat singing consists of a basic tone (bass “buzz”) and the upper voice, which moves in the natural tones of the scale (usually using 4 – 13 overtones).


Overtones are clearly audible when when sound components amplify  by changing the shape of resonant cavities of the mouth, throat and pharynx.
This allows the singer to produce multiple tones.

The most famous is the Tuvan throat singing, using technique horekteer. Often throat singing  in Mongolia and Tuva is called khoomei, as it is the most common and internally diverse singing style by region.
Throat singing is typical for

Lake Baikal ice music

Lake Baikal ice music

An unusual musical event was held on Lake Baikal in Olkhon district. A group of musicians from the studio “Etnobit” played ice plates for  4 hours on the frozen waters of world’s oldest and deepest Lake Baikal .

Natalia Vlasevskaya, team leader:

- Sometimes if the condition is right ice plates sound better than drums. We didn’t do any rehearsal before. It was a pure improvisation. You would not get an ice plate under your arm and would not carry it with you to a concert hall. Baikal ice music is divine and it can be heard only here and now in full communion with nature. We played here for four hours and we could not stop. It is so incredibly energizing!

Project participants are hoping that this will promote the new trend of winter recreation on the lake. They hope playing Baikal’s  ice music will become as popular as  skiing, snowboarding and snowmobiling.
 

Hambo Lama Itigelov. After death meditation Tukdam.

Hambo Lama Itigelov. After death meditation Tukdam.

The unique story of “life after death” of this Buryat lama began in 2002, after the third exhumation Itigelov Hambo Lama’s body (1852-1927). During his last meditation Itigelov gathered his disciples and asked them to begin  Tibetan prayer for the dying. The students didn’t dare to start so their teacher  did and told his disciples that he was going to leave this world, and asked to be taken from his grave after 75 years and to make sure that he continues to live. The last words of Hambo Lama Itigelov were: “I’ll get back to you in 75 years.”

After the opening of the sarcophagus in 2002, in the presence of Russian Buddhist leaders and medical experts, everyone was stunned to find Itigelov Lama, still sitting in the same ‘lotus’ position, which he took 75 years ago, before going into his last meditation. Not only that he is perfectly preserved, the body retains all the characteristics of a living body, such as, for example, soft and elastic skin, the mobility of the fingers and elbows. After Lama was taken out from the box in which he was buried, his body remained in a sitting position without any aids or supports.


Now it is already ten years that have passed since the “return” of Lama, and his body, its biological age is close to 160 years. He is now in Ivolginsky datsan, in a glass sarcophagus, which is not regulated by the temperature or humidity. His body still shows no signs of decay, which is confirmed by many experts from various countries, who have come to the conclusion that the body of Itigelov meets all the criteria of the body of a living person. It was also confirmed that the body was not subjected to any mummification or embalming.

His caretaker Bimbo Lama c

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Trovants, the living stones

Trovants, the living stones of Romania

From school I remember they were teaching us that "life is one of the forms of protein bodies's existence  ...", but according to recent observations and discoveries, it is not quite so. Today, we talk about the living stones that do grow, move, and even multiply. Are you surprised that this is even possible? Read further...

Trovants

In Southern and Central Romania there are some very unusual and amazing stones, which are able to grow, move from place to place and even to multiply. These stones are called trovants. From outside they look no different than any other ordinary boulder of streamlined or round shape with no sharp corners. However, after the rain the stones begin to grow significantly increasing in their size. Each trovant that weighs only a few pounds, may eventually grow into a huge boulder weighing several tons. Small stones grow large quickly.

Trovants consist mainly of sandstone. If you cut a stone in half, you will find the age rings like trees have. However, the chemical composition of trovants have nothing to do with plants. These are the rocks. Scientists try to explain their growth phenomenon by a high content of mineral salts, which are part of these stones. When a trovant's surface gets wet, these chemicals are expanding and putting pressure on cemented sand, making the stone to "grow".

Trovants though have one feature that has not yet been explained by the geologists. "Living" stones are not only growing, but also are reproducing themselves by budding. The process goes as follows: when the stone gets wet a bulge appears on its surface and it grows with time, and when it gets big enough, it breaks off from the parent rock. The most amazing thing is that the new stones have the same structure as the parent rock has. Scientists can not understand how it actually gets a core. Some experts even suggested that trovants are unknown to science non-organic forms of life.

Some trovants have a fantastic ability to move from place to place. Local residents observed these unusual properties of trovants for centuries, got  used to them and do not even pay much attention to this phenomenon. Before rising stones were used as building material for tombstones in cemeteries. Today trovants are one of the  attractions in central Romania. The "living" rocks are so many that the locals are making souvenirs from them and then sell to tourists that come to visit.

The largest cluster of Romanian trovants is in Valcea region. Due to the great interest of tourists in the village of Costesti local authorities created in 2006, the only open air museum in Romania, where the biggest collection of trovants is displayed. Here you may find the "living" stones of various shapes, sizes and colors.

Living Stones of Death Valley

Death Valley, United States National Park is located in California, on the border with Nevada. This area is known as the hottest place on earth, and as a habitat of living stones, which are moving on their own through the desert, leaving behind a long trail.

Over the past 50 years, scientists have observed the spontaneous displacement of several hundred stones from the size of a soccer ball up to half a ton, which were moving in different directions, leaving visible marks behind. Stones sometimes were moving straight, then turning, then crossing their own trail, sometimes individually, sometimes in groups. Sometimes a group of stones moved along parallel paths.

These running stones reserve furrow-hollow in the ground, and are very homogeneous in their geometrical parameters. This indicates the persistence of a force applied to those rocks, its uniform pressure, etc. Sometimes the boulders can  move uphill, if the angle is not too high. Traces are remaining for up to seven years.

The running rocks have been studied for over fifty years. But none of the hypotheses about the nature of this phenomenon does not give any plausible explanation of what is happening.

Buddha Stone in Tibet

In Tibet, the monks of the ancient Northern monastery are composing the so-called biography of Stone of Buddha for a half millennia. On a rock, according to legend, there are imprints of his hands. This rock weighs 1100 kilograms. Despite its heavy weight it rises to a height of 2565 meters uphill on its own without any assistance  and goes back down in a spiral trajectory. Each ascent-descent takes 16 years accurately.


 


Blue Stone of happiness in Russia

The world's largest moving stone is legendary Blue-stone, found in Russia, on the coast of Lake Pleshcheeva under Pereslavl. In dark moonless nights it glows with blue light, and in winter it is never covered by snow for too long.

According to ancient Russian tradition, there is a living spirit in it that grants dreams and wishes. Even today, the gifts are scattered around it from people waiting for a miracle, coins and flowers.

In terms of geology, it is an ordinary large gray-blue boulder, fine-grained quartz biotite schist, brought here in ancient times by a mighty glacier. But it is much more interesting to look at it from the point of view of history and find out why it is of such a glory ...

A couple of thousand years ago, the pagan tribes of Merians (Finno-Ugric group) populated the shores of Lake Pleshcheeva, slightly changing its neighborhood - in particular, filling up a few hills and leveling their pics. On top of one of the hill  a large boulder of unusual color was found.

Perhaps the pagans brought it there, believing that the spirit of a deity lives in it. Maybe it just happened to be by the will of nature. It is not so important. Later the territory was populated by Slavic people that called it Yarilin mountain and the boulder on its top Blue-stone.

It was considered the heart of a pagan god, and people worshiped it, in every way decorated it, brought sacrifices and circling in dance around the boulder.

When Christianity came to Russia, the followers of the new religion didn't like these dances, and "sinful" stone was solemnly and publicly cleared up from the hill. Pagans revolted in protest and even set on fire the nearest town. Revolt, of course was suppressed (by the way, by the soldiers of the notorious Yuri Dolgoruky) and stone was not returned to its place, but the Merians cursed the place and said that the stone still won't let anybody in its place.


And it didn't! They tried to build on Mount Yarilin a wooden church, it got burned. Then they were trying to move there the residence of Prince Alexander Nevsky , but it collapsed (though the mountain was renamed to Alexander). Then the monastery was built that did not last long.

Priests officially announced that the stone is inhabited by evil spirits, and promised to all its fans to burn in hell. But the number of the fans was not  not reducing, especially when close to the defeated boulder suddenly appeared a water spring.

In the XVII century, one of the deacons personally dug a deep pit, where he threw away the "cursed" stone and covered it with earth to be sure. This is when the 12-ton boulder for the first time revealed itself and showed its  character: it didn't like under the ground and in ten years ... it just came back where it was.

Of course, this has not gone unnoticed and the "demonic" stone again pulled people's attention to worship and annual pagan revels in Peter's day in June.

Another attempt by the church to deal with unruly rock was made in winter 1788, when the Blue-Stone was decided to be taken via the frozen lake to a newly church in construction  St. Dukhovskoi and to be immured in the foundation of its steeple. On the way there, the ice underneath broke and the stone went under water five-meter deep. The priests were not too upset on the contrary. However, the unusual boulder didn't like to stay there either.

When the rumor started spreading by some local fishermen that they saw the rock slowly moving to its native shore and the mountain, nobody was believing them, you never know what you can imagine even in the clear water, especially the depth was not big, and it was moving very slowly.

But in less than 50 years it came back again. This time it didn't climb up the hill, maybe it was too tired....it stopped at the foot of the hill, where many pilgrims and tourists can see it even today.

Nowadays the restless blue boulder keeps on crawling slowly. Photos of fifties of the last century , captured it on the shore of the lake, and thirty years later the stone was at a distance of a hundred yards from the former residence. Today, it is separated from the hill with 1/3 km. It probably gets annoyed by tourists and sometimes is burrowing into the ground. Today above the ground is visible only its top 20 cm (and not so long ago, he towered almost a couple of meters) and the locals predict the end of the world if the stone decides to leave people.

How do they do it?

There are many theories and guesses on why and how the stones are moving. Scientists for many years are experimenting, trying to recreate the conditions for the movement of stones in laboratories. So far we can say for sure only one fact: the mystery of walking stones is not solved. Existing versions of today are not yet able to satisfy the serious scientists. The search for clues of life manifestations of seemingly lifeless objects continues.

Meanwhile, across the Earth stones keep on falling, leaving distinct traces, climbing the mountains, wandering around the neighborhood, going deep into the ground and back into the sunlight, that is living their mysterious lives.

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International Board of Hermetic Trainers

1. An association of professional teachers of the Western Mystery Tradition, Golden Dawn Tradition, Western Magical schools.
2. The board provides accreditation or endorsing of qualities.
3. All the board members are heads of schools as mentioned above.
4. All the board members are Lineage-holders of the ancient initiation traditions.
5. We as board members are Guardians and Keepers of the knowledge and of the application of the Hermetic Keys.
6. We are actively involved in applied Hermetics to make it accessible for modern practitioners.
7. All the members of the board have made this teaching to their lives’ mission.
8. International Board of Professional Hermetic Trainers
9. The Logo of the Board is:

Mission statement

1. To help human beings to know themselves by means of techniques that belong to the Hermetic Legacy.
2. To help professionals to realize their Magnum Opus.
3. We teach by offering techniques that initiate personal growth.
4. We teach students how to fulfill their lives’ mission.
5. Our aim is to develop students into bridge builders between the needs of the human dignity and modern society.

Our goals are:

1. To be a board of Third Degree Lineage holders of the Hermetic Tradition that are professional heads of schools to work as an intervision team.
2. To guard the quality of the Hermetic Initiation Lineage.
3. To share ideas, exchange knowledge and increase the quality of the teachings.
4. To be professional as teachers, in the presentation of the training, in management of complex internal and external situations.
5. To become a brand of quality as a beacon of a living spiritual tradition in the world.
6. To constantly work towards making the public understand the weight of the ancient tradition and their birthright of having access to a Gnostic spirituality.
7. To develop and (re)discover the ancient Western magical and shamanistic traditions, and to adapt them for modern use.

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How to apprehend God ?

How to apprehend God ?

"If then you do not make yourself equal to God, you cannot apprehend God; for like is known by like.

Leap clear of all that is corporeal, and make yourself grown to a like expanse with that greatness which is beyond all measure; rise above all time and become eternal; then you will apprehend God.

Think that for you too nothing is impossible; deem that you too are immortal, and that you are able to grasp all things in your thought, to know every craft and science; find your home in the haunts of every living creature; make yourself higher than all heights and lower than all depths; bring together in yourself all opposites of quality, heat and cold, dryness and fluidity; think that you are everywhere at once, on land, at sea, in heaven; think that you are not yet begotten, that you are in the womb, that you are young, that you are old, that you have died, that you are in the world beyond the grave; grasp in your thought all of this at once, all times and places, all substances and qualities and magnitudes together; then you can apprehend God.

But if you shut up your soul in your body, and abase yourself, and say "I know nothing, I can do nothing; I am afraid of earth and sea, I cannot mount to heaven; I know not what I was, nor what I shall be," then what have you to do with God?"

Hermes Trismegistus,
Corpus Hermeticum 

CURS ON LINE DE BAZELE MEDITAŢIEI 1

CURS ON LINE DE BAZELE MEDITAŢIEI 1

miercuri, 5 decembrie, ora 21

 

Beneficiile meditaţiei sunt numeroase. Ea ne ajută:

• -  să ne relaxăm corpul şi mintea,
• -  să dobândim claritate în gândire,
• - să ne îmbunătăţim memoria,
• -  să ne concentrăm mai bine,
• -  să ne eliberăm de anumite lucruri,
• -  să ne îmbunătăţim performanţele de orice tip,
• - să ne dezvoltăm imaginaţia, să ne amplificăm creativitatea,
• -  să trăim prezentul la intensitate maximă,
• - să descoperim noi perspective,
• - să ne centrăm, « împământăm», echilibrăm sau, dimpotrivă,
• -  să călătorim în alte lumi,
• -  să ne vindecăm mai repede,
• - să ne sporim energia şi vitalitatea,
• - să trăim în armonie cu noi înşine şi cu universul,
• -  să ne autoînţelegem şi să îi înţelegem pe cei din jurul nostru,
• -  să avem un sens mai adânc al sensului şi scopului,
• -  să primim ghidare interioară,
• -  să avem parte de mai multă dragoste, fericire, bucurie,
• -  să atingem dimensiunea spirituală a fiinţei,
• -  …

Ştim deja să medităm, trebuie doar să ne dăm seama de acest lucru !

Cursul de faţă reprezintă o trecere în revistă a celor mai importante practici de meditaţie, punând accent pe cea occidentală, care ne ajută să ne dezvoltăm la maxim potenţele, trăindu-ne în acelaşi timp viaţa din plin, ca pe o sărbătoare.

Meditaţia este arta de a trăi!

Cursul se va desfăşura on line, pe durata mai multor luni (câte un curs pe lună), şi este GRATUIT!

Vă aştept cu drag!

                Monica Danci

                Adept şi trainer în cadrul Institutului Hermetic

Real Pandora from Avatar

Real Pandora from Avatar
Avatar Hallelujah Mountain (Floating Mountains)

 Avatar Hallelujah Mountain is located in Wulingyuan scenery area, Zhangjiajie(张家界), Hunan Province. It was initially named Floating Mountain as it looks like floating in the air without any support.
In 2008, a Hollywood photographer Hansen, from the movie ”Avatar” took pictures of the Floating Mountain and used the scenery as an inspiration of important scenes in the movie.
Also in those mountains, “South Sky Pillars” became the prototype of Hallelujah Mountain in Pandora Planet. China gave it a new name after the movie's success in the world, so now it is called Avatar Hallelujah Mountain.
Before the movie “Avatar” this Floating Mountain was already famous for its great landscape in Zhangjiajie tourist area. Each year it attracts a large number of tourists that are coming to enjoy the spectacular scenery.

Huun Huur Tu - Live

To embrace a stranger as one's own. It's in our nature.

To embrace a stranger as one's own. It's in our nature.

Juliana, Sakha republic (Yakutia)

Juliana, Sakha republic (Yakutia),  Юлиана, Республика Саха. (Якутия, Россия)  This clip is an ancient hymn dedicated to the Great God of the Sky - "Tengri"

 Tengri (Proto-Turkic *teŋri / *taŋrɨ; Mongolian script: ᠲᠨᠭᠷᠢ, Tngri; Modern Mongolian: Тэнгэр, Tenger;  Modern Turkish: Tanrı), is one of the names for the primary chief sky deity in the religion of the early Turkic (Xiongnu, Hunnic, Bulgar) and Mongolic (Xianbei) peoples.

Worship of Tengri is sometimes referred to as Tengrism. The core beings in Tengrism are Sky-Father (Tengri/Tenger Etseg) and Mother Earth (Eje/Gazar Eej). It involved shamanism, animism, totemism and ancestor worship. Historically, it was the mainstream religion of the Turks, Mongols, Hungarians and Bulgars. It was the state religion of the ancient Turkic states like Göktürks Khaganate, Avar Khaganate, Western Turkic Khaganate, Great Bulgaria, Bulgarian Empire and Eastern Tourkia.

As a modern revival, Tengrism has been advocated among intellectual circles of the Turkic nations of Central Asia, including Tatarstan, Buryatia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, in the years following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It is still actively practiced and undergoing an organised revival in Yakutia, Khakassia, Tuva, Buryatia and other Turkic nations within Russia. Burkhanism is a movement kindred to Tengrism concentrated in Altay.

Khukh and Tengri literally mean "blue" and "sky" in Mongolian and modern Mongolians still pray to "Munkh Khukh Tengri" ("Eternal Blue Sky"). Therefore Mongolia is sometimes poetically referred to by Mongolians as the "Land of Eternal Blue Sky" ("Munkh Khukh Tengriin Oron" in Mongolian). In modern Turkey Tengriism is also known as the Göktanrı dini, "Sky God religion",Turkish "Gök" (sky) and "Tanrı" (God) corresponding to the Mongolian khukh (blue) and Tengri (sky), respectively.

How do our thoughts affect our health ?

How do our thoughts  affect our health ?

 Interview with Dashi-Nima, Emchi Lama of Ivolginsky datsan, Tibetan Buddhist Temple in Ulan-Ude

 

-As far as we know, in the Buryat tradition it was forbidden to  laugh or to cry too much. How do our emotions affect our health? 

– They do affect a lot. Recently there was a member of North Korean national football team who had a  heart attack on the field, his heart stopped after the joy of victory. Excessive joy has an impact on the physical body. The reason is the  attachment to the result, fanaticism which is in fact an unconscious aggression. You have to be humble and quiet. "There are many high and  intelligent but  the truth is revealed to humble ones."

- Well, lets’ remember the tradition. The Buryats didn’t mourn for the dead, it was necessary to restrain any manifestation of grief and be reserved, while it was accepted to grieve and mourn the passed away relatives loudly among Russians. Which way is accepted more?

- There is a tale, in which the Sultan sent three tax collectors to the poor. The first time the poor ones were crying inconsolably, second time they cried even louder, and third time they were laughing ... And then the Sultan said: "Enough is enough, they have nothing else." When all is lost, and there is nothing to be attached to, the man finds freedom and independence. Crying helps to relieve stress, but the extremes should be avoided.

According to Buddhist tradition, people do not cry in order to release the passed away person, to let him quietly go away into another world. But a good cry and then letting it go also helps. Because "keeping" the dead person and reminding yourself of how good it used to be when he or she was alive is selfishness. There are people around you that need more of your attention. Tradition is not bad and is not good. It's just a tradition.

- What happens to those who suppress their emotions too much?

- Diabetes, for example, occurs to those who keep themselves in tension. In Tibetan medicine book “Chzhud-shi" it says that all diseases come from the root of ignorance. When people are attached to something too much, at first glance, even to positive things: to work, to the result and even to spirituality, honesty and generosity, it can be dangerous. When a person is too honest, he begins at some point to oppose himself to the rest of people - dishonest, low, from his point of view. And this is pride.

When a person hates the dishonest and unjust it is an aggression which transforms into a program of self-destruction. When a person gets very angry and agitated, his blood, liver, pancreas produces a huge amount of bile and hormones are disturbed. Islets of Langerhans, responsible for the production of insulin, begin to break down. Accordingly, blood sugar gets increased. Glaucoma is also the case with those who excessively accumulate the anger and tension. Eyes are associated with the liver; you can even say that the eyes are the windows of the liver.

- It means that only the people who are "ignorant" get affected by diseases. So we can now declare that all sick patients are to blame for their own illnesses.

- No. If you think arrogantly about those who are sick, that they are ignorant, that they are not wise enough, or intelligent enough, and so on, it’s a straight path for yourself to become sick. Shakyamuni Buddha predicted that there will be times when people will get infections and will suffer tumors. Everyone is exposed to the root of ignorance, we are all humans. Sometimes, people say, what a good person! In this evaluation there is an error: good for who? For you and, let’s say for your relatives?

But for others maybe he was not that good, maybe even bad. All is relative. The way a person looks and talks does not always correspond to his inner spirit, his fate. Maybe a person is too attached to the mind, the intellect. These people, by the way, often suffer sugar jumps. They begin to despise the dumb, stupid. But in that "stupidity" in simplicity there is sometimes more wisdom. This "stupid" in some ways is much wiser than "smart", who collects all the negativity in himself.

- What is a disease from your point of view?

- Disease is a block. When we start to get attached to something too much we begin self-destruct program. The disease prevents us from rapid decay.

Theoretically a person without disease would have, simply, quickly fall apart. But the disease blocks it, gives him warning signs. My teacher told the patient: "Those who have the blood sugar high, need to get angry a bit, to cry, let emotions to get out." And the patient was a very intelligent man, he liked to hold everything in himself. No wonder people say : Speak it all out , Cry it all out. In this sense the crying is useful.

- And why there is such a growing number of diseases?

- "Chzhud-shi" explains where the diseases, infections, epidemics, cancer are coming from. We often talk about the environment. We chop trees; violate the laws of the universe. In the old times there was a saying: Do not cut trees near water. It is very dangerous, it's a disaster. Water begins to change its structure and to deteriorate.  "Chzhud-shi" says people will start to pollute the Earth, and the spirits of Earth and Water will start to take revenge. Universe is a whole organism. We are all in some way connected. And he, who does not cut the trees, is still responsible. Our life is a chain of causes and effects.

- So we are in inevitable trouble? For the people, some antibiotics do not help already ...

- One doctor urologist told me that sometimes very expensive antibiotics do not help to cure the infection. But Tibetan medicine has a wide range of natural remedies to fight infections. Just it takes longer time. Medications are attributed according to the type of constitution of man: wind, bile, phlegm. There are women's diseases caused by dangerous winds, there are those that are caused by the danger of blood.

Dangers of wind are various and severe endometriosis with chronic diseases of the pelvic organs. Dangers of Blood are endometritis, with arterial hypertension. Everything is determined by pulse. Cinnamon, cardamom, asparagus, mustard, Paeonia root in the right proportions increase the body heat. Chung, aconite, musk and other herbal remedies fight infections.

-It is autumn now. What we should be aware of in autumn?

- Reduced activity of kidney heat or "cold in the kidney," arises from the fact that people are wrong about their clothing, things they put on. To this also contributes the consumption of beer. And then we have requests to cure prostatitis, because people do not know that it is associated with the consumption of beer.

Beer is cold by its properties. If you drink it when it is chilled, it begins to oppress the heat of the stomach, the kidneys. This provokes male and female diseases. Pregnancy problems, infertility arise from the lack of heat in the body by the kidneys. Excessive consumption of beer triggers these diseases.

- What you should drink to stay healthy during the cold season?

- It is better to drink warm boiled water. To think that boiled water is dead is prejudice. Contrary to Western trends Tibetologists do not believe that people should drink two liters of clean water a day. Drinking norms depend on the season, the constitution of man, the nature of his work and eating habits.

 Drinking cold water cools the stomach, pancreas, liver and colon. Sipping cold water from a bottle like in American tradition, you can "earn" diabetes. Excess of water reduces function of the pancreas, which leads to a special type of diabetes. People with constitution type "bile” that always feel hot, can drink water more. But it is better, if it is warm.

- Going back to the emotions. What is the impact on our health when we get upset on somebody and keep the hurt inside?

- Even the smallest hurt has a destructive force. Most often it affects the kidneys. Women often get upset on men, to fathers and thus disturb the harmony of yin and yang-, the unity of opposites. Getting upset on somebody means a subconscious hatred, wishing a death to the offender. When it accumulates, it inhibits the kidneys and affects women's health. The same way for men. Those who get upset on women begin to suffer male problem. These are very simple examples. Consequences of injuries are very diverse and heavy.

- What other emotions harm health?

- Regretting. Ignorance breeds desire, the desire turns into addiction, attachment, which always generates aggression. For example, young couple fell in love, they love and desire each other. Attachment obscures true love. One of them makes this feeling as an end result which leads to increased jealousy, suspicion, desire to subjugate.

Regretting is also an aggression to time. Person begins to reproach himself why did I do that? Repentance is a way to put an end to regret. Do not reproach yourself again, and take a vow that from now on it will never happen again. You should not regret also about what has not yet been done. On a more subtle level, there is no past and no future.

D. Batudaeva