If Someone Strikes You On The Right Cheek

This is the quater I remembered when wrote my previous post and discussed it in comments:

In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus says these familiar words, “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.” (Mtt 5:38-39) ( Source)

I read and heard many times that persons discuss these words (Footiam, you see, Jesus says the same your words about bad persons, but calls them "evil persons") and I was not agree with Jesus Christ too. How is it possible -turn to him the other! Nonsens.

I could understood it only in the last period. I -as always- tell you the story. I think, the stories explain the thought better as simple words.

This summer I had a very bad experience. Person that had to love me and that I'm very bounded to, betrayed me. I know that this person doesn't love me, I knew that will betray me in this situation or at least will try to do everything possible to make bad to me, but I was not ready to experience it. One thing is to know, other thing is to experience.

It was one of the worst days in my life. I can't explain what I proved. I could not believe my eyes. I hoped I'm not right, and hoped this person in the last moment will remember who am I and will not do it for me.
But... for this person the only important thing was to throw me from the question. And so was.

I was shocked. Not for the question, but for the behaviour.
I began to repeate: I wish, they become finally happy with my things. First times I said these words with anger. But more I repeated them more they were sincere.

After some time I began to feel Very Happy. I did not think about the losed things, I had not emotions in confront to this person. Nothing. I had to live with this person in the same room and we had quiet relations. I had not to forgive or to forget, I could not change the situation. But nothing had any importance.

Our Lama said us once: you have to understand that wrathful yidam is our anger that went out of us. I could not understand it for some time. Now I think, when the bad part of us goes away, like bad spirit, what remains inside us is our true nature. Happy nature.

That is why we can "turn him the other". We alow that the "bad spirit" goes away.

After that first time I had the same reaction different other times. I don't do it specially. It happens so. I understand that the person is suffering, I don't wish punishment, revenge. I let him/her take what they want and let them go.

Believe or not believe, but I have Incredible Happyness in return.
And it's the best.

From Endarkenment To Enlightenment

I continue here the idea that begins in my post Tara and Dakini -Female Buddhas and the post of Zubli Zainordin Total Being but practically in many other posts too. I did not wanted but this blog seems to take not healing but spiritual direction... Well, it's the same, if we think about it.

Now, I tell you a little story.
A srange story. But it's about Endarkment and Enlightment. Day and Night, Black and White of Tai-Chi, if you want.

It happend some months after the death of Imir. My husband had to go in a far village to make olive oil. I had to rest home. I felt very bad that day -I could not find place from the morning, the soul was in an incredible agitation. When my husband turned back from work and had to go to make oil, I was in a state that I can't describe, so bad my soul felt. And I had an unsupportable wish to earn as a dog. (I have to say, I had similar states of soul many times in my life but I never had this particular reaction)

My husband went away and ... disappeared. He stopped the car to drink water from the fountain. 2 young men, that followed him with their moto, menaced him with pistols, took the car and his wallet and went away. My husband had to walk about 10 km before he could denounce the incident. Policemen gave him money to take the bus, and he turned home at about 22:00 in the evening.

There were his documents and some expensive things in the car. There was a great (for us) amount of money too -all money that we had in that moment. He had to pay something urgently.
I don't know to explain you, what this misfortune was for us in that moment. It was not a tragedy. It was finish. Point. We could not go out of that disaster. The only way was to ask alms if not to go in prison for debts.

In the time when my husband was not at home else, I began to do practices that I learned in the Buddhist Institute (I just studied about a year, I think). Because I'm not a regular believer, I "spoke" with Buddhas. I told them what the situation means for us and asked about help. I did prostrations and recited "Confession to 35 Buddhas", as I remember. I did not ask to punish that young men, I asked only that they lieve the car because they don't need it, that they don't brake it, because we have not money to repair it ecc ecc.
At one moment I felt great joy. And I felt that everything will be good.

When my husband turned home, I was incredibly happy. I could not make a tragical face. I was happy. Can you imagine the situation? A mad woman.

In the night police found our car 50 km from the place where it was stolen. Nothing was gone. Only the cell and the jacket of my husband and ... my disc with music of a not very known even in Russia russian rock-group :))). No one scratch.
Policemen said, they did not believe their eyes.

I tryed to write as short as possible, hope my thoughts are clear.
Why I remembered this old story? Because I had an other similar story some days ago. A simple story, nothing so bad, that is why I don't tell it here. But I complained with Buddhas and received the answer. And the happy end too.

So, I thought, I know 3 forces.
1- human, that can nothing.
2- beings, that know what will happen, but they can do or change nothing. They can only try to alert you about bad event in your life. If you are able to hear them, you call it "intuition".
3- High Beings, that are able not only to stop the train running in the hell, they are able to change railway of this train, to send it in completely different direction.

Who are they? Why they do it?
Or it's our own enlightened state?
Sincerely, I think, I don't need answers. But I'm still surprized of these Forces.

Understanding "I Ching" or "Book of Changes"

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Confucius in "Analects" (Lun Yu) (479-221 BC) wrote about it:
"If I could make my life longer, I would study 50 years the "Changes" and could never make mistakes".

As said some days ago, I arrived in my reading to the concept of I-Ching and wanted to share my knowledge with you to listen what do YOU think about all this.

"I Ching" or "Book of Changes", it's a Taoist Sacred Text (see "Read more" in the bottom of the post) that is teaching impermanence (my opinion). It was in use just in 1099 BC, and some sources say, it was written about 3000 years BC.

As in the case of Yang and Yin ( Yin Yang Symbol and Tai-Chi ), the main idea is changes of day and night, light and dark -because they are the main forces that rule all the life on the earth. The difference is that "I-Ching" uses not colours and circle but lines. Unbroken line means light and broken line means dark.

All the life is in harmony with this changes -or dis-harmonize with them. If "colours are actions and sufferings of the light" (Goethe), hexagrms are possible ways to evolve for every situation in this sense.

Every "day" means that after some time will come "night" and every "night" earlier or later will change to "day". There is a seed of "night" in every "day" ecc. So, you see it's the same picture as Yin-Yang.

_____________Wu-Chi
_____________Tai-Chi
______+;____________________ -;
+__________ -;___________ +_______ -;
+___ -;___ +____-;_____ +____ -;___ +___ -;

(+++;++-;+-+;+--) ( -++ ,-+- ,--+ ,---)

So, it's important to know in what direction is evolving your situation to understand what is the next step to do -to avoid mistakes.

I don't want to speak here about predictions, you can read and play, opening one of the links below.

Source of this explanation is "The Tao Of Tai-Chi Chuan" by Jou Tsung Hwa

Here I ad the Total Principles of Change
that Zubli Zainordin wrote in his comment:
01. Change is permanent.
02. The God does not give me the power to change you.
03. The God does not give you the power to change me.
04. The God does give me the power to change me.
05. The God does give you the power to change you.
06. I change me, and U change you. It is like ABC - Awareness Before Change.
07. Next let's change together beginning with the one we each see when we stand in front of a mirror.

Read more:
Free I Ching Reading
The I Ching on the Net
The I Ching (text)
I CHING Bookmarks

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Tara and Dakini -Female Buddhas

Here I post some articles I copied many time ago from different sites. I wanted only to have this list in this blog.

Tara(click to open the page) lives and works intimately in the world as a Bodhisattva. In contrast to most of the Buddhist Tutelary Dieties she is directly accessible to the uninitiated, a characteristic which contributes to her popularity. Her heart, devastated by the torture and killing of her disciples in Tibet, has followed the diaspora of Tibetan Lamas across the planet. As a result, she is very accessible to western students who practice her sadhana.

Tara The Liberator(click to open) Lama Zopa Rinpoche

her left hand in in the mudra symbolical of I am refuge, I hold refuge for you. Мудра правой руки -я прибежище By that, in relying Tara, you are relying on a divinity who will bring you to enlightenment. Вы принимаете прибежище в Таре,которая приведёт вас к просвящению Who is enlightened herself and will bring you to enlightenment.Она сама досстигла просвещения и приведёт вас к нему. And it is important to reflect on that, that the Buddha you rely on is enlightened fully.Очень важно задуматься о том,что Будда,в котором вы принимаете прибежище,это полностью просвящённое существо. And as you become more enlightened, they will also help you in that process to become enlightened. So her hand means I hold enlightenment, and therefore when you rely on me, you will only get the blessings and such that are for your benefit to bring you to enlightenment.
I did hear also from Lama Yeshe who said the reason Tara's left leg is tucked in is showing she has control over her feminine cycles and all that is related with the feminine side. Я слышал также от Ламы Йеше,что её подтянутая левая нога означает,что она контролирует свои женские циклы и всё это связано с её женской стороной. That way, when you pray to Tara, the left leg tucked in means she has control of those things and she does heal and bless women who rely upon her.Таким образом,когда вы молитесь Таре, ... она лечит и благословляет женщин,которые принимают в ней прибежище.
She is seated upon a beautiful large lotus on a soft white moon cushion having white light energy ...лотус...и белая луна,имеющие энергию белого света, and then Tara on top of that, radiant with a beautiful green aura and wonderful energy и над всем этим Тара,излучающая красивую зелёную ауру и чудесную энергию. If you could close your eyes and invoke Tara, you should feel all the stress from your being dissolve just to have the vision of Tara can have such an effect on your body.Если вы можете закрыть глаза и призвать Тару,вы посувствуете,что одно лишь видение Тары производит на ваше тело такой эффект,что весь стресс вашей жизни пропадает.

Yidam(click to open)

"The meditational deity--yidam in Tibetan--is an aspect of Buddha possessing the three bodies of the Buddha and the five primordial wisdoms.Йидам -это один из аспектов Будды Out of compassion, Buddha manifests as different aspects or yidams,из-за сострадания,Будда проявляется в различных аспектах или йидамах each of which literally is, according to the meaning of that term, 'the divinity or deity to which we devote ourselves.' каждый из которых -Бог или Божество,в котором мы принимаем прибежище It is so called because the practitioner has one as her/his personal, chosen deity and devotes him/herself to that deity's practice ...потому что практикующий посвящает себя практике этого Божества , which consists of the two meditation stages called the Generation Stage and the Completion Stage...которая состоит из двух частей Создание и Завершение

"At the beginning, when you meditate on the Three Roots in general, or on your yidam in particular, you can perceive them as outer. Поначалу вы их можете воспринимать,как что-то внешнееIn this way, the obscurations will begin to disappear.В этот период начинают рассеиваться затемнения Holes in the screen of these obscurations will allow some light to filter through начинает проникать свет ; the blessing of the yidam will bring even more clarity благословение йидама приносит всё больше ясности, and you will eventually realize that the yidam and your mind are not different и вы начинаете понимать,что йидам и ваш ум не различны. You will thereby attain the three bodies of the buddha mind which are the absolute refuge." Kalu Rinpoche

Machig Labdron(click to open)

Meditation on 5 Buddha families (russian -translation button on the right, sidebar)

Вообразите яичко этой птицы, белое с красноватым отсветом, чистое и прозрачное как хрусталь, на четыре саже¬ни вокруг освещающее все своим светом. Это символ пяти аспектов извечной мудрости. Внутри яичко многослойно: снаружи белое, затем красное, желтое, зеленое и синее. В центре синего слоя горошина темно-синего или бирюзового цве¬та. В центре этой горошины сияет светящаяся капля энергии, переливающаяся радужным светом и создающая слои и неотделимая от них. Все видение призрачно, как отражение луны в воде, все отдельные детали видны предельно четко. Это символ Ваджрадары — объединение пяти семейств в шестом уров¬не. Это великая польза — созерцать свое осознание в такой форме. Это чудесное яичко вмещает в себя Будд пяти семейств с женскими формами и пять аспектов извечной мудрости. Визуализируя так, накапливают великую заслугу, и поэтому осознавание, сфокусированное в таком образе чудесного яичка, перемещается очень легко и без усилий обретается несрав¬ненное состояние. В одной жизни, в одном теле можно достичь Пробуждения, в этом нет сомнений, благородные сыно¬вья и дочери.
Таким образом используйте визуализацию в практике перемещения осознания.»

Woman and the Dakini(click to open)
great text to read for those who can be interested in the theme.

How to Make Diagnosis to the Soul

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Next theme I wanted to write here about were I Ching but today
I listened the sound of singing bowls and suddenly had the answer on the question I tryed to understand for years maybe.

What is sound?
What are colours?

These questions I had from the first times I listened to the teachings of Namkhai Norbu. I felt that there is something special in these things, not simple length of wave. But could not understand.

Now, I want to write here my thoughts this morning. Maybe it will be more simple for me to have entire picture.

This man says he can heal with these sounds. I can't believe him. To heal, he needs special feeling, special understanding of the thing. I don't believe that he has this understanding. I don't believe persons with this face...

I'm not right. If I say that I feel energy and can heal with it, somebody can have this other realization and feel sounds so as I feel energy -and can heal with them.

So, I feel energy, he feels sounds, somebody feels colours - everybody of us, we feel one part of entire picture.

The singing bowl makes my soul sound on the right wave. My soul does not sound on the wave of the Creation that is why I need this help: to make it take the same wave. And when my soul takes the same wave of the Creation, I feel "connected". The same happens to me when I recite sutras.
So, sound is "near" to me, I need only a little help to feel "connected".

With colours is more complicated. My soul do not feel them and I don't know a sort of "tool", that would feel me "connected" that is about colours. If the sky is clear, you have to feel "connected". Because I don't feel "connection", there is something that goes not good in me. This is a great hole for MY soul. I miss this part of Creation.

My soul has "clouds" connected to colours. These clouds are more dark.
The "clouds" connected to sound are not so dark for me.
And the clouds connected with energy are very thin.
This is the diagnosis of my soul and the way I have to do to purify the clouds.

If you read till here, maybe you would like to write to me what do you think about this my "discovery". I feel that I'm right on the whole.

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Prayer Beads -Secrets of Mala

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In the Nepalese and Tibetan Arts Blog I read very interesting post about malas. (I like this blog, there are many interesting information about Tibetan Buddhism there.)

So I remembered my interest to "special" uses of prayer beads. I heard about it about a year ago for the first time myself, asked different friends during my visit of buddhist communities in Moscow and than during the ritrit in October but nobody knew to explain me. Except one man that said some things.

What I heard:
There are special techniques to take and to use prayer mala (that have different names in different religions, so excuse me that I use the name I know better), special meanings and special uses.

What said the man I mentioned above:
How to take mala and how to count depends from the practice you want to do.
There are practices that are made to make other persons bad, so in this case the beads are on the 4th finger, for example.
Your mala is a holy thing, so it has to be treaten as such.
Bad persons can do something bad to you if you show your mala to everybody. So, take it hidden.

Why you need mala?

It helps to keep your mind focus in meditation practice. The Meru bead stores the energy created during the meditation or prayer and can be used for healing purposes.
...108 Nadis (Sanskrit for “channels”) connecting Hrit Padma (Sanskrit for “Hart Chakra”) to all parts of the spiritual body. By chanting the mantra 108 times, the energy of the mantra reaches all parts of the subtle body thru Nadis. (Source very complete article to read all)

Interesting is Tibetan explanation that you make 100 repetitions when you count mala beads. 8 are necessary to ad because you could lose the concentration during the repetition of mantras. So the full round counts 100, not 108.

If you do a practice where you want the god/ess enters into your heart, you have to take mala for your chest, count mala in the direction of it and imagine the god enters into you with this movement.

Now, what was interesting for me, that the colour of mala is bound to the colour of the God/ess whose practice you are doing. There are colours associated to this or that god. And there are special magic posibilities by every material.

Type of material being used to create the mala can enhance the experience of practice. The energy created during the meditation will have some affect on the mala material that is being used. Many times it will change its color and structure.

Different color of the same stone can change its vibration and will have more effect on the chakra that corresponds with that color.
(Source)

Green Tara practice turquoise is often used... Malachite, ...emeralds and jade
Chenrezi is depicted holding up a crystal mala,...sois any clear or pure white substance
Red is the most auspicious colour in many cultures, for ... Vajrayogini or Dorje Pamo.
golden and orange range ...amber, tiger's eye, topaz and hessonite are suitable for practices of Manjushri.
Lapis is associated with Sangye Menla, the Medicine Buddha.
Carnelian, amber, and lapis ...are also characteristic of Islamic amulets and ornaments. (Source)

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Azurite* stone of intuition, insight and vision; increases communication skills, creativity, inspiration and intuition; brings clear understanding and new perspectives; stimulates memory, intellect, nerve activity, inner vision, clairvoyance and development of psychic powers; aids in mental healing, detoxification and removing psychic blockages; powerful transformative energy that brings spiritual awareness and higher wisdom; opens third eye chakra.

Carnelian* brings energy, courage, confidence, passion; enhances physical energy and personal power; motivates for success in business; increases the sense of self worth, willingness to take risk and action to manifest goals and dreams; helps overcome fear and protects against envy, rage and resentment; assists in embracing change, transformation and making positive life choices; guards against poverty; stimulates creativity, fertility, sexuality, concentration, memory and organization abilities.

Jade is known to bring luck, prosperity, happiness and overall harmony.

Crystal quartz is a very powerful stone that brings the harmony to all chakras and can be easily programmed to focus energy into the specific area being prayed on.

Oh, I forgot about magic uses and predictions!

Divination on a rosary: The person doing the divination prays to the deity he is invoking for the correct answer and recites that deity's mantras. He then holds up the rosary horizontally in front of him, with the fingers of each hand grasping a randomly chosen bead, leaving half the beads of fewer between them. Then the fingers of each hand move towards each other counting three beads at a time. The outcome of the divination depends on the number of beads left. The procedure is repeated three times.

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