There is No Buddha Outside Of the Mind

Sound healing is a very powerful technique to relax, to find a balance in the own life. The posts of this blog are often dedicated to the sounds and their use for meditation. I found 2 interesting videos with mantras today. these sounds were studied for centuries and maybe for millenniums to touch the most deep and important strings of our soouls. There are only 2 monasteries teaching this kind of singing as I know.

In any case you will enjoy the holy silence and majestic beauty of excellent film about Himalayas



The other example of deep singing

Buddhism IS -the new Buddhist Forum

I am James Chen Ball - the founder of a new Internet based Buddhist forum called Buddhism IS. The forum acts as an open Buddhist discussion community that does not restrict itself to one school, tradition or sect of Buddhism. Our main goal, simply is - to provide a community and a place to discuss the many forms of Buddhism, in one place! We are moderated and maintained by volunteer members of the lay community and sangha from around the world of which are currently in the progress of transcribing an archive of audio Dhamma teachings and video lessons on the surangama sutra to provide further accesibility of the Dhamma. We would gratefully receive any assistance you would give us and ask that you place a link to our forum on your website to help improve our visibility - we will of course link back to you. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Yours in Dhamma James Chen Ball http://buddhismis.com

Space Gazing

Meditation is an excellent way to regain calm and forces, to relax and to forget about the problems this last is equal to health. One of the meditation techniques is to practice it in an open place or near the sea 'in those environments where you can stay in touch with infinite.



“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” Bruce Lee

Contact lens care

Many of us choose to wear contact lenses these days rather than glasses, this is mainly due to the fact that many of us have a hectic working and social life and keeping an eye on your glasses at all times, or trying to stop them falling loose whilst running to and from the next meeting, can be near impossible!

Also certain activities will not allow us to wear glasses, such as an intense gym session, swimming or running.  In any one of the above circumstances wearing contact lenses is so much easier, not only will you be able to see clearly, you won’t be running the risk of losing or breaking an expensive pair of glasses.

Most people nowadays choose to wear daily contact lenses, which means you have a new lens for each day rather than washing the lenses every evening.  This is thought of as a safer and more hygienic option and allows the wearer to simply toss the worn pair away and open up a new packet the next day!

Wearing contact lenses also means the user won’t run the risk of forgetting to take her or his glasses to work and therefore squinting all day without them, which will not only cause discomfort but also headaches.

You should talk to your eye doctor or optician before choosing between throwaway contact lenses or soft contact lenses.  Both offer a similar solution and a good alternative to wearing glasses on a daily basis, however the soft lenses do require the user to take a great deal of care of their lenses in order to prevent eye infections or irritation.  The lenses should be inserted into a cleansing solution every evening and over night in order to keep them intact and in good condition.

If you want to view contact lenses online visit www.getlenses.co.uk.

Ayurveda and Mushrooms

Many of you will struggle for breath looking at this photo, probably. Yes, the period of the mushrooms began here, and it's just possible to buy these beauties.Well, we have mushrooms near the house but only "agaric honey" and they do not grow in this period.

Did you know that Ayurveda does not advise to eat mushrooms if you want to live healthy? I was surprised to read about it. Other foods that Ayurveda does not accepts as healthy? Meat, Fish and other Seafood, Cheese and Eggs, Garlic and Onion, Vinegar, Coffee and Tea...

Do you dream about Ayurveda lifestyle else?

Cactus is a Medicinal Plant

Medicinal plants are very popular in our world now. If you like natural therapy, you probably use all the plants that grow not too far from your house (well, relatively far -not all have ecological and clean areas just behind the door, as I have). But there is one plant I've never thought it could be used as medicinal.

I have some interesting flowers now in the yard this week.

Yes, cactuses. Simple and so good known plants that ... are used as officinal plants, too.

Did you know it? Well, I did not. Enjoying these flowers this morning, I thought: who knows, there are maybe native for the places where cactuses grow nations that know their curative properties. And I undertook a little research in internet.

:-))) You will laugh maybe, but the traditional medicine that uses cactuses to cure some deseases is ...the Chinese traditional medicine (I thought, cactuses grow in Mexico and in deserts). And it knows about the properties of the cactuses from the times of the Qin Dynasty that means from about III century bC.

They say, cactuses help to relax, they calm pains, cure digestion's problems and much more.

But the other quality is most important for our life, I think: cactuses are able to absorb the radiation. Nobody knows how they do it. But the needles of cactuses can neutralize bad ions of sun, of TVs, computers, cells etc. That is why you can read often that you have to place cactuses near and over your devices.

Motherwort for Good Sleep

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 When we have problems in our life, this often leads to the lost of the normal sleep flow.Those who is not too young knows that these problems with the sleep become always more frequent with the age.

There are many plants that help us to solve this inconvenience in natural way, but the plants are not always safe for use in sense that you have to be sure they will not damage your health, and every plant has it's particular action.For example, camomole is immunosuppressant if used not properly, mint can damage cardiovascular system, motherwort (on thte photo) was used very much in the medicine, so that there was plants in every garden to have it neaby. They advise to use it for good quality sleep very often. But the incorrect usecan damage your health forever. If you will survive after it. So, if you want to use this plant, you have to ask your pharmacist and never exceed the doses.

Herbs are good remedies but they need more time to manifest the effects and these effects continue for more time than the medicines.