Things I Have Loved
The music playing is We Three Kings, which I Dedicated this past Holiday Season,
to FIVE WISE MEN in my life. They are His Holiness the Dalai Lama,
Venerable Choden Rinopoche, Venerable Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche, Lama Zopa Rinpoche,
and Venerable Ribur Rinpoche.
Their photos are displayed in Who Am I? .
I'm leaving the music here, for Good Luck!
All thoughts written herein are Copyrighted, Anupama Deanne Kallmen Aha! Stories
1.15.06
Dear Friends, I just Heard This News Today, at 6:20pm.
Venerable Kyabje Ribur Rinpoche's passing.
Kindly scroll all the way down for Details.
Thank you.
Energy Medicine:
Energy Medicine by Donna Eden
Energy medicine is a new field with ancient roots. It builds not only on what is known in Western science and medicine, it also draws heavily from Eastern health practices and disciplines such as acupuncture, yoga, and qi gong. This program will give you as solid an introduction to this exciting new field as we know how to provide in two hours.
Two free papers you may want to download to supplement this program are:
* 1) "A Beginner’s Guide to Energy Medicine," which outlines ways of introducing energy medicine into your life and directs you to many excellent resources, and
* 2) "The Principles of Energy Medicine," which summarizes and organizes many of the concepts touched upon in this program.
Both are available, along with many other free resources, from the Handout Bank of our non-profit Energy Medicine Institute (www.HandoutBank.org).
Edgar Cayce is my favorite prophet.
Please Click Here for an online review of
Edgar Cayce's Story of Jesus
As Seen Through the Eyes of the Inn Keeper's Daughter.
My favorite Star Trek character is "Q" from "The Q Continuum." Why? Perhaps because he is very enigmatic, tricky, and funny, One Huge trouble-maker wherever he goes. Kind of a "Gone Beyond Guy" I could never truly understand. He rarely shows up. But when he does, everything seems to enter a paradym shift.
Does anyone know what "Q" stands for, anyway? Mighty Quinn? Qutie? Quiet? QitIt?
Quan Yin? Quintessential? Question? Quirk?
For Archaeology fans, there is an article on Q, The Search for Site Q,
as well as Conversations: Site Q Discovered, Maya archaeology's missing city.
Here's a Huge "Q":
Arp 188 and the Tadpole's Tidal Tail
Coutesy NASA Picture of the Day Archives
Credit: ACS Science & Engineering Team, NASA
Explanation: In this stunning vista recorded with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys, distant galaxies form a dramatic backdrop for disrupted spiral galaxy Arp 188, the Tadpole Galaxy. The cosmic tadpole is a mere 420 million light-years distant toward the northern constellation Draco. Its eye-catching tail is about 280 thousand light-years long and features massive, bright blue star clusters. One story goes that a more compact intruder galaxy crossed in front of Arp 188 - from left to right in this view - and was slung around behind the Tadpole by their gravitational attraction. During the close encounter, tidal forces drew out the spiral galaxy's stars, gas, and dust forming the spectacular tail. The intruder galaxy itself, estimated to lie about 300 thousand light-years behind the Tadpole, can be seen through foreground spiral arms at the upper left. Following its terrestrial namesake, the Tadpole Galaxy will likely lose its tail as it grows older, the tail's star clusters forming smaller satellites of the large spiral galaxy.
I'm not totally sure who Q is. See? He even has Picard baffled :
I also enjoy Captain Jean-Luc Picard,
Having some strange attraction to Klingons, I also adore Worf, who is half human, half Klingon.
I love Barclay.
Of the women, I most enjoy Jadzia Dax,
and Guinan.
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I enjoy playing this CD with His Holiness singing Mantras to Rock and World Music.
It's POWERFUL MEDICINE. This is one of my favorite Dance CD's.
Mantra Mix CD: Disc Two features Bonus Enhanced CD Audio tracks (The Dalai Lama singing mantras)
plus interactive program with videos of The Dalai Lama. Available at mantramix.com
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I love Frank Sinatra's album SINATRA REPRISE: The Very Good Years, for a Great Dance Workout, repleat with props! I use hats, unbrellas, Zen walking sticks, pink feather boas, Hawaiian leis, sometimes pretending to read books, etc. I usually do this looking in the full length mirror feeling love for myself, humanity, planet earth and all beings. It is fun to pretend I'm on stage!
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This album is my favorite Highest Angelic Realm music, so far. Isn't it Amazing Grace when Existence becomes an Instrument?
Today, I logged on, and Lo and Behold!!! There up on My Favorites List Spontaneously Appeared,"@Paul Schwartz/Music/State of Grace." I'm not able to figure out how it got there.(Paul Schwarz Music)
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My favorite films are Finding Forester, As Good As It Gets, and The Pink Panther Strikes Again. My favorite Dharma Films are Ground Hog Day, Trading Places and Scrooged. Also of interest are The Quiet Man, The Princess Bride, First Knight, The Fifth Element, The Maltese Falcon, On The Waterfront, Chicken Little, Pretty Woman, Toy Story, The King and I, all the Woody Allen films, The Santa Clause,You've Got Mail, The Last Samurai, and Sleepless in Seattle, and The Legend of Zorro. I love all the Charlie Chaplin films, as well as anything Whoopi Goldberg ever starred in, especially It's A Very Merry Muppet Christmas, in which she plays the role of God.
My favorite works of literature are Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, The Brothers Karavazov, and Notes From the Underground; Colin Wilson's The Outsider; Skakespeare's plays: Hamlet, MacBeth, Romeo and Julliet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Existentialist writers, Camus, Kafka (The Metamorphosis), and Sartre; the Greek Playwrites, Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha. My favorite poet is e.e.cummings. Children's books I especially love are Horton Hatches the Egg, The Little Prince, Tikki Tikki Tembo, Caps For Sale, The Story of Ping, and Too Much Noise. My favorite fairytale is Cinderella.
We enjoyed the wonderful play "Cinderella:The New Telling of a Old Tale," by Shakespear Santa Cruz this past holiday season.
Here is a fun website of elementary school children's stories and drawings found at: Fairy Tale and Folk Tale Cyber Dictionary . You may Click on the alphabet atop each story to view the children's drawings.
There are some geometric shapes floating in mid-sky in the Chicken Little website, depicted in cave paintings and works of art, such as The Mona Lisa. To view this, please click on "Enter The Sky Is Falling" and then click "The Proof." You can order the film by clicking here.
Does anyone know what these shapes are?
There is also one in this NASA photograph of Self Portrait: Apolla 12 floating next to his helmet:
Just a reflection?
Please email me if you have an answer or an opinion: anupama@ahastories.com
Also, check out The Sky is Falling Weatherman! Enter the Sky is Falling.com and click on "Weather."
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Venerable Ribur Rinpoche was imprisoned and tortured for thirty years by the Communist government in China. To read his biography, click here.
I tremendously enjoy listening to his Dharma Teachings while driving in my car, over and over again. Especially his teachings on Calm Abiding, which I made cassette tapes of for Land of Medicine Buddha last year. VERY special.
If this is of interest to you, Venerable Ribur Rinposhe's teachings on Calm Abiding and Special Insight, entitled "Mastering Meditation" are available at Land of Medicine Buddha
kindly click below:
May we all enjoy Liberation and Enlightenment!
More Later, Folks.