Here and Now...What's Happening?

[ulli]

Posted by Taurean (here)

Posted by benevolentcrow (here)
A different perspective...

Here is an incredible photo (slightly altered) from NASA's Curiosity Mars probe...This is what Earth looks like from Mars. Think about THAT for a minute....

Excuse me if this has been posted already.

Looks like Heathrow early morning.

Who's them two coming in behind us ?

"NIBIRU Airways"

Thank you for the laugh, Taurean.
You can come back here any time.
In fact, I will reward you for that quip with a lifelong honorary membership to the Village.
It's medal time.

[Dennis Leahy]

What does one say on page 444 of this thread?

When I was a cub scout, my "pack" number was 444.

By birthday was 4/4/54 (ten years late?)

The zipcode I grew up in starts with 44, as did my phone number.

My social security number has a 444 sequence in it

...all of this came to mind one day, about thirty-five years ago, when a stranger I had never met approached me and said that he was directed to speak to me. He said that if he was accurate, that the number "44" would already be significant in my life. According to him, there were 44 beings - in spirit form - that were assembled to help the study group. The group, "Fellowship of Friends" was studying the work of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky and others, and wondered if I would be interested to attend meetings. I only attended one (I had made up my mind that I refused to pay for any philosophical/spiritual material, and they wanted money), but afterwords I did read some of the writings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky.)

So there. hahahahhaa Here and Now the thread page 444 triggered this memory for me!

Dennis

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Howdy ho All! Much love and greetings to the Village: PL introduced me to this great musician/songwriter, Mason Jennings. And the video to this song made your picture, Bob, even more surprising to me:

"I'm coming down the mountain....I've been coming down for some time....I'm coming down the mountain and this whole dark valley is mine........"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ym9msqE6oYM

Posted by another bob (here)

Posted by Wakytweaky (here)
Animals understand as much as we do... on a level of understanding life and nature that is.

[another bob]

Posted by Playdo of Ataraxas (here)
Howdy ho All!

Wonderful to see your name pop up again, my Friend! Hope you are doing well and have been enjoying your time off-line!

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

I am proud to announce, too, that, with Purple Lama's assistance and guidance, I have begun a Reiki circle in my neck of the woods. I am also following the Ascension Reiki path. PL actually gave me my 4-12 attunements way back when. Leading a circle has disciplined me to walk a straighter line spiritually and to be much more mindful everyday of not falling in to anger, and being filled with gratitude. Grateful I am. Cheers to you too Purple Lama and Lotus Blossom!

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
After an over two and a half year hiatus, I have kicked off another reiki circle. I had the circle for over a year after my teacher left, and as of tonight we have started it up once again. The path or lineage I am in or on, is Ascension Reiki, with the first three are the traditional Usui attunements, then 4-12 are ascension attunements, and a thirteenth attunement comes at some point later directly from spirit. It's good stuff. Soon, free distance attunements shall be widely available, as it'd good practice for the class, and distance treatments and distance group treatments are available immediately. PM me with any energetic needs, right now the group meets at 6:30 pm central time on the first and third wednesday of the month, but that may soon turn into every wednesday, again.

It's been a long time, I'd forgotten how much I missed doing this whole reiki circle thing. The amazement people have when they discover new things they can do really makes it fun for me. It's a quick turn around from can this really be done to I can really do that! It's a hoot!

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Thanks Bob! It was most refreshing to be a recluse from the interwebs. But I had to come back down from the mountain.....

[Carmody]

......just cuz' I have to make a post on page 888.

Posted by Playdo of Ataraxas (here)
Thanks Bob! It was most refreshing to be a recluse from the interwebs. But I had to come back down from the mountain.....

Isn't that always the problem?

[ulli]

Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
What does one say on page 444 of this thread?

When I was a cub scout, my "pack" number was 444.

By birthday was 4/4/54 (ten years late?)

The zipcode I grew up in starts with 44, as did my phone number.

My social security number has a 444 sequence in it

...all of this came to mind one day, about thirty-five years ago, when a stranger I had never met approached me and said that he was directed to speak to me. He said that if he was accurate, that the number "44" would already be significant in my life. According to him, there were 44 beings - in spirit form - that were assembled to help the study group. The group, "Fellowship of Friends" was studying the work of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky and others, and wondered if I would be interested to attend meetings. I only attended one (I had made up my mind that I refused to pay for any philosophical/spiritual material, and they wanted money), but afterwords I did read some of the writings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky.)

So there. hahahahhaa Here and Now the thread page 444 triggered this memory for me!

Dennis

Well, Dennis, I went back to page 444 and found it excellent.
Was missing the Thankyou button.

Anyway, a true Village Happy Hour there, with everyone chirping.
Calz in particularly good form. And Modwiz' joke even lept from
that other page, like it really craved attention.

And that number thing, Dennis, no one has it as much as I, although my numbers are not 444.
They are a variation of 17, 9, 19. These three numbers appear on forms, telefone numbers, car numbers,
Anywhere where spirit wants to send me signals. Not to forget the constant barrage of 11:11, 1:11, 2:22, 7:11, 9:11, 9:17, 7:19 on my clocks.
Been like this since I had my first awakening in 1977.
Then got into Gurdjieff and Ouspensky....so now that you shared your number thingy I'm having a guess that Gurdjieff's soul group is behind all the synchronicities.
Plus he himself also mentioned them quite often. Just like those Jmes Redfield books.
Interesting...hmmm....

[Sierra]

Hi uh welcome back Playdo ... Truly ... Yay. <waving Village banner weakly>

Love to eat them mousies,
Mousies what I love to eat.
Bite they little heads off…
Nibble on they tiny feet.
—B. Kliban.

[another bob]

Posted by Carmody (here)
......just cuz' I have to make a post on page 888.

Posted by Playdo of Ataraxas (here)
Thanks Bob! It was most refreshing to be a recluse from the interwebs. But I had to come back down from the mountain.....

Isn't that always the problem?

In this rank, the bodhisattva of indomitable spirit turns the Dharma-wheel of the non-duality of brightness and darkness. He stands in the midst of the filth of the world, "his head covered with dust and his face streaked with dirt." He moves through the confusion of sound and sensual pleasure, buffeted this way and buffeted that. He is like the fire-blooming lotus, that, on encountering the flames, becomes still brighter in color and purer in fragrance". He enters the market place with empty hands," yet others receive benefit from him. This is what is called to be on the road, yet not to have left the house; to have left the house, yet not to be on the road." Is he an ordinary man? Is he a sage? The evil ones and the heretics cannot discern him. Even the buddhas and the patriarchs cannot lay their hands upon him. Were anyone to try to indicate his mind, [it would be no more there than] the horns of a rabbit or the hairs of a tortoise that have gone beyond the farthest mountain.

Still, he must not consider this state to be his final resting-place. Therefore it is said, "Such a man has in and of himself a heaven-soaring spirit." What must he do in the end? He must know that there is one more rank, the rank of " Unity Attained."

Unity Attained:

Who dares to equal him
Who falls into neither being nor non-being!
All men want to leave
The current of ordinary life,
But he, after all, comes back
To sit among the coals and ashes.

The Master's verse-comment says:

How many times has Tokuun, the idle old gimlet,
Not come down from the Marvelous Peak!
He hires foolish wise men to bring snow,
And he and they together fill up the well.

The student who wishes to pass through Tozan's rank of "Unity Attained" should first study this verse.

[ulli]

Playdoooooo!!!!!! Playdo is back, folks!!!!!!!!! Hugs, hugs, hugs.!

But wait a minute...that video up there, isn't that the one where all those sweet little mice get eaten?

[Carmody]

Posted by another bob (here)

Posted by Carmody (here)
......just cuz' I have to make a post on page 888.

Posted by Playdo of Ataraxas (here)
Thanks Bob! It was most refreshing to be a recluse from the interwebs. But I had to come back down from the mountain.....

Isn't that always the problem?

In this rank, the bodhisattva of indomitable spirit turns the Dharma-wheel of the non-duality of brightness and darkness. He stands in the midst of the filth of the world, "his head covered with dust and his face streaked with dirt." He moves through the confusion of sound and sensual pleasure, buffeted this way and buffeted that. He is like the fire-blooming lotus, that, on encountering the flames, becomes still brighter in color and purer in fragrance". He enters the market place with empty hands," yet others receive benefit from him. This is what is called to be on the road, yet not to have left the house; to have left the house, yet not to be on the road." Is he an ordinary man? Is he a sage? The evil ones and the heretics cannot discern him. Even the buddhas and the patriarchs cannot lay their hands upon him. Were anyone to try to indicate his mind, [it would be no more there than] the horns of a rabbit or the hairs of a tortoise that have gone beyond the farthest mountain.

Still, he must not consider this state to be his final resting-place. Therefore it is said, "Such a man has in and of himself a heaven-soaring spirit." What must he do in the end? He must know that there is one more rank, the rank of " Unity Attained."

Unity Attained:

Who dares to equal him
Who falls into neither being nor non-being!
All men want to leave
The current of ordinary life,
But he, after all, comes back
To sit among the coals and ashes.

The Master's verse-comment says:

How many times has Tokuun, the idle old gimlet,
Not come down from the Marvelous Peak!
He hires foolish wise men to bring snow,
And he and they together fill up the well.

The student who wishes to pass through Tozan's rank of "Unity Attained" should first study this verse.

Yes, the moment, the life, the motion of the Juxtaposition..and the bridge.

Without ...it there would be no path.

I've said before that I seem to be an enlightenment junkie. I'm aware of the monkey see, monkey do effect. So I run though the revolving door of enlightenment, from misery to elevation, like so many up and downs on an amusement park ride.

[dan33]

"Often, I have decided to include in a film a scene in which a man tries to tell a story to a friend, but he forgets a word of four generally a very simple word: car, street, guard ... The man stammers, hesitates, gestures, looks pathetic eqivalencias until the friend was furious, gives him a slap and leaves."

My Last Sigh. Luis Buñuel Biography.

Con frecuencia, yo he pensado introducir en una película una escena en la que un hombre trata de contar una historia a un amigo; pero él olvida una palabra de cada cuatro, generalmente, una palabra muy simple: coche, calle, guardia... El hombre farfulla,titubea, gesticula, busca eqivalencias patéticas, hasta que el amigo, furioso, le da un bofetón y se va.

Mi Ultimo Suspiro. Biografía de Luis Buñuel.



I always laugh with this simple scene.
"Small is Beatiful". Small/Simple. I heard on a very popular scientific program "REDES" years ago and i can't forget it. The interviwer was talking about enviroment and cities .

http://www.rtve.es/television/redes/

[Carmody]

Probably the only way that humanity, as we think it might evolve into being..is going to have a potential path that moves in directions that we now (our physical idealizations at this time) would like it to...well..humanity is going to or should engage the idea of enlightenment first, technology AFTER. If at all.... regarding the technology... as after enlightenment the technology is most seriously a non-question.

All that technology before enlightenment is almost certainly a perfect death sentence for humanity.

Thus our entire overall global situation, as it is and how it sits, is, for the larger part of any potential outcomes an unstoppable forced move.

This..as a force...against humanity's unwillingness (immovable mass) to let go of the animal parts of duality existence.

Die (physically).... or ... change.

Those are the real choices and options that are in front of humanity at this time.

Realizing this, thus becomes a critical point in the individual and the collective sense.

[PurpleLama]

Yep, I gotta take a hit off that one, too.

Glad to see ol' Playdo here and now. I tried to cut my finger off a little while ago, removing the one of the blades on the saw. Lots of backspacing occurred during the typing of this message, woulda been easier on my phone, fo sho.

Posted by Carmody (here)
......just cuz' I have to make a post on page 888.

Posted by Playdo of Ataraxas (here)
Thanks Bob! It was most refreshing to be a recluse from the interwebs. But I had to come back down from the mountain.....

Isn't that always the problem?

[Mark]

Thanks Bob, for making me search for the 5 ranks.

Thanks Carmody, for explicating the personal and global dilemma so concisely.

I'm finding it very difficult to comment on anything these days past a line or three, generally of little note. Or even to write articles. Everything that comes out seems to have to do with higher consciousness. I may start on another topic, but it always comes back to that.

It must be lonely up the slopes of that mountain or something. WB, Playdo ...

[Guest]

me too Ulli..... 11:11 has been occurring so often and variants...8:11....etc... or 111, 222, 444 and now seeing 12:12's..... Late at night glow in dark 11:11's sometimes make me jump...LOL







Love


Nora

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Posted by ulli (here)
Playdoooooo!!!!!! Playdo is back, folks!!!!!!!!! Hugs, hugs, hugs.!

But wait a minute...that video up there, isn't that the one where all those sweet little mice get eaten?

Thanks Ulli! The truth is that I ran out of money and needed to visit the Village bank. Ha! Yea, that video is rather disturbing, though the song is rather nice. I had no idea frogs/toads even ate critters like that. Who knew. That's honestly why I was so surprised to see the mouse on the frog in Bob's picture. Synchronistically, I came across the video and Bob's post during the same day. Business as usual, all is connected! Thanks for the welcome, Ulli!

[Carmody]

Posted by Rahkyt (here)
Thanks Bob, for making me search for the 5 ranks.

Thanks Carmody, for explicating the personal and global dilemma so concisely.

I'm finding it very difficult to comment on anything these days past a line or three, generally of little note. Or even to write articles. Everything that comes out seems to have to do with higher consciousness. I may start on another topic, but it always comes back to that.

It must be lonely up the slopes of that mountain or something. WB, Playdo ...

Self explains self. Being 'is', and so on. Thus the emotions and actions required end up being 'precisely so' for the situation at hand.

The juxtaposition of knowing and not knowing. The surety and the fear. A sense of loss and a sense of being.

And it all mixes up in your tum-tum-tummy.

[ulli]

Posted by Playdo of Ataraxas (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
Playdoooooo!!!!!! Playdo is back, folks!!!!!!!!! Hugs, hugs, hugs.!

But wait a minute...that video up there, isn't that the one where all those sweet little mice get eaten?

Thanks Ulli! The truth is that I ran out of money and needed to visit the Village bank. Ha! Yea, that video is rather disturbing, though the song is rather nice. I had no idea frogs/toads even ate critters like that. Who knew. That's honestly why I was so surprised to see the mouse on the frog in Bob's picture. Synchronistically, I came across the video and Bob's post during the same day. Business as usual, all is connected! Thanks for the welcome, Ulli!

...the first thought that came to my mind was that you were hungry up there....that, or bored.