Spiritual Living In The Modern World cont.

The drive or impulse to grow comes from the deepest level of our being and is also the same instinct that causes a seed to sprout. The impulse to grow expresses itself in many different ways depending on one’s own personal make-up but includes a desire for self-understanding, knowledge and personal growth, the urge to discover & create, the wish to help others and the quest for answers about life and its purpose.

Spiritual living means acting consciously and taking responsibility for our behavior, thoughts, and emotions, as well as our relationships with others and the Natural World in which we live. It is an awareness of the way in which we choose to lead our lives that enables us to Shine Our Spiritual Light as a beacon into the dark recesses of our vast universe and unite as One Spiritual family. 

What has been coined “New Age” is merely a Re-Awakening or Re-Membering of the ways of our Ancestors. Gone are the days of living in the shadows; worrying about being shunned or outcast due to your beliefs or spiritual practices. 

We are engaging with the current shift in consciousness and awareness in mainstream science, philosophy, and religion toward the acceptance of a Living Universe where exists an underlying Conscious & Intelligent matrix of energy that receives and interacts with our thoughts. 

The options available for spiritual practice are as varied as the human species itself, and are useful in adding spice to life; the world would be a very boring place indeed if we had no flavors to chose from. 

Weather you choose to follow a particular doctrine, a specific discipline, a certain way of worship & prayer, or you meditate, chant or practice specific postures and movements are less important than the way in which you choose to walk it. Walking a spiritual practice involves learning what it means to be of service and being willing to give of oneself in the pursuit of growth & learning. This pursuit is making our world a better place to be and is never undertaken purely for the purpose of personal gain. As we follow any path, remaining open and receptive (questioning) is the mark of spiritual living. Learning can and does happen in any given moment. 

Do you need a teacher or a guru to practice spiritual living? As we discussed, living a spiritual life is one in which you remain open and receptive.  Therefore, the answer is simple. If you feel your practice would be furthered by the assistance and experience of an advisor then I say “Go for it”, with one proviso.  When you walk with an advisor, walk beside him or her rather than behind him or her. In this way you are creating footsteps rather than walking in them. Spiritual living is an experiential journey and learning is an individual process, which no one can do for you.

Living a spiritual life is not so much about reaching a specific goal rather growing, becoming and experiencing connection with the Spirit of All Creation. 

If we think of this life journey as a wheel with each spoke representing different knowledge, different doctrines, practices or beliefs, different creeds, classes and colors, different places, scents and flavors then we can begin so see that our journey from rim to rim and spoke to spoke offers a varied and personal way of experiencing and interacting with the life around us. In this way we can also begin to see that each spoke is a necessary component of the wheel of life and without all the spoke the wheel of life would become flat and no longer roll. Therefore, one spoke is no more important than the others, they work in concert with the rim to form the wheel. Just as we operate in concert with the people, plants, animals d elements around is to form the world in which we live.

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"DO NO SEEK TO HAVE EVENTS HAPPEN AS YOU WANT THEM TO, BUT INSTEAD WANT THEM TO HAPPEN AS THEY DO HAPPEN, AND YOUR LIFE WILL GO WELL." Epictetus, The Enchiridion

Did you know that Epictetus was a slave that freed himself through knowledge? well, YES! it was long time ago in ancient Greece; He was born approximately in AD 55 and lived to fullfill his dream to be free. His master allowed him to study Stoic Philosophy and eventually granted him freedom. Epictetus was a sage and he left his teachings in several writings such as The Encheiridion, a manual or handbook about the best possible condition for a human being to be.

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• BLOG: CMT awards rundown

Video of the Year:Good Girl; Carrie Underwood

Male Video of the Year:I Don't Want This Night to End; Luke Bryan

Female Video of the Year:Over You; Miranda Lambert

Group Video of the Year:We Owned the Night; Lady Antebellum

Duo Video of the Year:I Got You; Thompson Square

USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year:The Trouble With Girls; Scotty McCreery

Collaborative Video of the Year:Remind Me; Brad Paisley with Carrie Underwood

CMT Performance of the Year:Tattoos on This Town(from CMT Artists of the Year); Jason Aldean

MUSIC AWARDS 2012

 ROLLING IN THE DEEP

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MOVES LIKE JAGGER

MAROON 5 FEAT. CHRISTINA AGUILERA

PARTY ROCK ANTHEM

LMFAO FEAT. LAUREN BENNETT & GOONROCK

1. Video:Michael Jackson 
   "Scream (Feat. Janet Jackson)"
2. Video:Kings Of Leon 
   "Radioactive"
3. Video:Jonas Brothers 
   "Burnin Up"
4. Video:Beyoncé 
   "Upgrade U"
5. Video:Good Charlotte 
   "Like It's Her Birthday"

CMT Performance of the Year
Jason Aldean - "Tattoos on This Town" from 2011 CMT Artists of the Year - WINNER
Lady Antebellum - "Dancin' Away With My Heart" from 2011 CMT Artists of the Year
Little Big Town -"Fix You" from Music Builds: The CMT Disaster Relief Concert
Blake Shelton - "Footloose" from Invitation Only: Blake Shelton Sting and Vince Gill - "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" from CMT Crossroads: Sting and Vince Gill
Steven Tyler and Carrie Underwood - "Just a Dream/Dream On" from CMT Crossroads: Steven Tyler and Carrie Underwood From the Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam

USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year
Lauren Alaina - "Georgia Peaches"
Brantley Gilbert - "Country Must Be Country Wide"
Hunter Hayes - "Storm Warning"
Scotty McCreery - "The Trouble With Girls" - WINNER
Pistol Annies - "Hell on Heels"
Thompson Square - "I Got You"

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K I K I  V A L D E S

STUDIO WORLD 

Saturday June 30th 2012

6pm - 10:30pm 

STUDIO WORLD is a special viewing of works by KIKI VALDES in an empty 4th floor building on the upper west part of Manhattan. Instead of using the space as a traditional gallery setting, the artist will lay out works on canvas and paper like he does in his own studio, capturing the raw spirit of the art making process. The works dating from 2009 till present day and many works still in progress display a variation of techniques the artist has been exploring for several years. 

25% of each work sold will benefit the organization Aid for Aids International. This popup show/studio reception is in partnership with the Michael Margulies Artist Agency. 

Presented by: 

AID FOR AIDS 

MICHAEL MARGULIES 

ARTIST AGENCY 

25% of each work sold benefits AID FOR AIDS 

View the collection 

 80th West End Ave (and 63rd St) at Lincoln Center West - 4th Floor, New York, NY - [email protected] - 786.315.8369

(After reception space is open only by appointment only)

A. The Next Clue  B. The Blue Team C. Leon!! D. All of the above. 

(If you answered D. you are a true 1980's kid who had HBO) 

What does this picture make you think? 

EN HAAG - Nederland is betrokken geweest bij een internationale actie om een mogelijk wapentransport met een Russisch vrachtschip naar Syrië te voorkomen. Dat heeft minister Uri Rosenthal van Buitenlandse Zaken dinsdag gezegd. Het schip is volgens de Britse minister William Hague van Buitenlandse Zaken weer op de weg terug naar Rusland.

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Jose Rizal, Happy Birthday!

Sitting in the midst of a vast sea of hungry minds and faceless visions of the future, I made my mind wander off the window into another paradigm of heroism. The aspiring individuals surrounding me all sounded monotonous as the day unfolded with bits and pieces of our country's national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, his life, his death, his resurrection in the hearts of every Filipino generation.  With an already nibbled pencil in between my teeth as I unconsciously rocked my chair gently back and forth in a seemingly restless way and yet oblivious of boredom, I wondered why not a single soul in the room thought about discussing the way Rizal loved. His fires and passion. His very own art of seduction which can be traced in the tapestry of love letters sent to the chosen few he once loved and adored.

I have followed the tracks of Rizal's life with so much obsession, second to my mother who always had a fervor crush on him. She would always recall the time when she found herself at the point of joining the group Rizalistas, as she endlessly studied the life of our most famous hero and spent nights reading excerpts from Rizal's written love letters to the women of his life. Sometimes, when sentiments would drown her, she would even cry herself to tears with how fate ended things for Rizal, the solemnity of his noble pursuits and the dignified finish of his career as a Filipino. I think my mom fell more deeply in love with Rizal than my own dad. Really.

According to the count of the multi-awarded Filipino historian and journalist, Ambeth Ocampo, best known for his writings about Jose Rizal, there were thirteen women in Rizal’s life, and among them, Rizal considered seriously enough marrying three. However, snoopy historians believed there were at least nine women linked with him, who might have been beguiled by our leading man’s intelligence, charm and wit; namely Segunda Katigbak, Leonor Valenzuela, Leonor Rivera, Consuelo Ortiga, O-Sei San, Gertrude Beckette, Nelly Boustead, Suzanne Jacoby and Josephine Bracken.

I felt anxious writing about the hero whom we are very proud of. My mom even reminded me that I should treat any topic which concerns Rizal’s life with precision and delicacy, as to give honor, and more importantly, as to not provoke dismay and riot amongst his fans like her own self. But the greater worth of reviewing his life lies in what is unknown, unraveled, those which were kept from us knowing when we were just in our high school uniforms and while we were banging our heads to finish a college paper on his works. Jose Rizal, stripped of the utmost accolades and perceived as an ordinary gentleman, is just another libertine in search for love, meaning, and purpose. Despite his being just a little over five feet tall, he could lure women with his sweet tongue expressed through his hands. The art of seduction, like claiming an own rendition of the song, his own, becomes entirely more alluring since he packs it with the voice of sincerity and desire. Who knows if he prefers boxers, briefs, or no underwear at all. He becomes like any broken-hearted who having lost a beautiful lover at one point or another, entertains the thought of moving on by courting other ladies. Rizal, like any other guy, hangs around in cafes with his pals, just to spot a hot chick they can get to know and pursue. Who would think that Rizal’s affairs developed a pattern that when he becomes close to a woman to the point of ‘intimacy’, he leaves her. The very reason why he was once called “Doble Leonor”. A number of biographers assumed that he chose to love two Leonors in his lifetime so as not to be discovered of his being playful with women. He has ran away from more than three potential mates but never ran out of reason to find new love in another.

Many has thought ill of Rizal with this aspect of his personality. But how could anyone resist an intelligent debonair as he has been? I think Rizal was clear that he fell deeply in love with just a few but with the most being deeply in love with him. Majority of it could have been treated and taken on a one-way street. Like all of us, Rizal has one passion that drives him off his feet more than falling head over heels in love. To my mom, it’s Rizal and his life. To my brother’s wife, it’s their angelic son. To me, it’s writing. To Rizal, it’s patriotism. I perceived that he believed the idea of having a wife would surely get in the way of devoting his whole life to our country. Nevertheless, I also think he owes a lot of his learning, maturity, and unceasing refilling and rejuvenation of motivation and passion to all the wonderfully, intelligent, and gorgeous women he once loved. I guess it all comes back to the friendly cliché that behind every man’s success is a woman. Rizal won’t be half the man that he is if he hasn’t made spaces in his heart for these women.

This is an excerpt from an article I wrote for a men's magazine a good number of years ago. I will always be a Rizal fan.

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For a full quarter century, the extraordinary art within Houston's Menil collection has been protected from harm - until now.

The museum is confirming an act of vandalism against a painting produced in 1929 by the Spanish master Pablo Picasso.

In a video posted on YouTube, a man can be seen approaching the portrait known as "Woman in Red Arm Chair" and blasting the canvas with spray paint.  The stenciled message "Conquista" and the image of a bull defacing the original. 

The vandal escaped as did the photographer who may or may not be a conspirator.

According to Menil spokesman Vance Muse, the Picasso was rushed to the collection's chief conservator Brad Etley who performed immediate damage repair.

Speaking from Berlin, Germany Vance told FOX 26, "The most important thing is to get the painting to full health, which is happening.  All the spray paint has been removed. It is in the right hospital.  The painting now needs to rest."

Meantime, Houston Police confirm the case is under very active investigation as "criminal mischief," a crime carries a maximum penalty of two years in jail.  No arrests have been made in connection with the incident.

In addition to the YouTube video, detectives also have the Menil's own surveillance tape to help capture those responsible.

A representative for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston says "appropriate" security measures have been taken at that institution.

"Woman in Red Arm Chair" has been a part of the Menil collection since 1956.

On the web: http://www.menil.org/

Spray Paint Over a Picasso

Vandal tries to make his mark on art history, and just as quickly the damage is history. 

Via: Fox Houston 

"A brilliant distillation of the essential spiritual truths and the world's great religions is exemplified by the following:

1. Christianity is the path of love and forgiveness.

2. Buddhism is the path of compassion.

3. Judaism is the path of living by sacred law.

4. Baha'i is the path of unity and peace.

5.Islam is the path of submission to the will of God.

6.Confucianism is the path of deliberate tradition.

7. Taoism is the path of ultimate reality.

8. Native American Practice is the path of primal spirituality.

9. Shintoism is the path of tribal ancestry.

10. Hinduism is the path of knowledge, action and devotion.

11. Science of Mind is the path of the Divine Principle of Love and Law.

12. The Global Heart Vision is of a world that works for everyone." ( Henderson, R, 2005)

Dr. David Hawkins, Discovery of the Presence of God, Veritas Publishing, Sedona, Arizona, 2007.