Life...
people,relationships,the earth...the sky...Awakeing my senses.
Music
The Hilight Tribe~Free Tibet
I love so many types of music, I can't even begin.
I love music that expresses a positive message that inspires people to care,and to become more aware of self and of our connection as one in this life on this planet.
JAMES & Tim Booth
R.E.M.
Coldplay............
Death Cab for Cutie,
Duran Duran.........
Mark Everett-The Eels,
Grand National,Police,U2,,.............................
Jimi Hendrix.........................................
Everclear,Depeche Mode,
Wang Chung,
Credence Clearwater Revival........................
Julian Lennon,Thunderclap Newman (Speedy Keen),
Steely Dan.......................
Supertramp,
Cat Stevens,Yusaf Islam,
Electronic,Zucchero-Best of:),Pavarotti And All Of His Friends,Lovin Spoonful,Yardbirds,
Donovan,
Serj Tankian...............
Joni Mitchell,Yes,Moody Blues,Techung,Wang Chung,Pink Floyd,Early
Annie Lenox...............
Ezra Mohawk,Lee Michaels and Frosty................
Country Joe McDonald-So.Calif.San Gabriel Valley Bro!
Neil Young,Buffalo Springfield,The Byrds,Emerson-Lake and Palmer,Robert Plant,Love & Arthur Lee........
Beatles,Jean Luc Ponty,Herbie Hancock,Janis
Joplin........................................
Carly Simon,Annie Lennox,Dido,Tina Turner,George Harrison...........
Youngbloods-Jesse Colin Young,Rush,
HourGlass w/Duane Allman 60's... anyone remember"Heartbeat"?)...................................
The Young Rascals, The Seeds,Canned Heat,....................
Captain Beefheart,...................................
"Cut The Cake~We'll all get well.
David Grisman w/Jerry Garcia,David Gray,Electronic,Al Stewart,Doors..................................
Quicksilver Messenger Service,Jeff Beck, Ten Years After,Chamber Brothers,
Harry Nilsson...................................
Nilsson & Lennon
The Who,The Guess Who,
Bob Dylan & Joan Baez,
The Doors,The Animals,Traffic,Blind Faith,(Steve W)Spencer Davis Group,Airplane-Starship-Mickey Thomas,
John Lennon
The Sound of The Ocean
Laughter,
The sound of natures natural orchestras like the wind and weather,Birds,Insects sometimes all playing together at one time when we are quiet enough to hear it.
I also very much enjoy different cultural sounds and instruments.
Like Neil Young here,Pete Seeger...
I love when artists have the gift to share truths that many people feel they aren't supposed to express,or are feeling it inside but are afraid to say it.It's music that makes you feel good and alive! Music and sounds from the inside,lost or missing pieces of the puzzle kept alive through music.
.........That gets me high.
Each tradition is very special especially those that carry a message of truth, peace and compassion.
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Movies
MOVIES:
"10 Questions For The Dalai Lama", "Kundun",Robert Thurman,Buddhism Lecture,"Tibetan Book Of The Dead"(netflix),"Peaceful Warrion"
"Second Hand Lions" w/ Robert Duval and Michael Cane,
"Leaving Normal","Orphans" w/ Matthew Modine & Albert Finney,"Benny and Joon","The Fountain","The Celestine Prophecy",
"Mothman Prophecy", Lewis Carroll's "ALICE IN WONDERLAND" w/ Charlotte Henry, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, W.C. Fields and more...... try to find it.Quest For Fire","The Manchurian Candidate","Apocalypto","Harold and Maude","Moonstruck", "Michael","Harvey","Pay It Forward","The Phantom Of The Opera","The Hunting Party" W/ Richard Gere and Terrence Howard(very good!),"Around The Bend"
Television:
I like KLRU. Mostly Love British Comedy...As Time Goes By is a fave.Northern Exposure, Informative programs,History,Nature,
Music stations like Austin City Limits is good.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
HH Dalai Lama
~Lama Zopa Rinpoche~
Live with compassion,
Work with compassion,
Die with compassion,
Meditate with compassion,
Enjoy with compassion,
When problems come,
Experience them with compassion~
Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Books
Informative books, *Favorite Book is ("Essence Of The Heart Sutra")Inspired by His Holiness-The Dalai Lama*,
Buddhist Inspirations,Poetry,old cook books,old children's books,books with old maps,old dictionaries,vintage interior Design,Books with old pictures and photos,Books about plants and herbs, medecinal,food healing,natural therapy,Books that identify vintage and antique items,Art and books of all kinds:)
I enjoy reading books that bring this life to light. Books on Mahayana Buddhism,The Udamwara Lotus Flower Protecting the Life of Helpless Beings by Geshe Thubten Soepa,
"How To See Yourself As You Really Are" by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Currently reading ("Essence Of The Heart Sutra")a second time:)"The Gift" I read to my Grandaughter with my daughter.It was delightful for all of us!!!
Silence About Important Things Can Be Very Dangerous
"You think that your silence on certain topics,
perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness,
causes others to reserve judgement of you.
Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud:
you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer,
and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them.
Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice?
We would be well to do likewise."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Heroes
Champin Tenza
Everyday heroes and people allowing truth to flow in,People helping people to remove all of the chaos that has been taught into our lives since we were children and since the beginning of time.
All of the stories and problems that exist appear to have been designed without mindfulness.
We need to wake up and love......
Time for a cool change:)
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai Lama
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. Dalai Lama
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai Lama
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama
It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to resist from harming them.
Dalai Lama
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. Dalai Lama
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.Dalai Lama
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. Dalai Lama
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Dalai Lama
~AJHAN CHAH~
Do not try to become anything.
Do not make yourself into anything.
Do not be a meditator.
Do not become enlightened.
When you sit, let it be.
What you walk, let it be.
Grasp at nothing.
Resist nothing.
If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. Dalai Lama
~Geshe Thubten Soepa~
Geshe-La is always saying, "check check! Yourself, what you hear and learn, all you take in, check, check!
He also always emphasizes Buddhism is vast!
He is a wonderful Lama and teacher:)So honored to have known him:)His book~
The Udamwara Lotus Flower: Protecting the Life of Helpless Beings~
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My daughter is Awesome:)
She just sent me this photo of my favorite playground in California...Balboa's, "The Wedge"!
This peninnsula is where I spent many many hot summer days during my youth and before I left Cali. in the 90's.
I still have the boogie board w/ me here in Texas that carried me through its ride.
Just swimming out past its breakers, flaoting up and down in its swells was an awesome spiritual experience in itself!:)
So many lessons and changes it allowed so many of us beach lovers to experience:)
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;Thank You For Visiting::::Namaste;;;;;;;;;;
Barbara's Details
Status:
Single
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
West Covina, Ca
Body type:
5' 7" / Average
Ethnicity:
Other
Religion:
Buddhist
Zodiac Sign:
Capricorn
Children:
Proud parent
Education:
Grad / professional school
Occupation:
Life
Barbara's Schools
Northview High
Covina, CA
Graduated: 1970
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
1968 to 1970
Covina High
Covina, CA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
1966 to 1967
Barbara Cleaning up myspace and getting ready to prepare comment for my friends here. With the weekend off this should be accomplished. Love to you all:) Posted at 12:58 AM Nov 5 view more
About me:
Welcome and Hello:) My name is Barbara.I am half Armenian and half German which the *profile questionaire* does not allow me to express.Gee...am I white,Middle Eastern or European?
I am(Cat/Rabbit) Capricorn Sun/Leo Moon/Libra Rising and Mars/w/Venus in Sag.and so much more.
Born in Los Angeles,spent most of my life in California,Northern and Southern and am now living in North Lake Travis area,Texas. A lovely small town.
Missing California,My son Joe,old neighbors, family and friends and antique vintage resale,the ocean...swimming out past the breakers.
But as Lyall Lovett put it, "Texas wants me anyway".
Wait til they get to know me:P
If and when there is any time at all,I enjoy gardening,fishing,swimming,hunting out vintage items,cooking,BBQing,movies,running through the sprinklers on a hot day, watching the critters and picking up their vibes,Rainy days,thunder,building fires,Reading good Mahayana Buddhism books,and just talking w/ real and honest people be they strangers or friends.Once in a while I clean house.
Doing something a little different here in Texas.
Somehow got involved in mail services with computer co., then moved to Security. Presently security supervisor/administrator/lobby receptionist at a software company.
There is a new energy growing here in Austin.
I sort of like it as new people are moving here from everywhere in the world.. Lots of energy!:)
I'm living out in the wooded area and love it.
Folks...Texas is strange, but it's an experience!
Once it gets too crazy here, I will most likely move on.
It's growing so fast!It's been drawing people here and swallowing them whole.
One of those places growing too fast in a different time, and not(over time)like in the past.
There are wonderful people here in Austin,
I always like to try and remember that,"When You Touch Something...It Touches You Back".
Ever since I read HHDL, "The Essence Of Heart Sutra" that landed in my hands one day. Things have been going differently...for the better.
I have been able to experience the company of Buddhist friends with recent past intimate gatherings in the presence of Geshe Thubten Soepa.
This is a blessing and honor that I am so grateful for.
After reading the book I said to my neighbor while we were walking high on a hill, overlooking the hills and plateaus,"I need to find a teacher, Mayahana, people to study with"
Low and behold Geshe La was here in Austin.
I had never met a Lama.
We (My neighbor Gail and I) were welcomed by Bonnie w/ FPMT.
This was my first experience and so beautiful!
My daughter also attended an loved this.
I hope to connect again.
It is difficult to connect living in the hill country, but I know it will happen.
So far some of my son's and daughter's friends have joined me on myspace.
Two of them have even moved here to Texas and one made it to meet Geshe-La:)
Small world aye?
Who I'd like to meet: Dalai Lama...all of them:)
Mostly everyday people.
Hopefully each experience is a positive one...and if it is negative,,,we hopefully will learn from it:)
Lots of Love and good vibes peeps forever!!!
PEACE
~We Are All One~
October - and the skies are cool and gray O'er stubbles emptied of their latest sheaf, Bare meadow, and the slowly falling leaf. The dignity of woods in rich decay Accords full well with this majestic grief That clothes our solemn purple hills to-day, Whose afternoon is hush'd, and wintry brief Only a robin sings from any spray.
And night sends up her pale cold moon, and spills White mist around the hollows of the hills, Phantoms of firth or lake; the peasant sees His cot and stockyard, with the homestead trees, Islanded; but no foolish terror thrills His perfect harvesting; he sleeps at ease.
The
Medical Thangka no. 1 of the Blue Beryll (similar to a front page). It shows the
Buddha Bhaisajyaguru, the master of remedies on his lotus throne in the centre
of his celestial palace. It is situated in the city of Sudasana, the city of
healing. The painting follows close to the iconographic structure of a
Mandala.
The city of Sudasana is
surrounded by four mountains (northern Himavant mountain, eastern Gandhamadana
mountain, southern Vindhya mountain and western Malaya mountain). Each area
contains plenty of medicine in the form of trees, plants, herbs, animals which
is used to cure sick people.
The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the paper is the common factor, always present, rarely perceived. When the ribbon is removed, typing leaves no trace on the paper. So is my mind - the impressions keep on coming, but no trace is left."(N.MAharaj) and…
"Love is will, the will to share your happiness with all. Being happy, making happy, this is the rhythm of love."
"Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect - whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage."
"There is no chaos in the world, except the chaos which your mind creates."
If you wish to be eternally happy,
know and believe you will live after death.
Always remember this, for it is the truth.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Heavenly Secrets #8939
We think of death as the end of life;
Let us rather think of it as the beginning of life.
As the door through which we enter the real, true eternal life.
We think of losing;
Let us think of gaining.
We think of parting;
Let us think of meeting.
We think of going away;
Let us think of arriving.
And as the voice whispers,
'You must go '
Let us hear the voice saying,
'You are but coming '.
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...bohooo.....hugs.
