Collective Collapse and the End of Time

2012 AND BEYOND
Never before have so many peoples, cultures, religions (and their monuments and messages) been brought together in a chorus of wisdom, enlightenment, and ascension. Aztecs, Buddhists (Morton claims to have lived and trained with Nepalese Buddhists in the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition), Egyptians, Mayans, and the Bible all converge in a grand concordance of information. Their collective message speaks of “fantastic and amazing changes” in the way(s) we think and live. As we move through a “stargate” in this “Age of Wonders,” there is peril and potential.

Comets, Crop Circles, Collective Collapse, and the End of Time

Sean David Morton's message (Wisdom Quarterly)
We are hurtling into the winds of a perfect storm. Astronomical [and astrological], economic, cometary, and Mayan calendar alignments could either doom us all or elevate us into a fabulous new way of living.

But the super technology of a small global elite (a Shadow Government composed of bankers, industry, corporate entities, paid scientists, and secret military that rules over our elected government) has triggered massive Earth changes.

• Strange Universe (AmericanFreedomRadio.com)
  

This shadowy force has altered the physical and magnetic poles of the Earth. Given its choice (and taking into consideration the unrecognized effects of exopolitics), will we be saved from certain doom or reduced in number to 500 million people?

The world financial crisis is not accidental.

We must explore predictions about solar cycles, Elenin, the Red Star Kachina, and stunning new discoveries relating to the 2012 alignment of the Great Pyramids of Giza. More comets are coming at us. Crop circles have predictions embedded in them.

NO PREDICTION HAS TO COME TRUE. "Prediction" (or "prophecy" in the sense Gregg Braden uses it) is about potential events and doing something to choose another way.

Exopolitics deals with the biggest secret of all.

The end of TIME is not the end of the world, just the world as we know it. We soon come to the end of an age. We may already be there. Social and cultural change do not happen overnight.

• The way we live our lives depends on us. More greed, hatred/fear, delusion? Or mutual caring, peace, and wisdom?

Sean David Morton is a seer, researcher, and author. His stunning predictions brought him international recognition as America's premiere futurist. A pioneer in remote viewing, referred to by Art Bell as "America's Prophet,” he is an award-winning independent filmmaker. He has appeared on countless TV and radio shows. His startling visions, intensity of presentation, and sense of humor make him a popular speaker. He is tireless in his quest to bring light and media attention to the paranormal and to help bring about the ascension of humankind. He is the author of Veil of the Anti-Christ and Sands of Time.

UFOs, whatever they may be, play a role.

India rocked by powerful earthquakes

OurAmazingPlanet Staff, MSNBC.com Science, 9/19/2011

Monsoon landslides, 6.8 quake leave Himalayan foothills of Sikkim devastated (rediff.com).

India's earthquake on Sept. 18, 2011 was likely the result of two seismic events striking at nearly the same time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The magnitude 6.9 quake killed at least 55 people in northeastern India, Nepal, and Tibet, reported the AP.

The quake rumbled the mountainous region of the Indian town of Mangan, in the northeast Indian province of Sikkim, and near the Nepalese border. The epicenter was 42 miles northwest of Gangtok, India. Tremors from India's big earthquake were felt as far away as Bangladesh and New Delhi.

The quake came at the end of the monsoon season, and rain-soaked hills spawned landslides that caused much of the devastation, according to the American Geophysical Union's Landslide Blog. Heavy rainfall and more aftershocks in the coming days could complicate recovery efforts.

A flurry of big earthquakes have hit in recent weeks around the seismically and volcanically active Pacific Ring of Fire, but they were not triggered by each other. The Sikkim earthquake, as it is called, was also unrelated to these other temblors, but was seismically complex in its own right. More

Quake toll rises to 80, over 3,000 rescued

NEW DELHI, India (PNS) - [UPDATE: Sept. 21, 2011] The toll in the Sunday’s earth quake rose to 80 on Tuesday even as defense and paramilitary forces rescued more than 3,000 people in the worst-hit areas of Sikkim and efforts were intensified to extricate those trapped under the debris of collapsed structure. As many as 50 persons have been reported killed in Sikkim alone and 30 others in the neighboring regions.

The Singing Buddhist Nun of Nepal (video)

(NTDTV)

Anna Chan, News Anchor: Rather than just relying on prayer, a Buddhist nun is using her voice to help needy Nepalis in one of the world's poorest countries. The nun is funding her school for orphans by singing her way into the international charts.

"Buddha Boy" of Nepal (Daily Show)

Ani Choying Dolma, a 37-year-old Tibetan-Nepali known as Nepal's "singing nun," has soared to global fame with her eight albums of Tibetan and Sanskrit meditation songs. She has performed more than 50 concerts in Europe, Asia, and the United States, and more are lined up for 2008 in Germany.

Sanskrit Ganesha Mantra

[Ani Choying Dolma, Singing Nun]: "The singing part comes just somehow. I did not really plan for it, but somehow it came up. It happened and then once I realized the benefit of using my own skill or whatever I'm blessed with and to be able to use it for the benefit of others. So I feel more productive."

Arya Tara School activities (choying.com)

The income from her CD sales has helped Dolma build the Arya Tara School, which has 58 students drawn from poor Nepali families, including some from neighboring India and Tibet. They study Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan language, English, and mathematics. Young nuns also learn the art of Thangka wall painting.

Dolma was later encouraged to sing by an American musician who was impressed when he heard her humming. But since her debut in 1998, Dolma has never turned back. Her CDs included "Cho," "Dancing Dakini," "Choying," "Moments of Bliss," "Selwa," "Smile," and her most recent, "Inner Peace." Some of her songs have also featured in the well-known "Buddha Bar" collection.

Ani Dolma walking through Kathmandu (choying.com)

[Ani Choying Dolma, Singing Nun]: "That CD actually established me in the international music field. I should say, as a Buddhist nun, as a singer. 'The singing nun,' as they call me."

All of the proceeds from Dolma's record sales and performances go directly into the Nuns Welfare Foundation.

Dolma also longs for peace in Nepal, which is just emerging from a decade-long Maoist civil war and years of political unrest.

Sanskrit Mantra of Great Compassion

Climbing Everest for Middle East peace (video)

Wisdom Quarterly
(lancetrumbull)

Narrated by Nichiren Buddhist Orlando Bloom (pictured left) and hailed as a "tremendous achievement" by the Dalai Lama (Tibet's pope-king), "Everest: A Climb for Peace" is no typical Everest film. It is a socially relevant documentary about peace, war, and the human spirit -- an inspirational adventure film with some of the most incredible Mt. Everest footage ever shot, including a dramatic rescue from near the summit of a mountain some regard as Mt. Sumeru (the mountain at the center of the Buddhist cosmology). Tibetans call it Goddess Qomolangma ("Holy Mother"), whereas the local sherpas who frequently climb it call it Sagarmāthā, and the Chinese, who are still occupying Tibet, call it Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng in Mandarin.

View from the Top of the World

• VIDEO: EverestPeaceProject.com
• Everest: A Climb for Peace continues national TV airings
  

Nepal detains 20 Tibetans for illegal crossing

The cold moon dust high desert behind the Himalayas where moisture from India can only rarely overcome the peaks.

• Amazing photos of Tibet by Chandni Dossani

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Police in Nepal say they have detained 20 Tibetans who trekked the treacherous Himalayan trail for more than two weeks from their mountain homes.

They do it to escape the Chinese controlled Autonomous Tibetan Region and visit their exiled spiritual/political leader.] Police spokesman Binod Shrestha said the 15 men and five women were detained Monday after they crossed the border. They are aged 18 to 21 years old and are being transported to the capital, Katmandu. Tibetan refugees who are detained in Nepal are generally handed over to the United Nations' refugee agency.

The U.N. helps them on their journey to the Indian town of Dharmsala where the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama lives. Hundreds of Tibetans trek into Nepal every year to visit Dalai Lama. They walk route to avoid Chinese border guards.

Himalayas (kerdowney.com)

The Buddhist Circuit: A Spiritual Pilgrimage

IANS, Wisdom Quarterly, Lama Yeshe Archive, UNESCO, New York Times

KAPILAVASTU, Uttar Pradesh, India (Nepalese border) - The U.P. government may be trying to project itself as a champion of Buddhism, yet the Buddha's original home Kapilavastu, along the India-Nepal border, lies in utter neglect.

[If standard history were to be believed,] back in 563 BCE, Queen Maya Devi comfortably traversed a distance of 6 miles (10 km) from her husband King Suddhodana's kingdom, Kapilavastu, to her parental home [passing through] Lumbini, Nepal [on the way to her parent's home to become a mother according to Indian custom], where she gave birth to Siddhartha, who later became the legendary Buddha Gautama. But that may not be possible today.

Tens of thousands of foreign tourists exploring the "Buddhist circuit" have to take a detour of at least 33 miles (53 km) due to the modern absence of a good road link of 12 miles (20 km) between today's "Kapilvastu" and "Lumbini."

The Humble Road to the Noble Truths in India and Nepal (Ralph Frammolino/NY Times)

• [Sadly, both of these locations are likely not archeologically correct. But they are geo-politically correct. The real sites in India's former Northwest Frontier Province are now war-torn Afghanistan (the real Kapilavastu near Bamiyan) northwest of Kabul (with the real Lumbini likely located in Baluchistan where Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan meet). Of course, setting the exact coordinates is controversial, as Dr. Ranajit Pal well knows and Wisdom Quarterly is finding out.]

"What is worse is that this detour is usually packed with trucks as it is one of the main trade routes between the two countries [India and Nepal]," Shamim Ahmad, a cab driver, told IANS.

"Often, the long wait at the Sonauli border is so disgusting for foreign tourists that they choose to give up one or two places on the Buddhist circuit," he added.

The exact location of Kapilavastu has become a matter of contention, with some regarding Tilaurakot in Nepal's Rupandehi as the site of the ancient kingdom.

Currently UNESCO, with funding from Japan [and a recent massive contribution from China], is conducting a three-year excavation there (with tourist patronage courtesy of Kosai Hotel].

But Nepal has not built a serviceable road from the Indian border at Kakrahwa -- less than a half mile (500 meters) from the Kapilavastu stupa -- to the Buddha's birthplace at Lumbini. Neither have Indian authorities bothered to persuade Kathmandu [capital of Nepal] to facilitate the easy movement of Buddhist pilgrims through the border, many have complained.

It has not struck the Uttar Pradesh state government to build a direct road link between Kapilavastu and Sravasti, both being significant stops along the much talked about Buddhist circuit.

"There is a narrow, dilapidated road connecting Sonauli to Kapilavastu and further down to Sravasti; all that is required to be done is to build it into a proper highway," said Indrajeet Gupta, a local grocer. More

• The Pilgrimage of Buddhism and a Buddhist Pilgrimage
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Buddhist circuit by tourist (Myindiatoursntravels blog)

The Buddha on undertaking a pilgrimage
Wisdom Quarterly
Disciples, after my passing away, if all the sons and daughters of good family with confidence [in the Buddha's enlightenment, the efficacy of the Buddha-Dhar ma to bring one to enlightenment, and the accomplishment of the Noble Sangha], so long as they live, go to four sacred places, they should go and bear in mind:

• Here at Lumbini the Enlightened One was born.
• Here at Bodhgaya he attained enlightenment.
• Here at Sarnath he set rolling the wheel of wheel of Dharma.
• Here at Kushinagar he entered parinirvana.

Disciple, after my final passing away there will be customary marks of respect such as circumambulation of these places and prostration to them.

Thus it should be told: For those who have confidence in my deeds and awareness of their own will travel to higher states.

After my final passing away, the new monastics who come and ask about the Doctrine should be told of these four places and advised that a pilgrimage [due to focusing on the good and overcoming hardship] to them will help purify [outweigh, frustrate, mitigate, replace] their previously accumulated negative karma, even [it is said] the five heinous actions.

The 8 Places of Pilgrimage
Jeremy Russell (Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive)

• Introduction

1. Lumbini—birthplace of the Buddha
2. Bodhgaya—site of Buddha's enlightenment
3. Sarnath—first turning of the Wheel of Dharma
4. Rajgir—second turning of the Wheel of Dharma
5. Shravasti—teachings in the Jetavana Grove
6. Sankashya—the Buddha descended from Tusita
7. Nalanda—site of the great Buddhist university
8. Kushinagar—where the Buddha entered nirvana

• Conclusion and Books Consulted

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Prayers for Compassion

Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa -- the Tibetan Buddhist Temple at 740 S. 300 West, Salt Lake City -- will continue its annual Prayers for Compassion through Sunday at 2:00 p.m., according to the Salt Lake City Tribune. Participants can engage in continuous recitation of prayers and mantras. Individuals can join in anytime during the day or night.

Feast day

Holy Apostles Orthodox Church, 280 W. Center St., Orem, will celebrate its parish feast day with a potluck after the 10 a.m. liturgy serviceSaturday. The next reader service will be Sunday at 10 a.m.

Dalai Lama’s birthday

The Utah Tibetan Association will mark the Dalai Lama’s 76th birthday on Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Indian Walk-in Center, 120 W. 1300 South, Salt Lake City.

Rumi Poetry

The Rumi Poetry Club will present "The Empty Flute," a series of talks on [Sufi] Rumi’s poetic vision and life philosophy, Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, Salt Lake City.

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Solution to the people in Nepal camps

KuenselOnline.com, July 2, 2011

A group of nine countries, led by the US have offered a solution to tragedy: resettlement in third countries for ethnically-Nepalese Bhutanese held in refugee camps in Nepal. The countries are the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, the UK, and Sweden. A total of 45,686 [Bhutanese] people have been resettled in the US and other countries until the end of May this year. “The Bhutanese people and the government are extremely grateful to the host countries for having offered a choice to the unfortunate inhabitants of the camps,” said Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley...

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China, Nepal develop Buddha’s "birthplace"

Golden face of the Buddha passing into final nirvana, Thailand (reuters.com)

China plans to help Nepal develop Buddha’s birthplace at Lumbini

(Reuters) A Chinese-backed foundation and Nepal’s government plan to transform the Buddha’s birthplace in southern Nepal into a magnet for Buddhists the same way Mecca is to Muslims and the Vatican is for Catholics.

• [Never mind that they might be going to the wrong place, because this is about spiritual tourism, and the U.S. is destroying the real place -- in its longest running war -- while China plans to strip its archeological treasures and history by mining metals there.]

The Asia Pacific Exchange and Cooperation Foundation plans to raise $3 billion at home and abroad to build temples, an airport, a highway, hotels, convention centers, and a Buddhist university in the town of Lumbini, about 107 miles (171 km) southwest of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu.

The foundation, blessed by the Chinese government, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Nepalese government last month to jointly develop and operate Lumbini, where the Buddha was [said to be] born Prince Siddhartha Gautama about 2,600 years ago. The foundation also pledged to bring communications, water, and electricity to Lumbini.

Buddhism was virtually wiped out in China during the chaotic 1966-76 [Communist/officially atheist] Cultural Revolution when temples were shut, Buddhist statues smashed, scriptures burned, and monks and nuns [killed or] forced to return to secular life and marry. In recent years, China has become more tolerant of Buddhism, which is considered “traditional culture” alongside Taoism and Confucianism.

Bodhi tree and the Mayadevi pond in Lumbini, Nepal, Nov. 2006 (Reuters/Bpilgrim)

“Lumbini will transcend religion, ideology, and race. We hope to rejuvenate the spirit of Lord Buddha,” said Xiao Wunan, a devout Buddhist who is executive vice president of the foundation. The development of Lumbini will... More

The Real Lumbini

Dr. Ranajit Pal

Nepal is a beautiful country, but a Gautama [Pali, Gotama] of Nepal is a [archeological] fraud. Nothing in the art, archaeology, history, or literature of early Nepal has the faintest hint of Buddhism.

R. Thapar affirms that Gautama was from the Nepal area, but this has no archaeological basis. Wikipedia pays lip service to archaeology and heedlessly places Gautama at Lumbini, thereby reducing history into a caricature. C. Humphreys laments over the stark ground reality,

"The Lumbini gardens, where Gotama was born, lie in the difficult Nepal Terai, and Kusinara, where the Buddha passed away, has little to show.'"

The way out of the chaos is shown by the British scholar T. Phelps who has exposed the dreadful forgeries of Führer who moved pillars and faked inscriptions and relics to falsely locate Lumbini. More

• PHOTO: Buddhist lay practitioners in Mahayana temple attire venerate a statue of the Bodhisattva during the annual Phi Ta Khon Festival at a temple in Suining, Sichuan province, China, May 2, 2009 (Reuters/Stringer).

Buddha Boy returns to meditating

Ram Bahadur Bomjon heads back to woods
Himalayan News Service (June 7, 2011), expanded by Wisdom Quarterly

Buddha Boy in the forest on a platform for meditation and sermons (eTapasvi.com)

PATHLAIYA, Nepal - Wrapping up a two-week sermon session in Ratanpuri Jungle, Bara District, Southern Nepal, "Buddha Boy" (now Ven. Palden Dorje who practices tapas or austerities), according to his supporters organized into the Bodhi Shrawan Dharma Association.

Sermon sessions in the jungles of Nepal to visitors

Ram Bahadur Bamjon, who is said to have meditated for six years without food and water, returned to Halkhoriya yesterday to continue meditating.

He had once said his meditation session would last six years -- the same amount of time it took Siddhartha to reach supreme enlightenment from the time he learned meditative absorption from his first teacher, the yogi Alara Kalama, to the time he struck out on his own without teacher or companion and achieved his aim under the Bodhi tree.

Buddha Boys blesses Western visitor in the forests of Nepal (eTapasvi.com). English translation of his speech (video)

Even after the completion of six years, Buddha Boy said at Ratanpuri on May 20 that he will continue his meditating.

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(See more photos at eTapasvi.com)

Nepal's Buddha Boy (Discovery Channel video)

(BuddhaBoyVideos) Five-part documentary on Nepal's "Buddha Boy"about Ram Bahadur Bomjon who has been meditating for years without food or water. He is thought by many to be a bodhisattva, being reborn to become a supremely enlightened buddha with the capacity to teach and establish a dispensation. Therefore, there are throngs of followers seeking to encourage him, bask in his boundless compassion and goodness, and the rarity of such a feat. Meditation in the vicinity of his forest must be more fruitful and inspired (were it not for the hullabaloo created by the sort of devotional pandemonium that runs contrary to what he is trying to accomplish).