What Inspires You Towards Deeper Levels of Understanding?

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"What inspires you toward deeper levels of understanding?"

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with momentums and connectivity,

which you selflessly offer.

For these gifts of inspiration

we extend humble gratitude,

to you and to the source

of inspiration alive within us all.

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Zen Dog

(( Link to the radiant and beautiful full version, of Catherine L. Ghosh's presentation to the Smithsonian Institution))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0S1448lB-4

Are Mandala's Present in Your Life?

"Light echo illuminates dust around supergiant star V838 momcerotis"

Celestial Mandala sent in by Hubble

Send us your personal interpetation of a Mandala,

["lick -it"] [or] "link-it" under comments and i will send out the photos on Monday .

Shown in the center of the Mandala is the symbol of the diety being honored.

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Can You Move Sand?

Mandala: "(Sanskrit maṇḍala "essence" + "having" or "containing", also translates as "circle-circumference" or "completion", both derived from the Tibetan term dkyil khor) is a concentric diagram having spiritual and ritual significance in both Buddhism and Hinduism. According to David Fontana, its symbolic nature can help one "to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately assisting the meditator to experience a mystical sense of oneness with the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises." [3] The psychoanalyst Carl Jung saw the mandala as "a representation of the unconscious self,"[4] and believed his paintings of mandalas enabled him to identify emotional disorders and work towards wholeness in personality.[5]" [From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/]

http://www.flixxy.com/ukraine-talent-sand-animation.htm

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Zen Dog

" What is a Zen Dog Collective? "

Zen: \’zen\ noun \ form of Buddhism, a major school of Buddhism originating in 12th-century China that emphasizes enlightenment through meditation and insight.  [Encarta Dictionary: English (North America)]

Koan: is a story, dialogue, question, or statement in the history and lore of Zen Buddhism, generally containing aspects that are inaccessible to rational understanding, yet may be accessible to intuition. A famous kōan is: "Two hands clap and there is a sound; what is the sound of one hand?" (oral tradition attributed to Hakuin Ekaku, 1686-1769, considered a reviver of the kōan tradition in Japan). [Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dan]

Zen Dog: a paradoxical nonlogical thought meant to create a contemporary puzzle with no logical clarification.

Zen Dog Collective: a community of nonlogical thinkers creating nothing logical or rational yet philosophical and religious questions are paradoxically answered.

http://www.presentationzen.com

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Zen Dog Sam and Katherine