John Kevin's Journal: HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

Friday, October 18, 2013

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

I Sing Wild Songs Of Adventure.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

GOOD MORNING FAMILY!

All are the sons and daughters of God, good people all.

Brothers and Sisters, since created by One Father.

No rooted difference is there between them.

--Oneness by Jeffrey Moses
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On today's video, Alan Watts explains why fundamentally you have nothing to be afraid of in 5 minutes. Does any of you out there agree or disagree with what he says?

Published on Oct 9, 2013
An inspiring and profound speech from the late Alan Watts.

Audio Courtesy of:
http://alanwatts.org/

From lecture "Zen Bones and Tales"

Music Used:
Max Ritcher - EMBERS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84yBio...

Footage used:

-"SAMSARA"
http://barakasamsara.com/
-"EARTH"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0393597/
-"STARDUST"
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-"BARAKA"
http://barakasamsara.com/
-"HD AURORA - BREATHTAKING"
-"NYC - MINDRELIC TIMELAPSE"
Credit to Josh Owens:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9in-B...

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“What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.” ― Alan Watts

------------HEAVEN LETTERS------------

Heavenletters™, bringing Earth closer to Heaven.
HEAVEN is here to reach every soul on earth to reawaken:
* Our connection to God *
* Our belief in ourselves *
* Our awareness of our shared worthiness to God *
* Peace on Earth *
God is always bringing us closer to Him.
Heavenletter #4665 The Miracle of the Sun, September 2, 2013 God said:
The answers you seek are within you. Everything is within you. All the glory and the power is within you, and the greatest of these is love. You are love incarnate, yet you know it not. Sometimes you feel as though you are anti-love or a love-repellent. You who are love think you are less than love.

Certainly, you have met up with less than love, and yet love carried you through even when you didn’t know what did.

You found the world old and worn when it was the Miracle of the Sun right before you. You feel you stumbled onto Earth, and that you continue to stumble. That’s from only one viewpoint. I say, “So, you stumbled, so what?”

You stumbled upon the right place, beloveds. You stumbled at the right time, and you triumphed. You made it through. You doubt that you have? You are right here right now, letting My words leap into your heart. What more do you want? Money? Fame? You have all the gold right here before you. You have all the gold right here within you. You are the gold you seek. You have it all within you. You always did.

Consider that I am a Mighty Magnet. I have been pulling you to Me, and here We are.

Are We not on a great adventure? Sometimes We face the rapids. Sometimes it is as if we sink only to rise up higher. O yes, beloveds, We ride the waves, and We are the waves and We are the Ocean Deep. We are everything, and We are nothing at all. We are nothing at all but the Wonder of the Universe. We live in a miracle except it is all the time in the world as it is a moment in Eternity.

I have to ask you – what is not a miracle? The fingernail of your little left finger is a miracle balanced with a miracle of the fingernail of your little right finger. You have toes! Imagine that, you have toes! And within you and everyone in the conglomerate you call the world is a heart that thrums and drums, and it is My heart immersed in yours. You sit on top of the world, and somehow you may think you are sunk, that you are here for nothing when you are here – seemingly here – for everything, the known and the Unknown.

You gravitate to the Magnet even as you are the Magnet.

You are the Energy of Heaven, and you are the Energy of Earth, and, all the while, you are My heartbeat churning the delight and beauty of All That Is.

You are the Rainbow. You have come to make the whole Sky Rainbow. The Sun lights the Earth, and you, like the Moon, reflect the Sun. You take the sunlight to darker places, and you cast daylight into the darkness. You eclipse the darkness. You disperse it. You come as a Ray of the Sun mirrored in the Moon of your Self. This is how you are the Light of the World.

Everything in the world is a metaphor. Everything. You are a metaphor. You are the metaphor taken literally, and you are the metaphor taken to new heights. You are the Cosmos, and you are the unseen Infinite Hand of God. Didn’t you know that? How come you didn’t know that? How come you thought you were mere, only mere, when you are Greatness walking around in a myriad of body.

If light can be called mere, which it cannot, you are mere light, sheer light, packaged. You are Infinity packaged. But, of course, Infinity knows no bounds. The Infinite You has believed in wrappings. It’s the contents, beloveds, that are to be believed in. What I made, I made. Heretofore, you haven’t been able to know what’s a Miracle. You don’t know a miracle by its cover.

Permanent Link: http://heavenletters.org/the-miracle-of-the-sun.html

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----------THE MUSIC CORNER----------

Today in the music corner, I have a video of an amazing band named "GOTAWAY GIRL", performing their song "GOT TO GET IT RIGHT" LIVE at HARVELLS in Santa Monica.

O.K., right now I want to give a special birthday shout out to Jocelyn Kay Levy, the lead singer:

Hey Jocelyn,

The perfect recipe for your year ahead should be 20 percent love mixed with 30 percent luck. Add on top 20 percent courage and garnish it with 30 percent health. Say cheers to life and have a Happy Birthday!!!

And now, as always, I'm gonna end this post with the most beautiful song in this whole, entire world.

------------CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT------------

We keep searching and searching, when everything is already within us.
~don Miguel Ruiz

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What is a Warrior?

I see through different eyes.

I see a bigger picture when others see only grey skies.

Though many can’t conceive it,

I stand... facing the wind.

My bravery not from fighting,

but from my strength within,

I am a Warrior.

I will walk the extra mile,

Not because I have to,

Because it’s worth my while.

I know that I am different,

When I’m standing on a crowded street.

I know the fullness of winning;

I’ve tasted the cup of defeat.

I am a Warrior.

They say I walk with ease.

Though trained for bodily harm,

My intentions are for peace.

The world may come and go,

But a different path I’ll choose.

A path I will not stray from,

No matter... Win or Lose.

If you've been in the Martial Arts for a while, you'll find many people who would like to believe in the idea that just because they practice the Martial Arts, they are some kind of Warriors.(I like to call them Wannabee Warriors).

But what exactly is a Warrior? I mean, throughout history, there have been many different types of warriors, all having different Codes of Honor that they live by (And in case you're wondering, yes, there is a Warrior Creed that I follow and try to live up to also...) . But if you really try to define what a warrior is, there seems to be no one answer to that question. In fact, there seems to be many answers, almost as many answers as people you ask.

So, what I did was provide some links to some different websites about different warriors and types of warriors throughout history. Hell, I even posted links to web sites about Dan Millman and Carlos Castaneda for you "Spiritually Aware" types. Perhaps if you look through them, you'll find a good definition of a warrior for yourself...

And for you Wannabee Warriors out there... Some of the links I put up are to Law Enforcement & Military websites. If you really want to be warriors, Check out those links and become a police officer, or go join the armed forces. They need you!!!

FROM WIKIPEDIA, THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA: Silat is a collective word for indigenous martial arts of the Malay Archipelago and Malay Peninsula of Southeast Asia. Originally developed in what are now Indonesia, peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand and Singapore, it was also traditionally practiced in Brunei, the Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam. As a result, it is closely related to other Southeast Asian martial arts including krabi krabong and eskrima. Practitioners are called pesilat. The Chinese fusion of silat is known as kuntao.

There are hundreds of different styles but they tend to focus either on strikes, joint manipulation, bladed weapons, throws, animal-based techniques, or some combination thereof. Silat is one of the sports included in the Southeast Asian Games and other region-wide competitions. Training halls are overseen by separate national organizations in each of the main countries the art is practiced. These are Ikatan Pesilat Indonesia (IPSI) from Indonesia, Persekutuan Silat Kebangsaan Malaysia (PESAKA) from Malaysia, Persekutuan Silat Brunei Darussalam (PERSIB) from Brunei and Persekutuan Silat Singapura (PERSISI) from Singapore.

Below, I added some links to various websites and video clips so you can get a better understanding of what Silat is about.

One of the gravest disservices we have done to the people of our world is to have provided them with a poor education. We do not teach students to think.

If you do not learn to effectively process information (and it is a learned skill) then you will always be at the mercy of people promoting their favorite dogmas.

The problem is, that all kinds of people would like you to uncritically believe what they are telling you about the way the world is. Many of them pretend that such uncritical belief is "faith", which it is not.

If you do not have the tools to discover what a given person or group is really trying to sell you, then you are libel to be making some really wacky presuppositions about the world, which will in turn become the heuristics by which you operate.

About half of what we perceive as "intelligence" is the ability to process information effectively, so if you want to be "smarter" then all you have to do is improve in that area.

While this is pretty simple, it is not necessarily easy. In my experience, most people are conditioned to a way of thinking already comfortable to the individual. When a person tries to change the way they process information they run a good chance of evoking a "threat response" from within themselves.

The wonderful thing about the internet is that you have access to so much useful information. If you're reading this, then you are able to self-educate on any number of subjects to a remarkable degree, and do it almost for free.

And that's what this section is about. I added some links here so anybody with a brain can study and learn to use it.

Remember 2 things people:

"I NOT ONLY HAVE THE RIGHT TO THINK AT ALL TIMES, BUT THE RESPONSIBILITY TO DO SO."

"IF I DON'T THINK FOR MYSELF, THEN SOMEBODY ELSE WILL DO IT FOR ME".

There are over 10,000 different religions in the world, 150 of which have at least 1 millions followers. Which one is the truth? "Christianity!" someone says, but even Christianity alone has over 38,000 different denominations. So which interpretation is the TRUE one?

Religion is not the anchor-point of truth. The truth always existed. Religion is man-made, meaning that the truth existed prior to both man and religion. Religion may be an effective catalyst for some individuals who desire to invest their minds into ideological association for whatever reason, but it is not a necessary nor a sufficient condition for a relationship with God, and understanding of the Creator, or the inner workings of the self.

Spirituality is not a belief. It is a state of consciousness, a mental framework with which you approach the world. Spirituality is in fact what birthed religion through the attempted organization of experience and wisdom, which ended up being the hierarchical stratification of various belief systems that we call religion.

Don't let the commitments you have to a religious belief system in your mind take you away from your natural state of Being with all things. You were a human before you learned religion. God's light existed in you before you learned this through some spiritual guru. Does this mean don't read or believe what Jesus of Buddha had to say? Of course not. Just make sure you take the time and effort to experience the rose instead of just believing in the accounts of others. This is not an attack on any religion by any means, and religion has brought many people happiness and the experience of being close to one's creator, but don't let it cause segregation away from our inherent unity.

As for my religious beliefs, well...

I'm a CHRISTIAN, in the sense that I believe that personal redemption is feasible for everyone and that universal love makes that salvation possible.

I'm a MUSLIM, in the sense that I believe that there's only 1 GOD, ans that all are equal under this one GOD. And, althought I'm not jewish, I do have a respect for JUDAISM.

I'm a BUDDHIST, in the sense that the seeds of enlightenment are within all of us as an integral part of our DNA, and that we are capable of reaching the Absolute through our own efforts.

I'm a HINDU, in the sense that I believe that GOD takes many shapes and forms to reach out to mankind.

I'm a TAOIST, in the sense that I have a total belief in the reality of Yin & Yang Energies.

And I also have a total belief in the world of spirits, and what we can learn from them, so I guess that makes me an ANIMIST.

I never want to tell someone what to think, for ones spirituality is a private matter between that person and their creator.

My goal here is only to show all of you the history and traditions of the many, many ways the people of the world have reached out to god.

Friday, October 18, 2013

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

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