John Kevin's Journal: HAPPY THURSDAY!!!

Thursday, November 13, 2014

HAPPY THURSDAY!!!

I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

HI!!!

DEAR DIARY: Well, I get to work again today, yay! I hope it continues, but once again, I'm very grateful for this one day!

Guess what? The Downtown L.A. Artwalk is tonight! I haven't been there in 2 months. Here's some photos from the last time I was there...

I hope I see them again this time... That is, IF I'm not too tired from work to go out there. But there's one VERY GOOD REASON to go out to the Artwalk tonight, and I'll tell you all about it in a minute.

------------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 #4763 Illusion Has a Role to Play, December 9, 2013

God said:
Let Us sing praise for the gift of life you have been given. I gave it to you, beloveds. I gave it to you for good reason. I sent you out to play in the world and to make it beautiful. Life on Earth is important. Just because it is illusion doesn’t mean life in the world is unimportant.

True, life in the world isn’t everything, yet it is something. Living in illusion has a part to play, or why would illusion be? Being born is an event! The new soul on Earth is starting on an adventure that is unequaled. You who come to Earth are adventurers. You are on a mission. You may be sleeping, yet you are in the process of awakening while you are on Earth. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It is a privilege to serve evolution on a day-to-day basis on this imagined planet and in this imagined life.

It is so real, so down-to-earth, how can it be illusion? When you remember where you came from and in Whose Image you are made, do you not know that you are a miracle? For Heaven’s sakes, of course, you are a bona fide miracle. I will tell you that what I do is make miracles. I sit in Eternity and Infinity. And you and the world emanate from My thought from where all things are possible, where everything is possible, even when all of the possible is illusion.

Infinity and Eternity are the field of all possibilities. The possibilities are played out, however, in illusion. Illusions are dreams, beloved, and you know I tell you to dream. I believe in you, even though your individuality is illusion. I tell you to dream and to dream big. I must believe in dreams and dreams within a dream. Dream on. Pull your dreams down from Heaven the way you would pull a white screen down and see yourself projected on it.

Yes, you are on display on Earth. This is the Greatest Show, the Greatest Show on Earth. It is always new, this show. It is the same story, yet it is always new. How many ways can a human life play out? Infinite are the ways. And, so, even on solid Earth, beloved, you are acting from Infinity.

Since accurately, We are One, you and I, I am having a Grand Dream of Light Showering from Me in Infinite Ways, I must be the Dreamer. You are definitely My Dream. The world is My Dream. You are My Dream, and I love you.

It must also be that I love a mystery as your individuality unfolds mystery.

I am secure in the knowledge that you are dreaming. You have fears. I have none. I have wonderment.

You see bad actors, and you dream of resulting emotions and such. I am always aware that you are in a dream. You forget life on Earth is a dream playing out on a screen. Yes, you are in a dimension, or We could say in suspended animation, suspended in color, seeming to move on a white background called a screen, seeming to use all the senses and often making no sense at all or making even nonsense.

Through it all, you come out unscathed, you understand. There is no danger. You come out from this dream untouched. All the imagined clouds disappear, and stars come out, and you remember where you really belong when you wake up from the dream you so entered into.

You played a part, and you played it well. And now you wake up to where you have been all the time as you thought you were somewhere else. You never left Home, and yet you came back, and the dream never was.

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Now, one very good reason to go to the Artwalk tonight is because as part of their Batizado, Capoeira Brasil DTLA is gonna hold a Street Roda there, on the corner of Main/4th st.!

I know I posted this before, but here's a video of a past roda they hosted:

For more information about Capoeira Brasil, please check out their websites:

Capoeira Brasil Los Angeles: http://www.capoeirabrasil.com
Capoeira Brasil Downtown LA: http://www.capoeiradtla.com
Capoeira Brasil East: http://capoeirabrasileast.com

And you know, this street roda is gonna be popping!!!

And now, for your listening pleasure, Here's a music CD of Mestre Boneco, one of the Co-founders of Capoeira Brasil.

And Now, I'm gonna end this blog with the most beautiful song in the whole, entire world.

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

You may not have a reason to love, but you can love because to love makes you so happy.
~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.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

HAPPY THURSDAY!!!

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