Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Buddhists perform Waisak ceremonies

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Buddhists perform Waisak ceremonies

The Jakarta Post

Buddhist monks performed a series of ceremonies Wednesday in preparation for Buddha's Day of Enlightenment, or Waisak, which falls on Friday.

In Umbul Jumprit village in Temanggung regency, Central Java, monks collected holy water, which they then took to a blessing ritual at Mendut temple in Magelang.

The water ritual was performed after some 130 monks from Indonesia and Thailand took part in the Pindapata begging ritual at Liong Hok Hio temple in Magelang.

The begging ritual began Wednesday morning with about 20 monks walking around the city carrying boa bowls, seeking donations.

Along the road were people waiting with money or food to give to the monks.

"This is an annual ritual ahead of the Waisak celebration and I am hoping for a blessing by giving the monks a donation," said Fransiska Suciati, a resident of Magelang.

The series of ceremonies will continue Thursday with the Dharma fire procession in Mrepen, Central Java. The eternal flame will then be taken to be blessed at Mendut temple.

On Thursday night, the ritual will continue with the lighting of Dharma torches around Borobudur temple in Magelang.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to attend the peak of the celebration at Borobudur temple on Friday. - JP/Slamet Susant and Tarko Sudiarno