the cosmic roots of marriage

When a man and woman unite in marriage, their personal union draws its power from the cosmic marriage that underlies the whole of existence -- the bonding of the divine masculine and feminine energies emerging from the Creator's Infinite Light to generate existence, a world, and life.

Winter Solstice is the basis for our date of marriage. We will be joined in Holy Matrimony at 2 pm on December 23rd on a grassy knoll overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Valle de Paradisa of Nicaragua.

The 23rd is two days after the Solstice and the second day the sun has begun to shine longer and brighter. The number 2 is symbolic of relationship; and the relationship that has formed between LiChen and me is a reality where 2 becomes 1.

Gabriel Cousens, MD and his wife, Shanti Golds-Cousens will perform our ceremony based on ancient mysticism of the Kabbalah and the Cherokee peoples' custom, as it pertains to praying to all four directions, Heaven and Earth. My mother and father and LiChen's mother and father will take part in our ceremony so that all four families' lineages are merged into one.

Note: picture attached is from December 23rd, taken just after our ceremony was completed.

songs that sing!

Minor Threat sings a song entitled, "Live for today!"

To observe the irony of how it's learned that to live for today is a major threat to what exist in the States currently, is eye opening. If one were a rolling stone in a clear stream, would it matter to some inward thought surfacing to recognize many lives are lived for the day before or tomorrow to be?

Supposing this reflects back to an earlier blog about how crossing your legs is really funny, or at least John Prine thinks so...? It's great agreeing because sitting on top of a rainbow makes me grin while howling OM at the moon! The reality is, I cross my legs often and still find it fun--thank GOD for meditation!

our teachers who have to dress so to disguise themselves; still, can not disguise the light within their hearts, shining through their bright eyes

the precious pagoda

Caldera

Crater Lake reflects as the beacon of Truth: The precious pagoda: there’s no need to keep searching — It refracts its multifaceted light in every direction. The sage says: be willing to work, pray, and bow down. And if you do, Heaven can bless you with every reward.

agronomy

Yesterday morning, while in the warm shower, a thought arrived in form of a metaphor that I would like to share; and to see if anyone has any comments on the matter. The idea here is:

What does "middle path" suggest?

Is the human relative-mind's perceptive similar to that of driving an automobile? Typically, we seem to speed from point A to point B and if any obstacles arise, we often are met with frustration as if the end destination is anymore poignant to reality than what arises along the way.

Touch the gas pedal on the car with your foot...go, go, go.......... (future) - yang - masculine

Touch the break pedal on the car with your foot...stop, stop, stop... (past) - yin - feminine

Touch no pedal on the car with your foot...still, still coasting... (present) - duality ends - whole again

This brings me to discuss "Agronomy" which is the science of soil management, land cultivation, and crop production. If one were to agree that human beings are the connectors (who serve as a meeting ground) between Heaven spirits and Earth beings, then would our food (fuel) be the middle path of our existence?

nova : einstein's theory and it's relevance to acupuncture

Nova 2

Nova 3

“A Human being is a part of a whole, called by us the ‘Universe’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” Albert Einstein

"...li, the inner principles of chinese medicine"

greetings friends and family!

i watch tears fall from frustrations run-a-muck and i have an odd sense about what alleviates such for me personally. I feel mycology (biology of the study of fungi) is a link to expanding one's potential realized destiny, saying that, of course, love willing! on an earlier blog pertaining to the art of classical chinese medicine from the awe inspiring words of dr. sean c. marshall, who i admire beyond any silly sense of words' ability to articulate, i would like to add an insert from his recently published student manual, "Li, the inner principles of Chinese Medicine":

"The wuxing 五行 (5 movements - 5 phases - 5 transformations) occur in the bagua 八卦 (the eight marvels, eight miracles, eight directional attributes). The wuxing occur in the bagua; the bagua arise out of wuxing. As above, in the thirteen postures of taijiquan, moving the wuxing through the bagua reveals the three dimensions. These become the unification of space and time, and yin-yang becomes the unification of matter and energy. Back away just one more step and we find that the two, mass-energy and space-time, will reduce from yinyang, into taiji > That is: Stuff (mass-energy) and not-stuff (space-time) being 'not-two'. We know these are facts, quantitatively, phenomenologically, regarding any subject physicists might sit around and discuss, from the realm of the quarks to the behavior of stars and the size of the cosmos. Because they are also qualitatively indigenous, and because they universally represent all phenomena, they are employed in Chinese philosophy, painting, politics, agriculture, astronomy and medicine, as the terms, as the criteria by which we understand that with which we are dealing. Whether it's plotting stars, planting crops, or diagnosis of disease, they become our stock in trade, in tools, and we really do need to understand them at the level of the originators' understanding. They are not spiritual concepts; they are not mystical or metaphysical terms; they are not supposition or superstition. They represent a science and are not subject to personal belief or one's own truth. Gravity doesn't care, why, or how you believe in it. To know it, you must discover its truth. These qualitative emblems are hard science in all the applications. In this medicine, they are terms and definitions of real world phenomena, that qualify the actual behavior of any biologically-driven phenomena." by dr. sean c. marshall of jung tao school of classical chinese medicine

mushroom photographed is Laetiporus conifericola (Chicken of the Woods) yummy!

introduction to classical chinese medicine

Classical Chinese Medicine was not "invented" by the ancient Daoists, it was discovered. It is about the way the universe already works, undistorted and un"added-to" by human individuals, with their personal ideas and opinions. Unfortunately, like so many works of art handed down through the generations, Chinese medicine has undergone many personal interpretations, mistranslations, assumptions, and fragmentations, resulting in the current idea that there are different "schools of thought" of energetic medicine.

To further describe what has occurred in the field, we present an excerpt from an article written by the founder and president of Jung Tao School, Dr. Sean C. Marshall:

As in any field, many professionals gravitate to and employ techniques with which they personally resonate. Physicists, for instance, sometimes engage exclusively in work with particle accelerators. Some others may be deeply interested in fluid dynamics or astrophysics or purely theoretical physics. This does not change the laws of physics. This does not produce different universes with different physical laws based on differing "schools of thought".

To paraphrase Einstein: For laws of physics to be valid, they must be true for everyone in every part of the universe. The observations of individuals may vary depending on their point of view however, -- even though the observations are as valid as is their individual point of view -- this still does not change the laws of physics.

...The message that must be taken here is -- Chinese medicine is a complete coherent, integral, interdependent and independent system of health care that must be understood within its own context, in whole, not in part, if it is to be mastered. It was born out of Daoist philosophy, which is at the heart of Chinese medicine and contains the original, guiding ideas that nurtured it into existence. Anything else is merely a fragment, no matter how elegant or seductive it may seem, it is only a specialty that, when studied in a vacuum, is merely a facet that will not reveal the jewel that produced it.

mushroom photographed is Ling Chi (Immortal Mushroom) - Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum)

springnova : 春濃閣

When a dream arrives too often we allow them to disappear again into unreality. We have found a drip into our awareness suggesting that thousands of folks are suffering from the worst planetary toxin of all...human stress hormones.

 We learned that our plot in Valle de Paradisa has the resources and the capacity to provoke a unique opportunity to combine our passions for the art of acupuncture, tui na massage, gardening, fresh cuisine and relaxation...all within a pure and natural surrounding.

Perhaps, life's meaning is referenced best in how we blend into any place with a moment so stunning it stalls our decent into a modern day human-worker bee's stresses, those trashing our very own temples' instruments...we are discovering anew morning to shine on with each first light of day here. Visit us soon in the friendliest tropical zone of Latin America.

--j.a. knolls