In a mood in which he was feeling the “delight, the evanescence and love within which we are all enfolded”, my dear friend, Hiroshi “YOTA” Tanaka, wrote the score for a CD album, NATURE SONG.  It is the third offering in a trilogy titled MARVELAND, in which Yota-san musically and emotionally,  maps a legendary world of wonder [another word for miracle] in a transcendent observation of the human drama of endlessly repeating histories.

In NATURE SONG, Tanaka is remembering a carefree time in his life when he ran in the fields, swam in the rivers and the sea, when Mother Nature was less challenged, and when, perhaps, human society was  more inclusive and caring of each other and better cared for the heavenly body from which it derives its sustenance.

Yota’s music evokes memories of an ancient place and time from which our species has continuously played out its transitory existence.  Moving between joy and sorrow as we evolve, our individual lives ebbing and flowing and then returning to their source–as naturally as do the rivers–before  finally dissolving into the One Ocean.

The quality of our  journey and the quality of our Natural world depend upon the quality of our thoughts and deeds.  Song titles like “Gentle Mind”, “Mountain Glow”, “Bird Song” and “Mind Flower” carry the spirit of Yota’s gentleness and childlike wonder of Nature at her finest and free-est.

As I am uplifted by the hopefulness and joy of the title track, “Nature Song”, and feel the genuine childlike wonder carried within it, I know that I don’t want to come to the end of my life in a condition of nostalgia, longing for a better, earlier time.  

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In this period, NOW, 2011 the beginning of the Age of Aquarius, there is still time to choose to change the patterns of carelessness for our earthly Mother and each other, and to invite the natural expansion of our consciousness to reach higher levels where we are the true “enjoyers”, unaffected by the dualities.  This can be achieved when our tune is harmonized with Nature’s own song; not another version of  “Play it again, Sam”.   What do you think/feel?

WE are the current stewards of our Wonderland, our Universe, our One Song.  Can you hear our hearts calling out to be restored to the natural rhythms of Life? It may be but one choice away.

“Nature Song” written and conducted by Yota Tanaka is performed by his ensemble, the Milky Way Orchestra (above).     A SPECIAL TREAT:  YOUTUBE video of performance with pan pipes  EIKEN Trio (below)

Solo performance by Hidenori Iwata on panpipes

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HEALING  OURSELVES, HEALING OTHERS

We are undergoing rapid change in our Universe and in all human affairs.  This is particularly evident in the manner in which ancient secrets for health of body/mind and spirit are being shared today.  Once the province of a few Chinese masters with only one or two students, today millions around the world are able to learn and practice Qigong (pronounced: Chee-Kung) . Centering us spiritually for this life on Earth, its principles are in total alignment with leading edge Science.

QIGONG– “energy cultivation”–gathering and directing Source energy for inner harmony, strength and healing, has been practiced in China for thousands of years. Tai-chi and acupuncture are but two of its “children”.

WISDOM HEALING QIGONG—The Integration of New Science and Ancient Tradition–AUTHENTIC, ACCESSIBLE, ABSOLUTELY RELEVANT TO MODERN LIFE In the 1980’s Dr. Ming Pang, a physician trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Western Medicine, and numerous ancient qigong practices combined his knowledge and experience to create an integrated progression of self-healing practices known as Zhineng (Wisdom Healing) Qigong.

CLINICALLY DOCUMENTED PROOF OF EFFECTIVENESS–Grandmaster Ming Pang was aware of the long successful history of qigong in China, yet there had not been sufficient scientific studies of the efficacy of qigong upon health.  So, he opened a medicine-less hospital requiring students (they were not called “patients”) to undergo Western-based physical examinations before entering a nearly month-long program of teaching, practice, rest.   To complete the study, students were tested after that period.  Hundreds of thousands of students have gone through this program. The results are remarkable:   a 95% effective rate was realized, including 37% curing rate! Dis-eases ranged from “incurable” cancer, to diabetes, high blood pressure, allergies, etc.

The Level 1 practice, “LiftChiUp/PourChiDown” performed daily has been known to bring about conditions that not only keep the body/mind healthy, supporting a long life, but has been known to cure dis-ease already present at the time a person begins to practice!

SHERRY REMEZ as HEALER MENTOR TEACHER

I have over 25 years of experience consciously working with Chi (Qi, Ki, Praña, Life Force) for healing and life enhancement and spiritual awakening. My background in the healing arts includes: transpersonal healing, polarity therapy, “Hands of Light”, Hawaiian Huna, and the receiving and the sharing of spiritual and temporal guidance.  I am excited to be able to introduce Wisdom Healing Qigong practices on Maui.  I have derived great personal benefit from them, including more emotional stability, deeper centering and greater mental clarity.   I am leading classes in the Level 1 practice:  LiftChiUp/PourChi/Down Method

“My delight is to inspire people. My personal philosophy includes viewing all aspects life in terms of  the intelligent Energy always present within and around us.  I emphasize self-empowerment as the end of dependency upon  something or someone outside ourselves in order to feel o.k.   In addition to hands-on healing, I share methods for grounding and centering the body/mind in order to restore its natural energy flow for health, balance and greater effectiveness in our lives. I encourage your awareness of the infinite possibilities available to you when you are open to them. You ARE  the gift  of healing to the world.       ALL IS WELL: Enjoy Life to the Fullest,  ONE with ALL: Harmonized with Nature/ Harmonized with Qi. ” sherry@miraclesandgrace.com

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Master Mingtong Gu, Teacher and Healer

student of Grandmaster Dr. Ming Pang.

Dear Readers,

A friend forwarded me something today which I want to share with all.  It is about an action that will take place on November 11:

“On 11-11, 2010, one million people across the globe will mentally project a unified vision of a new paradigm for our species… a new reality.  The very real physics that connects human consciousness with molecular structure will be harnessed en masse during the largest scale simultaneous manifestation transmission in recorded history.”

I encourage you to watch a video – HERE IS THE LINK:    www.newrealitytransmission.com — and I am hoping you feel moved to participate in the experiment.  I believe in the message and that this is something we can do that can shift the current paradigm of anger, fear and despair on this planet and bring us to a new, much more healthy place–the world of CONNECTEDNESS and PEACE that we all dream of—what miracle and grace that will be!

CAVEAT:   I realized only AFTER posting  this message that there was no real identity behind the site available to us.
That was my oversight, and lack of cyber-savvy.   I want to alert you to this fact.

I absolutely believe in the possibility of what has been put forth on the site– and will definitely participate in this benevolent experiment myself–but I feel the need to point out that this is, for all intents and purposes, coming from an anonymous source.

A friend who received my email yesterday wrote back: “I am always wary of the guy behind the curtain these days, but the idea is seemingly harmless.  I’ll put it on my calendar”.

If you don’t sign up with them, there should be no problem for you, if this is not legitimate.
You could choose to participate anyway, just that  “they” won’t have an exact scientific model to work from with the results.
THAT IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING.   When the results are as projected—a major paradigm shift brought about by a collective conscious transmission—it will be a wonderful.

In Love and Greater Clarity,
Sherry

“Death is like a gateway.  Dying doesn’t mean the end.  You go through it and on to the next thing.  It’s a gate”…From the Academy Award winning Japanese movie, DEPARTURES (OKURIBITO).

Shingo Sato was a man who was true to his name.  SHIN = the Truth of the Heart.  Shingo was true to himself.  Honesty was his Way. He could not even fake artifice.  Remarkable!

Listening to his heart, instead of the pressures of his culture to “succeed in business”, he dared dream a dream of a life of little stress, windsurfing in the gorgeous ocean around Maui.  He was handsome and physically strong and very young-looking at age 58 when he died suddenly of a massive brain hemorrhage.

Self-sufficient, creative, he had a unique sense of humor, and was very generous with his attributes, helping cater my daughter and son-in-law’s wedding party, taking care of stray cats and needy birds, and serving the few lucky people he included in his quiet life.

In the last 6 years, Shingo-chan practiced calligraphy, writing the Prajna Paramita Sutra–the Buddha’s Heart Sutra–over and over.  He experimented with an organic honey business (which he named “To My Honey”), mastered the use of the computer, taught himself to play the guitar (quite beautifully), baked special Indian breads and pizza, and produced 12 YouTube videos under the pen name Samurai Date Rokuemon. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhTfYq3gizE&playnext=1&videos=6Z3W1g9SRPs&fe  or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdNdO2OsWBM&playnext=1&videos=m3WsVJ2U5y8&feature=mfu_in_orderature=mfu_in_order.)

Shingo admired Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga, a retainer of Lord Date Masamune  from Sendai who was the first Japanese to act as envoy to the Americas in the 1600’s.

Like Tsunenaga, Shingo was the first in his Sendai clan to travel afar.  He’d visited Tunisia, France, the U.S. and Bali.  He, too, was a pioneer–and gentle man–who shared his beautifully decorated home-baked goods on birthdays, Mother’s Day, and Christmas.  His Yule log cake was a perfect artistic confection.  Before his sudden passing on October 1, 2010, he was investigating the possibility of running a mobile lunch restaurant.  It might have succeeded wildly, even if it sold only his homemade Indian naan and his mouthwatering lamb curry. Read the rest

In this period of great challenge in human history, personal transformation is being called forth.  Many of us recognize that an increase in our own level of compassion and kindness and energetic vibration that extends outward to bathe our entire planet is gravely needed.

If you have been searching for specific answers as to how you can be stronger and more effective in this manner, there is an extremely powerful way to help bring a planetary shift about:  Attend workshops, retreats, special events, webinars and training programs to learn                    Wisdom Healing Qigong (chee-kung) with MASTER MINGTONG GU.

Master Gu received 30 years of training from various Grandmasters of China, Tibet and at the world’s largest Qigong hospital, which, though medicine-less, had an extraordinarily high success rate in treating dis-ease of every degree of severity.  His deepest motivation is for us to learn to heal and balance ourselves and, in so doing, be able to help heal others.   Read the rest

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The last time I could even remotely be called an “activist” was in 1959 when I was a freshman at University of Florida.  These were the days of segregation in the U.S.

Coming from a Northern State, I had never seen separate drinking fountains and hand sinks for white people and “colored” people, as the signs said.

My family abhorred prejudice, and this was instilled in me deeply. My 18-year old heart hurt empathizing with the hurt all the “colored” people must feel to be treated in this manner.   My personal activism was not great, but began with my using the drinking fountain marked “colored only” when I was in public places, and then extended to sitting in the back of the Greyhound bus which took me from Northern Florida through Macon, GA, to East Lansing, Michigan during vacation times.  The scowls and sidelong glances from white people as I spoke animatedly with my “colored” seat mates, including a Howard University student, did not deter me.  Later learning the unfortunate fate of many of those who defied this negative social order, I realized that I was somehow very protected.

Since those days, I have been aware of a lot of injustice in the world, but other than voting for someone who promised to change it, participating electronically through MoveOn.org, leaving a phone message on a Senator’s hot line, or donating to various causes, like Save Darfur campaign, I admit that I never have taken the time to search out a person of influence to register my feelings against something that I felt was extremely irresponsible.

Not until today, that is.

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As the longest day of the year comes to an end, an opportunity for a new way of being begins . . .

This is a crossroad moment for us, should we choose to take it this way.  The Summer Solstice graces us by providing a portal of opportunity through which we can walk with unusual grace and ease, moving with the flow of Nature’s own rhythm.  No wonder it has been celebrated for countless centuries.

The key to opening wide this portal of potential– this Portal of Possibility–is a deep feeling of gratitude for all the bounty in our life.  (not a bad idea any day!)  This feeling is nothing short of a communion.  It is a quantum communication with the Infinite Universal Field which seems only too willing to provide our heart’s desires when beckoned forth through this medium.  This is my experience, anyway.

Watching the sun setting on this day, I cannot help but be filled with awe at the natural beauty that surrounds me here on this beautiful Island of Maui.    As I photograph, an owl glides silently by.  She is a symbol to me of death and rebirth—another portal, underlining the importance to consider what might be hampering me and needs to be let go of right now, in order to have more space to enjoy what comes next.

To my visitors and companions moving through this passageway, I bid you a very good journey.

Despite appearances–beneath the mask we are really all the same

One whole interconnected community of wo/man

Ten days before his 11^th birthday (12/9/02) DECLAN GALBRAITH released his first single, “Tell Me Why”.

The largest choir in history assembled from all over the UK and Ireland joining Declan to sing his song for a Guinness World Record.

I’m thinking about my young grandchildren, Jules and Abbott, and the world that they are inheriting and I couldn’t help but wonder:  What would our world look like if all of us from around the globe joined together to “sing” a response to Declan’s question?  It could be a harmony that has never been heard before in our Uni-verse, our One Song.

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In my dream children sing a song of love for every boy and girl
The sky is blue and fields are green and laughter is the language of the world
Then I wake and all I see is a world full of people in need

Tell me why (why) does it have to be like this?
Tell me why (why) is there something I have missed?
Tell me why (why) cos I don’t understand.
When so many need somebody we don’t give a helping hand.
Tell me why?

Everyday I ask myself what will I have to do to be a man?
Do I have to stand and fight to prove to everybody who I am?
Is that what my life is for to waste in a world full of war?

Tell me why (why) does it have to be like this?
Tell me why (why) is there something I have missed?
Tell me why (why) cos I don’t understand.
When so many need somebody we don’t give a helping hand.
Tell me why?

(children) tell me why? (declan) tell me why?
(children) tell me why? (declan) tell me why?
(together) just tell me why, why, why?

Tell me why (why) does it have to be like this?
Tell me why (why) is there something I have missed?
Tell me why (why) cos I don’t understand.
When so many need somebody we don’t give a helping hand.

Tell me why (why,why,does the tiger run)
Tell me why (why why do we shoot the gun)
Tell me why (why,why do we never learn)
Can someone tell us why we let the forest burn?

(why,why do we say we care)
Tell me why (why,why do we stand and stare)
Tell me why (why,why do the dolphins cry)
Can some one tell us why we let the ocean die ?

(why,why if we’re all the same)
tell me why (why,why do we pass the blame)
tell me why (why,why does it never end)
can some one tell us why we cannot just be friends?

Link to YouTube Video Declan Galbraith \”Tell Me Why\”
The event was organized by ‘Young Voices in Concert’. Funds from the record-breaking attempt were donated to the Sargent Cancer Care for Children.

Whew!! YOU MADE IT HERE!

Overwhelmed by responsibilities?  Breathlessly rushing to complete deadlines?  Disturbed by the latest news?  A special relationship stressing you out?  Forgetting to breathe deeply and be deeply grateful for all the Miracles in your life?

Grace yourself with 7 exquisite minutes of peace transmitted by Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh

“This wonderful sound brings me back to my true home”.

Homage to Avalokiteswara, Embodiment of Compassion

(If you want to both listen and follow the words- go to the next page)

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