THE SUFFERINGS OF TIBET

CHINA DESTROYS GIANT BUDDHIST STATUE IN TIBET

Published by the Canada Tibet Committee

In a demonstration of tightening controls over religious freedom in Tibet, the Chinese People's Armed Police (PAP) destroyed a 30-foot high statue of the Buddhist figure of Guru Rinpoche, or Padmasambhava in Samye Monastery, the oldest monastery in Tibet.

Guru Rinpoche is worshipped by Tibetan and Chinese Buddhists alike as the founder of Buddhism in Tibet in the 8^th century.

Chinese authorities claim that the statue, which was constructed using funds from two Chinese Buddhists, violated regulations passed in January 2007 stating that “organizations and individuals not belonging to religious organizations or places of religious activity may not erect or construct large-scale outdoor religious statues or mani lhakhang (prayer wheel temple).”

After the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1949, over 6.000 monasteries, nunneries, and temples were looted of precious religious artefacts or destroyed entirely.

Over 110.000 religious leaders (including monks, nuns, and others) were tortured and put to death; an additional 250.000 were forcibly dis robed.

Thousands of refugees continue to flee Tibet each year in search of religious freedom they can no longer enjoy in their own country.

If we trust in the Law of Karma, Reincarnation can provide some answers into the question if exists justice in the world.

We have to look deeper in the past, to find out if, presently, the law of cause-effect is in action.

This as to do with individuals, as well as groups because conflicts, wars, genocide, sufferings, have a lot to do with “group-karma”.

Souls reincarnate in groups to learn some spiritual lessons, or like the case of the Tibetan, to carry out an higher spiritual purpose for humanity.

The Dalai Lama pointed out that the Chinese invasion of Tibet and the destruction of Tibetan monasteries caused the spread of the Buddhists monks to the West and its growing popularity.

This state of things would not have happened if all the monks had stayed in Tibet.

The Dalai Lama pointed out in an interview with The New York Times, that the present invasion from China has to do with hidden causes stretching back into the previous lives of both countries.

Has been said that when a country hates another, chances are that their people will reincarnate into the nation which is the object of hate.

I herd, in a meeting of spiritual sciences in Canada, lately, that the needs of the Young Chinese people, are suddenly changing.

Seems that they are searching and looking for spiritual direction.

Their minds and hearts are going in the direction of the “Tibetan path.”

So, not only the western countries, but the young Chinese too, will benefit from this “group karma'. Karma which links China and Tibet. Karma which the Tibetans carry out with a spiritual purpose.

May the young Chinese -people be strong enough, one day, to change the Tibetan suffering!

Leni provides a large variety of astrological services, workshops, readings and is an accomplished lecturer and writer, in both English and Italian. She has appear on television and radio, and is much in demand for the both traditional and soul centered astrology.

Leni Sibilio

http://.astrominds.com

leni@astrominds.com

Wesak, Full Moon in Taurus

The ancient ceremony of Wesak, began in the East, in Tibet. Wesak is a celebration of the birth, the
enlightenment, and the death of Buddha all of which occurred during the full moon of Taurus.

Nowadays, many Buddhist groups are still celebrating Wesak; during this old rite they give the public the opportunity to learn the teachings of Lord Buddha, and realize the existence of a Higher Brotherhood and the close link some can have.

The festival of Wesak ( named after a valley in Tibet ), is able to unify both eastern and western spirituality. It is said, that Christ and Buddha, are present, together, during this sacred ceremony, to signify the strong, unifying, link, between the two divines,

The main aim of the festival is to let know, to the world, the teachings of the Lord Buddha, and to evoke the spirit of Peace ,on earth.

Since the year 1946 this ceremony had spread in the western world,too.

The focus of the Wesak in Taurus, lies in three major steps, three keys to the world-development, if we want to go further in social evolution:

a) the Unity, it means we must be able to find the hidden consciousness in any living thing.

b)the uncovering of the new vision of “group-awareness”, the task of the Aquarian Age.

c)the discovery in ourselves, of the Heart, as an instrument of spiritual synthesis.

The Heart chakra, represents much more than the usual sentiment with which we are accustomed.

It is an higher state; with Its help, we should be able to live out brotherhood in each encounter we have. Perhaps, this brother, is needing you.. What can I do to help him?

The Heart doesn't look after Itself, instead Its focus is to take out the best in each person and situation.

To live up to your Heart -potential, you must show an awareness of the others need.

A unified meditation,such as is done all over the world on the day of the Wesak, moves mountains!

Leni provides a large variety of astrological services, workshops, readings and is an accomplished lecturer and writer, in both English and Italian. She has appear on television and radio, and is much in demand for the both traditional and soul centered astrology.

Leni Sibilio

http://.astrominds.com

leni@astrominds.com

OBESITY, as a distortion of...

If we consider obesity as a sickness on both physical and psychological levels, we might say that its roots are found in the quality of “beauty”, and the consequent distortion of it.

How can beauty be the origin of a sickness?

In our society beauty covers the meaning of “quality” in life, means desire, longing for wishes, represents the appearance, aesthetics, the image; an entire business-culture , is shaped out of it.

When someone is unable to get what he believes is beauty , generates a psychological, inner imbalance, which brings forth , a bent for illness.

This friction between the ideal and the reality, causes, ultimately the illness.

The Tibetan Master D.K. says that:” Many men are sick because they run after beauty, not knowing that beauty it is a divine quality, one of the many attributes of the Soul”

The real source of the beauty is unknown, to the average man, than, the inner friction, and the gap, appear.

Obesity is related to a lack of harmony in the workings of the planet Jupiter , in Astrology. Jupiter, the planet of expansion,

of growth, when is found in stress -position, in an astrological reading, causes overeating disorders, overweights, adipose tissues and obesities.

Jupiter, in the Soul-centered Astrology ,rules the constellation of Aquarius, and we are entering into this Era, we are in the very beginning.

This is one of the conclusions, I came, in order to explain the growing problem of obesity, in the western countries.

Children ,too, are affected by it, lately. An huge problem is growing in our planet,, along with the growth of the opposite one, such as anorexia. Anorexia, for good, has to do a lot, with beauty.

If we are open to the teachings of the spiritual sciences, perhaps , a solution is found.

Beauty is related to the heart-chakra and this chakra has to do with true Love, Love found only in Universal Brotherhood, in non-separatists tendencies, the Higher type of Love,and this may be the secret key to heal!

Leni provides a large variety of astrological services, workshops, readings and is an accomplished lecturer and writer, in both English and Italian. She has appear on television and radio, and is much in demand for the both traditional and soul centered astrology.

Leni Sibilio

http://.astrominds.com

leni@astrominds.com

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