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Noel is a 57 year old guy from Ojai, California, USA

Welcome! Here, explore paths of awakening;
Seek the one in all. Share fruits of Spiritual Ideals.
Know Universal Fellowship. Be as One; in this Sacred Moment.

Yoga Alchemy is holistic Therapy; "Healing Wounds of Separateness".
Re-cognition, reawakening, remembrance.

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  • CHRIS BOTTI IN BOSTON | Shape of My Heart Sting &J. Groban

    Rated 11:53am • 2 reviews • youtube.com





    Here we are -
    With the only thing truly meaningful in life and death;
    The love we feel for one another and those most dear to us.

    We suffer for that love, but it's a price worth paying,
    Because in the end it's the only thing left with meaning.
    Everything else falls away, but our love,
    And memories of the love we have shared.

    The past is gone, but in our memories
    and the future is uncertain.
    Whether you believe in heaven or not,
    the only thing that truly matters
    is the love we have for one another.

    I believe in spirit
    and that we are more than just the body.
    Because the Great Ones who love us say it is so
    and they wouldn't lie to those they love.

    Love is like an Angel in our heart,
    and Angels are the best company we can keep.
    Although now we are only human,
    in their company we become like Angels.
    And when we love they surely touch our hearts.

    Bhima Noel






    A Rosemont Way: The Way of the Mystic's Journey Exploring Ageless Wisdom...

    See Rosemont tagged pages


  • Joni Mitchell-California (BBC)

    Rated Nov 09 • 9 reviews • video, california, joni mitchell • youtube.com



    Joni Mitchell Playlist
    Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now


  • Snow Lion Publications

    Rated Nov 09 • 3 reviews • buddhism, tantras • snowlionpub.com


    "Where does Niguma live?" Khyungpo Naljor asked.

    They answered, "If one's perception is pure, one can see her anywhere, whereas if one's perception is not pure, she simply cannot be found; for she dwells on the pure stages and has achieved the holy rainbow body. However, when the dakinis gather to make tantric feasts in the great cemetery of the Sosaling Forest, she sometimes physically appears."

    Merely on hearing Niguma's name tears came to Khyungpo Naljor's eyes and every hair on his body trembled with excitement. He left immediately for the Sosaling Cemetery, reciting the Namo Buddhaya mantra of Mahakala as he went.

    One of my favorite authors & western Buddhist,
    Glenn Mullin will be at Krotona in Ojai in February.



    A tantric painting of Chakrasamvara
    in yab-yum with his consort Vajravarahi.

    "In the tradition of the Highest Yoga Tantras
    to which the Chakrasamvara Tantra belongs,
    such paintings serve as visualization tools
    for the transformative meditative practices,
    in which the Tantric practitioner realizes
    his or her own identity as the fully enlightened Buddha.
    The painting succinctly encapsulates the Tantric Buddhist process
    of the female (yogini) system practice class of the Chakrasamvara Tantra.








    Naropa's View of Essential Nature:
    This mind that knows emptiness
    Is itself the awakened mind, bodhicitta.
    The Buddha potential is just this.
    The sugata essence is just this.

    Because of tasting what is,
    It is also the great bliss.
    The understanding of secret mantra is just this.
    Means and knowledge is just this.

    This self-knowing, while one is still defiled,
    Does not depend on other things,
    So self-existing wakefulness is just this.
    Being aware, it is cognizance.

    A natural knowing that is free of thought.
    This self-knowing cannot possibly form thoughts.
    Without conceptualizing 'a mind,'
    Since it is not something to be conceived,
    This original wakefulness, cognizant yet thought-free,
    Is like the wisdom of the Tathagata.

    Therefore, it is taught, "Realize that luminous mind
    Is the mind of original wakefulness,
    And don't seek an enlightenment separate from that."

  • rainbow connection

    Rated Nov 09 • 1 review • music, video • youtube.com




    "This Place"

    I know this place by the sea,
    Where only sounds of sea & wind,
    birds & seals you will hear.

    Ah to feel your presence there.
    If we were by the sea together;
    yet feeling soft & warm;
    You would feel my voice, and I hope reply.

    U can be sure that I would reply.
    Soft & sweet. Like this;

    See the rocks ruff & sharp.
    Yet by the sea,
    as the waves caress them again & again,
    They become soft & smooth.
    Like this place

    I want to caress your sorrow & pain.
    See it soft and smooth.

    May I be the sea caressing you,
    soothing, softening your shores forever.
    With all my endless kisses

    by: waves of the endless sea

    Bhima Noel




    Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth [SoS 1:2].
    What did King Solomon mean by introducing words of love between the upper world and the lower world, and by beginning the praise of love, which he has introduced between them, with let him kiss me?

    They have already given an explanation for this, and it is that inseparable love of spirit for spirit can be [expressed] only by a kiss, and a kiss is with the mouth, for that is the source and outlet of the spirit. And when they kiss one another, the spirits cling to each other, and they are one, and then love is one.




    Sights and Sounds of Song of Songs

    Live at the TAJ_MAHAL















    Rainbow Connection

    Why are there so many songs about rainbows
    and what's on the other side?
    Rainbows are visions, but only illusions,
    and rainbows have nothing to hide.
    So we've been told and some choose to believe it.
    I know they're wrong, wait and see.
    Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection.
    The lovers, the dreamers and me.

    Who said that every wish would be heard
    and answered when wished on the morning star?
    Somebody thought of that and someone believed it.
    Look what it's done so far.
    What's so amazing that keeps us star gazing
    and what do we think we might see?
    Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection.
    The lovers, the dreamers and me.

    All of us under its spell. We know that it's probably magic.

    Have you been half asleep and have you heard voices?
    I've heard them calling my name.
    Is this the sweet sound that called the young sailors.
    The voice might be one and the same.
    I've heard it too many times to ignore it.
    It's something that I'm supposed to be.
    Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection.
    The lovers, the dreamers and me.


  • A Rosemont Way: The Way of the Mystic's Journey...

    Rated Nov 09 • 1 review • spirituality, rosemont, meditation, mysticism • blogspot.com

    "From the page"

    Here is the path;
    Imagine you are walking alone in nature
    during the peak of springtime, on a beautiful high mountain lane.
    You recognize that off to your right,
    through the trees is a broad vista of the valley below.
    Just ahead you notice a small side trail heading that way;
    should you take it; why not, it's going your way.

    Very shortly you move through the trees, and break into an opening
    overlooking the vast expanse of a high mountain valley
    maybe a thousand feet below.

    There the wind whispers in your ear stay awhile.
    So you find a seat and listen to the quiet wind come from afar.
    Wind and tiny birds are the only sounds you hear in timeless expansive peace.

    After awhile so content, with quiet expansive mind filling space,
    you have noticed before you, a single wild rose swaying in the breeze.
    It seems a lovely joyful dance to you;
    so lovely your heart swells with the immensity of this grand scene
    and little rose; such beauty all.

    What strikes most deeply is this gift;
    if you had gone the other way, this moment would never be.
    Perhaps no eyes would fall upon this rose to acknowledge its loveliness.
    And the rose doesn't seem to care, it may return again and again,
    hoping to catch the eye of God.

    And today in this timeless sacred moment you, the rose, the valley, the mountain
    are all vessels for divine mind, so fully present in this moment here;
    as it always is, potentially in every single moment, in every single place.

    This is the mystic path,
    the divine presence you seek and it is always everywhere.
    Your path when you allow your awareness to awake to it,
    in any & every precious moment.

    This awaking is not external to you, coming on to you,
    it arises in you, it is being you, now and always;
    only you are forgetting what's there in you always.

    Just remember the temple you seek is in you always;
    any moment you may open the door
    and enter that sacred space of communion
    with the divine in your heart.
    Now & forever carry that knowing with you;
    be it and you will share it.

    Bhima Noel

  • http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Bhimala&view=playlists

    Rated Nov 09 • 1 review • classic rock, youtube, music, video • youtube.com


    Top Page Links to all my You Tube Playlists


    The Beatles - Let it Be

    Jethro Tull

    Classic Rock

    911 Tribute

    Billy Joel Master class Concert

    Guy Vocals

    Love & Romance

  • Keith Dowman / Garuda

    Rated Nov 09 • 2 reviews • dzogchen, vajrayana, rosemont buddhism, ati yoga • keithdowman.net

    The Garuda


    'All thoughts vanish into emptiness
    like the imprint of a bird in the sky'

    Dzogchen is 'The Great Perfection',
    the apogee of Tibetan Tantric Buddhist meditation accomplishment.
    It is the Buddha's enlightenment in rainbow light.
    It is the school of Buddhism with greatest affinity
    to the sanity of twenty-first century mystical aspiration.

    A sign of Dzogchen is the Garuda, a mythical bird.
    One of the great masters of Dzogchen in this century,
    Kyapje Dunjom Rimpoche, expressed the vision of Dzogchen something like this:

    'The first thing is Dzogchen vision which sees what really is -- the nature of mind itself.
    This is the natural state of being, where the mind makes no distinctions and judgments.
    This state of awareness is called rigpa.
    Rigpa is naked awareness of the wholistic here and now.
    On the Dzogchen page the nature of Dzogchen is described by various adepts through the ages.



    Eye of the Storm;
    is a translation of Vairotsana's five original transmissions,
    the five seminal tantras of the Mind Series of Dzogchen Precepts

    Keith Dowman / Cuckoos Song

    Six Vajra verses


    Bliss Song

    Everything we see & feel arises from one light.
    Appearing as a rainbow; why separate from it by naming?

    Looking in a mirror; is there then really two;
    Or one essence, a harmony of presence & voice?

    Why struggle in this dream of loneliness?
    Awaken a love song where sorrow fades away.

    Bhima Noel



    My Dzogchen tag








    HOMAGE TO THE SUPREME MOTHER,
    THE FAR-REACHING PERFECTION OF SUBLIME KNOWING!

    The Blessed One, was at Vultures Peak in Rajagriha, at that time, at that moment, the Blessed One spoke; "Ananda! This is the Far-Reaching Perfection of Sublime Knowing in a Single Letter. For the benefit and happiness of all sentient beings, you should retain this! It goes thus: AH

    THE FAR-REACHING PERFECTION OF SUBLIME KNOWING IN A SINGLE LETTER,
    THE MOTHER OF ALL THOSE GONE TO THUSNESS, IS COMPLETE.

    Translated by Erick Sherab Zangpo"

  • Shanpa Kargyu Golden Dharmas

    Rated Nov 04 • 1 review • buddhism, kagyu, vajrayana, ati yoga • yogichen.org



    "The Song of the Deathless Vajra of Mind"

    This is the essence of (the doctrine of) deathlessness,
    by which Buddhahood is attained without meditation,
    By the force of spiritual experience of these precepts,
    (which consummate) Sutra and Tantra.

    In this way this body, the product of karmic evolution,
    Naturally emerges as the body of primordial awareness.

    The evolved body becomes the embodiment of the deity;
    Pristine, no attachment to it--one meditates thus.
    It is inseparable from mind,
    And, for mind, substantial reality cannot be established:
    Then, where does one find there something that dies?

    So-called "death" is merely an idea:
    Ideas and concepts, the phenomena of samsara
    and nirvana can not be established as real.
    The object and the cause of transmigration
    dissolve naturally at the very point of their origin.

    The consciousness in which absolute meaning is found,
    Is deathless, unlimited; it is the supreme fruit.
    Remembering this, Buddhahood is revealed:
    This, the vital heart of the dakini, must be held to like life itself. "

  • Eric Clapton &Sheryl Crow - Little Wing

    Rated Nov 03 • 5 reviews • classic rock, video, eric clapton • youtube.com



    Little Wing

    Well she's walking through the clouds
    with a circus mind that's running round
    butterflies and zebras, moonbeams and fairy tales
    that's all she ever thinks about
    Riding with the wind.

    When I'm sad, she comes to me
    with a thousand smiles, she gives to me free
    It's alright she says its alright
    Take anything you want from me, anything
    Anything.

    Fly on little wing,


    My Little Wing Playlist
    Another Little Wing Playlist
    My Eric Clapton Playlist



  • Welcome to Coffee with Pierre & the...

    Rated Oct 30 • 1 review • philosophy, spirituality, platonism, relationships, self improvement • coffeewithpierre.com



    The Art and Method of Philosophical Midwifery

    The art of delivering oneself of false beliefs is through the examination of one's life.
    It is by learning this art that we discover how false beliefs block us from gaining insight
    and understanding into our life.
    For these beliefs are the root cause of a class of problems and these problems manifest themselves
    in our everyday problems, in the plots of our fantasies, and in the content of our dreams.

    When we attempt to reach for our highest aspirations we are not aware
    that these beliefs compromise those goals and diminish our capacity to maintain them.
    Further, these false beliefs even undermine our desire to realize our most meaningful goals.



    The nature of the Spiritual Path of Dialogue

    "Carved above the entrance to the Temple at Delphi in Greece are the words "Know Thyself".
    Simple, direct, and complete.

    This phrase is both a statement and a profound challenge.
    Communicated down through the ages,
    it has not lost any of its mystery or spirit.

    ARTEMIS has been assembled following the spirit and challenge of that command: Know Thyself."

    To ARTEMIS: Understand Problems, Achieve Goals, &Attain Self-Mastery