Daily Dose - Oct 8 2013 - Tuesday/Mars/Thor - Medicine Music Video ~ Angels Singing in My Head - Miguel Antonio

Tuesday in considered to be ruled by Mars, a planet of action and all that such entails. Associated with Ares (the Greek God) and Aries (the astrological archetype) as well as with Scorpio, secondary to Pluto since its discovery.

For me this day had quite a bit of leisure throughout it, but I was happy to have done some reading and writing - admittedly activities that could also count for leisure ;) - and I recorded a video of a song I've been working on.

Though the video is only a few minutes long, there's a tricky part half way through it and I had to restart several times, and uploads onto youtube (as well as the program I use to upload video from my cam to comp) take extraordinarily long to load/save, etc. So I did spend a considerable amount of time doing stuff in between all that. x) Anyways,

Here it is. Enjoy :)

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Daily Dose - Oct 7 2013 - MoonDay/Cancer/Yemanja - Dreams, Emotion & Perspective

• Are you dreaming right now? Seriously, think about it, check your reality, physically and mentally. Look at your hand, your surroundings, does everything look normal? Do you remember putting everything where it is now? Where were you 30 min ago and what were you doing? An hour ago? Scrutinize every detail that comes to mind. Do this twice an hour and you'll be well on your way to having lucid dreams. Keep a Dream Journal, too.
• We may seem small in the scope of things, but can lead big lives if we live in love.
• Have you ever thought, we are each at the center of our lives, our universe, and we experience each other and ourselves from this particular point of perception.
• Sincerely, we must know our emotions before we can control them. If that is what one is striving for.

"True perfection seems imperfect,

yet it is perfectly itself.

True fullness seems empty,

yet it is fully present.

True straightness seems crooked.

True wisdom seems foolish.

True art seems artless.

The Master allows things to happen.

She shapes events as they come.

She steps out of the way

and lets the Tao speak for itself."

- 45, Tao Te Ching translated by Stephen Mitchell

Daily Dose - Oct. 6 2013 - SUN-day/Helios/Ra - Stillness, Gratitude and Master Oogway

• Do not let fear of vulnerability get in the way living the life you are called to live, nor in the way of loving others and letting them know it.
• ~ I'm more than half sure that's a proper use of 'nor', which I used because I was mostly certain 'or' would've been incorrect, right? x)
  
• If it's not spontaneous it's not Spirit.
  
• Through the body, we become mindful of the breath, and through the breath, we gain awareness of mindful stillness. From here, this mindful stillness, we can experience life joyfully, because we see that the more grateful we are for life, the more deeply we perceive, and likewise, the more there is to appreciate. If we feel at ease and peaceful within, create that for ourselves, life's situations and experience will reflect ease, satisfaction and fulfillment.
  
  "You mind is like this water my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear."
  - Master Oogway, Kung Fu Panda

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"Fill your bowl to the brim

and it will spill.

Keep sharpening your knife

and it will blunt.

Chase after money and security

and your heart will never unclench.

Care about people's approval

and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back.

The only path to serenity."

- 9, Tao Te Ching

Daily Dose - Oct 5 2013 - Saturn/Kronos/ ~ Death, Time, & Discipline

• Live to learn how to die. We are given time on this planet in these bodies to 'die' and be 'reborn' before physical death, so we may know and remember the meaning, beauty and power of life, our purpose here, and the immortality of our spirit.
  
• If you know me/are local, make sure you attend one of my YogiShaman Trance Breath Empowerment or other Shamanic Journey workshops to experience this Alchemical process and transformation. Visit www.Miguelfl.com for more info.

• Does the way you live your life make you grateful? If it doesn't make you grateful don't waste your time. If we are unsatisfied we must ask why. In time the answers will come. Stay open.
  
• Each of us will, at some point or other, leave this life and this body. When it is time, Death comes for us all. It may be tomorrow, in 80 years or even today, but rest assured, he will come.
  This can be a source of stress, worry and fear, or a source of empowerment and enlightenment. So let us not waste our time here, and truly life live, enjoy all it has to offer, knowing the sacred in all things, being kind to ourselves and others and being grateful for this day, this breath.
  
• Time will heal all our wounds, and forgive us all our trespasses against ourselves and others and make us wise. For this healing and liberation to begin, however, we must set ourselves to our way without harming self or other.
  
  Make choices that help and support rather than hinder and cause guilt or fear. Thought we may stumble or fall, even many times each day, we have from then on to become better, to become who we wish to be, who we really are. 

Look, and it can't be seen.

Listen, and it can't be heard.

Reach, and it can't be grasped.

Above, it isn't bright.

Below, it isn't dark.

Seamless, unnamable,

it returns to the realm of nothing.

From that includes all forms,

image without an image,

subtle, beyond all coneption.

Approach it and there is no beginning;

follow it and there is no end.

You can't know it, but you can be it,

at ease in your own life.

Just realize where you come from:

this is the essence of wisdom.

- 14, Tao Te Ching

Daily Dose - Oct 4, 2013 - Friday/Venus/Libra/Hathor ~ New Moon in Libra!

I've been revisiting a lot of  my old writings (and emotions!) the last few days, which seems to be very fitting for this New Moon we're experiencing. I wish a smooth, balanced and liberating new moon to all of you, and hope you find today's dose both appropriate and supportive for this transition! Bless

• The more I choose to feel gratitude, the more there is in my life to be grateful for.
  
  The world of abundance exists through the doors of Peace.
  The key that opens those doors is Gratitude.
  
  Only when we are grateful for all our experience, for all of life just the way it is - only then do we open ourselves, our life, and our very consciousness to change - only then do we gracefully accept, embrace and create transformation.
  
  -Miguel Antonio

• When we learn to breathe efficiently and correctly, then all we do in life will be done efficiently and correctly.
  
  Breath is the constant within all our activities and spectrum of life and thought.
  
  When we can breathe with gratitude always and deliberately, then all actions are done in thanks and joy, bearing the fruits of peace and a constantly beautiful experience.
  
  Life becomes and endless stream of miracles.
  
  -Miguel Antonio
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Whoever is planted in the Tao
  will not be rooted up.
  Whoever embraces the Tao
  will not slip away.
  Her name will be held in honor from generation to generation.
  
  
  Let the Tao be present in your life
  and you will become genuine.
  Let it be present in your family
  and your family will flourish.
  Let it be present in your country
  and your country will be an example
  to all countries in the world.
  Let it be present in the universe
  and the universe will sing.
  
  
  How do I know this is true?
  By looking inside myself.
  
  
  -54, Tao Te Ching

Silent Love, circa 2008

Though there have been many distraction
The sound of silence once more reveals herself
And I once again hear the wind beckon me

It is the sound of eternal movement
forever being still
such Grace, such Effulgence
it awakens itself within our hearts
and once stirred, nothing is ever the same again.

This sound, this space, this presence within me,
it calls upon me, as if of itself
it teaches and directs me,
restores me; as one of her own

That sound, it lets me feel my blood; feel my heart beat
and within me I can see my relatives;
see my ancestors.
And within me I can see you.

I can see our cells, dancing the dance of love;
forever just one moment away from catching up with each other
where upon the slightest touch would create such emotion,
the world would melt before our eyes,
and all the mystery of the universe would stand with us,
revealed and untainted, just to be known.

And this, as the Earth crumbles in anticipation,
would heave open all the space between lovers,
to let everybody see
just what was here this whole time.

-Miguel Antonio, circa 2008

Daily Dose - Oct 3, 2013

• When we judge anyone in anyway, we are actually judging ourselves. When we think someone is "closed off" or narrow minded, it is in fact our own self that is exhibiting and experiencing that condition.

• Remember, it is the natural tendency of everything and everyone to evolve. This is the path of least resistance.

From chapter 34, "Impermanence of All Things" of the Kural

• There is no baser folly than the infatuation
  that looks upon the ephemeral as if it were everlasting.
  - 331
• Do good deeds with a sense of urgency,
  before death's approaching rattle strangles the tongue.
  - 336

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"Success is as dangerous as failure.

Hope is as hollow as fear.

What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure?

Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky.

When you stand with your two feet on the ground, 

you will always keep your balance.

What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?

Hope and fear are both phantoms

that arise from thinking of the self.

When we don't see the self as self,

what do we have to fear?

See the world as your self.

Have faith in the way things are.

Love the world as your self,

then you can care for all things."

- 13, Tao Te Ching