ONG NAMO - video - and celebrating iThou
Good morning. I hope you enjoyed your coffee, or juice, or tea, or whatever you drink in the morning. And now, something to brighten your day. namo.
I am celebrating being on iTHou for over a year, having first found it from the Esalen web site while looking for information about the Big Sur fires in early July of last year. Here, I reconnected with many good friends from my past at Esalen, and made several new ones. All of them valued by me. namo.
Thank you so much to Albert and Steven for this site. namo.
The sound on the video doesn't start right away, but is worth waiting for. namo.
namo mean? I notice you use it at the end of every sentence. Thanks in advance for the answer.
I checked on Google. I notice there is a video on here but alas I cannot open it. I checked and found the
National Association of Maritime Organizations
Am I getting warm?
Namo is a Pali language word (incompletely) meaning "homage" or "veneration" as in:
Namo tasa bhagavato arahato samma sambudhassa
Homage to the Blessed, Noble and Perfectly Enlightened One
Scarlet Rose and John would most likely be able to give you a much better explanation.
Congratulations on your anniversary and thank you for your generous contributions!
Gassho
Michael
I hadn't a clue.
...(and what a long strange trip it's been).
I am so happy that you're here, my friend.
May the long time sun shine upon you
All love surround you
And the pure light within you
Guide your way on.
Ong Namo (I bow to the subtle divine wisdom)
Guru Dev Namo (I bow to the divine teacher within)
Thank you for the beautiful video. What a wonderful play of light! Snatam Kaur has such an amazing, crystalline and gentle voice!
And now I am learning about her. She has a wonderful website:
http://www.snatamkaur.com/web.html
Thank you for being here. I feel blessed to know you.
-- antje blue zen (zen puppy)
Plays well with others
For your insight, kindness, generosity and compassion (and all the work you put into your entries! And, the wonderful links!)
Warmly,
Michael
Snatam Kaur I liked them so much I followed them around to 3 places a year or two ago (first time ever). Never meet your idols, though. Gave their cd's as gifts for a long while.
I met the leader once. (My husband and I)I should say met the leaser together. We were given spiritual names. We dressed in white and wore nappies on our heads. Yes real white babie's nappies.
I'm confused. Ever since I read your above comment, I've been wondering to what or whom you are referring when you say "the leader".
Maybe you have the wrong person? Snatum Kaur is a woman, not a cult, nor an organization, as far as I know.
Please elaborate, as I am very curious about your experience.
You said that you both dressed in white, and were given spitiritual names? Can you tell others what your "given" spiritual names were?
Wow. That must have been quite an experience! Why did you wear baby nappies on your heads? Were they clean or dirty? Were they disposable? Did "the leader" sing? What did she sing? What did you get out of the whole experience?
Please tell me (us) more. I am very interested and curious about your experience! Whatever or whoever it was, I'm not certain that it was Snatum Kaur. Please tell me more. I need to be enlightened here.
-- antje blue zen (zen puppy)
Plays well with others
...thank you for being here, Scarlet. As I read back through the archives, I see how much you and others have contributed to this site. (You, Weems, John C, Ron G, Kristy Bliss, Jasmine, Anjela, Al, Steven, Henry, Kathleen C, ... forgive me if I've left anyone out...)
Anyway, thanks for being here and contributing so much to iThou.
Your posts (Scarlet, and others) have made me think, laugh, smile, cry...
...and grow.
Hugs,
-- antje blue zen (zen puppy)
Plays well with others
Thank you, Anjte blue Zen!
You have contributed so many sweet, funny, and interesting posts too. And your comments are always worthwhile. I am so glad you are on this blog.
Many sincerely affectionate hugs to you, brave lady
May the long time sun shine upon you
All love surround you
And the pure light within you
Guide your way on.
Scarlet
Totally Committed
I give thanks for unknown blessings already on the way
I am not a Sufi, but have had good friends who are serious Sufi practitioners. I am not a HIndu, but have friends who follow that, and I have had friends and teachers who are Sikhs, Taoists, wiccans, pagans, goddess devotees, etc. A healer I much admire, Dr. Randolph Stone who developed Polarity Therapy was a yogic practitioner of the surat shabd yoga (Spiritual Sound Current) meditation system. While at Esalen, I knew several Rajneesies. In my grad school program in healing and counseling, I had teachers who were sikhs, Sufis, Taoists, Hindus, Buddhists, Native Americans, Jews, and more.
I am Buddhist, I am Native American (with Native American ancestry), I am Unitarian, I am Quaker, and I have been an Eastern martial arts practitioner (another spiritual path). I honor quan Yin, Tara, the dakinis, White Buffalo Calf Pipe Woman, the Cherokee Star Woman, Corn Woman, the Great Mother, the Great Goddess, and many more. Gurumayi gave me my Hindu spiritual name, my dept. head in grad school taught me how to do the spinning dance of the whirling dervishes, and my Tibetan Buddhist teacher hugs me and holds me in the light of her blessings and compassion. I helped my Native American teachers build several very traditional sweat lodges. I have been in sweat lodges at traditonal Lakota Sun dance and others, and have had several friends who are traditional (piercing) Sun Dancers and prayer people.
I honor the path that my various friends and teachers follow, that differ from how I walk my path, but lead to equally good and appropriate places.
Spirit: so strong, so amazing, so vital, and she comes in so many forms. Pointless and small-spirited, to mock the spiritual path of others.
old and strong she goes
on and on and on and on
can’t stop the spirit
she’s like a mountain
The Women's Song Circle I belong to, made up of Buddhists, Unitarians, Quakers, Jews, and atheists, with a Native American or two, and probably some others, sings a beautiful and wise song that honors several spiritual paths, and singing this makes me feel the beauty of how our human community can walk such a variety of paths with full faith and dignity and respect, holding the hands of others. We sing Jewish songs, Russian hymns, American freedom songs from the Sixties, African songs, Quaker hymns,Unitarian hymns, the Navajo Blessing songs, many Native American songs, antiwar songs, peace and social justice songs, woman-spirit songs, and more songs from many other spirtual and cultural traditions.
ohm shanti peace shalom.
namo (respect) --- to the Divine Compassion dwellers and teachers
Scarlet........... ;-)) <<laughing>> <<dancing>>
Totally Committed
I give thanks for unknown blessings already on the way
I was a guest so am not well read on the subject at all. The nappies were beautiful, soft cotton and we were presented by our host with a star brooch or pin and wrapped the nappy on our heads and placed the pin in the center-It was actually stunning.No, not dirty at all.We were dressed all in white and I suppose one could buy an actual turban but we were presented with these large cotton squares as a sign of respect to cover our heads. I was joking when I said nappies- they were just pieces of organic cotton.But looked like nappies to someone who was not used to wearing them as turbans.
Hope that answers some of your questions. I know it is not a cult.With all respect to my then host family as an exchange student and our growing friendship through the years it had tinges of cult-like activity- But I feel the same during adoration in my local catholic church.
I know what shamu means but what does