#Ancient teachings

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ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ / Om Mani Padme Hum / 出淤泥而不染 🪷

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Ramayana No. 1: An Invitation to Journey into the Heart of the Ramayana

Inspired by the Teachings and Devotion of Anandamayi Ma In the ancient temples of India, where the scent of incense mingles with the murmurs of sacred hymns, there exists a timeless connection between the human soul and the divine. Recently, I found myself captivated by a simple yet profound moment: a video of Anandamayi Ma, the embodiment of divine love and wisdom, chanting the sacred names of…

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Integrating Ancient Wisdom into Modern Life

Hey, y'all! In this fast-paced, ever-evolving world, many of us are searching for ways to find balance and peace. One powerful approach is to tap into ancient spiritual practices and integrate their timeless wisdom into our modern lives. These practices have stood the test of time for a reason—they work! Let's dive into how we can adapt these ancient teachings to fit our contemporary lifestyles.

Understanding Ancient Wisdom

Ancient wisdom encompasses spiritual practices and philosophies that have been passed down through generations. These teachings come from various cultures and traditions, offering valuable insights into living a balanced and meaningful life. From meditation and mindfulness to herbal remedies and energy healing, there's a wealth of knowledge to explore.

Benefits of Integrating Ancient Wisdom

Enhanced Well-being Incorporating ancient practices can improve mental, emotional, and physical health by promoting holistic well-being.

Stress Reduction Ancient techniques like meditation and yoga can significantly reduce stress levels and increase relaxation.

Spiritual Growth Connecting with ancient wisdom can deepen your spiritual journey, providing a sense of purpose and inner peace.

Adapting Ancient Spiritual Practices for Modern Living

Meditation and Mindfulness

Traditional Practice Meditation has been practiced for thousands of years to achieve mental clarity and spiritual insight.

Modern Adaptation Incorporate meditation into your daily routine with guided sessions available on apps like Headspace or Calm. Even five minutes a day can make a big difference.

Herbal Remedies

Traditional Practice Ancient cultures used herbs for healing and wellness.

Modern Adaptation Explore herbal teas, essential oils, and natural supplements to support your health. Always consult with a healthcare professional before trying new remedies.

Yoga and Movement

Traditional Practice Yoga, originating in ancient India, combines physical postures, breath control, and meditation.

Modern Adaptation Join a local yoga class or follow online tutorials to integrate yoga into your fitness routine. It's a great way to stay flexible, strong, and centered.

Energy Healing

Traditional Practice Practices like Reiki and acupuncture have been used for centuries to balance the body's energy.

Modern Adaptation Seek out certified practitioners or learn basic techniques to practice energy healing at home. It can help with stress relief and overall well-being.

Practical Tips for Incorporating Ancient Wisdom

Start Small Begin with one or two practices that resonate with you. Gradually incorporate more as you become comfortable.

Be Consistent Consistency is key. Even small, regular practices can lead to significant benefits over time.

Stay Open-minded Approach ancient wisdom with an open heart and mind. Be willing to explore and experiment to find what works best for you.

Create a Sacred Space Dedicate a quiet, clutter-free space in your home for your spiritual practices. This can enhance your experience and make it easier to stick with it.

Mindfulness in Daily Life

How Mindfulness Enhances Modern Living Mindfulness keeps us present and aware, reducing stress and improving our overall quality of life. It can be practiced anywhere, anytime.

Daily Practices Incorporate mindfulness into everyday activities like eating, walking, or even washing dishes. Focus on the sensations, smells, and sounds around you.

Combining Ancient Practices with Technology

Apps and Online Resources Utilize technology to access guided meditations, yoga classes, and educational content. Apps like Insight Timer and YouTube channels dedicated to wellness are great resources.

Virtual Communities Join online groups or forums to connect with others on a similar journey. Sharing experiences and tips can be motivating and insightful.

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Challenges

Stress and Anxiety Ancient practices like meditation, yoga, and herbal remedies can help manage stress and anxiety effectively.

Work-life Balance Incorporate mindfulness and relaxation techniques to maintain a healthy work-life balance. Take breaks to meditate or practice deep breathing.

Health and Wellness Ancient wisdom emphasizes holistic health. Combine modern medicine with traditional practices for a balanced approach to wellness.

Embracing Diversity in Ancient Wisdom

Cultural Appreciation Respect and honor the origins of the practices you adopt. Learn about the cultures and traditions they come from to deepen your understanding.

Personal Adaptation Feel free to adapt practices to fit your personal beliefs and lifestyle. The goal is to find what resonates with you and enhances your life.

Common Misconceptions about Ancient Wisdom

Myth: Ancient Practices Are Outdated Fact: Ancient practices are timeless. They offer valuable insights and techniques that are still relevant today.

Myth: You Need Special Skills Fact: Many ancient practices are simple and accessible to everyone. You don't need to be an expert to start benefiting from them.

Advanced Ancient Practices

Chakra Healing Focus on balancing your chakras, the energy centers in your body, through meditation, visualization, and yoga.

Astrology Explore the ancient art of astrology to gain insights into your personality, relationships, and life path.

Shamanic Practices Learn about shamanic journeying and healing techniques to connect with your inner self and the natural world.

Ancient Wisdom for Different Lifestyles

Busy Professionals Incorporate quick practices like mindful breathing or short meditations into your busy schedule. Even brief moments of calm can be transformative.

Parents and Families Teach children simple mindfulness and grounding techniques. Practicing together can strengthen family bonds and promote a peaceful household.

Retirees Explore new spiritual practices and hobbies that promote well-being and lifelong learning. It's never too late to start!

Integrating Ancient Wisdom with Modern Science

Complementary Approaches Combine ancient wisdom with modern science for a holistic approach to health and wellness. Many traditional practices are now supported by scientific research.

Evidence-based Benefits Look for studies and evidence that validate the effectiveness of ancient practices. This can enhance your confidence in integrating them into your life.

Challenges and Solutions in Integrating Ancient Wisdom

Overcoming Skepticism Approach ancient practices with an open mind. Give them a fair try before forming an opinion.

Finding Time Make time for spiritual practices by integrating them into your existing routines. Even a few minutes a day can be beneficial.

Staying Motivated Keep a journal to track your progress and reflect on your experiences. Celebrate small victories and stay committed to your journey.

Ancient Wisdom in Modern Society

Adapting to Urban Life Even if you live in a city, you can practice ancient wisdom. Find parks, community centers, or create a peaceful space in your home.

Modern Adaptations Adapt traditional practices to fit your lifestyle. Use modern tools and resources to enhance your experience.

FAQs

What is ancient wisdom? Ancient wisdom refers to spiritual practices and philosophies passed down through generations that promote holistic well-being.

How can I start incorporating ancient practices into my life? Start small with practices like meditation or mindful breathing. Gradually explore more techniques as you become comfortable.

Are ancient practices scientifically supported? Many ancient practices, such as meditation and yoga, are supported by scientific research showing their benefits for mental and physical health.

Can children benefit from ancient wisdom? Yes, simple practices like mindfulness and grounding can help children manage stress and improve focus.

What if I don't have much time for spiritual practices? Integrate brief practices into your daily routine. Even a few minutes of mindful breathing or meditation can make a difference.

How can I stay motivated to practice ancient wisdom? Keep a journal to track your progress, join a community for support, and celebrate small victories along the way.

Conclusion

Integrating ancient wisdom into modern life is a journey of exploration and growth. By adapting timeless practices to fit our contemporary lifestyles, we can enhance our well-being and find balance amidst the chaos. Whether you're new to these practices or looking to deepen your spiritual journey, there's something for everyone in the vast world of ancient wisdom

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IG23-32. Linda Orsini, "A Call for Love."

Ignite Your Heart and Soul with Sara Troy and her guest Linda Orsini, on air from August 8th Be inspired to heal from the inside out with Linda, the host of the “A Call For Love” podcast, drawing from her 30+ year career as an educator. As the founder of Global Wellness Education and certified in meditation, mindfulness teaching, yoga, Reiki healing, and more, Linda wholeheartedly embraces…

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B is for the boy

B is for the boy in college who thought a date was inviting me up to his attic room and playing a record while he read aloud from the dictionary. He was in love with words. I caught on eventually when I bought the hefty four-inch thick, 2,000-page Funk & Wagnall’s Deluxe Edition, which in those pre-internet days promised a lifetime of meaning. But there were always more questions, so next came…

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How long was it between when Iroh convinced Zuko to take up the Fire Throne, and Sozin's comet? A day? Less??

AU where Iroh convinces Zuko to be the next Fire Lord MUCH earlier in the series. Zuko, who hasn't been in formal education since was 13yo, understandably panics. He barely remembers his lessons on How To Be the Fire Lord, and they were all focused on how to rule during wartime. Not peace. What does an international peace treaty even LOOK like and how does one go about making it???? How does trade work when you're NOT trying to eradicate every other nation????

Book 3 Zuko spends all of his time teaching Aang firebending, interrogating the other members about their culture's traditions and politics, going on Blue Spirit journeys to raid any passing libraries, and reading everything he can get his hands on. He barely eats. He doesn't sleep. He's info dumping about the DRIEST political texts. The gaang are THIS close to holding an intervention or having Toph sit on him until he sleeps.

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Teaching magic 🪄✨

Soo I just rewatch the hoshi-matsu hito ova, It's just as magical as it is every time I watch it :")

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Oh god the ancient rizz.

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How I teach the Iliad in highschool:

I’ve taught the Iliad for over a decade, I’m literally a teacher, and I can even spell ‘Iliad’, and yet my first instinct when reading someone’s opinions about it is not to drop a comment explaining what it is, who ‘wrote’ it, and what that person’s intention truly was.

Agh. <the state of Twitter>

The first thing I do when I am teaching the Iliad is talk about what we know, what we think we know, and what we don’t know about Homer:

We know -

- 0

We think we know -

- the name Homer is a person, possibly male, possibly blind, possibly from Ionia, c.8th/9th C BCE.

- composed the Iliad and Odyssey and Hymns

We don’t know -

- if ‘Homer’ was a real person or a word meaning singer/teller of these stories

- which poem came first

- whether the more historical-sounding events of these stories actually happened, though there is evidence for a similar, much shorter, siege at Troy.

And then I get out a timeline, with suggested dates for the ‘Trojan war’ and Iliad and Odyssey’s estimated composition date and point out the 500ish years between those dates. And then I ask my class to name an event that happened 500 years ago.

They normally can’t or they say ‘Camelot’, because my students are 13-15yo and I’ve sprung this on them. Then I point out the Spanish Armada and Qu. Elizabeth I and Shakespeare were around then. And then I ask how they know about these things, and we talk about historical record.

And how if you don’t have historical record to know the past, you’re relying on shared memory, and how that’s communicated through oral tradition, and how oral tradition can serve a second purpose of entertainment, and how entertainment needs exciting characteristics.

And we list the features of the epic poems of the Iliad and Odyssey: gods, monsters, heroes, massive wars, duels to the death, detailed descriptions of what armour everyone is wearing as they put it on. (Kind of like a Marvel movie in fact.)

And then we look at how long the poems are and think about how they might have been communicated: over several days, when people would have had time to listen, so at a long festival perhaps, when they’re not working. As a diversion.

And then I tell them my old and possibly a bit tortured simile of ‘The Pearl of Myth’:

(Here’s a video of The Pearl of Myth with me talking it through in a calming voice: https://youtu.be/YEqFIibMEyo?sub_confirmation=1

And after all that, I hand a student at the front a secret sentence written on a piece of paper, and ask them to whisper it to the person next to them, and for that person to whisper it to the next, and so on. You’ve all played that game.

And of course the sentence is always rather different at the end than it was at the start, especially if it had Proper nouns in it (which tend to come out mangled). And someone’s often purposely changed it, ‘to be funny’.

And we talk about how this is a very loose metaphor for how stories and memory can change over time, and even historical record if it’s not copied correctly (I used to sidebar them about how and why Boudicca used to be known as ‘Boadicea’ but they just know the former now, because Horrible Histories exists and is awesome)

And after all that, I remind them that what we’re about to read has been translated from Ancient Greek, which was not exactly the language it was first written down in, and now we’re reading it in English.

And that’s how my teenaged students know NOT TO TAKE THE ILIAD AS FACT.

(And then we read the Iliad)

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Project: Save Humanity

or something like that

It's no surprise that the Ancients get bored. They are immortal and have all the time in the world to complain about it, sadly Danny joined them after he was crowned.

Their monthly meetings are divided into three topics: Taunting the Observants (Clockwork's favorite topic after they were demoted to helpers, assistants, and other menial jobs), talking about the safety of the Realms (quite peaceful if just as chaotic), and argue.

They- really had nothing to do, and their hobbies eventually bored them. So Danny had a brilliant idea (read: he saw it on a TV show) and decided that they should all become mentors and save one of the dimensions.

Clockwork was about to say that was not a good idea, since it was the same as throwing giants into a world of ants but he needed some fun so he kept quiet. He showed them the dimension of DC and how it was continually being destroyed, the King told them to start their project in that place and select someone.

Clockwork selected Flash because he felt vengeful, Nocturne selected Tim Drake for the same reason, and so they went; each one of the Ancients selecting a "champion" they were going to teach. Although their selection reasons were quite absurd (being that they were selecting their opposite poles or just someone interesting).

Danny being a spirit of protection, selected Jason Todd and secretly Billy Batson, because he was the king and could break the rules (Clockwork rolled his eyes at the comment). The question now was, how did they appear to them and avoid the world's myriad routes of destruction?

Well at least they weren't bored anymore

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Mystreet AU where all of the Phoenix Drop High staff are the divine warriors. MCD!Aphmau is a reincarnation of the last Irene, and she restarted the world when the final battle against Shad was going poorly, and Mystreet was created instead, with MCD!Aphmau being reincarnated into Mystreet!Aphmau. The other Divine Warriors (including the first Irene), were recycled into this school with no powers and new lives, completely powerless to the universal change that Aphmau has made. So now they’re forced to adapt to this new world and blend in, whether they like it or not, effectively trapped in this school until they can figure out what the hell happened, and somehow undo it. They all have retained most or all of their memories from their previous life. This makes staff meetings incredibly awkward

Shad is the principal, he runs this school very begrudgingly. He hates his job, but hey, he was able to lead an army in Hell! How much harder can leading highschoolers be?

Irene is the school counselor. The only one. She still has no emotions. This makes her not very successful at her job, but hey, she tries. The students are theorizing that she and the principal are divorced, or exes in some way or another, because of the incredibly grudge-filled looks they keep giving each other. They are forced to work in vague proximity with one another, and no one is enjoying it. They have to maintain workplace diplomacy and after learning what kind of world Shad is trapped in now, he realizes that he can’t actually kill her unless he wants to be arrested and thrown in jail forever. Which would suck ass, because he’s pretty certain the source of their new predicament is somewhere in this school alongside them, and if he wants any luck at getting out, he’s going to have to play along.

Irene and Shad are at least able to remain thinly diplomatic with one another. Shad and Esmund, however—never in a million years will they be civil with one another. They have gotten in very confusing shouting matches in front of the kids before. And yet Esmund never gets fired, (…i don’t think Shad has figured out that he can do that yet…) so the kids start to spread rumors that Esmund is hooking up with or used to be hooking up with the principal. Esmund and Shad find out, and all of the students get in ungodly amounts of trouble for this.

Enki tried to reconnect with his old friend Shad at some point. It didn’t go well. He left his office as quickly as he came in at the first sight of his glare.

It becomes surprisingly easy (and very existential crisis-inducing) to finally be able to tell Aphmau and Irene apart when they’re two entirely separate people standing in the same room. Shad realizes that this Aphmau is probably what caused this, but problem 1. She doesn’t remember a damn thing and is therefore extremely unhelpful, and problem 2. That’s A Child. That’s A Literal Actual Child. That’s some 13yo baby that is entirely innocent and bright-eyed and oblivious to anything and everything that went down in her past lives. And in my mind, Shad has a soft spot for children. Like, a HUGE soft spot, because he used to be a father and his daughter meant the world to him. He’d do anything to get her back and protect her from all the horrors that he could not save her from. Thats his entire villain motivation. Thats the entire reason why he hates Irene and becomes The Shadow Lord and raises an army and pillages the world and everything else. The Shad in my head would be physically incapable of hurting a child.

So I can see Shad calling Aphmau into his office very early in the first semester, ready to confront her and duel all over again…only to realize that, no, this is an separate, innocent child who remembers nothing and might even be an entirely different reincarnation of who she was before. Her memories might even be wiped, completely inaccessible and gone forever. He has an existential crisis, awkwardly apologizes and plays it off as some sort of joke, asks if she needs anything (putting back on his “I’m a normal human being” mask). She says she needs directions to her classes, so he scrounges up a random map and hands it to her and sends her off. He re-evaluates everything he’s known for the past 900 years.

Shad becoming strangely protective of 13yo Aphmau,,, this is just some kid,, he’s forced to re-evaluate everything and adjusts how he sees his students. From “oh good a new army I’m gonna have to mold from scratch /sarc” to “i…i have gone from zero children…to thousands…. thousands of children put under my care…i need to protect all of them at once” man goes mega mother hen mode, especially since his dangerous traitorous ex-wife is in the same building as them, he definitely sees her and the other divine warriors as threats to his kids.

Irene bringing Aphmau into her office as well, but she approaches things very differently from Shad. She cuts straight to the chase, and tells Aphmau she needs to remember. She’s done something terrible, and needs to reverse it and put the world back in order. She needs to remember her old life and become the newest Irene, take on all the power and the responsibility that being a Goddess entails, and set everything right. 13yo Aphmau freaks out, confused and lost. Irene lays the pressure on hard, and keeps pushing when Aphmau insists that she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. Shad opens the door, sensing she was here with her, and looks like he’s doing everything in his power to hold himself back from punching her square in the face. They have a very terse, carefully worded micro-argument, and Shad insists Aphmau must return to her classes, her education is more important than anything Irene has to stay to her. He gets very protective of her and basically professional-business-talk tells her to fuck right off and never speak to her again. Aphmau is still confused. He ushers her out, and awkwardly asks if she’s alright. She says…i…think…so???? What just happened??? Shad tells her to be careful around that woman, and don’t believe a word she says. She’s full of lies, anyway. Aphmau’s like. you mean the school counselor???????? It’s a very strange day for Aphmau.

insert the kids joking about how Garroth/travis/aaron/Aphmau must be related to certain members of the staff here

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vampire boyfriends!!!

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Something that really gives Doctor Who some cognitive dissonance is that it champions science, but it also, of course, loves to make sci-fi stories out of ideas in popular culture. Like conspiracy theories, cryptids, all the stuff you'd see on the X-Files. Lots of stuff that in our world goes against science, and is even dangerous or bigoted.

So the Doctor will be like "science leads," but also all of human history has been masterminded by extraterrestrials, psychic powers are real, magic is real, there's a species of lizard men who rode dinosaurs and now sleep beneath the earth, the loch ness monster is from outer space, every tenth planet ever invented is out there somewhere, aliens built the pyramids and Atlanteans built the sphinx.

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Just the two best lancers I own hanging out and having a great time bonding over being ancient, often-hated and almost always misunderstood beings who just want normal lives. Just a relaxing girls' day at the beach doing what anyone would enjoy.

Art by the eternally delightful @wishem

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i love it when the faculty section of a university department website is a cutthroat competition for who can have the worst headshot