Thăng Thiên - Ascension

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KẾT THÚC CỦA MỘT THỜI KỲ VÀ BẮT ĐẦU CỦA MỘT CHU KỲ MỚI: BƯỚC VÀO THẾ GIỚI MỚI 5D

Tâm thức của bạn là mật khẩu để bước vào thế giới 5 chiều. Đó sẽ là thời điểm khi ý thức của bạn nói, làm! Hoặc, thất bại! Trong khoảnh khắc đó bạn sẽ chỉ có một mình! Sẽ không có ai phán xét hoặc thưởng cho bạn. Nhưng bạn sẽ cảm nhận được nó khi nó xảy ra. Nó là cuối một thời kỳ! Và sẽ là khởi đầu của một kỷ nguyên mới.

Thế giới 3 chiều là của sự cạnh tranh, sự chỉ trích phá hủy, sự ích kỷ hơn hết, là lòng tham. Kiểm soát và quyền lực là mục tiêu duy nhất. Đâm sau lưng, nói dối, gian dối, ác ý và sự tuyên bố của niềm tin tần số thấp là những hành động đặt ổ khóa lớn trên Cánh Cổng đẫn đến thế giới 5 chiều. Trong khi đó, sự hợp tác, hỗ trợ, hiến dâng luôn hướng tới những mục đích tốt đẹp, trong sáng và trong sạch, với sự đồng cảm và quan tâm người khác, đó chính là con đường dẫn bạn đến thế giới 5D.

Không có gì và không ai có quyền ảnh hưởng đến sự lựa chọn cá nhân này. Đối với mỗi cá nhân vẫn tồn tại quyền tự do ý chí. Sẽ không có một linh hồn nào có thể nói rằng họ không có cùng cơ hội.

Theo định nghĩa, Thăng thiên (Ascension) là con đường của những người chọn hướng đến một cách có ý thức đến mức ánh sáng cao hơn. Nó chỉ có thể được tìm thấy khi tâm thức được khai triển đủ để hiểu từng bài học đã được hiện hữu trong những kiếp liên tiếp.

Hãy nhớ, không có gì và không có ai sẽ quyết định cho bạn trong việc lựa chọn Thăng thiên.

Tất cả đều là tần số rung động của từng cá nhân. Chúng ta cần phải nâng tần số của chính mình.

Dưới đây là một số điểm có thể nâng tần số rung động của chính bạn:

1. Ý thức những tư duy của bạn – tất cả những gì bạn nghĩ, nói hoặc cảm nhận đều trở thành hiện thực của bạn. Mỗi suy nghĩ xuất hiện trong đầu bạn đều có tác động đến bạn. Hãy tích cực với thân, khẩu và ý của bạn.

2. Tìm cái đẹp và thưởng thức nó – cái đẹp luôn quanh chúng ta, nhưng chúng ta thường đi quanh vô ý thức. Ngưng vội vàng một chút và dành thời gian đứng dưới ánh nắng mặt trời và cảm kích môi trường xung quanh.

3. Ý thức thực phẩm mình ăn – những thức ăn có tần số rung động cao chẳng hạn là thực vật như rau, củ, quả và hạt (hữu cơ càng tốt). Những thực phẩm từ động vật và thực phẩm bao phủ bởi hóa chất và thuốc trừ sâu đều có tần số rung động thấp.

4. Uống nước - Luôn đảm bảo uống nhiều nước (lọc là tốt nhất) để giúp cơ thể thải độc qua ngày. Độc tính có tác động rõ rệt đến độ rung của chúng ta, vì vậy chúng ta phải làm những gì có thể để giảm tác động của nó trong chúng ta và xung quanh chúng ta.

5. Thiền định – là một trong những cách nâng tần số rung động tốt nhất. Thiền giúp xoa dịu tinh thần và đưa bạn vào trạng thái tâm hồn bình yên hơn để bạn dễ tiếp xúc với năng lượng vũ trụ, năng lượng này giúp hóa giải những năng lượng rung động thấp.

6. Biết ơn - Việc lập một danh sách biết ơn sẽ chuyển những rung động của bạn từ việc tập trung vào những gì bạn không có sang những gì đã có nhiều trong cuộc sống của bạn. Có nhiều điều để biết ơn hơn bạn có thể tưởng tượng. Hãy biết ơn với tất cả mọi thứ đến với cuộc đời bạn.

7. Thực hành những hành vi nhân hậu – cho đi mà không mong nhận lại bất cứ điều gì sẽ chuyển suy nghĩ của bạn từ “Tôi không có đủ” sang “Tôi có quá đủ để cho người khác”. Sự dư dả (abundance) thuộc về rung động cao.

8. Hãy bơm máu vào – sự rung động đòi hỏi sự chuyển động, bạn càng di động nhiều thì rung động của bạn càng di chuyển tốt hơn. Vì vậy, Hãy hoạt động! Nhảy! Bạn càng cảm thấy hạnh phúc, bạn sẽ càng rút ra được nhiều kinh nghiệm hạnh phúc cho bản thân vì bạn đang hoạt động ở một tần suất khác.

Milk Myths

This image of a man suckling a cow is pretty comical, but the hidden fate of calves born to dairy cows is tragic. The dire impact of dairy products on human health is no laughing matter, either.

Don’t Cows Need to Be Milked?
Like all mammals, cows only produce milk to feed their young. If they don’t have babies to feed, they don’t make milk.  To keep them lactating, cows on dairy farms are artificially inseminated once a year (they carry their babies for 9 months), in a traumatic procedure that often involves constraining cows in a device known by the industry as a “rape rack,” and forcibly inserting semen through both her rectum and vagina into her uterus.

But Drinking Milk Doesn’t Really Hurt Cows, Does It?
“The very saddest sound in all my memory was burned into my awareness at age five on my uncle’s dairy farm in Wisconsin. A cow had given birth to a beautiful male calf…On the second day after birth, my uncle took the calf from the mother and placed him in the veal pen in the barn—only ten yards away, in plain view of his mother. The mother cow could see her infant, smell him, hear him, but could not touch him, comfort him, or nurse him. The heartrending bellows that she poured forth—minute after minute, hour after hour, for five long days—were excruciating to listen to. They are the most poignant and painful auditory memories I carry in my brain.”Michael Klaper, M.D.
Humans are able to consume all the milk and dairy products they want (but don’t need) only by keeping cows pregnant and lactating, and taking away the calves for whom the milk is intended. Cows are deeply devoted to their young, and the bond formed between a mother and her calf remains long after the baby is an adult. Separation causes them tremendous stress and anxiety. What’s common knowledge to farmers, but unknown to most consumers, is that mother cows continue to search and call frantically for their babies for days after their calves have been taken away. If mother and calf have been separated by a fence, the mother will wait by the fence in vain, through rain or scorching heat, foregoing meals and water. Some mothers will even break through fences and wander for miles in search of their babies. (1) Dairy calves are taken from their mothers usually within 1-48 hours, as further bonding would make separation even more traumatic and could affect the mother’s milk production. But the maternal bond is profound and immediate, and this cruel separation is devastating for both mother and calf.
“I became a vegan the day I watched a video of a calf being born on a [dairy] factory farm. The baby was dragged away from his mother before he hit the ground. The helpless calf strained his head backwards to find his mother. The mother bolted after her son and exploded into a rage when the rancher slammed the gate on her. She wailed the saddest noise I’d ever heard an animal make, and then thrashed and dug into the ground, burying her face in the muddy placenta.” —James McWilliams, from “Let Animals Amaze Us”
The typical dairy cow endures this cycle of losing her baby at least 3, and up to 7, times in her short life as a milk producer. You don’t have to support this.


Well, At Least Drinking Milk Doesn’t Kill Cows…Right?
Wrong. The constant impregnation of cows that drives the dairy industry creates a huge surplus of calves.  While female dairy calves are raised to replace their mothers, male babies are useless to the dairy industry. According to the USDA, “only a small percentage” of male dairy calves are raised as steers, as dairy cows are not considered the desirable breed for beef. (2) Instead, most male dairy calves become veal, and spend their brief, miserable existence confined or chained in lonely stalls.  They never sleep next to their mothers’ warm bodies, and they never receive the mother’s touch or nourishment that they cry out for until the moment they are brutally slaughtered, at anywhere from a few days to six months old. If you consume milk, cheese or butter you are supporting the veal industry. Please learn more about this connection, and about the lives and deaths of calves raised for veal, at our Veal page.
Dairy cows themselves are also slaughtered at a fraction of their natural life span. The constant cycle of pregnancy and intensive milk production takes a heavy toll on their bodies. When their milk production begins to decline, usually between 3 to 4 years of age, dairy cows are slaughtered for ground beef. (3)

What About Humane Dairy Farms?
The cruel separation of mother and calf is an unavoidable fact of all dairy production, on all farms. Humans do not need to drink cows’ milk. There is nothing humane about exploiting the reproductive systems of other animals, or cruelly separating mothers and their offspring, or needlessly slaughtering baby cows. And all adult dairy cows — on factory farms or small farms, organic or free-range–are mercilessly slaughtered after a brief life of involuntary servitude. Please read more about dairy cows here, and read more about humane farming practices here.

Isn’t Milk Important to Good Health?
Human beings are the only animals to routinely consume the mammary gland secretions of another species. We have no biological or nutritional need for any breast milk past infancy–much less the breast milk of another species. Though the facts on milk tend to get whitewashed, the truth is that cow’s milk is only nature’s perfect food if you’re a baby cow. Mother’s milk is species specific. (4) The composition of each animal’s milk has evolved over millions of years to perfectly meet the unique nutritional needs of the young of that species. Since a calf doubles its birth weight nearly four times faster than a human infant does, the concentrations of protein and calcium in cows’ milk are nearly four times higher than those found in human breast milk. If humans didn’t need the amount of calcium found in cows’ milk during our greatest time of bone growth – human babies double in weight in six months – then why would we need it as adults, after our bones have stopped growing? (5)

Osteoporosis
In fact, there is significant and consistent scientific evidence demonstrating that the animal protein in milk and other dairy products actually leaches calcium from bones. The 12 year long Harvard Nurses’ Health Study, based on 77,761 women, found that those who consumed the most calcium from dairy foods broke more bones than those who rarely drank milk. (6) Worldwide, the incidence of osteoporosis correlates strongly with animal protein intake. The countries with the highest consumption of dairy products (United States, Sweden, Israel, Finland, and the United Kingdom) also have the highest rates of osteoporosis-related hip fractures. (7)  
Here’s how milk causes calcium loss in bones: like all animal protein, milk protein acidifies the body’s pH, which in turn triggers a biological correction. The body’s natural response to over-acidification is to release stores of calcium, an excellent acid neutralizer. And the largest and most accessible repositories of calcium in the body are – our bones. Once calcium is pulled out of the bones, it is excreted in urine, so rather than increasing the body’s net supply of calcium, milk in fact decreases it. (8) Thankfully, there are many other (and much more healthy) ways to get calcium into your diet.

That’s Calcium.  Not Cowcium.
Despite what the dairy industry would have you believe, cows’ milk is not the only source of calcium; and it certainly isn’t the best source. In fact, the calcium in cows’ milk? Plants. Cows get calcium from plants. And so can you!  Here are a just a few great sources:
visual adapted from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Cancer
In the most comprehensive study to date on the relationship between diet and human health–The China Project– Dr. T. Colin Campbell found that casein, a protein found only in milk from mammals, is “the most significant carcinogen we consume.”  “What protein consistently and strongly promoted cancer? Casein, which makes up 87% of cow’s milk protein, promoted all stages of the cancer process. What type of protein did not promote cancer, even at high levels of intake? The safe proteins were from plants, including wheat and soy. As this picture came into view, it began to challenge and then to shatter some of my most cherished assumptions.” — Dr. T. Colin Campbell, author of The China Study
In addition to the casein hazard, most commercial milking cows receive antibiotics and are injected with a genetically engineered form of bovine growth hormone (rBGH). A synthetic hormone used to artificially increase milk production, rBGH also substantially raises blood levels of the insulin-growth factor 1 (IGF-1) in those who drink it. Higher levels of IGF-1 are linked to several cancers. (9)

Diabetes
There is increasingly strong evidence that type 1 Diabetes, the incurable form of childhood-onset diabetes that has baffled doctors for decades, is triggered by feeding cows’ milk to infants. (10)  Watch the brief clip below for a clear explanation of the relationship between milk consumption and diabetes. 


Cardiovascular Disease
Dairy products—including cheese, ice cream, milk, butter, and yogurt—contribute excessive amounts of cholesterol and saturated fat to the diet. Diets high in fat and saturated fat increase the risk of heart disease, among other serious health hazards. In two studies, hypertension—a known risk factor for heart disease—was greatly decreased among patients who avoided consumption of any animal products. Research consistently demonstrates that, in combination with exercise and smoking cessation, a low-fat vegan diet can not only prevent heart disease but may also reverse it. 

For more on the health risks of dairy, please visit:
http://pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/health-concerns-about-dairy-products
http://www.nealhendrickson.com/mcdougall/030400pudairyproductsfalsepromises.htm
http://milkmyths.org.uk/
http://pcrm.org/health/health-topics/cheese-facts-and-alternatives
And read for free Chapter 3 of Whitewash: The Disturbing Truth About Cow’s Milk and Your Health, a groundbreaking new book on the history of dairy consumption. In Whitewash, leading doctor and nutritionist Dr. Joseph Keon reveals how North Americans unwittingly sabotage their health by drinking milk. Citing extensive scientific literature, Whitewash builds an unassailable case that not only is milk unnecessary for human health, but its inclusion in the diet increases the risk of, or directly causes, many serious diseases, including prostate, breast and ovarian cancers, osteoporosis, diabetes, vascular disease, and Crohn’s disease.
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(1) Global Action Network, Cows
(2) USDA, Food Safety & Inspection Service Factsheets, Meat Preparation, Veal From Farm To Table
(3) Vegan Peace, Animal Cruelty, Dairy
(4, 5) McDougall, John, M.D. “Dairy Products and 10 False Promises”
(6) Goldschmidt, Vivian, “Debunking the Milk Myth: Why Milk Is Bad For You and Your Bones”
(7) McDougall, John, M.D. “Dairy Products and 10 False Promises”
(8) Goldschmidt, Vivian, “Debunking the Milk Myth: Why Milk Is Bad For You and Your Bones”
(9) Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine, Milk and Cancer Risk: PCRM’s IGF-1 Study
(10) Goldfarb, Marcia, “Relation of Time of Introduction of Cow Milk Protein to an Infant and Risk of Type-1 Diabetes Mellitus”
(11) Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine, “Health Concerns About Dairy Products”


Source: http://woodstocksanctuary.org/learn/our-health/milk-myths/

Talking to a Stone Buddha

 "Life does not start here when we are born, or end when we are dead.

And enlightenment is only the beginning.

The journey will continue,

full of wonder and miraculous encounters and discovery

for those who truly want to know

the miracle of life and the real love

from the universe and from your heart."

- Supreme Master Ching Hai

December 31, 2011

"Why Love One But Eat The Other" Ads Stir Controversy in Toronto Subway System

Toronto Vegetarian Association/via
They are pretty careful about who gets to put ads up in the Toronto subway system, and animal rights activists usually don't make the cut. But through September and October, subway riders have come face to face with a powerful campaign to convince people that if they like cute kittens and puppies, then they shouldn't be eating chickens and pigs. Kimberly Caroll, an organizer of the campaign says:

Pigs, cows and chickens are remarkable beings,” says campaign spokesperson Kimberly Carroll. “Cows will walk for miles to reunite with a calf after being sold at auction. Pigs have intelligence beyond that of a 3 year-old human. Chickens mourn the loss of their loved ones. We hope that in connecting with these animals and the grievous suffering that is behind every burger, omelette, and hot dog, people will be motivated to make more compassionate food choices.

I was surprised that the campaign got approved at all; Kimberly explained:

We ran a similar campaign back in 2009 on the TTC at about a quarter of the size of the current one. At that point the ad had to go through various levels of approval while we waited on pins and needles, but it was approved! This time around, it seems there were no concerns. We've been very impressed with the TTC for this. We believe this is the first animal rights campaign to run on the TTC.

Toronto Vegetarian Association/via
While the puppy and pig comparison is probably not a stretch for most people, the kitten and chicken one is probably a bit more difficult. But they make a case that chickens are "inquisitive, affectionate and personable."

British Vegetarian Society/via
It is not a new message, that animals are animals and it is crazy to treat one kind so differently from another; the British Vegetarian Society did it decades ago. But it is new, seeing it in Toronto plastered all over the subway, where the TTC says it will be seen by 5.7 million people every week. Kimberly says that it is effective; she is getting "several emails, posts, and twitters a day from folks saying they're going veg after seeing the ads."
More at Toronto Vegetarian Association


Courtesy of treehugger.com

Livestock's High Energy Costs

UN urges global move to meat and dairy-free diet

UN urges global move to meat and dairy-free diet

Lesser consumption of animal products is necessary to save the world from the worst impacts of climate change, UN report says

 

An cattle ranch in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The UN says agriculture is on a par with fossil fuel consumption because both rise rapidly with increased economic growth. Photograph: Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace

A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today.

As the global population surges towards a predicted 9.1 billion people by 2050, western tastes for diets rich in meat and dairy products are unsustainable, says the report from United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) international panel of sustainable resource management.

It says: "Impacts from agriculture are expected to increase substantially due to population growth increasing consumption of animal products. Unlike fossil fuels, it is difficult to look for alternatives: people have to eat. A substantial reduction of impacts would only be possible with a substantial worldwide diet change, away from animal products."

Professor Edgar Hertwich, the lead author of the report, said: "Animal products cause more damage than [producing] construction minerals such as sand or cement, plastics or metals. Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels."

The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern, former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change. Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has also urged people to observe one meat-free day a week to curb carbon emissions.

The panel of experts ranked products, resources, economic activities and transport according to their environmental impacts. Agriculture was on a par with fossil fuel consumption because both rise rapidly with increased economic growth, they said.

Ernst von Weizsaecker, an environmental scientist who co-chaired the panel, said: "Rising affluence is triggering a shift in diets towards meat and dairy products - livestock now consumes much of the world's crops and by inference a great deal of freshwater, fertilisers and pesticides."

Both energy and agriculture need to be "decoupled" from economic growth because environmental impacts rise roughly 80% with a doubling of income, the report found.

Achim Steiner, the UN under-secretary general and executive director of the UNEP, said: "Decoupling growth from environmental degradation is the number one challenge facing governments in a world of rising numbers of people, rising incomes, rising consumption demands and the persistent challenge of poverty alleviation."

The panel, which drew on numerous studies including the Millennium ecosystem assessment, cites the following pressures on the environment as priorities for governments around the world: climate change, habitat change, wasteful use of nitrogen and phosphorus in fertilisers, over-exploitation of fisheries, forests and other resources, invasive species, unsafe drinking water and sanitation, lead exposure, urban air pollution and occupational exposure to particulate matter.

Agriculture, particularly meat and dairy products, accounts for 70% of global freshwater consumption, 38% of the total land use and 19% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, says the report, which has been launched to coincide with UN World Environment day on Saturday.

Last year the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said that food production would have to increase globally by 70% by 2050 to feed the world's surging population. The panel says that efficiency gains in agriculture will be overwhelmed by the expected population growth.

Prof Hertwich, who is also the director of the industrial ecology programme at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, said that developing countries – where much of this population growth will take place – must not follow the western world's pattern of increasing consumption: "Developing countries should not follow our model. But it's up to us to develop the technologies in, say, renewable energy or irrigation methods."

4.5 Billion Year Old Masterpiece Faces Ruin

Earth - this 3rd rock from the sun was formed much in the same way as our sun and other planets in our solar system. Solar nebula, a gigantic cloud of dust particles and hot gases, with the main constituent elements of hydrogen and helium. As the nebula contracted our solar system was formed. During the contraction process the temperature cooled down. As a result of cooling, shrinking and rapid rotation, the outer part of the cloud got detached from the main body in the form of rings.

Each of the detached rings cooled and shrank further. Then, gradually they clustered together to form a globe. Over a period of time the temperature continued to decrease and the globe solidified into what was the beginning of Earth.

As the atmosphere of the Earth formed and stabilized over million of years, elementary life began as simple bacteria. These simple life forms gradually evolved over million and billion more years into complex life forms. And life continued to evolve and diversified into myriads of species of different shapes, sizes and complexities.

Earth has enjoyed millennia of evolution and is steaming with life; and ecosystem, species and genetic diversities. We may look at Earth now and admire the magnificent network of ecosystems and array of biodiversity. But yet, everything is interconnected and in balance until, we humans, disrupt nature's balance in the name of economic growth and progress.

This 4.5 billion year old masterpiece is under major threat, not from outer space, nor ETs (as portrayed in some high end, money making Hollywood imaginations), but from us - humans.

We have reached a planetary crisis with all the life threatening phenomena of global warming, food shortage, water scarcity, epidemic outbreaks and natural disasters. All this is the ramification of the livestock industry and we are partaking in our own demise by supporting it with our food choice of animal products.

This year we have seen some major catastrophes around the world, and more so towards the end of the year. This trend will continue in 2011 if we do not act quick by changing into a healthier and life saving vegan diet. The latest disaster is the volcano eruption in Indonesia, with 22 volcanoes active.