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Air What is the Wesak System & Festivals and Why is it in the Program? Year 1 Last Update: Introduction ψ Every religion has its key days. Buddhism is no different. Wesak also pronounced Vesak is Buddha’s Day. It is the most important day for those of the Buddhist faith. It is a sacred ritual for its practitioners that is celebrated annually on the full moon of the ancient lunar month of Vesakha, which usually falls in May, or in early June. On Vesak Buddhist celebrate the Enlightened birth of Lord Buddha Prince Siddhattha Gotama, at his 35th year when he became the Buddha and his final ‘passing’ into Nirvana at the age of 80. Buddha’s enlightenment meant that he would not be reborn ever again and he was off the wheel of Samsara. The Buddhist scriptures tell the three major events that occurred on a full moon of the Indian lunar month of Vesakha. They are his birth, his enlightenment, and his passing into Nirvana. According to tradition he was born in 623 BC and was calculated according to the Buddhist calendar which counted down from his final passing that was 80 years later. And the decision to agree to celebrate Vesak as the Buddha's birthday was formalized at the first conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists held in Sri Lanka in 1950, although festivals at this time in the Buddhist world are a centuries-old tradition. Siddhartha’s Early Life According to modern academic consensus Gautama Buddha was born 563–483 BCE as Prince Siddhatha Gotama in Lumbini (what is now Nepal) and raised in the Shakya capital of Kapilavastu. He was born into an aristocratic family in the Shakya clan. Growing up, the Buddha was exceptionally intelligent and compassionate. Siddhartha as a young man grew to be tall, strong, and handsome. He belonged to a warrior caste and was destined to be great. As such it was predicted that one day, he would become either a king or spiritual leader. Siddhartha’s parents were powerful and wanted him to become a mighty ruler for their kingdom. They believed that the best… -
Air How Well Do You Know Yourself and Why is this in the Program? Year 1 Last Update: May 18 2021 Introduction Ψ Part of being a successful Psion is not only acquiring and using the tools of the Psion, but also knowing where you are in life and determining which tools you need to navigate more effectively. This comes about through Self Knowledge. There is an ancient Greek aphorism "know thyself" (Greek: γνῶθι σεαυτόν, transliterated: gnōthi seauton) which is one of the Delphic maxims and was the first of three maxims inscribed in the pronaos (forecourt) of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi according to the Greek writer Pausanias. The two maxims that were "nothing to excess" and "surety brings ruin".. In Latin the phrase, "know thyself", is nosce te ipsum or temet nosce. So, we will use this maxim as the starting point for our studies and ask the question, “how well do you know yourself?” It seems that this is especially appropriate for a course on Psionics. The ability to take stock in one’s physical, emotional, mental and spiritual assets is the beginning not only of wisdom, but it is the start of you learning to co-controller, manifest and direct your Soul and Spirit energies in one’s life. Hopefully, you have read the basic contract between your Personality, your Soul and Spirit in the article entitled, “Year 1: Protection”. If not please go to https://www.psioniccircles.com/stage/year-1-protection/. In this article it talks not only about protection but for our purposes it gives us a brief outline of what is expected of you from your Soul and Spirit. So, this then is our very first step. You must know what is expected from your Soul and Spirit and then ask yourself “Am I currently fulfilling the Contract? To answer this question, you must take stock in yourself and in this unit, we will ask ourselves a series of questions geared to discover where we are in our lives on a number of levels. We will use the technique of journaling to document our progress. We will not be reading your Journal. …Year 1: Know Thyself: Self Assessment
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