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…..STORIES. (Dedicated to Pearlie and to Gyalsey Tulku Rinpoche). PROLOGUE NAGA One day, as if out of nowhere, in the spacious waters of Blue Bay a great creature emerged from the deep. A Naga with scales of turquoise and gold, with flaming horns and two pointy fangs.   A Naga with claws like the talons of an eagle, and with radiant dark eyes.  It could see very far and was steadily sailing across the bay towards her… She concentrated her mind while fishing objects from the deep and was yet to notice anything outside of what she was attending to. She set the objects she'd retrieved from the sea out in front of her. A crumpled horn of a sheep.   A lucky Rabbit's paw.   An old fob watch.   A silver shoe horn. She was delighted to find objects she'd not found before.   Then every now and then she would toss something up into the air and catch it, but those were just sea sponges. The Naga stopped and stared at Fisher-Friend.   She was just about to catch a...

  Janice and I got back in touch a couple of years ago, after having worked together in Esperanto Rock Orchestra...30 years ago. We started this Mantra "cyberspace" project via the internet between Australia and Belgium when Janice sent me her vocals/sound files by e-mail! I then put together and recorded the backing tracks in Brussels and Patmos. And here are the results of our collaboration. All "nature" sounds (some have been processed) like rain, wind, sea, birds songs etc..I used in the tracks were recorded in Patmos   Music: Bruno Elevetoros Libert. Soprano: Diane Sutherland. Mantras: Janice Slater & John Paul Gilius. http://www.brunolibert.be/cms/h_universe_awakend.php 'May all beings be free of suffering & the causes of suffering. May all beings attain enlightenment'.  Beautiful drawings of mandalas by Diane Sutherland http://www.brunolibert.be/cms/h_madalas_d.php  

  Uploaded by LilaSakura on May 16, 2008 The secret words of the Joy Mantra on "dalieh du dalieh dulieh souha" is the Green Tara mantra of Tibetan Buddhism sung by Chinese artist Su Ching-yen. In Tibet "Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha" In Sanskrit "Oṃ Tāre Tuttāre Ture Svāhā" Tibetan culture, and some others, green is considered to include all the other colors. The practice of Green Tara helps to overcome fear and anxiety, but devotees also believe that she can grant wishes, eliminate suffering of all kinds and bring happiness. When called upon, she instantaneously saves us from eight specific calamities. (Another lineage describes 16.) The First Dalai Lama lists the 8, and interprets them as representative of corresponding defects, flaws, or obscurations: 1) lions and pride 2) wild elephants and delusions 3) forest fires and hatred 4) snakes and envy 5) robbers and fanatical views 6) prisons and avarice 7) floods an...