Image 10 Bowie The Dharma Wheel

Expect the unexpected. What comes around goes around. Welcome to the realm of instant karma, also know as law of attraction. As we think, so we create. Our lives our not always about movement, but consciousness. Human beings don't always comprehend the nature of Changes. It's sometimes difficult to understand that changes reside within the spaces between action, pure-intention and behavior. Double-whammy if our intention are decietful! Have you just been goofing-around? Your lack of intention could lead to major purifcation. Changes are a process where there is a time for each shift to happen in adjustments. If purification is at hand, you will have to handle the changes in adjustments, on a moment-to-moment basis. We're often caught by surprise when it's time to "Turn and Face The Strange Changes"... But you have to keep rolling.

Human beings have seasonal cycles which hone-in on our animal instincts; we also have monthly cycles of movement and nonaction. It's important to pay attention to these. Women, especially, learn much by keeping track of their emotions and actions each day on a monthly calendar. In this way we can decipher our own rhythms and mood-swings. Men could do the same! In Tibetan Buddhism these phases are known as Bardo Phases. They are described as astral planes of peak experience: The Land of the Gods (pride), The Land of Jealous Gods (speed and jealousy), The Land of Humans (passion), The Land of Animals (ignorance), The Land of Hungry Ghosts (possessiveness) and The Land of Hell Beings (anger, fear and hatred). Thus, The Dharma Wheel. And it is here in these Bardos we experience the poisons of being controlled by jealousy, attachment, and ignorance. It is my heartfelt wish this oracle will guide and empower your being.

Life cycles repeatedly commit us to looking at our actions and the effects of those actions on others, what scientists refer to as cause-and-effect. With intention, we might be lucky enough to understand how this process brings to our lives more clarity! "Destiny" implies that there is some choice involved; whereas "fate" is random or ordained through mysterious illness. Yet, it is taught in many traditions, these things depend on cause-and-effect patterns, the Karma of our action and conscious awareness. The universe is a chaotic place, and yet we are the universe, with the universe within. This is your opportunity to become a Buddha.

Intention is the coin between the realms of cause and effect. Intention enables us to become adept at manifesting what we need, and in the most perfect timing. Be Pure. In this way, the past, present and future are made obsolete. There is no destiny.

What matters is the process; the Zen of the Here and Now.

"I'm terribly wary of this and I'll tell you why: the only reason is that I'm fighting furiously to keep it non-linear." - David Bowie; Raygun, Oct. 1995, on the conception behind the OUTSIDE cycle.

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