The Life of Gautama Buddha is the story of Prince Siddhartha's journey transcending the illusions of the world towards achieving Enlightenment, having truly awakened to the spiritual essence of creation, hence the name 'Buddha' which means 'The Awakened One'. 'The Life Of The Buddha' is a National Geographic Documentary about Prince Siddhartha Gautama who lived in India two and a half thousands years ago, and the events of his life which make one of the greatest stories ever told.



THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH

When the Buddha gave his first sermon in the Deer Park, he began the 'Turning of the Dharma Wheel'. He chose the beautiful symbol of the wheel with its eight spokes to represent the Noble Eightfold Path. The Buddha's teaching goes round and round like a great wheel that never stops, leading to the central point of the wheel, the only point which is fixed, Nirvana. The eight spokes on the wheel represent the eight parts of the Noble Eightfold Path. Just as every spoke is needed for the wheel to keep turning, we need to follow each step of the path.


1. Right View. The right way to think about life is to see the world through the eyes of the Buddha ... with wisdom and compassion.

2. Right Thought. We are what we think. Clear and kind thoughts build good, strong characters.

3. Right Speech. By speaking kind and helpful words, we are respected and trusted by everyone.

4. Right Conduct. No matter what we say, others know us from the way we behave. Before we criticize others, we should first see what we do ourselves.

5. Right Livelihood. This means choosing a job that does not hurt others. The Buddha said, "Do not earn your living by harming others. Do not seek happiness by making others unhappy."

6. Right Effort. A worthwhile life means doing our best at all times and having good will toward others. This also means not wasting effort on things that harm ourselves and others.

7. Right Mindfulness. This means being aware of our thoughts, words, and deeds.

8. Right Concentration. Focus on one thought or object at a time. By doing this, we can be quiet and attain true peace of mind.


Following the Noble Eightfold Path can be compared to cultivating a garden, but in Buddhism one cultivates one's wisdom. The mind is the ground and thoughts are seeds. Deeds are ways one cares for the garden. Our faults are weeds. Pulling them out is like weeding a garden. The harvest is real and lasting happiness.





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The new Native Instruments Traktor Pro is packed with all the interesting features from past versions customized in the easiest possible layout with no pages to switch between and with a whole lot of new super psychedelic effects you can add to your live mixes. You can also customize the font on the player as shown in the picture above of a screen shot (right click to open in a new window) with the Bada BoOm Font which is easily installed to the Fonts directory in Windows. You can choose from a variety of fonts at Da Font or at Urban Fonts.


Redesigned User Interface

The overhauled user interface is designed to make TRAKTOR PRO simple to read and use, even in extreme club environments. The new interface features:

• High contrast for low lighting scenarios
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• Intuitive grouping of features
• Condensed workflow via a simplified structure
• GUI fully adapts to screen size
• Extra large display of selected tracks

Stunning Effects Section

TRAKTOR PRO comes with a brand-new, super-hot effects suite, featuring 20 new effects built using Native Instruments' ground-breaking REAKTOR technology. These are exclusive to TRAKTOR, and range from traditional delays and reverbs, to wild and unique tempo synced effects.

The suite includes:

• Flexible FX routing of two independent FX slots
• Chaining of up to three effects per slot
• Maximum of 6 FX on one deck + filter
• Choose between one-knob Easy Control or "pro" mode
• Storable FX parameter defaults
• Automatic syncing of tempo based FX
• Additional individual high quality filters on each mixer channel combinable with external DJ mixer

Sync Reloaded

TRAKTOR PRO delivers a new level in sync functionality, providing DJs with more accurate, more reliable and more convenient features, such as:

• Auto beat grid – super accurate beat grids are generated automatically when the track is first imported into your collection
• Sync Lock - once tracks are synced in the mix- they stay that way. Sync lock ensures no beat drift between tracks
• Automatic master tempo detection – play with 4 decks and numerous FX with everything perfectly synced automatically

Cover Artwork And Crate Flick

The browser has also been enhanced in TRAKTOR PRO. It's now easier than ever to manage you collection and instantly find the right track for your set. TRAKTOR PRO's browser now features:

• Crate Flick - visually flick though your collection using cover artwork seeing up to 20 artworks at the same time at high speed
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• Import artwork for file types that usually do not support cover artwork, such as WAV and AIFF

Industry Standard Workflows

TRAKTOR PRO has been designed with the needs of professional DJs firmly in mind. In this respect, a number of workflows have been integrated into the software that will be familiar to users of industry standard DJ equipment.

• Play, cue, jog wheel control, hot cues loop setting and adjusting behave in the same way as leading CD decks
• FX inserts in the mixer
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• Improved file management, incremental search, supporting all file types

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The AUDIO 2 DJ fills the need for a high quality, ultra-mobile audio interface for digital DJs using TRAKTOR or other DJing and performance software. Even though it's the smallest DJ USB soundcard in the world, it still has enough punch to rock the world's biggest clubs!

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Fully working build 1.1.1 of Traktor Pro/Scratch Pro with patch by UNION

Install notes:

1. Install NI Traktor Pro.
2. Do NOT start Traktor Pro after install.
3. Copy the file "Patch Traktor Pro"/"Patch Traktor Scratch Pro" to your install folder.
4. Start the patch, once done uninstall Native Instruments service center and you're good to go.
5. Start mixing!


Note : (For Vista users : Right Click and run the patch as Administrator !)

For Windows : Native.Instruments.Traktor.Pro.v1.1.1-UNION.rar

For MAC OSX : Native.Instruments.Traktor.Pro.v1.2.4.MAC.OSX-UNION

Please do let us know if the above links work fine ...


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Native Instruments Traktor DJ Studio 3.2.2

"What on Earth? — Inside the Crop Circle Mystery" an award-winning feature-length documentary film, has just been released on DVD.

A long time producer of events and projects having to do with our consciousness and our worldview, filmmaker Suzanne Taylor tracks her interactions, in England, over six summers, with an international community of visionary artists, scientists, philosophers, mathematicians, educators, writers, and farmers who marvel at crop circles.

The superstars of the film are the circles, which remain an unexplained global phenomenon that has puzzled humanity for centuries — the photography is awe-inspiring. A question that’s addressed by the interviewees is why something so startling and spectacular is largely ignored.

Circle enthusiasts, who converge in England every summer to go circle-chasing and indulge in circle analysis, talk about why they are so taken by this phenomenon. Evidence is presented that challenges the idea that all the glyphs are made by people, and the motives of hoaxers, who make some of the formations, is a subject for speculation. Interviewees also give viewpoints about who or what is delivering the formations that can’t be accounted for as coming from people, and why they are being created.

“The most startling revelations we get from the circles come from their shapes,” says a character in the movie. “Mathematical information encoded in them delivers a virtual curriculum in number and geometry.” Also, the circles are looked at as art, as instigators to reexamine ancient knowledge lost to a culture that has become separated from nature, and as coming from a source that is aware of us and delivering patterns that point to events on Earth as well as in response to whims and wishes of individuals and groups.


In the film, people speculate about what the effect would be if it were officially declared that the circles aren’t being made by people. “If that happened,” says Taylor, “it would get us thinking as one humanity in relation to ‘the other,’ which would be the best position from which to work cooperatively to solve the problems we all share.” Questions also are raised as to whether, if were we open to circle makers who come from elsewhere, they might offer advanced technologies to help us as we run out of resources and heat up the planet.

The DVD of What on Earth? also contains outstanding bonus material. It includes commentary by researchers about their favorite circles; an alternative opening that delivers more information about the filmmaker; a moving eulogy about Pulitzer Prize winner, John Mack, a Harvard psychiatry professor who was enamored with the circles and is in the film; a music video of a crop circle song that’s in the soundtrack of the movie; and a gorgeous montage of circles.

After a preview screening in February, at the UFO Conference in Laughlin, Nevada,What on Earth? garnered the award in the conference film track for best feature documentary. In April, the movie was the only film shown at the X-Conference, in the Washington, DC area. The X-Conference is an annual gathering to address the politics and implications of the UFO/ET issue: exopolitics. Taylor will take the film to England, in July, for a screening at the Glastonbury Symposium, a major crop circle conference that’s held yearly.

It is the filmmaker’s hope that those in power turn their attention to the phenomenon to examine the available evidence. With our fingers in the dike to solve the pressing problems that challenge us on planet Earth, her hope is that the announcement of the reality of an ET engagement with us will shift the worldview that holds all our problems in place.

" What On Earth ? is an 81 minute feature documentary chronicling my interactions, in England, with members of the lively community of visionary artists, scientists, philosophers, geometers, educators and farmers who have been profoundly touched by the crop circle phenomenon. It deals with how our scientific materialistic worldview hampers serious investigation of a great mystery of our time, and how knowing the circles come from another intelligence would help us think as a planet to solve the problems that challenge us now. "

- Suzanne Taylor

'Seeds Of A New Understanding by Suzanne Taylor'

We human beings are no accident; a fine-tuned construction allows our physicality to be. What mind designed us? And what accounts for artifacts produced long ago via technologies more advanced than our own? These mysteries are no greater, however, than what is occurring in present time, as an unseen presence is signaling us. It is making crop circles.

All you have to do to be convinced that these impressions are being stamped into our reality from another one is to study these "events" that have been occurring for years in crop fields all over the world -- and in rice paddies, crab grass, iced-over rivers and more. Tracks from the likes of the Pyramids and Stonehenge have led to these formations, which are communicating in our languages of science, mathematics, art and philosophy, bespeaking a common source for us and them.

The crop circles, to those with eyes to see, look like placeholders for the awareness that lies beyond the miracle of our self-consciousness. With our world at an ecological brink, and humanity in desperate need of vision for that next reality, would it not behoove us to investigate the possibilities inherent in modern-day mysteries to help us to see further? With the crop circles, it is possible that all we need is an appreciation for their extraordinary artistry, their technical wizardry, their inspired choice of canvases, to link with them in the very intelligence that created us both.

As Marianne Williamson says, in a widely quoted passage from A Return to Love:

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

The Circle Makers could be trying to boost us to "the glory of God that is within us," in running their beautiful rings around us all.

You can sign the Crop Circle Petition : "A Call For an Investigation of What is Known About Crop Circles" here !


References :

• What On Earth The Movie
• Mighty Companions : Crop Circles
• The Conversation

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"Living Luminaries : On The Serious Business Of Happiness" is an inspiring motion picture featuring the deep spiritual insights of the consciously evolved A-list of stars in the Cultural Creative movement. Here are some of the people that you will meet in "Living Luminaries" :

Best selling authors such as Marianne Williamson, (A Return to Love, Illuminata), Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now) , Don Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements), Gary Renard author of (The Disappearance of the Universe), Matthew Kelly (Seven Levels of Intimacy) and many more Luminaries.


Religious and spiritual leaders such as Nachum Shiffren (The Surfing Rabbi), Rev. Robert A. Schuller (of the Crystal Cathedral), the Venerable Tibetan Lama Chodak Gyatso Nupka, Michael Bernard Beckwith, Don Jose Ruiz, Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey, Dr. Harry Morgan Moses.

Outspoken advocates of civil rights, Geronimo Ji Jaga (Black Panther – aka. Geronimo Pratt), contemporary thinkers and enlightened teachers such as Obadiah S. Harris, Ph.D. (of the University of Philosophical Research), PhD Robert Frager, Rabbi Yitchok Adlerstein of Loyola University and Rev.Dr. William S. Epps.


Living Luminaries has been called "the deepest film ever made" with well known "Luminaries" who address god, purpose, and cover most of the world's religious and spiritual schools of thought. A must-see for any conscious promoter of peace, forgiveness, self realization ... seeking answers to questions about why we are here and how we can find true purpose and happiness.



Our young seeker’s journey reaches some of the foremost, most inspirational individuals of our day. Change your life, Now, and join him on the journey...


Source : The Living Luminaries


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