world healing day and burning bowl

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Hmm, pancit tastes good. I made sphaghetti. Or rather my yaya made the

spaghetti while I supervised the cooking and shooed the boys out of the

kitchen. There is something about pasta that brings out the kids in all of

us. I made pancit for Christmas and gave away pancit to my neighbors for

Christmas. Guess what we got for New Year? All kinds of sphaghetti from

the same neighbors I gave pancit to, so we still have an excess of pasta. I

trust that it can all be consumed by tomorrow. Tomato based mainly although

we have one small pyrex dish that's cream based. Sheesh -- I think I will

stick to vegetables and salads for the next few days..

I had a wonderful New Year, mainly. Did the Peace Meditation and Burning

Bowl with a friend. We sang the Prayer of St. Francis because for some

mysterious reason, our Catholic upbringning came out. We forgot the words

of the Peace Song and sang another peace prayer instead -- and the one we

could remember was the prayer of St. Francis. Very healing. Also went to

TOPPP in the evening. After the meditation and the toasting, we gave out

ampaos full of one peso coins. It was such fun. We stopped this group of

teenagers who were walking towards EDSA, and we were so pleased by their

happy faces. Then right in front of Don Bosco Chapel, we tried giving our

ampaos to two decent looking (read -- church-going type) men. They run

away! Oh well, we still had fun. We gave the ampaos to a vendor and to a

security guard who eagerly approached the car to receive our good luck

envelopes.

BTW, every day can be peace meditation day. Also every day can be a

burning bowl day. Also, you can still do your burning bowl ritual before

January 29-- this year's lunar new year.

Oh, and I haven't done my annual cleaning and clearing out. I usually do

that right before the lunar new year. If I don't get it done by the lunar

new year, I rationalize it by saying I can get it done by the Astrological

New Year. And if not -- there's still Easter.

But seriously speaking, it's great to do periodic cleaning/clearing out of

old stuff. It keeps the house orderly, and more importantly, it keeps the

energy moving. Any time would be a good time although, of course, it's

fun to go along with the new year rituals (gregorian, lunar and

astrological -- oh yes -- the church calendar -- Easter!).

Again, Happy New Year (Gregorian)!

Cheers!

In light and love,

> Message: 8

> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:13:41 -0000

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> Subject: Re: World Healing Day

>

> Did back-breaking cooking, andI didn't have to do the burning bowl

> anymore with all that steam.

>

> It's the first time I ever cooked pansit. And the cook still

> learned a lot from me! Since I don't use msg, I'm really so damn

> traditional about how to cook these things, it takes ages. Up to now

> I don't know how to use the pressure cooker. It's homemade quality

> with all the homemade goodness, spices, yummy smells, and it's

> surprisingly yummy. So that's my World Healing Day " burning bowl. "

>

> And with all these thoughts, it makes the food really taste good.

> But I have to say that since I don't measure the ingredients and

> sometimes I really don't keep track of what spices I'm putting in

> there, there's almost no way I could share the exact recipe.

>

> Happy New Year to you, Vicky! I can tell from here that the

> universe is up to something... Is that peace and prosperity I

> smell? It better be! Aaahaha!

>

> With all my love...

>

>

> Namaste,

> Sands

>

>

>

> >

> > Hi,

> >

> > Am just resending this message. I trust that all of you can tune

> in to

> > global peace.

> >

> > In light and love,

> >

> >

> > ----- Original Message ----- >

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