CooL huh Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Saturday, October 31, 2009

Ok, it is not really cool. 

No. 1 Not Cool List - No Touch Screen LCD:

'Cool' is when I am able to fully utilised Windows 7 with the touch screen monitor.  Geez, for now, touch screen is waaayyyy too expensive and the largest screen available is only the 17".  So, this is obviously the top 'Not cool' in my list.

Yay!!!

Somehow, I am excited with Windows 7.  In my case, it has been a long wait - I have always wanted to jump ship from XP to Vista [without the desktop gadgets] but never really ventured into it because of its initial bad reviews.  And more bad reviews when it was in its beta and RC stages.  The only thing I got close to Vista was to run the Transformation Pack.  Still, I am thankful to M$ for constantly upgrading its operating system.  Thankful that I had always been able to sit in front of my computer, surfing and doing stuffs, with such a good operating system.

When Windows 7 was launched on 22 October, I was prepared to make my way to Sim Lim Square to get a copy.  Yes, I was amongst the thousands.  The different between me and Amazon: Windows 7 Is 'The Biggest Pre-Order Product Of All Time'., I can only afford the OEM full retail version.  Yes, some people may say to wait a little longer is wise, to give this new product a little more time to get stable.  Yes, M$ will still provide the product support to Window XP till 2014/2015.  Still, I have waited a good two years [Vista was launched on Jan 30, 2007].

No 2 Not Cool List - Not 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate:

I got my OEM full retail version and, in my opinion, for a good price.  Guess, the market is still hot marketing Windows 7 and freebies are what attracted consumers.  The price that I paid was $255.  In return, I got a freebie worth $39 - I chose Microsoft Digital Media Keyboard 3000.  Doing the maths, my OEM only costs me $216 for the 64bit Windows 7 Professional.  What I had wanted was to get the 64 bit Windows Ultimate!

Windows 7 is also an excuse for me to pump in more RAM in my system.  It is good to see such a big number in your system when XP can't.  The 64bit version is a must.  It is the beginning of a better technology to extend virtual and physical address spaces, doubles the width and provides other enhancements.

Installation is a breeze.  It is fast!  In about 5 minutes, the system is running.  Other hardware drivers are automatically detected and installed.  But, of course, it is always good to install your hardware with the right manufacturer's version.  I am so 'wow' with its fast boot.  So 'wow' with its immediate responses.

One dreadful thing about Windows 7 is the missing Outlook Express.  I kinda like this old dedicated mail program.  Anyway, am now getting used to Windows Live Mail and, yay! was able - at last, to import all my messages.

No 3 Not Cool List - Not a Perfect 7.9 Performance Rate:

There are cool enhancements inside Windows 7.  I like the added accessories [improved Calculator, Sticky Notes, Snipping Tool to name few].  Can't wait to further tweaks this OS.  Unfortunately, Windows 7 is only giving me a 5.9 rating for my system -  hahaha, not cool lor.

Windows 7 Computer Rate

Still, where I am sitting today - since 26 October, thankful for what I have already owned.  Life has always been wonderful.

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God Bless Our Home Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Friday, October 23, 2009

One year on ....

Last year, on 20th October 2008, we moved out of Hertford Apartment [for more reading on this, click: As The Curtain Falls] to our new home.  We named her "Reiki Sanctuary".  "Reiki" as she houses the ability to heal and the highest intelligence towards understanding without ever depleting the universal life force energy; the physical earthly consciousness to connect us with all the universal abundance and enriching our spiritual divinity presence.

"The Artwork"

She is, and will always be, a "Sanctuary" that draws and to influence life to promote spiritual atmosphere for a peaceful life.  A life that will be constantly filled with everything good - in our temperament, in our attitude, in our mood and in all our intentions and emotions.

Reiki Sanctuary evolves the body and soul.  Of inviting good fortune.  Of gaining mystical revelations.  Of empowering knowledge and spiritual powers.  It is a home for a soul to live his day where just for today and every day to:

* Do not be angry
* Do not worry
* Be grateful
* Work with integrity
* Be kind to others and to yourself

It has been one complete year.  A full year that has filled us with memories that will last a lifetime.  A year that pitted us low with grief over the loss of our beloved Ruby to a new height of love and bonding.

I remember waking up that morning, for the last time in Hertford, grimaced with sadness.  I cooked Ruby's breakfast for that one last one early before the movers came.  I was crying.  It was sad to leave Hertford.  It was sad to leave a home that had given us so much life and hope for twenty years.

Thanks for the memory that does not fade in my heart, I wake up this morning almost exactly the same time a year ago.  Perhaps, subconsciously, I just want to embrace a memory that can't never be altered.  Perhaps, it is a way to wake up another morning but this time, it is all about creating new experiences.

We move into Reiki Sanctuary with renewed spirits to replenish life; restoring our vigor for prayerful intent in abundance of divine relational life.  To motivate us to live life through love to heal the heart, mind and emotions.  To engage in positive thoughts to create for a happier journey so that life shall be the cyclical cause of these cirucmstances.  Reiki Sanctuary today may be a little quiet without Ruby but the soul remains sacred.  It still inspires the perfect representation of our souls to love and to articulate appreciation, reverence, care, gratitude.  And peace.

Reiki Sanctuary has found that voice.  With her deepest appreciation for the world around us.  She has the elements of living, the essence of life evokes reflection and connection and to the wonders of life as a whole.  Beauty, of yet another life journey, is found here on these beautiful wonders of Reiki Sanctuary.

Just as I fill the rest of the day to pay attention to the many curves and lines that twist and cross to the wonders of events and things, the Universe conspires a new encounter.  What's a better way to start another year - and the many years ahead, with this email that I receive:

"We have nothing to lose.  They say whoever receives this buddha will receive an abundance of unexpected money or some very good news."

Abundance - Oh Yes!

(For the record, just in case there are people that would judge me, I am not a Buddhist. I honor the kind deed of a friend who emailed me this wishes, for he knows that I respect Buddha's teachings.)

One Year On -- Pictures Galore

The Two Faces of the Living Room

The Two Faces of Balcony

The Two Faces of The Dining Room

Aerial View of Master Bedroom

Aerial View of Master Toilet

Aerial View of The Study Area

The Two Faces of Our Guest Room

The Two Worlds - Split Images of Different Areas in Reiki Sanctuary

Aerial View of the Complete Kitchen

The Two Faces of the Guest Toilet

Chipz n nice - Our Collections

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Journey Home Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Monday, October 19, 2009

This is for my friends, ML and KC.

It was an unexpected twist for an eventful Saturday; the evening of 17th October was spent to uncover our journey.  The Journey Home.

Like the two of you, I am still warped with unexplained emotions.  Like the two of you, I am inspired too.  Like the two of you, "I love you" too. 

I am all tears reading your emails.  "Thank You" my friends.

It was a night, that wonderful night, bringing the three of us home.  In all appropriateness for the time and the energy of completion, that our journey home had been written to be spent that way.  It had taken us so long to rediscover.  Yet, it was better late than never.

We laughed.  We cried; ok I cried.  We labeled each other yet there was still just so much love and tenderness, connected in unspoken understanding.  Filled in invisible nuances of love.  We laughed even louder.  We let our naked souls to speak.  We were not ashamed.  We were not restricted.  And, we seriously and openly bared it all.  There was a complete exposure of our inner truths.

That same place, the same day of the week and same time where the scene of Entrapment took place about two months ago.  This time around, it was more profound.  We engaged in a marvelous ascension with honesty and integrity.  As you said KC, it was a reunion of soul mates.  We poured our hearty laughter accepting, and recognizing, our S-Factor that separated us from our peers.  It was such a beautiful symphony glowed with so much emotions.  Conducted in a divine orchestra with interdimensional attributes where so much intuitive energies were revealed.

We tied-up our loose ends.  We deserved to hear each other, one after another, and fitted into a balanced system.  Everything said and done with profound acts of love.  I was swamped with so much admiration.  The two of you brought upon your lights that sailed the night with an ascended vibration that fitted in very well for the three of us to see things better.  To sense the beauty of a reason to live.  It was a journey home of yin and yang, the dark and the light.

I felt honoured to be part of the big thing. 

The light house, and the divine life uniquely owned within the two of you, comforted the thought of death and my spiritual demise.  We made our transition and untangled all emotions that had been placed into our fabrics of life.  We laid and opened each others' path and formed yet another sacred geometry to our friendship.  Surely, it was not just a coincidence that had taken place that night, for opening a quest to our journey home vivid with the sacredness of free choice.  It was, as though, God was sitting amongst us that night giving little vignette and tiny snapshot of what will happen next.  What He did was to pour consciousness in our drinks and provided the energy of organization and form in such a peaceful and understanding veil of the evening.  Each one of you ascended to be an angelic being and wise teachers.

The lessons revealed within were truly revolutionary to our common way of thinking.  Our willingness to share, and the marvelous mindful of simple spiritual truths and insights of these two friends, have the power to change my life forever.

There was, and will be, just so much more to life as we unveiled our personal secrets.  The night just glowed.  A bright light was being lit.  In the invisible and silent entities of angels around, a choir sang a song that could be heard all over the universe.  What remained, three individuals were awakened.  A life would remain on this earth only this time to continue the journey.


The Journey Home

It has to be a journey, so we committed, a sacred one yet staple to the way things work.  We know that we will be walking through challenges, the drama, the difficulties, the denials, the lies but it would be a journey of divine consciousness.  It would be home with the potential of a perfect walk with God.  A brisk one with no ending.  Whatever life gives us, we shall take our light and transform it into what serves us and those around us.

My Gratitude

Now I know why you cried so much on The Journey Home, KC.  That Saturday oscillated our past and future and provided spiritual enlightenment of the changes we are facing.  Of knowing that God resides within us and that we are an eternal part of His universal plan.  Indeed, you were touched by His light.

I pray for you, M.  For that masterhood that is within you.  Your spiritual enlightenment is not about following any human being but the light within you.  You just have to passion play the consciousness.  Stay in your own integrity and don't look to others to define your beliefs.  The truth is that your divinity is within you.

I knew we went home knowing each one of us was sending blessings to one another.  Thank You for a night of honor, logic and divine purpose.  Thank You for the grace of your existence in my life.  Thank You for the essence of God which drives all (our) creation.  Thank You for being my brother and sister during the frontline of my battle.

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What's Next? Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Sunday, October 18, 2009

It is just a natural process.  It is just the nature of human mind.  It is just how many of us behave, or may want to act and function.  We seem to be trained, at our early age, to identify what we cannot have/afford/own/...... [fill in your own blank] - nor there would be a dire need, and decide we must have it regardless of what we have to do to get it.  As much as we want to be realisitic, our common sense often fails us. 

Somehow, we always manage to get it in our heads that we have to have whatever "things" to make our lives easier.  Never mind the fact that, even if we could get it, it will just sit in a corner collecting dust until we finally give it away or throw it out.

Is that so?  Is it that hard?  Is it easy for us to fall victim of our own prey?

We are, often, never happy with what we have.  Be it a material gain or an intangible material force.  Off what we have already come into possession or use of.  We have been programmed to believe that more is better.  We make our lives busy, ignorant of our frustrations and limitations, to chase dreams that we have lost touch with the reality of what we already have.  We conveniently choose not to live life in contentment with any acquired possession.  We want to be happy but, it seems that,  we do not strive to live in its essence long.

When we have money, no matter how much, we always want more.  When we have reached a goal, we have nothing but set and work for another.  We use a gain of successes to achieve happiness, and a degree of peace, which in fact is an emotion and not a success.   Guess, the saying "The heart of an old man remains young in two respects, i.e. his love for the world and his incessant hope" stays true.  We no longer believe that being happy with our lives is enough.

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.  We, unconsciously - perhaps, conveniently refuse, not look at what we have but at what we don't.  Instead of counting our own blessings, we count those of our neighbours.  Of our brothers and sisters.  Of our friends.  Of our colleagues.  Status, in society, appears to come with obtaining as much as we can get.

Our biggest problem with wanting what we cannot have is that we do not enjoy today.  We disregard the NOW and not living in our Present.  When tomorrow comes and we have gotten what we wanted yesterday, we will still not be happy because we want what we do not have that day as well.  It is just a vicious circle.  As soon as we have fulfilled one want, it is replaced by another.  We continuously looking backward thinking, at a very subtle consciousness, about the unhappiness and lack of satisfaction that filled our days.

We are often just ignorant as how to sustain an achievement.  To momentarily pause and keep in existence to enjoy.  To smell the rose a little longer and what it feels like to smell such a blossom.  To take stock of the positive of our own life with delightful invitation to further experience the bliss.  To be satisfied and then lessen our 'suffering' from insatiable desires.  To measure satisfaction by each breath, by smiles and laughter.  By lending a hand in need or teaching others.

There is nothing wrong to soar up the sky and lift our hopes high - and it should be encouraged.  Motivation is an evolution.  Acquiring new things is the real essence of progress.  We should look outside the box and explore more of ourselves to see if we are better at something else than what we are currently doing.  Our common sense should be our ally to dictate what we can and cannot afford.  Our conscience should guide us to what is sufficient and appreciate what is lacking.

Freedom and fulfillment of our soul take, to many of us, a lifetime to build.  Changing the dynamics of our mind require time, patience and a willingness to do things differently.  It takes our consciousness to become fully aware that will change the paradigm.

The key is in how we approach the acquisition of new things.  Planning and deligence are called for to enrich our lives.  We should not make things too easy to get new things without expending any effort.  Balance is what is needed.

I have lived a life in search for meaning.  For the purpose of life to be a life of purpose.  To lessen struggles to find what relevance there is to my existence.  To lay a claim to possess a greater understanding.  The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on earth.

I have no special talent nor do I claim to possess any special powers beyond those of a mortal man.  But, I have lived my life facing trials and experienced great joys.  I was born into this world with nothing and zero possessions and very little ability to communicate with anyone.

Many spiritual roads and modalities were brought to my attention.  Each guarantees to embrace my being with peace.  To walk a journey filled with enlightenment and oneness with the universe.  I would receive emails almost every week informing me of another 'new knowledge'.

A life without cause is a life without effect and that we must upgrade our life everyday.  We need to think of the benefits to fulfill our goals.  Each day is precious but it is how we would want to spend it that will make the difference.  Each and every moment in our life is for us to enjoy.  To be in happiness.  To be in peace.  Balance and harmony.

Should I forget to tell myself that one of the most important things in life is to be happy and to treat anything else that comes my way as a bonus, I would be searching the purpose endlessly.  Life is a great big canvas and I should throw all the paints on it.  But I have a choice.

Do I want to paint it all at once or do I want to spend an entire lifetime for a single imprint?  I cannot discover the purpose of life should I not spend time to reflect.  To constantly reflect upon what that I have painted, or done, is placing blessings to a life that is already filled with happiness.  To a life that is joyful.

Abundance will not multiply when there is no gratitude.  Another desire will not keep us at peace when we are not going to [learn to] appreciate.  A discrepancy will always be a conscious thought when we cannot accept between what we have and what we should have.

I learn to take a break from the constant upgrade cycle to take time to enjoy what I have now.  I remember the first time I wanted to upgrade my desktop computer.  I visualised a 'perfect' system.  I knew how much I wanted it to be.  I knew how much money I needed and planned out the ways I could earn enough to own it.  When I finally had it, the desktop computer was infinitely more meaningful to me when I had put so much effort into acquiring it.

I remember the first time my Spiritual Master wanted his students to take charge of all his teachings and to organize a seminar.  To him, it was the only way for us to learn.  To put what we thought we had acquired into conviction.  I learned to appreciate.  That was the only way I will ever get it right, of the things I possessed at that time, by asking and practicing it myself.

I will always want to remember to discover the purpose of life by asking myself.  Life is like a coin.  I can spend it in any way I wish but I only can spend it once.  The only thing that guarantees my success - peace, joy and happiness, is when I take my time to enjoy the things I acquire a little longer.  It is discovering in the quality that quantifies the harvest.

It is not us who are never satisfied, it is the nature of the human mind to be never satisfied for very long.  We always seem to choose to want more.  To be something else.  To go beyond.  Question is, are we going to slip our consciousness into a perpetual slavery?  Are we going to disregard awareness to risk a flowering season without even enjoying its fruits?

Rules For Being Human:

Rules For Being Human

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.. and i say, "Thank You For The Music" Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Monday, October 05, 2009

The first time I heard this invocating music, without knowing the essence of the song title (and my gratitude and appreciation to Pi), my tears just rolled.  Perhaps, then I was in search of a process to heal myself.  Perhaps, then I was manifesting for higher vibratory energy.

"Returning To Now" is an apt music weaving exotic voices and cross-cultural elements that perfected a balance point in my consciousness.  The song title is self explanatory.  A story written in the CD album:

A student came across a sage in the forest.

"Let us share some tea" said the wise elder.  And as they sat together, he began pouring.  Between rapid-fire questions, the student began to notice that his cup had filled and yet the sage continued pouring, threatening to soak his robes.

"Why do you keep pouring when my cup and saucer are full?" inquired the student.

Came the reply, "Why keep asking questions when your head is full?"

The first time I heard it, my heart, in the world of its own consciousness, released thought energies that liberated through the sacred sounds of the music; in its pitch, frequency and keynote, the world of illusions.  It amplified an energy of emotions in varied different states of consciousness to create resonance with specific attributes of divine energy.  It manifested different qualities from resonating my chakras to embodying compassion.

I may not exactly know the words but I was certain my Higher Self recognized this sacred sound.  It was a feeling, undoubtedly, at any given moment, the divine energy from which the universe and all of creation first manifested - it was the totality of all other sounds to me - related to the vital transformational energy to shift and changed that which had been created and preserved.

I sensed the tunnel of light that brought me to earth.  The cord of a birth vision, the creator and the creational process.  That beyond the mental and astral planes, it was the very essence of my existence.  The deep and powerful sound of the bass represents, in my consciousness, the different aspects of the trinity of my body, my speech and my mind.  It developed a simplified processing alternative.

This is one piece of music, at this point of my life, being played continuously during my Inner Dance meditation.  It just has the capabilities of resonating and aligning all my chakras - of cleansing imbalanced energies and purifying self.  It provides a bridge between my spiritual and physical dimensions and opening the way for inspirational contact with higher realms and beings.

The healing sound of the chimes symbolizes the supreme source, synonymous with the energy of peace.  It initiates peace and tranquility when it is listened to.
The healing sound of the tibetan bowl generates compassion.  Of a consciousness allowing people to attune and resonate with each other.

The healing sound of the bell triggers mystical path to the highest vibratory transcendence.  It is a feeling to God realization and enlightenment.  It opens a wide consciousness to the words, the sounds of animals, the wind in the trees, the rushing of water, the beat of my heart that it is everywhere, in every plane.

The healing sound of the sitar creates extraordinary energy for balance and clearing.  It is extremely powerful and transformative.

Interestingly, as I often experienced an elevated state of consciousness with this healing sacred music, it is only right that I should share it with others.  Particularly those with specific intention towards healing to bring the energy of the people together.  To use to assist in planetary healing.  To assist the creation of peace and harmony on earth.

How To Listen To the Music:

Find a quiet place.

Create your intention.

Sit or lie relax and 'Just Be' in your moment.  Be in The Now.

Play the music a little louder as to fill the room/space.

Project your intention as the music is played.

Keep the music in repetitive mode.  Play it throughout the meditation.

The Gift:

By itself, this music has its own extraordinary divine resonance.  It has the formula of both vocalization and visualization.  The rewards for manifestation.

You can project upon all the sounds, within this healing music, to amplify and making even more extraordinary for yourself the great healing gifts it can bring.

Returning To Now

Karunesh

About The Musician:
Karunesh, a German born NewAge and Ambient Musician

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Cherish Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Friday, October 02, 2009

03 October 1987: 
22 years ago, on this date, we decided on a journey.  It was a day where we took the choice to end the pursuit to happiness in life and making it a reality.  It became the beginning.  The birth of a shared vision to bring in the true nature of life to grow.  It is in our human nature to bond with another and, in the words of Aristotle, "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence".  We ended our ignorance and preoccupied our wants for matters of great importance.  Of a better quality of life that will bring us to the grave.

We deliberately, at our conscious level, sought out happiness within and never allowed to think it was just as an external acquisition.  Perhaps, we are soul mate and even if that was so, we learned to savour and appreciated the basic pleasures being a companion to each other.  For soul mates to survive, it must be mixed with a different set of ingredients.  It needed the realization through experiences for knowledge.  For passion.  There must be a burning desire to ease each other out from confusion, from pain and from sufferings.  We learned to achieve our unique virtures and strengths and employed them to enhance our lives.  All, because we wanted to find a deep sense of fulfillment for that meaningful life.

It reminds me so much the writing of Morris L West in "A View From The Ridge" on being full human - the journey that we wanted to walk this life, side by side:

"It takes so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment or the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace the world like a lover. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying."

I just love you because I do.  I can't change it.  I am thankful for all the patience and tolerance.  Above all, I am grateful that we desire to create mutual understanding to maintain peace and harmony.  To form a partnership of two individuals and that this partnership is enriched and enhanced when it allows our personalities involved to grow.

Indeed, we grew and developed gradually from understanding.  From true loyalty and not just sheer indulgence.  We provided a fine basis for development and taken delightful association, of two different individuals, to be nurtured.  To be free from loneliness and deprivation.  We strived to develop a complementary role, giving strength and moral courage to one another.  Each manifesting a supportive and appreciative recognition of the other's strengths and weaknesses in caring and providing for the quality of life we had been searching for.

I am in bliss with a partnership of equality.  Of gentleness.  Of generosity.  Of calm.  Of dedication.  Of pure sharing and trust.  Never that you asked how much you can get but how much you can give.  When my youth starts to fade away, you lay no emphasis but stayed true in your heart and mind, not in what you see.  Thank you for never neglecting me even in sickness.

We succeeded to stay true to the reality of wanting to be together.  Taken to harmonize our lives by minimizing whatever differences we may have between us.  To share all our pains and pleasures and consoling each other and minimized our grievances.  I am thankful that we have the strength to stay strong will power to reduce our burdens and misunderstandings.

John J Robinson, in his book "of Suchness" wrote:

"Somehow, when you find the right one, you know it in your heart. It is not just an infatuation of the moment. But the powerful urges of sex drive a young person headlong into blind acts and one cannot trust his feelings too much. This is especially true if one drinks and get befuddled; the lousiest slut in a dark bar can look like a Venus then, and her charms become irresistible. Love is much more than sex though; it is the biological foundation between a man and a woman; love and sex get all inter-twined and mixed up".

I am thankful that I just know that you are the right one.  And, I thank God that I met you not when I was drunk nor with a befuddled state of mind.

Today, I am praying for your health.  For peace within your heart and mind.  For all the joy that will always keep you company.

I am blessed to know, and have, you.  For the friendship, love, wisdom, joy, inner peace, wholeness, salvation, enlightenment.  A connection to the source of things.  And experience of the ground of being.

This is the song that used to accompany us:

Always

Atlantic Starr

.. and for the many more years ahead.
I just love you.

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