Earth/Heart Inner Light Celebration

May we celebrate the wisdom that illuminates from our heart and this earth. People all over are observing   this July 22^nd by showing gratitude to the teacher by their disciples. In both Hindu and Buddhist faiths celebrate the full moon day of worship known as Guru Purnina. For Hindu’s this auspicious day of Guru Purnima, observes the memory of their great sage Vyasa, who both wrote the Brahma Sutras and was born on this day.  Fittingly Buddhist honor this occasion since Siddhartha Gautama gave his very first sermon at this exact same time. May you celebrate your Guru. We all have the potential to be wise teachers if we find a Guru who helps us remember that we all possess this luminous potential.

May you contemplate that you are your own Guru. Quiet your mind and observe stillness similar to pure bowl of water. We are all Buddha's challenged to become lighter and less dense.  Just before Siddhartha's enlightenment Mara tested him with many tempting distractions. Gautama became AWAKE and as the Buddha touched the earth as his witness. Let us bear this same witness and touch our earth/heart. We all one and the same interconnected light awakening.  

This festival of honoring lunar light reflected by our sun reveals how a spiritual teacher similarly illmuinates their students.  When paying homage to the importance of one’s beloved Guru, known as the remover of darkness, the disciple benefits for keeping alive their inner lamp.  This ritual commemorates the Guru and the benefits of their wise teachings again and again. 

In India, Gurus are of supreme importance in helping their students transcend the chains of sorrow and death and become liberated by this profound experience of Consciousness. On this full moon please celebrate our evolving and higher self by our Immortal and individual connections. We all are illuminated by the reflection of this  cosmic lunar occasion.

Many blessings and truly, may you deeply touch the Guru that shines within and all around you! 

http://hinduism.about.com/od/festivalsholidays/a/gurupurnima.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Purnima