若田宇宙飛行士が撮影したアイソン彗星
50万年かけてやってきたアイソン彗星。
太陽の熱で崩壊されたか一部はかろうじて残ったのかと思われていますが・・
NHKでは、アイソン彗星が
最もよく見えると期待されていた
12月4日に午後7時30分からNHK総合で
「NHKスペシャル 遭遇！巨大彗星アイソン」を
生放送する予定でした
でもアイソン彗星が
あんなことになってしまったので急きょ、
「宇宙生中継 彗星爆発 太陽系の謎」として
放送されることになったみたいです
当初は国際宇宙ステーションの若田光一宇宙飛行士との生中継で、超高感度4Kカメラを使ってアイソン彗星を撮影するはずでしたが
崩壊前の彗星や
美しい地球の姿はVTRで放送して
生中継では
夜の地球の絶景を届ける内容に変更するのだそうです
若田宇宙飛行士の撮影する地球がとても楽しみですね。
知人のKさんは、若田宇宙飛行士が
選抜された年の試験で最終試験まで一緒でそれから若田さんと友達付き合いをしている人です。
彼から聞いた話だと、
ヒューストンの若田さんの自宅に泊まらせてもらっていた時に
トイレに行こうと深夜に廊下を通ると
若田さんの部屋に明かりがついていたそうです。
来るべきミッションに備えて若田さんがお勉強をしていことを、Kさんは翌朝、知りました。
昼間は日本から来たKさんを
もてなしながらもちゃんと
学習の時間を取っている若田さんに
知人は、やっぱり彼にはかなわない・・・と思ったそうです。
ドラゴンユウコは仕事で
若田宇宙飛行士とお話したことがあります。
若田さんは穏やかでとても優しい方でした。
若田さんの友人で私の大好きな宇宙飛行士の最新情報もいただいたなぁ
話すときに一回だけ見せた鋭い目つきが印象深く残っています。
今回、若田さんはISSのキューポラという
観測用モジュールから撮影するそうですが
そのキューポラについてもお話をしました。
また機会あったら宇宙の事いろんなことを若田さんとお話してみたいと思うドラゴンユウコでした
チョプラ博士の21日間メディテーション Desire and Destiny 18日目、19日目です。
https://chopracentermeditation.com/
Desire and Destiny 18日目
あなたの中から
きみには描けないよというささやきが聞こえてきても
なんとしても描き続けなさい。
そうするとその声は静かになるでしょう―フィンセント・ファン・ゴッホ
Mindful Moment:今日は、あなたが本当に心から楽しめることをしてみましょう。
お昼時間や仕事が終わった後、
同僚とバスケットボールをしたり、
噴水に足をつけてみたりするような楽しいことに挑戦してみてください。
何をしようとも、
自分の遊び心を自由に楽しみながら
あなたの内側でどのような感じが広がってくるのかを感じてみましょう。
Day 18 Creative Me
“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” Vincent Van Gogh
“How often have you had the experience of struggling to remember a person’s name only to have the name effortlessly revealed to you when you were engaged in something entirely different? The same thing happens when we wrestle with our minds for ideas or solutions. Once we let the challenge go and engage in something that frees our minds, the lightning bolt strikes!
This is the value of play. Play opens the pathways for creativity to flow freely. When we are engaged in play, we connect with the heart, rather than leading with our minds. As we access the essence of pure potentiality, transformative ideas and solutions come to us spontaneously, and we are boundlessly creative.”
Mindful Moment “Take some time today to engage in a playful activity that you really enjoy. Challenge some colleagues to a pickup basketball game at lunch or after work. Walk with your friends, or dip your feet into the office-park fountain. Whatever you choose to do, allow yourself to enjoy the freedom of playfulness and notice what unfolds.”
Centering Thought: “I play. I create. I succeed”
Sanskrit Mantra: “Om Bhavam Namah – I am absolute existence. I am a field of all possibilities.”
Oprah: “Welcome to day 18, Creative Me. Just as we all have a teacher within, within each of us is an artist. A dreamer. A creator. Creative inspiration, truth and destiny are all revealed when our lives are in balance and in flow. Giving yourself permission to rest, play, to let your heart and mind rejuvenate is a must in order to realize your greatest potential. Its when we let go, absorbed in a moment of pure play, relaxation, connection with nature, laughter, life or people, that the messages of the universe rise up to meet us. When we become open and receptive, we create pathways where there were once closed doors. There is so much power in knowing that our lives are ours to co-create. So take a deep breath and relax into today’s mediation as Deepak encourages us to cultivate our creativity through pure, simple joy.”
Deepak: “Rest and play are not luxuries. It is part of our destiny to simply be. It is becoming more understood that play, rest, rejuvenation and celebration cultivate and inspire some of our best ideas. When we are relaxing and playing, we are engaged in the here and now and more open to the ideas that come to us from pure consciousness. When we let go and have fun, we release all sense of ego and all the ‘shoulds’ that can creep into our lives. Opening the door for the creative spirit to flourish. Play is so important in helping us find our true purpose in life. When we dance through life like children, engaged in activities that truly delight us, we open our minds and hearts to the essence of pure consciousness. When we play, we lose all track of time and are absorbed completely in the present moment. Our best creative ideas come to us when we are delighted. Our minds are free to roam and explore. We are wide open and the world is at our feet – ours to enjoy.
Rest is equally important. As a society, we tend to be chronically sleep deprived and sometimes even proud of it since it indicates a busy life and total dedication to our work. But true dedication requires balancing the brain for optimal performance which includes rest in the form of sleep, and spending time in meditation. Connecting with the stillness of meditation, playfully engaging with nature, life and those around us, and making sure that we get adequate sleep are the perfect recipe for self-care. These practices recharge and revitalize us, paving the way for creative inspiration and truth to enter our lives.
As we settle in for meditation, let’s consider the centering thought, I play, I create, I succeed. I play, I create, I succeed.
Please take a comfortable seat and close your eyes. Place your palms up or down on your lap, inhale and exhale slowly and deeply and feel your body relax. Begin to introduce the mantra, repeating it mentally. Om Bhavam Namah. I am absolute existence. I am a field of all possibilities. Om Bhavam Namah. When you feel distracted by thoughts, noises or sensations in your body, just go back to repeating the mantra silently to yourself. Om Bhavam Namah. Continue meditating for about 10 minutes. Then release the mantra and become aware of your body. Take a moment to rest. When you feel ready, you can open your eyes.
Throughout the day, pay attention to how your body feels, taking adequate time for self-care and focus on our centering thought. I play, I create, I succeed. I play, I create, I succeed. I play, I create, I succeed.
Namaste
Journal Questions:
1. “How do you like to play? What are the activities that are fun and exciting for you? How do they make you feel? Perhaps there is something fun and exciting that you have been longing to try. Consider scheduling that activity into your week.”
2. “Write yourself a self-care plan for this week. How can you take good care of yourself? What things can you plan to incorporate into your week that nourish and fuel you?”
3. “What are you grateful for today?”
4. “Reflect further on today’s experience.”
Day 19 Blissful Me
喜びとは、魂を捕まえられる愛の網なのです―マザー・テレサ
“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” Mother Teresa
“Today we will spend time reconnecting with our true bliss, that part of ourselves that many of us will best remember from childhood. Think about what it was that brought you the greatest joy, that made time fly, and that you could do forever without a care in the world. That is bliss.
While our childhoods may be behind us, our opportunity to reconnect with our bliss is right in front of us, ours for the taking. When we find ourselves engaged in the activities and with the people who make our hearts sing, we are grounded in the present and deeply connected to pure Spirit.”
Mindful Moment “Spend a moment today connecting with bliss in an everyday moment. When you are eating a meal or taking a shower, practice acute mindfulness and allow yourself to experience this activity with all of your senses. Do this as slowly as you can, delighting in the smells, tastes, textures, colors, and sounds. What do you notice? Note how you feel after you spent time in this way. How does bliss feel in your body? “
Centering Thought: “Joy is my highest purpose.”
Sanskrit Mantra: ｖSat Chit Ananda – Existence, Consciousness, Bliss”
Oprah: “Welcome to Day 19, Blissful Me. Perhaps the most universal urge that we all share is to be happy. When we connect to our true purpose in life, to what we’ve come to the planet to do, we get to live our lives in service and bliss. What does that mean – to truly feel blissful in our lives? Bliss is an all-encompassing state that we all have access to at all times. It is the holding space for joy – or happiness – and peace inside us all. When we lay down the burden of trying to be anything other than exactly who we are, bliss comes to us effortlessly. When we identify and follow what makes us happy, we understand our highest purpose and abundance in all forms comes back to us when we accept that purpose, follow our unique path and share our gifts whole-heartedly. Be in bliss, delight, in stillness, and let Deepak guide us in today’s meditation.”
Deepak: “Nothing is more important in life than reconnecting with our bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is as real. So what, exactly, is bliss. Spiritually, bliss is considered to be an infinite state that lives within each of us at all times. When cultivated, it can be experienced outwardly through happiness and laughter, and also as a quiet sense of deep calm, stillness and peace inside. What does it mean to reconnect with our bliss? Noted author, JK Rowling said of herself, ‘the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for a while is just bliss’. Spending time going within ourselves to find those things that bring us deep joy helps us rediscover those activities that make us happy at our very core and are our real purpose for living. This knowingness is bliss. What is your bliss? What is it that you love to do that it gives you so much joy that time simply flies and your heart takes wing. When we reconnect with our bliss, we are truly in the present and tap into pure consciousness. Experiencing Spirit in this way, we feel abundant love and happiness. We can’t help but want to share this joy with others. When we are happy, we are delighted to use all that we have to serve the world. As we bring happiness and abundance in to the lives of everyone that we meet, that happiness, success and abundance come back to us like ocean waves, gently rolling out to sea and rushing back to shore. When we live our lives in bliss, in harmony with the universe, a world of infinite possibilities opens to us. And abundance is our natural reward. We realize that what we have been born to do, what makes us happiest, is also the best way to joyfully serve everyone around us, which brings us every good thing in life.
As we begin our meditation, contemplate today’s centering thought, Joy is my highest purpose. Joy is my highest purpose. Now get comfortable and close your eyes. Relax your hands and your whole body as you bring your attention to your breath. Start to introduce the mantra, repeating it silently to yourself. Sat Chit Ananda. Existence, consciousness, bliss. Sat Chit Ananda. If thoughts, noises, or sensations in your body distract you, just gently go back to repeating the mantra. Just mentally. Sat Chit Ananda. Continue with your meditation for about 10 minutes. Please let the mantra go and bring your awareness into your body. Take a moment to rest. As it is comfortable for you, open your eyes.
Throughout the day, pay attention to your thoughts around the blissful nature that is you and focus on our centering thought. Joy is my highest purpose. Joy is my highest purpose.
Namaste
Journal Questions:
1. “We are each unique and experience the world our own way. Take time to write about what bliss looks and feels like to you. Describe a time in your life when you felt bliss.”
2. “How can you cultivate bliss in your life today?”
3. “What are you grateful for today?”
4. “Reflect further on today’s experience.”
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