Penggunaan Kertas Sembahyang

Penggunaan Kertas Sembahyang

Diwariskan oleh Maha Mula Acharya Liansheng

Disampaikan oleh Vajra Master Lian Ji

Bila tidak enak badan, berdiri di depan pintu utama rumah sambil membawa tiga batang dupa serta menghadap ke arah keberuntungan bagi shio masing-masing.

Memohon kuasa dan campur tangan Para Buddha maupun para Suciwan , supaya penyakit dan rasa sakit dilebur ke angkasa sunya, demikian juga dengan semua rintangan dan bencana.

Dimulai dengan:

1. Kertas Tujuh Buddha, (qi fo jin zhi ). Manusia pada umumnya mempunyai karma warana bawaan yang datang dari avidya, karma warana ini akan menjadi berbagai rintangan dalam kehidupan kita, sehingga usaha positip apapun yang kita lakukan selalu mendapat halangan, untuk itu kertas ini dipakai. Kertas ini sebaiknya dibacakan dengan dharani Ta Pei Cou atau Maha Karuna Dharani 7 kali.

2. Kertas Cintamani (ru yi jin zhi) bermanfaat memperlancar segala usaha duniawi terutama usaha bisnis agar dapat mencapai hasil optimal sesuai kehendak kita, biasanya dibacakan mantera Bunda Emas: 'Om Jinmu Siti Hum'.

3. Kertas Wangsen/Penyeberangan Arwah dibacakan ” Om Ha Ha Ha Wei San Mo Ye Soha” berguna untuk menghapus karma buruk masa lalu dosa pembunuhan, menolong para leluhur terlepas dari alam penderitaan dan mendapat manfaatnya. Juga agar pelaksanaan usahanya berkembang, badan jasmani dan rohani sehat semua masalah dapat teratasi.

4. Kertas Rezeki 4 Penjuru berguna untuk menambah/mengobati Tutikung (Dewa Bumi) yang lagi lemah energi-Nya/sakit.

5. Kertas Penyembuh Penyakit (chu ji jin zhi) untuk tolak bala dan penyakit, manusia pada umumnya tidak luput dari penderitaan sakit yang amat mengganggu kehidupan sehari-hari, kertas ini membantu mengikis karma buruk penderita penyakit serta mengembalikan kesehatan kita.

Semua kertas dibakar, diperabukan untuk para Makhluk Suci. Kertas Penyembuhan juga diambil secukupnya untuk dibakar di atas lantai dan dilangkahi tiga kali (bolak balik dihitung satu kali, dan membalik tubuh harus balik kanan – sesuai arah jarum jam).

Maka penyakit akan segera membaik, ini yang diwariskan oleh Mahaguru. Hari ini kita semua berjodoh, metode ini bisa membantu banyak orang, yang paling utama adalah kita harus berterima kasih pada Guru.

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Historic mosques, Ramadhan traditions

Ramadhan brings with it not only the obligatory month of fasting, but also various optional rituals like tarawih (evening prayers).

In Surakarta, Central Java, practically all the old and historic mosques are more crowded and livelier, from the fast-breaking hour to the evening.

Mosques like Masjid Laweyan, dating from 1546; Masjid Agung Surakarta, dating from 1763; and Al Wustho Mangkunegaran from 1855 — which are quiet most of the year — regain a lost dynamism during Ramadhan.

Worshippers from Surakarta and nearby towns like Sukoharjo, Karanganyar, Sragen and Wonogiri swarm the city’s mosques, with old mosques also uniquely managing the optional ceremonies and traditions of Ramadhan like tarawih, khataman (reciting the Koran by heart) and iktikaf (staying in a mosque for worship) in the last 10 days of the fasting month.

“During Ramadhan, I always join tarawih at Masjid Agung. This is the court’s heritage and believe it or not, we’ll be blessed,” said Prasojo, who came all the way from Kismantoro in Wonogiri, more than 90 kilometers from Surakarta.

Tarawih in the mosque of the Kasunanan Court of Surakarta features two groups with different modes of worship, one applying 11 rakaat (prayer ritual movements) and the other 23 rakaat. 

“When performing isya [obligatory evening prayers], the entire congregation is under one imam. After that they separate for tarawih with their respective imams,” said Masjid Agung executive chair H. Slamet Aby. 

The two groups occupy separate rooms in the mosque and usually the 23-rakaat group begins their tarawih earlier, followed a bit later by the other group. The volume of the speakers is adjusted so neither group disturbs the other.

“This is a tradition of pluralism and tolerance at this mosque that has gone on for decades. It began in the 1980s,” said Slamet Aby, adding that originally those that performed 23 rakaat were more numerous. 

In 1983, K.H. Muthohar Al Hafidz, head of the Ta’fid Wattaqlimil Qur’an Islamic boarding school in the mosque complex, separated the groups. “It’s tolerated as long as no Islamic law is violated as a reflection of solidarity and mutual respect,” he said.

The separation is only during tarawih, after which the two gather again for tadarusan (group readings of the Koran). 

“I’ve joined tarawih here for ten Ramadhans and everything has been fine,” said Suratman, a Wonogiri resident and 11-rakaat adherent.

Historic: Masjid Al Wustho Mangkunegaran in Surakarta was built during the reign of Mangkunegoro I.Ramadhan in Surakarta’s oldest mosque, Masjid Laweyan, also has a unique feature. The mosque, built in 1546 during the time of the Pajang Kingdom, is a pilgrimage destination. It is said that the religious experience of Surakarta residents is not complete until they have visited the tombs behind the mosque. 

In the royal cemetery are the tombs of Ki Ageng Henis, a forebear of the Mataram kings, and Mataram sovereigns, consorts and relatives like Pakubuwono II, the consorts of Pakubuwono V, Nyi Ageng Pandanaran, Nyi Ageng Pati and Prince Widjil I Kadilangu. 

Unsurprisingly, the mosque and cemetery located on the fringes of Laweyan, known as a batik center, is always crowded with pilgrims during Ramadhan. Devotees practice ascetic acts and bring offerings like incense and petal water to the tombs. 

“Aside from regular people, some officials and public figures also come here for blessings. They seek marriage partners, rank promotions and recover from illnesses,” said mosque and graveyard caretaker Nur Amin Mahmudi.

At night, particularly on Thursdays, the mosque — which has distinctive Hindu-Javanese architecture — is increasingly packed by those performing iktikaf, the number growing as the end of Ramadhan nears. 

At prayer: Tarawih or Ramadhan evening prayers are performed at Masjid Agung Surakarta.“In the last 10 days of the fasting month, all the doors leading to the main building of the mosque will be opened for iktikaf,” Nur said.

Masjid Al Wustho Mangkunegaran is marked by its khataman tradition. Every evening during the fasting month, the voices of people reciting the Koran can be heard from the mosque built during the reign of Mangukunegoro I and renovated by Thomas Herman Karsten in 1878. 

The recitations begin before fast-breaking and continue after tarawih until midnight. 

“Some groups engage in khataman for a week, others do it for two weeks and still others for a month,” said Masjid Al Wustho executive H.M. Thoha Musthofa. Over the last five years, 40 to 50 people have joined the Ramadhan recitation at Al Wustho, mostly local residents, he said. 

The mosque will get livelier on the 21st day of the fasting month, called malam selikuran, when a lot of people from other areas visit Al Wustho for iktikaf. They will spend the night to join tadarusan and later seek blessings from the thousand-moon night or lailatulkadar on the 27th day of the month, he said.

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Indonesia holds expo to support mother, youngsters health

JAKARTA, Aug. nineteen  -- An expo to support mother and kids health opened on Friday in Indonesia and a minister said that it might facilitate the government's efforts to attain targets within the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Minister for Women's Empowerment and kids Protection Linda Amalia Sari Gumelar in her welcoming remarks said that she was happy as non-public sector conjointly moves to produce data to the general public regarding the importance of healthy growth and protection for youngsters.

"Hopefully, this may facilitate the govt. achieve targets within the MDGs, particularly points variety four, 5 and 6, that are reaching gender equality, reducing infant and maternal mortality rate, increasing mother's health similarly as reducing unfold of HIV/AIDS and different contagious diseases," said Gumelar at "Mom's Babies and children Expo" on Aug. 19-21.

She said that primarily based on information of Demographic Survey 2007 released by the Central Bureau of Statistics each 5 years, Maternal Mortality Rate as a result of pregnancy, giving birth and once giving birth was still at 228/100,000 of live birth. Meanwhile, she added, Infant Mortality Rate was still at 34/1, 000 of live birth.

"This is our concern as these facts are still so much behind our target within the MDGs. we've got to scale back them. we have a tendency to still have four years ahead and that we need to be optimistic and putting your all into with varied efforts, not solely by the govt. however conjointly by folks and personal sector," said Gumelar. She conjointly noted gab in access to education for boys and ladies, high rate of early wedding, and low rate of girls participation in development.

"There are such a lot of things we've got to resolve. we want breakthroughs in facing the condition," said Gumelar.

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UCI creates first-ever map of Antarctic glaciers By PAT BRENNAN

Scientists at UC Irvine have created a first-ever map of glaciers across the Antarctic continent, revealing new details of speed and movement that ought to prove important in forecasting sea-level rise from international warming.

The scientists stitched along billions of knowledge points from a spread of satellite measurements, uncovering a glacial tributary reaching farther inland than expected, yet as previously unknown formations moving as quick as nine,000 feet or additional per year over thousands of miles toward the Antarctic coast.

They conjointly mapped the previously uncharted glacial landscape of east Antarctica, that spans some seventy seven % of the five.4 million-square-mile continent.

And they found that the glaciers — primarily rivers of ice — slide toward the coast along bedrock all the means into the inside of the continent, a replacement discovery that might amendment estimates of future sea-level rise linked to planetary warming.

“It's a game-changer for glaciology,” lead author Eric Rignot, an enquiry scientist at UC Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in an exceedingly statement released by UCI. “We're seeing wonderful flows from the guts of the continent that had never been described before.”

The new study, revealed on-line Thursday in Science categorical, doesn't estimate whether or not Antarctic glaciers are melting in response to climate amendment – partially as a result of most of the info on the speed and movement of the glacial network is current.

Most of the info was collected from 2007 to 2009.

“What it's showing is velocity” of glacial movement, said UC Irvine researcher Bernd Scheuchl. “It's providing a snapshot that may be a reference knowledge set for future generations of researchers.”

But Rignot, who makes a speciality of tracking polar ice, and different scientists found in an exceedingly separate, 18-year study that the melting of ice sheets seems to be accelerating at each poles.

The new study conjointly concerned UCI scientist Jeremie Mouginot and researchers from NASA, the ecu and Canadian area agencies and also the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, among others.

The data came from European, Japanese and Canadian satellites.

The study was done as a part of a worldwide effort known as the International Polar Year.

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Conan, For Barbarians

Hey, it’s BlockBluster, our seasonal feature within which Benjamin Sutton and Henry Stewart decide throughout what varieties of movies regular folks everywhere the country are forging their swords. on they get barbaric on Marcus Nispel's Conan the Barbarian.
STEWART:
Hey, Ben, in fact Lionsgate would faucet Marcus Nispel to direct this, right? The Platinum Dunes hack-for-hire has become the fashionable master of the schlockhouse reboot. Proving he may capably revive the Friday the thirteenth and Texas Chainsaw franchises, why not move him on to another cheesy 80s property like Conan? This new movie has been within the works for pretty much a decade, did you recognize that? As a part of a fastidiously rolled out rebranding of the Conan character, who dates back to Robert E. Howard's Depression-era fantasy stories however "had grown plain weird," as Brooks Barnes recently reported. the corporate that owned the rights withdrew all Conan merchandise from the market in 2002, and has been slowly reintroducing new stuff ever since: new comics, a strong-selling pc game, and currently the film. This fastidiously controlled strategy has culminated in a very movie tailor-made for boys, who'll be thrilled into shopping for new things by the copious gore and clean breasts while not being bored by things like character development or good pacing. (Here's the structure: violence-violence-violence-exposition-violence-violence-violence. Repeat for one hundred ten minutes.) however what is inoffensive for one demographic is exhausting, exasperating for an additional, eh? What'd you're thinking that of all that blood, Ben?

SUTTON:
Actually, Henry, I quite liked it. Not the movie, that was awful, however its shameless displays of blood, guts and golden model bodies. we frequently complain that terribly violent summer action movies attempt to downplay the diegetic effects of that violence, presumably in hopes of avoiding an R-rating, however not Conan—or Conan (Jason Momoa)—which opens with the last word Caesarean section performed within the middle of an already blood-soaked battlefield, and maintains that level of bloodlust throughout. Life was onerous in ancient Cimmeria, particularly for its working-class inhabitants. Lowly Northerners Conan and his father (Ron Perlman) live in a very humble village with farms, a mill and a forge. Evil Khalar Zym (Avatar baddie Stephen Lang) and his queer-coded daughter Marique (Rose McGowan, wanting like ex-fiancé Marilyn Manson) dwell in a very fortified castle on a cliff, quintessential feudal lords during this steampunk-infused medieval epic. however category politics are not the sole space within which this movie lags centuries behind, Henry. How will Conan treat the ladies?

STEWART:
Well, let's place it this manner, Ben—there are seven girls credited as a "Topless Wench." girls figure into this mythology largely as accessories. one in all adult Conan's earliest battles within the movie is against slave traders: on the one hand, he is a freedom fighter (what yank boy does not love freedom?); on the opposite, he is liberating some half-naked slave ladies who love a pair of party!! (What yank boy does not like topless chicks who love to party?) Conan is also muscular and dumb, however in "The Hyborian Age" (a.k.a. a 12-year-old's conception of our fashionable age), that is what girls notice attractive: Conan's love interest kisses him, that leads immediately to steamy sex as kissing typically will, solely when he admits to having no depth or self-awareness. ("I live. I love. I slay. i'm content," is that the line Conan uses to urge girls into his Flintstones bed.) So, girls are horny, however they are conjointly lots of fucking hassle, right? Quite slightly of the violence here is for the sake of protecting one lady, whose capability to electrify war rivals Helen of Troy's. and also the unhealthy guy's entire motivation for his evil plan—reassembling an ancient magic mask and searching down a lady of pure-blood (totally Nazi, that)—is to resurrect his dead wife. (His heretical quest for divinity is how you recognize he is unhealthy. Barbarians can be godless however they are doing believe in something—forging weapons!) live through it, dude. Ron Perlman, right, who plays Conan's father, his wife dies within the 1st scene, however you never see him destroying the complete civilized world concerning it, do you, Ben?

SUTTON:
Well, Henry, clearly we tend to may all stand to be slightly a lot of like Ron Perlman, that is neither here nor there, really. what's there, and manifestly thus, is Conan's intensely repressive perspective towards any sexuality aside from the traditional Edward-on-Bella Conan-on-Tamara sort. this can be mainly evident within the portrayal of the Marique character, whose capability to smell girls across nice distances is repeatedly expressed as a sort of arousal; her closeness to her father frequently verges on the incestuous (they even get out of bed along in one fleeting shot!); and he or she later compliments Conan on how onerous his sword feels, noting that Barbarian steel is claimed to be thus sharp that obtaining cut by it creates a sense of enjoyment. Whoa, Henry, who is that this BDSM-loving bisexual lady?! (Spoiler.) Quickly, impale her on one thing super-phallic! As if Marique's monstrous sexuality weren't sufficiently overt, close to film's finish her father dons an evil mask that not solely permits him to rule the globe, however conjointly makes his forehead seem like a vagina. Minutes earlier, a foul guy's lower 0.5 is gobbled up by a large underwater vagina dentata. Predictably, standard straight male sexuality—as epitomized by the hulking, sword-wielding meathead Conan—triumphs over monstrous femininity. i suppose a movie whose male lead is thus intensely sexualized should portray female sexuality as threatening and probably world-ending, otherwise the children within the audience would possibly

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