OPPORTUNITIES

Friday, May 24, 2013

OPPORTUNITIES


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TREE OF LIFE OPPORTUNITIES

A seva or employment position within the Tree of Life plant-source only live food spiritual community is an intense spiritual journey of commitment, intimacy and transformation. It is for those with spiritual perseverance (netzakh), dedication, devotion and intensity. If you are called here and fit the position (ie. you have the skills), then the community is ready to welcome you with open arms.

In essence, the Tree of Life is both a holistic healing, humanitarian and spiritual center that teaches a holistic vegan way of life and is also an intense setting for spiritual practice and growth for staff, sevas, as well as guests under the spiritual support and guidance of Spiritual Master Gabriel Cousens.

Our vision is to create a living experience of the meaning of sustainable healthy living for the individual and for the planet. This means providing people with a direct experience of what it means to live a quality of life that is healing both to themselves and to the planet of every single level from agricultural interests of our society to personal health, emotional health, and spiritual health. We offer this so that people can know that such an existence is real and can experience the joy of living that way. In essence, each person has a deep yearning to live a quality of life or what we may call an “awakened normality”. In that way the Tree of Life is an oasis for awakening.

We are deeply committed to providing experiences and empowering people to apply that experience of “awakened normality” back into their lives. The Tree of Life Foundation mission is to be an oasis of awakening on every level and provide a direct experience of a quality of life that is healing to oneself and to the planet, through pure reliable agriculture, personal health, emotional well-being and spiritual vitality.

The advice or information provided by Gabriel Cousens, M.D., M.D.(H) or any other professional experts on this site is provided for informational purposes only and cannot be considered a substitute for in-person, one-on-one professional advice. Visitors of this site should not rely solely on advice provided by medical health professionals or physician experts on this site. Dr. Cousens strongly recommends that a member seeking advice including medical, general health, mental health, counseling, diabetes support, or otherwise schedule an appointment for a one-on-one examination in person with a qualified professional. This can be done through the the support of a Tree of Life Physician. Call for more details: USA: 1-866-394-2520 (Toll-free) or International: 1-520-233-7010.

The Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center is located in Patagonia, Arizona, U.S.A. 866-394-2520

The Tree of Life is a place of sacred power, which acts as an Oasis for Awakening for all who choose to rest under its shade. It is a force to expand the consciousness of its participants. As a spiritual energy field it is also affected by the behavior and thoughts of its participants as well as. The purer the thoughts and actions of its participants, whether staff, apprentices, volunteers, guests or clients, the more power the Tree generates as an Abode of Awakening. The karmas that we bring to the Tree of Life may be readily burnt up here, but the karmas we create at the Tree are amplified and difficult to wash away. Because of this spiritual principle it is helpful to have an understanding of how to be in the sacred space of the Tree of Life in a way that will most powerfully spiritually uplift, awaken, and expand consciousness. These ancient universal Essene teachings support us in this dharmic way of being – right thought, speech, action, and service. This way of being in your life is beneficial to you at the Tree of Life and in every moment no matter where you are.

1. See the name of God in front of you at all times. Proverbs 16:8. "Keep your mind on God in every moment." Rabbi Gabriel Cousens, M.D.

2. "Be still know I Am God." Essene Gospel of Peace, The Vision of Enoch and Psalm 46:10.

3. Sh'ma Israel Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Ehad. Deuteronomy (Dvarim) 6:4. "God is the One and the Many." Rabbi Gabriel Cousens, M.D.

4. Teshuva: "Return to God and know the Self." Rabbi Gabriel Cousens, M.D.

5. Tikkun Ha Nefesh and Tikkun Ha Olam: "Participate in the healing and spiritual transformation of oneself and the world." Rabbi Gabriel Cousens, M.D.

6. Shalom: "Peace on all seven levels; peace with the body, mind, family, community, culture, ecology, and God." Rabbi Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Sevenfold Peace

7. "Earth is the Lord's" Isaiah 6:3. "See and respect the Divine in all things living and inert – in all of creation." Rabbi Gabriel Cousens, M.D.

8. "Do not forsake the eternal for that which dieth in an hour." Essene Teacher of Righteousness.

9. Whatever God does is for the best – although we may not understand it. "All the teaching at the Tree helps you choose spiritual elevation by all your continual trials and tests through your faith, love, devotion, and intuitive understanding." Rabbi Gabriel Cousens, M.D.

10. "Love your neighbor as yourself" Leviticus 19:18

11. "Do not gossip! Leshon hara ("a tongue of evil") is a poison to you and actively harmful to the one to whom you direct the gossip. In the Kabbalah gossip is equal to murder. This includes speaking in undermining ways and to be in blame (Be Lame) consciousness. It is more powerful to speak benevolent Truth in a way that uplifts consciousness." Rabbi Gabriel Cousens, M.D.

12. “Living the Garden of Eden Diet which is an Organic, Vegan, 80-100% Live-Food, Drug Free Diet" Genesis 1:29-30 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.” Leviticus (Shemini 8-10) The lord said to Aharon “'Do not drink wine or strong drink [any form of mind altering drug], thou, nor thy sons with thee, when you enter the tent of meeting, lest you die; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.”

13. "Receive the gifts of the Tree of Life Foundation so that you may share and uplift others with them." Gabriel The Essence of the Tree of Life Dharma is to create an inner stillness that allows us to constantly be in a state of one pointed meditation on the divine.

SEVENFOLD PATH OF PEACE:

1. BODY: This includes choosing to take responsibility for your own personal health and to improve the ecology of your personal body just as you would care for the planet. Dr. Cousens recommends exercising aerobically at least three times per week for one-half hour, practicing deep breathing at least once a day with ten cycles of seven-count in and seven-count out deep breath, getting sufficient sleep and relaxation and drinking sufficient pure water.

2. MIND: Enhance your own inner peace by learning to meditate or pray, and do it on a daily basis. Enhance peace with the planetary mind by thinking positive thoughts and becoming a living-feeling prayer of peace, love, and compassion. Enhance peace with the cosmic mind by trying to begin each thought, word, and action with love, compassion and peace.

3. FAMILY: Forgive everybody. Forgiveness ends the negative memory and dispels the energy of conflict. Forgiveness is the blessing of living peace. The power of becoming a feeling prayer of peace is that it allows us to activate the hologram of peace that exists somewhere in every person and in every family, tribe and culture.

4. COMMUNITY: Make a point to volunteer or contribute to humanitarian causes and organizations. Check with any local peace center for a list of causes and ways to contribute. Develop your livelihood so that it supports or expresses your personal and planetary peace values. Start this one step at a time. It may take several years, so be patient and persistent.

5. CULTURE: Participate in art, music, drama, or other cultural events that inspire and connect you with the eternal values of love, peace, beauty, truth, and the Divine in all. Make peace with your own cultural roots. Ask your parents or grandparents for stories about your cultural origins. Try to find and appreciate the flourishing of peace and joy in all cultures.

6. ECOLOGY: Become conscious of the ways in which you participate in a global system that draws from natural resources, and recognize how Ego-driven desires for accumulation of material goods, power, wealth and status have led to an imbalanced distribution of these resources among the beings on this planet. Commit yourself to reflection on your present relationship to ecology, and then strive to ensure your personal material consumption habits as well as those of your community, your nation, and all of humanity reflect the highest intention to promote a more just relationship with the natural ecology and all beings on the Earth.

7. DIVINE: Find your own personal way to connect with the Divine every day. Allow yourself to express in the world as the living will and flow of the Divine.

1. SPIRITUAL NUTRITION: a plant-source-only, organic, live food, high mineralized, low sugar, and high hydration diet and spiritual fasting.

2. BUILDING PRANA (LIFE FORCE): Yoga asanas, pranayama (breathing practices), the Ophanim (the energetics of the Hebrew letters), T’ai Chi, Reiki, Tachyon Energy or other energy practices, and sacred dance. These all enhance and expand the consciousness of the body-mind complex, filling it with increased life force energy or prana.

3. SERVICE (SHEIRUT) & CHARITY (TZEDAKA): In the process of service and charity, we are able to face our attachments to things (seva), as well as to feel our connection to all of the family of humanity. This helps to expand consciousness through the direct experience.

4. SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE AND INSPIRATION: Satsang, being in the energy of Truth in the presence of a liberated or awakened spiritual teacher. Satsang gives meaning, value, heart, and energy to spiritual wisdom teachings and spiritual life energetics. In the Kabbalah, satsang is termed yechidut. Sangha or kehila (chavurah), which is spending time with spiritual people or community. Expanding and refining the mind with spiritual wisdom teachings, the great scriptures such as Zohar, the Torah, the Tao Te Ching, the Vedas, great mystical poetry such as that of Hafitz, Rumi and Blake. Wisdom literature helps formulate and focus our consciousness and expand it. Zero Point, sacred music and spending time in nature are also part of this Foundation.

5. SACRED SILENCE: Meditation, prayer, repetition of mantra (hagia) and chanting (in the God focused traditions)

6. KUNDALINI AWAKENING: Shaktipat initiation (S’micha le’shefa/Haniha), which is the awakening of the Divine force that is resting in potential within us. This is known as the descent of Grace. It usually occurs through a living enlightened spiritual leader, but may occur spontaneously. Once the spiritual energy is activated, it begins to spontaneously move through our body, spiritualizing every cell, every aspect of the DNA, every chakra, every nadi (which are the channels of the subtle nervous system), every organ and every tissue, so that all consciousness becomes activated into the next evolutionary stage.

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