We hope your last year has been exciting, enjoyable, and full of positive energies!!! It has been a great year for the Boabom Schools, their teachers and students around the world!

•Boabom Norway:

We are very happy to announce the formation of the new Norwegian School of Boabom and Seamm-Jasani offering regular, weekly classes in Oslo and in Haugesund. With the success of this first school on the European continent, we look forward to bringing Seamm-Jasani and Boabom to many more of you in the coming years!

http://www.boabomnorge.com

•New Book from Asanaro:

Asanaro’s newest book, Boabom Meditations: 38 Stories and Fables is now available! Continuing in the line of Mystic Meditations, 38 Stories and Fables brings the reader into the realm of reflection and meditation through tales and experiences about the Boabom Arts. It is available for $13.99 at lulu.com:

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/boabom-meditations-38-stories-and-fables/18702393

•Seamm-Jasani Poster Practice Guides:

Asanaro has also made available two practice guides to Seamm-Jasani. These 11×17 posters describe the complete sequence of movements from The Secret Art of Seamm-Jasani and Seamm-Jasani: 8 Essential Movements. They are available for $15 each directly from zazzle.com:

Seamm-Jasani: 8 Essential Movements Poster

The Secret Art of Seamm-Jasani Poster

•Tibetan Altrusim Association 2012 Calendar and Book Drive:

in 2011, the Boston School of Boabom has been sponsoring a book drive for the Tibetan Altruism Association, bringing english language books to Lhasa. Yemado, one of the senior Boabom teachers, has produced a calendar of his photographs of Tibet. All proceeds from the sale of this calendar will go to the Tibetan Altruism Association’s Book Drive.

The calendar is available through lulu.com:

http://www.lulu.com/product/calendar/tibet-2012-calendar/18703701

More information about the Tibetan Altruism Association, including information about participating in the book drive, is available at their website:

http://www.tibetaltruism.org

A very happy and positive 2012 for everyone, and we hope that the new year will bring good surprises and great discoveries!!!

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than after its rapid rotation my sight was fixed again back to the floor and wall in-front of me. all the floor and wall was vibrating and shifting up and down – it was like a wave of sound . slowly and gradually the movement reduce its shift and speed till all came back to normal and the vibration Stop. it last for some time , it doesn’t matter how long but i felt like about a moment in this experience.

it was so vivid and I felt just great energy inside me, everything was sharp and clear, and couldn’t take the smile and feeling for some time .
I’ve thanked the experience, continue my practice, OmHas and sat down for some meditate…”

Sojammmmm!!!

Wiz (Boabom East)
Dec-2011

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From Asanaro, author of the bestselling The Secret Art of Seamm-Jasani, comes this useful 2 posters-guide

1. A poster for beginners in the Art of Eternal Youth with 8 Essential Movements for daily practices. This poster serves as an excellent complement to the book of the same name, serving as a reference for those who wish to practice the 8 Essential Movements of Seamm-Jasani regularly.

Buy here: POSTER with 8 Movements

BOOK: Seamm-Jasani 8 Essential Movements

2. A poster with the 58 movements from the book: The Secret Art of Seamm-Jasani. Useful for the beginner or advanced practitioner, this poster shows the complete sequence of movements from  Seamm-Jasani.

Buy here: POSTER with 58 Movements (complete guide)

BOOK: The Secret Art of Seamm-Jasani (58 movements for the Eternal Youth)

Seamm-Jasani teaches a sequence of simple exercises, movements that anyone can practice as relaxation and meditation, to improve both health and energy.Seamm-Jasani has been recommended by doctors and therapists worldwide as an excellent way recover from disease and injury. Forget your stress and uncover the energy of the Art of Eternal Youth from ancient Tibet!

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The 2012 Tibetan Altruism Association Calendar is now available for purchase on lulu.com, at the Boston School of Boabom, Tashi Delek Tibetan Restaurant, and select other stores. All proceeds from the sale of the calendar go to help the Tibetan Altruism Association’s book drive, which has already brought over 50 books to the LamSang Language School in Lhasa!

Thank you for your support!

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The new book “Boabom Meditations: 38 Stories and Fables” (Asanaro) is on sale from December 1 day!!!

From the author of the book “The Secret Art of Seamm-Jasani” comes a new work, bringing readers into the realm of meditation and reflection. 38 Stories and Fables will stimulate the mind of those who enjoy simple philosophy and seek to gain a deeper understanding of the Boabom teachings, an Art of Defense that goes beyond movements, covering a complete vision of life. This book continues the series begun with Mystic Meditations, dedicated to the philosophy of the Boabom Arts, with their roots in ancient Tibet.

buy here

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It was fall,
it was late.

The different tunes of
the colors made
the evening look dark.

Sweet smells
of plants on
the weat ground,
turning into soil.

Slow winds playing
among the trees,
touching the last
straw of grass,
the sleepy movements
of the lake.

The forest main road
was lightened by lamps
so that people could
walk in the dark.

But in this evening
she was alone.

Although she knew
the life of the forest,
she could not see
nor hear anything.

Only the feeling of the air.
The slow smell of the fall.
The softness of the darkness.
The stones under her feet.

The air was wet with
water drops,
still breathing the last rain.

And the sweat running
down her face
become a steam of
salt water.

Running down the hill
she suddenly stopped,

Standing in front of her,
on the side of the road,
was a tree.

Surrrounded by light,
from the lamp posts
behind.

Stripes through the light,
triangles and squares,
yellow and white,
dark blue and
green,
grey
and
black.

It was
the most
beautiful glory
she had ever seen.

After a while she
looked down on the ground.

There was the shadow of the tree.

She rested in the shadow.

Slowly breathing,

First then she saw her own,
as a black print
in the grey shadow of the tree.

She thought of running home,
but started to walk instead.
Suddenly wanting to
touch the tree.

As she lifted her hand,
she saw that it was not one tree.
It was three trees between her and the lamp.

They were all old, strong and
high
birch trees.
Standing beside each other.

Her hand felt the
wet moss
on the hard skin of
the trees.
She touched all three
of them,
one by one.

The breathing between them.

Thanking.

Inger (Boabom Norway)

(photographs by Yemado)

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Give me a good home!

Sojaaaam and positive energies to everyone!  I wanted to let everyone know about a fantastic event at the MSPCA November 5 and 6 (this weekend!)  The MSPCA cares for thousands of homeless cats every year.  Most of these cats are adults over the age of one.  While kittens are adopted quickly, adult cats often remain homeless for weeks or even months before finding a forever home.  Some generous sponsors have provided the MSPCA with enough funds to run a special “fee-waived” adoption promotion.  At the “Fall in Love” adoptathon, all adoption fees for adult cats (one year and older) are waived.

The MSPCA’s “Fall in Love” promotion highlights the advantages of adopting an adult cat with a known personality, and encourages potential adopters to give an adult cat a new forever home.  Taking care of an animal is not only rewarding, but it can lead owners to discover more about themselves and develop positive characteristics in their mind, body, and soul.  If you would like to adopt a cat, or would like to make a donation to support the MSPCA and the good work they do for animals, drop by any MSPCA location this weekend.

For more information:

http://www.mspca.org/adoption/adoption-promotions/fall-in-love.html

Teresa (Boabom North)

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Recent events, energies and actions seeking positive, peaceful and lasting changes have allowed my old noggin to wander off and make some current connections. Many involve what we know through accepting and being taught by institutions, schools, governments, media and religions, to name a few.

I have begun to realize that often I miss what a word, sentence, conversation, story or history may hold for us, aside from the obvious. More and more, I feel at times what is being said is more about the speaker than the words discussed. Perhaps that is why the young people banding together in a peaceful movement to change the present is so very, very refreshing. They speak of truth, fairness, and change. It is puzzling how the media so obviously ignores this historical ’NEWS–making’ movement that seeks to effect change.

Well, enough about the present working towards a better future. Back to the futures lost in our past.

The story of Noah has been popping up recently, finding an outlet through daily conversations and happenings. Things just seem to lead back to old Noah and his original houseboat / floating zoo. To be sure it is a wonderful story, perhaps resurfacing due to energies once again moving towards a new start or a global do-over. We all know the story of Noah‘s Ark and floods covering the earth. Eventually, a new life began anew once the darkness cleared and turmoil receded.

Perhaps that old Ark held more than the obvious? Perhaps it held a lesson and a metaphor .Two of each animal, female and male, a yin-yang connection. The Ark thus also represents a human body and mind. With the Ark as a metaphor representing humanity, the animals represent diverse qualities within us. The aggressive, the docile, the huntress and hunter, the hunted, the good, bad, pure and evil.

Yet they all coexisted to start a new life.

Perhaps the story of Noah is as much a fable as a historical accounting? Maybe the lesson is to learn to live peacefully within ourselves so we might begin to live a new life. We can wipe the slate clean, cultivating conditions for a brighter evolution.

Perhaps some day the “occupy” story/fable will be the one told of how things began to get better for ALL inhabitants of this shared community we call Earth.

Yes, perhaps a cleansing is very much a present connection to our past repeating itself.

Please accept the above ramblings and connections with open hearts and minds. Nothing above judges, criticizes or discounts. It merely allows the possibility for another to make some of their own positive connections.

It’s a start, my friends. A truly truthful, loving and sharing start.

Sojammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!

Dark Horse (Boabom North)

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108 

• One hundred [and] eight (or nine dozen)It is a tetranacci number.
• It is the hyperfactorial of 3 since it is of the form .
• it is a refactorable number, it is divisible by the value of its φ function, which is 36. 108 is also divisible by the total number of its divisors (12).
• In Euclidean space, the interior angles of a regular pentagon measure 108 degrees each.
• There are 108 free polyominoes of order 7.
• In base 10, it is a Harshad number and a self number.
• The equation  results in the Golden ratio
• It is sacred number in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and connected yoga and dharma based practices.
• The individual numbers 1, 0, and 8 represent one thing, nothing, and everything (infinity).
• It represents the ultimate reality of the universe as being (seemingly paradoxically) simultaneously One, emptiness, and infinite,
• Hindu deities have 108 names, whilst in Gaudiya Vaishnavism, there are 108 gopis of Vrindavan.
• The Mala have 108-beaded
• It is the distance of Sun from Earth divided by diameter of Sun and distance of Moon from Earth divided by diameter of Moon.
• It is the number of beads in the juzu for Zen priests
• It is the number of question in The Lankavatara Sutra where the Bodhisattva Mahamati asks Buddha 108 question
• It is the diameter in foot of the pre-historic monument Stonehenge.
• It is the number of pressure points in the body, according to Marma Adi, Ayurveda and the Chinese schools.
• It is the number of suitors coveting Penelope, wife of Odysseus.
• It is the number love sonnets in Astrophil and Stella, the first English sonnet sequence by Sir Philip Sidney.
• It is the atomic number of hassium.
• It is the number of Mbit/s of a non-standard extension of IEEE 802.11g wireless network using channel bonding.
• It was 108 minutes from launch to landing of the first spaceflight of the first human spaceflight in history.
• It is 108…. and it will be…

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To the Boabom Schools from Tibetan Altruism Association

Special greetings and thanks to all The Boabom Schools (students and teachers), for his cooperation and donation of books to the Project A LIBRARY FOR THE CHILDREN OF LHASA

At the same time the Tibetan Altruism give the thanks to other friends like David from UK and many other for the support. Tashi delek!

Always you can send a book, here are the links:
www.amazon.com/wishlist/
or
www.tibetaltruism.org/projects
www.facebook.com/note

THE CURRENT LIST OF BOOKS that have arrived to Lhasa (Tibet), at this moment. (October-15, 2011)

NO./ NAME OF BOOKS / AUTHORS
1 Where the sidewalk Ends/Shel Silverstein
2 The useborne illustrated Dictionary /Jane Bingham
3 Walt Disney’s  Winnie the Pooh  And Tiget too/Walt Disney
4 Miffy at school/Dick bruna
5 Miffy at the seaside/Dick bruna
6 The Garden /Richard Powell and Steve Cox
7 Outdoor Words/Jenny Tyler
8 Pooh Invents a new game/Jenny Tyler
9 Shopping Words/Jenny Tyler
10 Winne the pooh and some bees/Jenny Tyler
11 Little foal
12 Time to eat
13 Time to Play
14 The Little Prince/Antoine de Saint-Exupery
15 Last of the Mohicans/James Fenimore Cooper
16 The Hobbit/J.R.R.Tolkien
17 The old man and the sea/Ernest Hermingway
18 Chicken Soup for the soul/Jack Canfield ,ark Victor Hansen
19 Eeyore’s Birthday /A.A.Milne
20 Let’s explore Space/Simom Mugford
21 What makes a car go?/Sophy Tahta
22 What makes you ill?/Mike Unwin & Kate Woodward
23 I can Spell/Anna Nilse
24 Forces and machines/Terry Jennings
25 Communication /Terry Jennings
26 Flying and Gliding/Terry Jennings
27 Things to make with paper/Ray Gibson,Louisa Somerville
28 How animals live in the forest /An informative book
29 The oxford picture dictionary/Marjorie Fuchs
30 Dressing/Helen Oxenbury
31 My first book of ABC/Betty Root
31 The lion and the mouse/Judy Hamilton
32 Albert Einstein and his inflatable universe/Dr.Mike Goldsmith
33 Matilda/ Roald Dahl
34 George’s Marvellus medicine/Roald Dahl
35 Danny the Champion of the world/Roald Dahl
36 Stephen Hawking for the beginners/J.P.McEvoy and Oscar Zarate
37 Elmer’s friends/David Mckee
38 How many /Moira Butterfield
39 Collins English Dictionary
(Book at October 15, in Lhasa)
40…41…42… 1000! 2000!!!! You can do it possible! It is only one book.

Pd. It is very possible that the list take 2 o 3 month in be updating.

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