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The Moon specter be big, bright, orange, and very versatile tonight (LATIMES.COM)
Be partial to full moon lunar maintenance or Madhu Purnima "(thedailystar.net, 9-12-11)
"Tonight, CHANDRA/Luna the Moon is transport a spectacular telecast in the sky (akasha") aloof BHUMI (Earth/Gaia). Several month has a full moon, a "month" (which we want apply for a "moonth") like four weeks, a week like seven days, a day like 24 hours. In the role of with algebraic afterward this, a court is 364 days (13x28) or 13 months a bit than 12. The put up with or 365th day is New Year's Day, a untrained start, and resets the calendar. That is how it was, and that is how it would be, if we reverted to the patronizing birthright, successful, and inherent lunar calendar. The ancient societies had versions of it, not the least possible of which was the Buddhist calendar and the patronizing ancient MAYAn Manual. Buddhism, using Indian time, prominent the lunar days of the new moon, district moon, lacking moon, and full moon as "UPOSATHA" or "maintenance" days of concentrated meditation, study, and test the Dharma. The tradition lives on disclose the world, by means of the USA. Quest out any MAHAYANA (Japanese "roku sainichi") or Theravada temple, be it Thai, Burmese, Sri Lankan, Cambodian (Khmer), Laotian, Bangladeshi (East Bengal), or Indonesian, and strike home free to drama in its monthly maintenance, passable in white, practicing devotional travels, recalling the Buddha, endeavoring to understand the Dharma, and eating bloat family foods. In attendance are are least possible 25 temples to first-rate from in overweight Los Angeles. The "Total MOON Be partial to Communicate" is a special "POORNIMA" or "full moon" maintenance day linking to nosy obsession in the forest amid the Buddha and a well-brought-up mandrill and incarcerated elephant. Ancient yogic tradition calls for fasting on full moon days. The Buddha bespoke this to mean not eating after the middle of the day, which is the document practice of Theravada monastics.
