Mexico’s Casa Dakini celebrated the close of 2011 with their traditional year-end meditaton ceremony.

The event consisted of:

1. Time to create the ornaments and write aspirations on them.
2. A talk on how to cultivate unconditional love
3. A guided year-end meditation that included a ritual on gratitude.

At the end of the meditation, each attendee added an ornament to the artificial trees in the hall.

Here are some of the aspirations:

Peña Borquez family
1. We aspire to respect all sentient beings.

Irma Arellano Cano
2. I aspire to see others actions and my own with the correct vision.

Carmen Villarreal Alberich
3. I aspire for peace.
4. I aspire for all beings discover that they can generate their own inner peace and that they don’t have to look for it elsewhere.

María Isabel Díaz
5. I aspire for peace and love for all sentient beings on earth and all worlds.

Darío Sánchez
6. I aspire to treat others the way I want to be treated.

Martha Castro
7. I aspire to create happiness for others through being mindful of my body speech and mind. May all beings cultivate the causes of happiness deep in their heart and mind.

Gisela Cervantes
8. I aspire for health for all beings in the Universe.

Mariette Montañez Díaz
9. I aspire for peace and harmony for all the sentient beings of all worlds.

Helena Quezada
10. I aspire for there to be peace and love in the world.
11.  I aspire that misery be over.

Eduardo Álvarez Guzmán
12.  I aspire that all beings live full of peace.

Lourdes López
13. I aspire for health and world peace.

Irma Ruiz
14. I aspire to cultivate a daily yoga and meditation practice, and for it to feed my inner fire so that I can finish my professional project which will permit me to be one more tool for the benefit of all beings with an open and compassionate heart.

Mayra López
15. I aspire for all beings to gain inner peace.

Maritza Carbajal
16. I aspire for all beings to have reasons for the creation of inner peace.

Andy Rubio
17. I aspire for all human beings have a dog to caress.

Kay Carbajal
18. I aspire for health for all.

José Vázquez
19. I aspire for a happy and cheerful world.

Hicela Pérez Rentería
20.  I aspire that all beings without exception be happy.

Paola de Luna
21. I aspire for abundance in all ways for all living beings of the universe.

Jimena Villarreal
22. I aspire that the temperature in Cancun be lower
23. I aspire that we have good government in Mexico.
24. I aspire that corruption in Mexico be gone and we have a better distribution of the richness.

Claudia Morfín and family
25. We aspire for inspiration to full all hearts and minds and for it to stay there forever.
26. We aspire for all babies of the world find a good home.
27. We aspire for everyone to have a job and that all beings enjoy what they do and for it to be a fountain of unending prosperity and good venture.
28. We aspire for prosperity to come to all houses so that we can all live in gratitude and sharing.
29. We aspire for all good wishes to be never-ending and may them all be transformed in actions that profoundly impact reality
30. We aspire for all beings to shine with good health
31. We aspire for love to fill the souls of all beings and that happiness multiply in their hearts and inner peace be conserved forever.

Thank you to Martha Estrada for sharing this special meditation event and photos with us!

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‎”I ASPIRE…” drawing by Marguerite Drescher of Halifax.

We love hearing from our aspirers. If you would like to share your aspiration, please email anna@100000aspiraitons.org

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Patrick Groneman describes the 100,000 Aspiration Project as a“unification of purpose.”

He believes there is great power in group aspiration.

His aspiration? He aspires to live authentically and to help others do the same.

“I aspire to live authentically and help others do the same.”

Specifically, Patrick means to live honestly and not lie to himself, as well as not fool himself away from wisdom.

As the Executive Director of New York’s, The Interdependence Project, Patrick likes the 100,000 Aspiration Project because he believes that sometimes there are obstacles involved for people when being introduced to new things.

“There is a lot of cultural baggage in the way for many folks, so it’s almost like we’re translators and community builders,” he says.

What he means by this is that new things have preconceived notions already attached to them due to society, and so the IDP and our 100K Project work to make an engagement with new ideas easier and more comfortable for individuals.

Just as the Interdependence Project “brings a secular and highly accessible approach to studying and practicing Buddhist meditation, psychology and philosophy,” the 100,000 Aspiration Project is a gateway to allow and encourage people to realize their aspirations and give everyone a public outlet to do so.

“I think your project is a great way of actually engaging people in the practice of making an aspiration, and tapping into people’s desire to state those aspirations publicly,” Patrick says.

“Most of the time, life happens too quickly to really operate outside our patterns of habit,” he says. “Without changing our aspirations and intentions, there’s very little we can do to get out of a rut, because the force of habit is so strong.”

Self-awareness is needed, he says.

Patrick was especially moved by our inspired supporter, Anne Waldman’s aspiration:

“My aspiration is a nuclear, drone-free world,that takes care of its denizens and inspires artistic creativity in all directions of space.

A Stupa wakes the world up to itself. It is an Archive of our psyche, our imagination, an inscription of creativity and humanity. It is a memory bank and also a kind of enlightened “time bomb” that may set off dharma activity in further and future galaxies. Consciousness exists on many levels, and we are reminded of this by an architecture that reflects the wisdom mind. Let’s help create a world, a universe, without war and cruelty and torture and greed. Vow to help all sentient beings as well as ourselves. And the non-human ones — all that crawl, breathe and swim. It’s a vow to sanity. I hope we can participate in the creation of this next Stupa with expansive poetry and music and scintillating images, a poeisis of our speech, body and mind.”

“The whole project is full of inspiration. It’s a great work of art,” Patrick says.

A big thank you to Patrick for your kind words and time.

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Inspired supporter, David Nichtern is a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.

He is also a weekly blogger about Buddhism on The Huffington Post and works with his wife, Cyndi Lee (renowned yoga teacher and founder of the OM yoga Center in NYC) leading yoga/meditation workshops around the world.

“Somebody has to do sometime positive.”

On making his aspiration; “I cleared my mind, and I just went with my first thought,” he says.

His aspiration: “I aspire to soar higher, inspire, retire and expire.”

By soaring higher he means to uplift, to reach, to aspire to be the best. He compares it to the marines and how they are told to “be all that you can be.”

David stresses the importance of realizing one’s aspiration and acting on it. Every person only has a certain amount of time, a certain window of opportunity to do some good in the world.

“Recognizing an aspiration, and clarifying what it is, is a task in itself and it’s very important to fulfill. It’s a paramount intention. Measure your action against your intention.”

He believes the 100,000 aspirations project is very important for peace and bringing people together in peace.

“It’s better than bombing Iraq – a much better idea. The fact that people can be exposed to other people’s aspirations is, I think, very good and very encouraged.”

“If you don’t elevate your own situation, then you’re not much good to others.  But, if you get something going on and then share it, you’ll do more good,” he says on taking the initiative and beginning to work on your aspiration everyday.

Thanks, David, for your time and your aspiration.

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Calling all videos!

Win the gift of Pema Chodron’s “True Happiness” from our sponsor, Sounds True.

How to be considered: post your video on our Facebook wall before New Years

How to make a video: Use your own recording device (phone, video camera, point and shoot camera), upload onto the internet and then post on our Facebook wall.

OR use our convenient recording option from our site using your built-in computer camera. This is automatically uploaded onto YouTube, and then you should post this link on our Facebook Wall.

How to Win: The top five video aspirations with the most Likes by New Years receive Pema Chodron’s “True Happiness” audio download from our sponsor Sounds True.

Also, if you don’t have Facebook, we are happy to post the video on our wall for you. Just send it in to: anna@1000000aspirations.org.

For video tips, see Kate Bartolotta’s “How to make a video aspiration in 108 easy takes”

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Waylon Lewis lights up any video.

Especially when the clip is of him being more enthusiastic than his dog, Redford while trying to scale a large rock in the middle of Pearl Street in Boulder, Colo.

We are thrilled to see more new photo and video aspirations. Recently we even got the outtakes of one video.

Thus, without further ado, we present elephant journal’s Waylon Lewis in his very own outtakes.

Click here to watch the outtakes.

Don’t have enough?

Watch here to see the final cut of Waylon’s video.

And finally, here is the outtakes video from Kate. Thanks, Kate!

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Thanks to our media partner elephant journal for everything they do.

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Pema Chodron talks on the basis of compassion.

Pema Chodron Video Here

“…It’s you beginning to make friends with oneself, not thinking it’s going to come from outside. As you know, we’re all looking outside of ourselves…to other people, we look all over the place to try to make ourselves feel good about ourselves.”

Thanks to our media partner Elephant Journal for first publishing this great video.

Please keep sharing your photo, video and text aspirations!

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Susan Piver is confident that we will reach our goal of 100,000 Aspirations for the monument to peace.

Author of, The Wisdom of A Broken Heart, Susan says all beings are born with an aspiration.

“I know that there are 100 thousand people with aspirations, and that’s why I feel confident that you will reach your goal.”

Susan says many people feel like they might not have a meaningful outlet to share their wishes or dreams, and 100,000 Aspirations is a great solution for this.

“I feel like this is a time in our world when people have a longing to express their wishes.”

In this time in our world, however, people might feel silly to voice their wish for peace, she says, although if people knew there was a collective wish movement, then people would join.

“[100,000 Aspirations] is a great service, a great act of generosity because it’s an outlet for all of these aspirations for everyone in the world.”

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Please remember that you can upload your own video aspiration using a built-in computer camera and YouTube. Just head over to our site.

We also would love to see your photo aspirations, shared on our Facebook wall.

Share with your friends, and Keep Aspiring!

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On December 9, Where Is My Guru radio show will feature 100,000 Aspirations as well as Seane Corn, during a show that focuses on all things inspirational!

Where Is My Guru is an evolution of co-founder Jessica’s Travel Blog that focused on community and service. She says that the radio show is a more refined expression of this and can include anything that she wants to share with the world.

Where Is My Guru is co-hosted by Jessica and Diane, once a week. The title isn’t a question – it’s a statement that suggests that the Guru is always within you, you just have to realize this and find it.

Jessica says that 100,000 Aspirations and Where Is My Guru are similar in the way that each are focused on giving back and not just focusing on the bottom line. Good intentions and service radiate out and make the world a better place!

Faith Popcorn, a speaker Jessica saw at a recent conference, outlines where she thinks businesses are headed in the next ten years.

One key point from the presentation was about the qualities that businesses need to embody to stay ahead of the game in our super fast, changing world. These include not focusing on the bottom line, but instead giving back to communities, thinking about the small, personal things and focusing on what actions will change the world for the better in the long run.

This is what 100,000 Aspirations is all about! We focus on positive intentions and aspirations from people from across the world and from all communities,

Together we’re aiming for better lives and peace for everyone and everything.

Thanks to Where Is My Guru for featuring us!

Information Breakdown:

Where Is My Guru airs through the online social radio hub, Here Women Talk - www.herewomentalk.com

Where is My Guru Show: www.whereismyguru.com

Date of Show: December 9^th

Time of Show – 9am-10am MST

Online Radio: http://zeusradio.com/player/hwt/

Call in: 877-500-ZEUS (9387)

Listen in: 917-388-4642

Check it out…new aspiration video section on our site at the top of the aspiration feed!

Aspiration Video Space Announcement

We want your aspiration videos to be focused upon, and we’d love to see more of them.

They’re easy to make right on your computer directly from 10000aspirations.org. If you have questions email: anna@100000aspirations.org.

Aspiration videos highlight your unique personality and passion for your aspiration. Make them fun and creative!

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