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"To be content is to be King!"
- Thought
- 28 July 2009
- 1 comment
To be content is to be free of desire, envy and restlessness. Contentment is not just passively accepting ones 'lot' and wallowing in it, but using it for positive means, understanding it. Contentment is living in the here and now, for only 'now'...
Ramblings on Swadhyaya
- Thought
- 28 July 2009
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SWADHYAYA is the fourth Niyama.
Swadhyaya means Self study, Self analysis and Self awareness. "O man, knoweth Thy self and the source from which though camest." One must continually study, question, listen, contemplate and digest, whilst rem...
A lesson from my Weeds
- Thought
- 28 July 2009
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Published: July 2005 Yoga Life Vol.36 No. 07, Pondicherry, India.
As I look out of my kitchen window into the gravelled corner of my Japanese garden, I can see some green weeds growing on the gravel! Although I have put a black membrane down...
More Ramblings!
- Thought
- 28 July 2009
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Published: July 2008 Yoga Life Vol.39 No. 07, Pondicherry, India.
"Give me another term for Samadhi!" I asked my small advanced Yoga class. The answers came fast and furious: "Bliss / Right Knowledge / Peace / Self Awareness / Nirvana / Total ...
Ramblings on Asana
- Thought
- 28 July 2009
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Published: Feb. 2008 Yoga Life Vol.39 No. 02, Pondicherry, India.
The whole of the material universe exists because of the 'play of opposites'. This idea sheds awareness on the play of opposites within our Asana practice. When we sit up, the...
The Seeker ?
- Thought
- 20 May 2009
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My friend Bernard Platt (now no longer with us) who was instrumental in spreading Yoga in the North of England, told the ancient story of a seeker of Truth.
"There was once a man who looked everywhere and asked everyone where he could find God, ...
A Spiritual Tale
- Thought
- 20 May 2009
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Innocently unaware of the prejudices held against him, an oldblack man, staunchly religious, some years ago applied for membership in an exclusive church.
The pastor attempted toput him off with all sorts of evasive remarks. The old man,becoming...
Student Barbera Baily
- Thought
- 20 May 2009
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Student Barbera Baily wrote
WAVES
The tide coming in and going out,
the ebb and flow,
is like the certainty of life and death
and the "quickness"of the whole process of life-
then death.
as the wave comes in, we as a parallel "live"life,
flowing towa...
Yogacharini Sonia - my epitaph
- Thought
- 20 May 2009
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Yogacharini Sonia would like the following words from KAHIL GIBRAN
as her epitaph;
"...and when the earth shall claim my limbs ,
then i shall truly dance "
...
What is Dying?
- Thought
- 20 May 2009
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I am standing on the sea shore. A ship sails and spreads her white sails to the morning breeze, and starts for the ocean.
She is an objecct of beauty and i stand watching her, till at last she fades on the horizon, and someone at my side say
"She...