February 2012
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trust in the universe
I am leaving London for Brazil in 2 days…yoga teacher training for a month then three weeks of travel…
My budget is truly a shoe-string, and it is easy to worry about how I will manage.
But…I trust all will flow…
We have, in each moment, all we need…always
Thom
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What is the point of love? A talk on love,...
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Profound talk by Rob Burbea on the the nature of...
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“One hundred years, thirty-six thousand mornings going back and forth;
All along...”
– unknown
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January 2012
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“While looking again and again at the mind which cannot be looked at, the...”
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fear
By leaning just beyond your fear, you challenge your limits compassionately, without trying to escape the feeling of fear itself. You step beyond the solid ground of security with an open heart. You stand in the space of unknowingness, raw and awake. Here, the gravity of deep being will attend you to the only place where fear is obsolete: the eternal free fall of home. Where you always are.
David...
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December 2011
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“Alice laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one...”
– Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland
November 2011
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The fact that the mind’s own choices can pierce its own ignorance underlies the Buddha’s most important assumption about the mind: It can be trained to awaken, to see the causes of ignorance and to bring them to an end. The primary step in this training is the first determination: not to neglect discernment. This phrase may sound strange — to what extent do we consciously neglect...
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“The mind is neither good nor evil, but it’s what knows good and knows...”
– Ajaan Lee
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October 2011
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“Mind is everything, mind is nothing. Mind creates time and space, mind contains...”
– Huang Po
September 2011
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...coming together and moving apart
Intimate relationship is a dynamic, often dizzying dance of contradictions that is sometimes delightful and seductive, sometimes fierce and combative, sometimes energizing, sometimes exhausting. This dance requires being able to flow continuously back and forth between opal opposites — between coming together and moving apart, taking hold and letting go, engaging and allowing space, yielding and...
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August 2011
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“Banish the word ‘struggle’ from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for”
- Hopi elders
July 2011
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Dr Toast - Light (Gravity is Quiet)
Another...
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“The natural state is just itself and nothing else, whether thoughts are arising or not. Having no thoughts is not the essential practice of Dzogchen. There is nothing wrong with having thoughts; it is natural for thoughts to arise. They represent the creative potentiality or dynamism of the Nature of Mind. When we are in the Natural State, there are no special thoughts associated with it....
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“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”
– Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Dr. Toast - A Prehistory of...
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“When we begin taking care of the body and paying attention to its workings, we...”
– Freeing the Body, Freeing the Mind - Writings on the connection between Yoga and Buddhism
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“The yogi travels from outside to inside, then from to inside to outside, just to...”
– Swami Lakshmanjoo (Freeing the Body, Freeing the Mind by Michael Stone)
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“Awake, my dear.
Be Kind to your sleeping heart.
Take it out into the vast...”
– Hafiz
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Mystic Mamma →
Rich wisdom, deep rememberings, beauty, inspiration and Mystery. Word to the Mamma.
June 2011
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from an album call “the...
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Practice, awareness, flow
Just continue your practice no matter what you are doing. Practice is not dependent on any one posture, such as sitting or walking. Rather, it is a continuous awareness of the flow of your own consciousness and feelings. No matter what is happening, just compose yourself and always be mindfully aware of that flow.
Ajahn Chah
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“When you give up the need to maintain your identity you will be free”
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kid's yoga = joy
I taught my first kid’s yoga class today. It was wonderful. We did fun-pranayama, standing poses, a game of “yogi says”, partner yoga, basic acrobalance, circle games and a guided meditation. They absolutely loved it. Major thanks to the authors of this pack of asana cards called Yoga Pretzels - they’re superb. At the end they all asked me if they could take home one...
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Al Bowlly - Guilty (Amelie OST)
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Joyous AcroYoga photography by Kadri Kurgun →
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“In entering deeply into the body, we enter into life itself, death itself, the...”
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Gently I weep for my mind, caught in its illusion of ownership.
Mind, you are not who you think you are, you are dancing over a pit.
Soon, you’ll fall through, and these things you’ve valued and collected will be left behind.
My sweet dear, do you understand this, and if you do, how does your food taste?
Lalla
May 2011
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“If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?
Rumi
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