I am not at peace here and haven’t been for a long long time I’m surprised to look back and see there was a time when it wasn’t like this And I don’t know when it changed I think when I left home I still felt close to my brothers And when I went travelling Read more about I’m struggling[…]
Fight against injustice enquiry The Bhagavad Gita http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jsa3/362/notes/The%20Bhagavad%20Gita.htm The Bhagavad Gita, “The Song of the Lord,” is the chief devotional text of most Indians. This text is part of a larger epic of Mahabharata, an ancient story that took literary form between the fifth BCE and third century CE. The Gita refers to dharma, which is the right ordering Read more about Bhagavad Gita[…]
Enters my body my heart. Each cell clearing black smoke. I am touched by the luminous. Gayatri mantra. “O Divine mother, our hearts are filled with darkness. Please make this darkness distant from us and promote illumination within us.” The eternal, earth, air, heavenThat glory, that resplendence of the sunMay we contemplate the brilliance of Read more about Golden light of sunrise[…]
Do you think peace requires an end to war?Or tigers eating only vegetables?Does peace require an absence fromyour boss, your spouse, yourself?…Do you think peace will come some other place than here?Some other time than Now?In some other heart than yours? Peace is this moment without judgment.That is all. This moment in the Heart-spacewhere everything Read more about Peace is This Moment Without Judgment[…]
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The main difference in the two major spiritual traditions lies in the fundamental enunciation about the manifested universe. In the Abrahamic traditions God created the world and no creature can be like the Creator. Anyone who claimed that, as did Jesus Christ, was persecuted. In the Indian traditions on the other hand, Brahman, the Highest Reality, Read more about Ravi Ravindra – A searcher is a pilgrim on a journey, willing to learn and change one’s course. There is no need to get stuck on some ancient text arranged by some organization to make us believers rather than searchers.[…]
Set the seed What does setting seed mean? In computing – The set. seed() function sets the starting number used to generate a sequence of random numbers – it ensures that you get the same result if you start with that same seed each time you run the same process. For example, if I use the sample() function immediately Read more about Late Summer[…]
July Shipway – Yoga through the year https://www.yogathroughtheyear.com/blog?fbclid=IwAR1Xa1XdHS_YDzKrhW1oLlsrpSpQ2fTVADW-0Zx3tifeAo9UMQKfONG_vGA The Celtic festival of gratitude and first seeds, Lammas, is on August 2nd this year. It’s the time of first harvest, and in this newsletter we’ll be looking at ways that we can acknowledge and celebrate our own personal harvest, as well as remembering to say thank you Read more about First harvest Yoga[…]
This spring and early summer were unusually wet in our part of the Shenandoah Valley. It rained and rained, resulting in lush lawns and uncommon garden growth through the first part of August. Now though, we are in a dry spell. I spend the first part of every morning out in our vegetable garden with Read more about Goddess of the dry spell – Danna Faulds[…]
BBC Radio 4 Something understood https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b091s7pv In Radio 4’s Something Understood episode on the Divine feminine, Remona Aly states, ‘Only together can both men and women bring balance, justice and understanding of the divine universal messages.’ She quotes Camille Helminsky in her book, Women in Sufism, says,“Women and men need to stand together in the Read more about Union[…]