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Granting Meaning. Part 1
Look at the importance of the best of YOUR OWN VOICE coming from the outside, in the form of letters or images. For when, from within, we...
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9~ Yogic meeting
-"Surrender," he tells me – and once again, this word reaches my ears.Balance and surrender, the two words that came to me from my...
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12~ Surrender.
Letting go of control, jumping, trusting... Everything Anand was telling me now seemed like prophetic words for what was to come. That...
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14 ~Living in an Ashram. Part 2: Through the storm.
After the chanting class, we would go together into the Ganga to purify ourselves and because we both loved the winter bath . The water...
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15~ Living in an Ashram. Part 3: Small Changes.
By the fifth day—which felt like a month—I had almost emerged from the intense confusion with which I had arrived at the Ashram. I helped...
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16 ~ Living in an Ashram. Part 4: The Important Things.
“When the modifications of the mind have weakened, the mind becomes like a crystal: transparent. When memories, past knowledge, and...
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26 ~ Varanasi, touching the sacred fire.
We were meditating just a few centimeters from the sacred fire, surrounded by smoke and drops of sweat."Everything is fine... look around...
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32 ~ Vipassana Experience: 10 days of silence and meditation. Part 1.
January 2023. Deep Winter. Bodh Gaya, India. The village where Buddha attained enlightenment while meditating under a Bodhi tree. Could...
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33 ~ Vipassana Experience Part 2: Daily Routines.
Hello mind, a lot has happened. You were on top of the mountain for a long time, watching everything from above, and that's okay, it was...
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36~ Vipassana Experience Part 5: Equanimity.
How well-crafted is the cage that we still love to paint our prison bars on!The greatest secrets of cages are that they never seem like cages; they always disguise themselves as oases in the desert. And what if we open the little door for the hamster? So that every now and then it can peek outside the cage and remember that the cage has a handle and a latch. That occasionally one can enter, amuse oneself on the spinning wheel of colors that endlessly turns, but also laugh at
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