Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Spiritual Master




   Spiritual Master

Can you live with paradox
  and still find peace?

Can you live at the edge
  and still know the center?

Can you live between the seasons
  of rising and falling and know flow?

Can you live with the ache to know beauty
   and yet push nothing away?

Can you live with the universes, both inside and out,
  and still practice your dharma with ease?

Can you live with paying love forward
  without attachment to the results?

Can you live with a sense of stillness inside of tumult
  and know spiritual freedom?

Can you live in the state of presence being available
  for the next breath, step, thought, act?

Can you be the peace, love, beauty
  that you are without control?

Can you touch and be touched and
  live with the mystery of it?

Can you be a fearless blossom of grace
  open to both giving and receiving?

  Then you maybe a spiritual master.


            richard hammer
                 9-19-18
            Cape Coral, FL
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“We have nothing to offer the world
     except our spiritual integrity.”

         – Joel Goldsmith


Saturday, September 1, 2018

September is Yoga Month




September is Yoga Month

How will you celebrate it?

There is so much worthy of my sharing at this time on this blog site. Last month I spent ten days at the Kripalu Center in Stockbridge, MA attending three programs –

Todd Norian, Ashaya Yoga, https://www.ashayayoga.com
Dr Roger Jahnke, QiGong and Tai Chi, http://www.feeltheqi.com

I create handouts for my yoga classes, sometimes on yoga, mine or others, sometimes on things floating across the screen of my mind. Here is part a handout dated August 30th -

Practice your yoga with integrity. Never hurting, always creative.
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Let the practice live in you.
Let the practice be a purification so you release into a sense of your innate, true wholeness.
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Share your light.  Don’t hide it.
Find the stillness -  And let it speak to you.
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Can you say “I am here.”
with a sense of conviction and strength,
with a sense of authority and authenticity,
with a sense of willingness to explore unknown territory?
Then walk forward allowing presence to light your path.
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Question:  If your purpose was to live in alignment with your highest truth what would that be?
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In the rawness there is light, truth, and opening.
In the breath there is the way.
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Mastering your energy is coming into alignment and coherence with it.
It is energetic intelligence.  Reality comes to us in levels and layers, waves, and rhythms.
We are an expression of the infinite in the here, now.
The quality of your life is how you are experiencing it here, now.
We are playing in the relative field of time.
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The path of effortlessness is through effort. The universe is a collective dance.  Effort and effortlessness are part of it. In the state of integration there is effortlessness.  The challenge is the path.  There is intelligence in the challenge. Do what life is asking you to do.
True wisdom is beyond evaluation. (The Path of Radical Self Mastery program – Sattva Yoga).
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Yoga is the investigation of purpose, meaning, and path.
It is coming into the understanding of the imperatives of being.

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“Find that place where your deepest joy and the world’s hunger meet!!”
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Enlightenment is understanding that you are love.

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My current major Living Teachers (some):
Yoga: Anand Mehrotra, Sally Kempton, Todd Norian (Ashaya Yoga), J. Brown, Sadhguru,
Ram Dass, Dr Baxter Bell (Yoga for Healthy Aging), Yoganand (Pranakriya Yoga)
Others: Gina Lake (Radical Happiness), Jonathan Gustin (Purpose Guides Institute.),
Ekhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson.
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Resources for your awakening and enjoyment.

Sally Kempton had us repeating a mantra during my weekend with her at Kripalu. Here it is:
OM AIM HREEM KLEEM CHAMUNDAYE VICHCHE
https://youtu.be/RsvKnNzqWsk – 20 min youtube version - It continues to echo in my head.

Jim Gelcer gave a wonderful evening kirtan at Kriaplu when I was there. See his info. and music -
See Todd Norian practices at https://shri.tv/maestro/todd-norian (Or at Ashaya Yoga)

If you have not discover the Tao of Dana, take a look at http://www.fengshuidana.com/

Also visit,The Epic Self (free) - https://www.theepicself.com/
450 guided meditations for all and you can sort by subject.

Listen Well – Listen to the short monthly archived audios of Spoken Word Exploring the Divine

If you have not yet discovered Gina Lake take a moment: ttps://www.radicalhappiness.com/index.php
She also offers a 60 Meditations for Greater Happiness program on Daily Om that is excellent. https://www.dailyom.com There are many excellent courses t

here!

Check out UPLIFT Media Channel. A community of positive change-makers bringing you positive news and events from around the World. https://upliftconnect.com

As J. Brown ends his weekly podcasts “Let's be kind to ourselves. And let's be kind to each other.”