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Today is Guru Purnima, the Full Moon Day of the Guru. In the Yoga Vidya Ashrams Bad Meinberg , Nordsee und Yoga Vidya Westerwald andYoga Vidya Centers we have Pujas, Homa, special Chanting in praise of Swami Sivananda, Swami Vishnu-devananda and all the Gurus. Today is a very special day for spiritual practices of Yoga and Meditation
Mandala: circular symbolic representations of both universal and personal forces; they do not always represent a deity.Instead, they are symbolic compositions of energy patterns that are more powerful than pictures.
Mandalas are tools that draw energy from outer world and direct it to the inner. According to Carl Jung,they represent the unconscious self.
Tibetan Buddhist monks create mandala sand paintings in times of stress, danger and
« Lifeforce » is the story of a personal catastrophe, an individual end of the world, beginning from a state of inspiration and hyperactivity, through doubt, destabilization, failure, consternation, collapse, and then on to relativisation, assessment, the return of hope, and renewal.
The story is told in non-linear time, beginning just after the collapse, and its various stages are presented as objects of an introspection which will lead to appraisal and peace and wil
I'm just getting ready for my talk on Friday at the College of Psychic Studies in South Kensington. The topic "Yantras, visual tools that help you to enhance your meditation practice.
Yantras help you to transform your patterns of mind intohabits of thought that will bring about the results that you desire. You can use yantras to bring about deep healing. They are active energy systems that can assist you in deflecting negative energies and maintaining internal harmony.
Yantras are best underst
("The path to enlightenment" by rohit gowaikar)
"The Door Of The Law" is a suite in six parts inspired by "A Parable About A Parable" from RAWilson's "Quantum Psychology," itself inspired by Kafka's "Before The Law." (There is also a video version by jackhalfaprayer.)
After Simon tells his roshi the story of the man who waited at the door of the Law, he begs him to explain the dark parable. The teacher replies that he will explain it, if Simon follows him into the zendo. So the young American fol
(Blue Morpho Butterfly by Martin Johnson Heade)
The third part of “The Idler” is entitled “Upward.”
The idea behind the movement is quite simple : once the necessity of evolution has been recognized and accepted, there’s only one way to go and its up.
To convey the feeling of somebody who is reinventing themselves, the music reintroduces some of the themes already presented earlier in the suite, but gives them new forms or turns them completely inside out.
There are no vocals in his section. Here's
("Informaëlstrom" by poligraf)
1000 Radios is a two-part piece which explores the relationship between an individual and their reality, a subject and their objective world.
The second part, "Informaëlstrom," aims to depict this reality gone awry, a maelstrom of information as it were, and the struggle of the individual endeavouring to escape the chaos and finally break through the confusion to revel in understanding and effortlessness.
The piece is an instrumental, but I thought I'd write some rel
("Huike Thinking" by Shi Ke)
"The Door Of The Law" is a suite in six parts inspired by "A Parable About A Parable" from RAWilson's "Quantum Psychology," itself inspired by Kafka's "Before The Law." (There is also a video version by jackhalfaprayer.)
The second section of the suite is entitled "Plight" and presents the situation in which Simon Moon, a young American man studying Zen, finds himself after reading "Before The Law," a mystifying parable which can be found near the end of the Czech au
This seminar featured Dr. Sivananda Advaryoo ( the eye surgeon). He could do 12 cataract operations in a row at age 80. 250 operations in a weekend. Easily the most evolved soul Swamiji ever brought to Yoga camp in my day. His lectures are being posted as we speak 0054 A-E. On the best.
Never fall a victim to fruitless regret. Today is the best day. Today is the day of your new birth. Start Sadhana now. With folded palms, bid goodbye to past mistakes and faults. You have learnt your lessons. March forward now with new hope, determination, and vigilance. ~ Swami Sivananda
I recommend that you read the excellent article by Dr. Jill Bolt Taylor
http://www.cygnus-books.co.uk/magazine/2010/07/own-your-power/?utm_source=EM1AWR&utm_campaign=1ab230460c-09julCygnus_Newsletter_2010&utm_medium=email
Its time to write something like what flows through the key board from mind.
When we say Mind we think it should flow like river. River flows from the source say for example the Himalayas is the source of the River Ganges.
So should our thoughts flow from and beyond Mind then it should be connected to source that the source being pernennial can give sustenance to the thought flow that it can translate in to the fingertips to get going on the key board that it can get translated to a medium of read
Man is one. God is one. Love is one. Law is one. Realisation is one. We are all the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch. There is nostranger, no alien in this world. Everyone is God in the process of evolution. ~ Swami Sivananda
This is a wonderful practice combining mudras and mantras that I plan to teach at the "Spiritual Retreat" that I will be leading in Bad Meinberg 1-6 August
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Sit in any meditative position and close your eyes. “Aaa” chanting
· Inhale slowly and completely fill your lungs.
· Adopt Chin mudra while exhaling, chant "Aah” .
· Feel the sound resonance in the abdomen and the lower parts of your body.
· Repeat nine times.
“Ou” chanting
· Inhale slowly and completely fill your lungs.
· Adopt Chinmaya mudr
