What brings us to this moment?

You are what your deep, driving desire is. As is your desire, so is your will. As is your will, so is your deed. As is your deed, so is your . . . → Read More: What brings us to this moment?

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Od Yavo Shalom – for Felix (and you of course)

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The Heart is another name for the Reality

The Heart is another name for the Reality, and it is neither inside nor outside the body. There can be no in and out for it, since It alone is.

~ Sri . . . → Read More: The Heart is another name for the Reality

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I Was Dead

i was dead
i came alive
i was tears
i became laughter

all because of love
when it arrived
my temporal life
from then on
changed to eternal

love said to me
you are not
crazy enough
you don’t
fit this house

i went and
became crazy
crazy enough
to be in chains

love said
you are not
intoxicated enough
you don’t
fit the group

i went and
got drunk
drunk enough
to overflow
with light-headedness

love said
you are still
too clever
filled with
imagination and skepticism

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Right or Wrong

Be very careful about locating good or God, right or wrong, legal or illegal, at your favorite level of . . . → Read More: Right or Wrong

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weekend yoga retreat at hepburn retreat centre

I am holding a weekend yoga retreat at Hepburn Retreat Centre – about an hour and a half drive from Melbourne in Victoria’s spa country.

The weekend program includes yoga, meditation, pranayama, as well as kirtan and bhajans (chanting) on saturday afternoon followed by Hepburn Retreat Centre’s legendary vegan banquet.

The retreat includes delicious, home cooked, wheat free, . . . → Read More: weekend yoga retreat at hepburn retreat centre

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Please call me by my true names

Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow
because even today I still arrive.

Look deeply: I arrive in every second
to be a bud on a spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

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Dropping Keys with Hafiz

The small man

Builds cages for everyone

He

Knows.

While the sage,

Who has to duck his head

When the moon is low,

Keeps dropping keys all night long

For the

Beautiful

Rowdy

Prisoners.

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it is now already

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beyond all limits

As a bee seeks nectar
from all kinds of flowers,
seek teachings everywhere.

Like a deer that finds
a quiet place to graze,
seek seclusion to digest
all you have gathered.

Like a madman,
beyond all limits,
go wherever you please
and live like a lion
completely free of all fear.

a Dzogchen tantra,

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