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WHAT RAM DASS SAID ABOUT WESTERN YOGA

12/31/2019

 
"I think that they miss the point of what yoga is about. They
make it into body beautiful, and they make it worldly. Really, an
asana is a conversation with god."

(From an interview with Andrea Miller published in her book Awaken My Heart )

HERE'S THE PROBLEM WITH SOME "OLD" PEOPLE . . .

12/31/2019

 
Anger is useless.  It makes one unhappy.  It makes others unhappy.  Not only that, it also makes a groove in the mind so that anger arises more and more easily.  That's why we often find old people are crotchety.  Everything around them becomes disagreeable.  They're never happy because the negative groove in the mind has becomes so set they can't get out of it any more.  -  Ayya Khema

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

12/31/2019

 
If you can really understand the nature of life, then you realize it is not possible to form any conclusion about how life should be. In the Dharma there is something very deep, which is to be open to the uncertainty of life. But we hold onto this idea of certainty because we assume things can be controlled. But when we think deeply we realize we have no control. - Godwin Samararatne

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

12/30/2019

 
The secret to dealing with disappointment is to not let it grow into stronger emotions like discouragement and depression. - Monte Drenner

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

12/29/2019

 
There are four ways of doing. What are the four?

1. There is a way of doing that is which is painful now and ripens in the future as pain.
2. There is a way of doing that which is pleasant now and ripens in the future as pain.
3. There is a way of doing that which is painful now and ripens in the future as pleasure.
4. There is a way of doing that which is pleasant now and ripens in the future as pleasure.
- Buddha

PAUL MCCARTNEY HONORS LATE WIFE WITH HOLIDAY VEGETARIAN FEAST EVERY DECEMBER

12/28/2019

 
Musician Paul McCartney along with his daughter Stella McCartney honor her late mother Linda, with a vegetarian Christmas feast each year.   Linda and Paul met in 1967. She converted The Beatles star to vegetarianism, which proved a problem at Christmas because there was no turkey to carve.

"The thing about becoming vegetarian is that some of the things that I saw as traditional male roles not wanting to get too sexist or genderist here such as barbecuing, and slicing the roast, went," Paul told to media.  He added: "I wanted something to carve at Christmas!"

To give her husband something to do, Linda, who died of breast cancer in 1998, invented 'a macaroni cheese that she shaped and left to set.'

Now, the father-daughter duo has a vegetarian roast made from mushrooms straight from the vegetarian range of foods Linda launched in 1991.  Stella said she and her father  try to keep Linda's  "legacy alive" each Christmas.

"She was so ahead of her time. The cool thing about her is that she would challenge someone about eating meat, but she had this very charming way of doing it, so it never became an argument," Paul said.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

12/28/2019

 
Meditation is not something
extra to be done in our
spare time, but is
essential for our
well being.
- Ayya Khema








HOW TO BREAK THE HABIT OF NEGATIVE THINKING

12/27/2019

 
It is really quite simple. Whatever we put our mind on, that is what we know.  We are not obliged to think negative thoughts, yet we constantly do. It is another of our human foibles. We put our mind on such matters, which are bound to make us unhappy. Even though we already know that doing this will make us suffer, we still do it.
Perhaps we should contemplate why we think in ways we know perfectly well will create unhappiness?  The more clearly we see into our inner processes, the easier it will be to discard those that are not helpful, that do not lead to calm and contentment.
—Ayya Khema

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

12/27/2019

 
In every decision we make, we are either siding with our Buddha Nature or postponing its manifestation. - Tashi Nyima


THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

12/26/2019

 
If we find that we often think and speak critically of others, we should get into the habit of asking ourselves, 'Am I being fair?' And if I'm not, why am I drawn to harsh evaluations of others?'  - Rabbi Joseph Telushkin

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