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March 29th, 2015

3/29/2015

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SPIRITUAL WARRIOR, Native American Poem

Life offers us the opportunity to become a Spiritual Warrior.
A warrior is one who bravely goes into those dark areas within
themselves to ferret out the Truth of their being.
It takes great courage, stamina and endurance to
become a Spiritual Warrior.
The path is narrow, the terrain rough and rocky.
You will walk alone: through the dark caves,
up those steep climbs and through the dense thick forest.
You will meet your dark side. The faces of fear, deceit, and
sadness all await your arrival
No one can take this journey but you.
There comes a time, in each of our lives,
when we are given the choice to follow this path.
Should we decide to embark on this journey,
we can never turn back.... Our lives are changed forever
On this journey, there are many different places we can
choose to slip into and hide. But the path goes on.
The Spiritual Warrior stays the course, wounded at times,
exhausted and out of energy. Many times, the Warrior will
struggle back to their feet to take only a few steps before
falling again.
Rested, they forge on,
continuing the treacherous path.
The journey continues. The Spiritual Warrior
stays the course. Weakened, but never broken.
One day, the battle, loneliness and desperate fights are over.
The sun breaks through the clouds; the birds begin to sing
their sweet melodies. There is a change in the energy.
A deep change within the self.
The warrior has fought the courageous fight.
The battle of the dark night of the soul is won.
New energy now fills the Warrior.
A new path is now laid before them.
A gentler path filled with the inner-knowing
of one who has personal empowerment.
With their personal battle won, they are filled with joy.
A new awareness that they are one with the Spirit beams
as they go forth to show others the way.
They are not permitted to walk the path for others.
They can only love, guide and be a living example
of the Truth of their being.


Bryan Kest ... 
“A warrior needs a worthy cause as well as courage. The more virtuous the cause, the higher his calling ? and the cause of greatest challenge, power and subtlety is that of self-examination. A wise warrior of such virtuous purpose embarks upon the age-old practice of yoga. A practice that roots out the habits, addictions, and incessant redundant thoughts that dull perception and cloud the heart; a practice that celebrates perfection in daily experiences and clears the soul for a joyous and poignant interaction with life."


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What Forces Do You Allow to Pull You Down?

3/24/2015

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A bunch of us yogi's decided to head out to iFly, the new indoor skydiving venue.  We took flight in stylish suits, held aloft in the air by the element of wind and a nice guy named Brandon who kept us in place! I had missed the part on the website about wearing shoes that tied so I was worried my shoes would be sucked off by the immense fan underneath.  If the fan could hold me off the ground, surely my shoes would be stuck to the top of the tube. So I pulled my pant legs down around the bottom of my heels to hold the shoes in place.

It is gravity that pulls us downward, grounding us, allowing us to feel connected to the vibration of the earth.  When we let go and take flight, the sense of weightlessness is indescribable, really.  And it isn't that you are actually weightless. It feels that way because there isn't as much force pulling on you from the ground.  So, just imagine, what it would feel like to let go of your troubles?

 Imagine that your stresses are like gravity, forcing you down, down, down until the pressure becomes unbearable.  See yourself giving yourself permission to loosen the knot that ties your troubles to you and, as your worries heavily drop to the ground, no longer bound to your shoulders,  begin to float up...free, lighthearted, cheerful. 

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the s--- that weighs you down.”― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

 

Allow  By Danna Faulds

There is no controlling life.

Try corralling a lightning bolt, containing a tornado.

Dam a stream and it will create a new channel.

Resist, and the tide will sweep you off your feet.

Allow, and grace will carry you to higher ground.

The only safety lies in letting it all in -

the wild and the weak -

fear, fantasies, failures, and success.

When loss rips off the doors of the heart

or sadness veils your vision with despair,

practice becomes simply bearing the truth.

In the choice to let go of your known way of being,

the whole world is revealed to your new eyes.

 

Imagine for a moment you are formless. If you are formless, you can become anything you want to. Your shape can change with your thoughts and nothing holds you back. Guess what? Nothing does hold you back. That which you think holds you back is called illusion.

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March 22nd, 2015

3/22/2015

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"18 Spiritual Teachings that Blew my Mind Wide Open."

Michelle Fajkus put together a great list of teachings that we talked about in class today.  I needed to be reminded that worry is useless. Which one of these did you need to hear?


"Via Michelle Margaret Fajkus on Jul 5, 2014

1. Everything I need is already within me.

2. I can (and do) create my life through creative visualization (to a certain extent).

3. All things must pass.

4. Beliefs separate.

5. Faith is letting go.

6. All meditation is good meditation.

7. Metta. (Loving kindness meditation)

8. Each morning, I am born again. What I do today is what matters most.

9. Equanimity. (Balance in the mind)

10. No self. (Let go of "I")

11. Suffering is the result of clinging.

12. Worry is useless.

13. Friendship is the highest form of love.

14. Difficult people are the best teachers.

15. Therefore, be grateful to everyone and everything.

16. Don’t get on the train.

17. Breath is life.

18. Make your mind as vast as the sky."


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Tree of Life

3/9/2015

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Poems in order from both Sunday classes pertaining to the tree of life...
 

Breath

by J. Daniel Beaudry

Tree, gather up my thoughts
like the clouds in your branches.
Draw up my soul
like the waters in your root.
In the arteries of your trunk
bring me together.
Through your leaves
breathe out the sky.


 
Think Like a Tree
by Karen I. Shragg

Soak up the sun
Affirm life's magic
Be graceful in the wind
Stand tall after a storm
Feel refreshed after it rains
Grow strong without notice
Be prepared for each season
Provide shelter to strangers
Hang tough through a cold spell
Emerge renewed at the first signs of spring
Stay deeply rooted while reaching for the sky
Be still long enough to
hear your own leaves rustling.


 

My Tree of Life
by Sandra Coyner

Maze of connections
branches, twigs, leaves
people, things
heaven and earth
trunk immense
bark rippled from rain and sun and time
like a creek creating wrinkles in the earth
I
am but a branch
the branch of life, my life
venturing off into twiggy paths
some strong, well thought out
leaves of lovers, friends , passions
other twigs too weak to carry their burden
of toxic people, toxic choices
I must release that twig to its fate
upon the earth
lest it pull my branch down with it
I
let
go.
I let go and the release of weight
bounces my branch higher
clear blue skies laugh with me
I feel light, carefree
my branch of life
connected to yours
connected to theirs
to the tree of life.

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No Mud, No Lotus

3/7/2015

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Thich Nhat Hanh “There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.”

"The work of mindfulness is first to recognize the suffering and second to embrace it. A mother taking care of a crying baby naturally will take the child into her arms without suppressing, judging it, or ignoring the crying. Mindfulness is like that mother, recognizing and embracing suffering without judgment. So the practice is not to fight or suppress the feeling, but rather to cradle it with a lot of tenderness," Thich Nhat Hanh

Zen story- The Difference Between Pain and Suffering

"There is a Buddhist teaching that says that when you get hurt, say, by an arrow, that is pain. The arrow hitting your arm, it hurts. Pain. However, there is a second arrow, which is your reaction to the arrow, the getting angry, the planning revenge, that is beyond pain, that is suffering."


"On the day when the lotus bloomed, alas, my mind was straying,
and I knew it not. My basket was empty and the flower remained unheeded.

Only now and again a sadness fell upon me, and I started up from my
dream and felt a sweet trace of a strange fragrance in the south wind.

That vague sweetness made my heart ache with longing and it seemed to
me that is was the eager breath of the summer seeking for its completion.

I knew not then that it was so near, that it was mine, and that this
perfect sweetness had blossomed in the depth of my own heart.
"

Rabindranath Tagore

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