The archer strengthens the bow arm, grips the leather, nocks an arrow, and bends the sinew to the corner of the mouth. Breath enters as the bow is drawn, breath is stilled as the arrow is poised for flight, and all is released together. Release. And the arrow, willed to its destination strikes home. Meditation …
I received a gift from a student, Brian, who recently concluded our Moving Into Balance health and awareness program. Every participant brings such gifts to the group — each brings the gift of him or her Self, all the challenges they face, and all the victories they achieve; but here was a special gift, a …
A beautiful (public?) video from the Aurobindo Press in Pondicherry. My gratitude and acknowledgement to Richard Pettinger (WriteSpirit.net) for finding this entry on YouTube, and sharing with us. "[Ancient India] saw that the complexity of the Universe could not be explained in the present terms of Man, or seen by his superficial sight: that there …
The night is cold, and because it is cold, the air is clear; it is a northern night. With the car turned off, and no light yet in the house beyond, the stillness seems to descend, as though stillness were a thing of the heavens — is it not? — a tangible substance, instead of the …
While staying at the Verite Guest House, in Auroville, we were able to practice intentional small-footprint living. That "footprint" is more than where we physically step and leave a trace, but the cumulative and extended affect of our living, from food consumption and by implication food production and distribution, to energy consumption and its similar …
There are many pleasant notions that present themselves, on one's walk through any given day, present themselves like flowers holding their faces to the summer sun… should you choose to look at them, they are there. To disemburden the heart requires practice, however, and patience, as well as a disciplined mind to keep cloud or …
For those of you who have been following Manny and my trajectory from Massachusetts to India and back again, and are not rooted somewhere half-way 'round the world, I'd like to invite you to join us for an evening of pictures and stories. This Saturday, January 20th, at 7:15pm at the Yoga Center of Newburyport, we will …
It began the year that you became a father, the year of your transformation. In those months following the birth of your first child, your son, the chaff of accumulated living was burned away, and those things you had believed with more and more conviction to be True, became in the end only ideas you …
When diving under the bedcovers for a place to snuggle in warmth and security, be sure you don't crawl through a tiny opening in the duvet slipcover instead. Think lobster trap. * When exploring, if you jump into a kitchen cabinet where the plates and cups are kept… … should you jump into a kitchen …
A song was running through my head all day today, a thread of sound sewn from the inside out, arriving at the inner ear audibly enough that I began to sing along… and so the music, which had already been part of the world, returned to it. What we take into us, changes us. What …
Work is what sustains us — work that we have chosen — sustains us by bringing bread for the service we have provided, gives us purpose and, hopefully, a sense of satisfaction as the world turns on its axis, and whirls us into shadow of the Earth once again. Todo amor é sagrado e o …
The trail which brought Manny and me to Auroville had continued west from Pondy to Mysore, to the Tibetan Settlements near Kushalnagar, over Karnataka's Western Ghats, to fall (rather heavily) to earth on Goa's southern beaches. Good relaxation, if a little empty after the heights of spiritual and community travel we had engaged in to …