More on clarity of mind

  Just as you move into the body with awareness to free yourself from it — to no longer identify so completely with the physical body that your Self is veiled — just so with awareness you can lean into your thoughts, become intimate with the ways in which your mind works. Seeing your thoughts …

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More on embodiment

A common misperception of meditative practice is that its goal is one of disowning the body. That becoming pure consciousness — of finding this "I" which is beyond the body — is a renunciation of the physical and the sensory. The deepest and broadest result of meditation is in fact the opposite. For the years …

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Another Horizon

The practices of meditation and asana, and even the practices of work and community with which I have been involved, have all been driven together in the force of this travel. As I understood it would be, at a knowing, if not thinking, level. It has not been a pilgrimage to empty tombs — a "temple-tour", …

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Meditation

into the well a silent pebble falls and finds a voice a body sinks; the body's echo climbs into the light who cast the stone whose is the well who waits for the reply? The poem stands without the 3rd stanza koan, and stands as well without 2nd stanza commentary. Just as meditation stands without …

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Matrimandir

I can't leave Auroville without making mention of its spiritual and physical heart, the Matrimandir… though at the same time I feel there is almost nothing I can say that does any justice to the vision behind it, the experience of the area around it, or the power of insight and meditation it brings one. …

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Moonrise

The french doors which open onto the veranda have been open all night, and the sound of the breakers on the blackstone promenade where alternately lulling us to sleep and calling us out of it. Either the waves or the rain, which greeted us on our arrival in Pondicherry and has come in sheets and …

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The Bhagavan

Rama, an Italian friend we have made, lived at the ashram for five years. He now lives in and runs a retreat center in Costa Rica, Montana Azul, the blue mountain, with his wife and partner Adelaida. Rama related this story of the Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi: the young man came to the mountain in 1900, …

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Energy

Manny Muros: Today we climbed the mountain located behind the ashram. In 1900 a 16 year old local seeker climbed that mountain and stayed for 17 years in a cave. Then moved to a second cave for 6 more years. When he came down his followers created what is now the ashram where we are staying…. …

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Life in the Ashram

Two days into the trip and, as I previously mentioned, two years of living done. You know how to live longer? Travel, make yourself new, open up to new sights and sounds and people. You may pass away at the same second of the same minute of the same hour and day and year as …

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Relativity

Ok. It has been less than 48 hours here in India, but true to any real travel, an hour might be a day back home. The gift of letting yourself move into a truly foreign environment is that you have chosen to be changed. It's like diving into the surf on day with high seas… …

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