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 …
Manny and I received a kind note from Sonum, our hostess and guide during our stay at the Tibetan Settlements in Bylakuppe. At the time of our departure, we had spent much of several days in her company, given a walking tour of the monasteries and the farmlands in the area. We left a little …
The memories rise unbidden — they are always rising, bubbles of air surging from the depths to the surface of the sea; or stones borne skyward in similar offering, caught in the slow and seasonal currents of frost in farmer's fields — as if by some anti-gravitational magic, the memories rise out of some ancient …
The boys are taking numbers to stand in line again born with an open hand which of them will be men today and draw a card that wins? They're looking for a future looking for their rising star to shine above the fields a voice shouts from the doorway "C'mon in, boy, you're hired." They …
Silence is usually understood to be something negative, something empty, an absence of sound, of noises. This misunderstanding is prevalent because very few people have ever experienced silence. All that they have experienced in the name of silence is noiselessness. But silence is a totally different phenomenon. It is utterly positive. It is existential, it …
The Indian master Osho spent most of his life seeking an unshakeable truth, in every conceivable branch and nationality of psychology or science of philosophy, following the traces of a Path walked and illuminated by spiritual teachers throughout history, following their practices with his own practice, taking their experiences and making his own experience. His methods …