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All is Given Pt. 1: musings, Sutras & Gita, and free meditation mp3.
[NOTE: it's a long one, you may want to print from blog for better reading. You have to read all the way through to download the meditation in mp3 format ] Is my body mine? Does it belong to me, in...
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All is Given Pt. 2: Cultivating attitude of graceful acceptance – karma yoga...
Here I offer the principles and verses from the Bhagavad Gita that inform the principles in All is Given Pt1 and delve into the essence of Karma Yoga, which includes Bhakti, or devotion. There is no...
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Beyond Tribal: On Empathy, Wholeness, Yoga & Vedanta [books, J. Rifkin, video]
“Somewhere beyond right and wrong there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi There are no others. ~ Ramana Maharshi For some years now I have been pondering ‘identity’ as I study and seek to...
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On Happiness, Now, and Thou…
Happiness is universally cherished and sought, and yet so elusive and often associated with experience, rather than our essential nature of Being. I wrote this originally around New Year’s day,...
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Emerson, the Dream of America and Vedanta – Book review, Interview
"Emerson and the Dream of America: Finding our Way in a New and Exceptional Age" by Richard Geldard Emerson on Consciousness: “We are in it. It is not in us.” Truth is not subjective. Modern science...
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How can I practice “dispassion” when there is such suffering?
Statue of Patanjali, author of the Yoga Sutras On Equanimity, Dispassion and Empathy: Everyday we experience ups and downs, things that bring a smile to our face or a knot to our hearts. For some the...
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What is Karma Yoga? Pt1: The glory of where you are.
How much mental/emotional vitality dissipates into sorrow at what we cannot change? Today, where can you rejoice in what is, steering clear of patterns of perception of loss in what is not? I often...
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The Most Glorious Side of Humanity ~ On cancer and empathy
Here is a piece just published in Elephant Journal I kinda started in 2010 when I first got cancer and I was the recipient of such outpouring of compassion. In many ways this is a big “Thank You” to...
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Action & Reaction, Choice & Impulse in the Bhagavad Gita
On Action & Reaction, Desire and Anger: Includes video of Citta Chats LIVE segment on this very topic, from a student question. Watch the discussion to further explore the article and topic: you....
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Wed. 7/3/13 Citta Chats™ entire 78 min. class VIDEO: Guided Meditation,...
Every Wednesday 6:30pm, (PDT) in my home, come over if you are in SF. {Please use Contact me for Details) Free, donations. share: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up...
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