March 2012
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bobbyverse asked: What's your take on the amount of hate people throw around? It seems like everyone needs to be a (jaded, condescending) critic. Things like: this band sucks, you use X products so you don't "get it", you do/don't eat that food so you're weird, you sleep later than I do so you must be lazy and useless... There's enough to fight about on big issues, I don't...
Anyone own a monastery or ashram I can run away to? k thanks
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“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”
– Buddha
Tomorrow is a day that exists once every four...
…and I have another big job interview.
May I find extra courage on this extra day. :)
Namaste, friends.
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“The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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Why does tumblr look like a children’s toy now? I don’t mind change but if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it :P
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“I am here to destroy your personality, to give birth to your individuality.”
– Osho
Settled on watching tv and experimenting with tarot guided reiki :)
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“The technique of meditation allows one’s mind to gradually recede to a...”
– Sri ShivarudraBalayogi
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Sippin some jasmine oolong tea, pondering what to do with my evening. A second meditation? Qigong? Smoke? Read? TV? All of the above?
I feel a sadness on me but I’m not making it easy for it to find something to hold onto.
In the future it will be easier to walk a yogi’s path in society. Right now there are some growing pains involved :P
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rayhanash asked: Hi, Can we live a life without finding our soul mate? Are we really supposed to believe in the idea of 'soul mate' ? I have stopped looking - and living my life as it happens to me naturally. But I'm 23 and my parents are pushing me to get married for sake of ''society'' and ''security''. This makes me feel caged. I won't mind spending my...
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Post-Meditation Technique: Extending Gratitude
Many lives are lived on a moment to moment basis revolving around survival. You see it today in third world countries or the most impoverished stratum of a society.
Free time is a luxury, a moment’s rest can be a luxury. If you go back thousands of years, perhaps around the time of the agricultural revolution, you will see that humanity had to focus on survival. Food and protection,...
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“All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things...”
– Eckhart Tolle
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russianhellokitty asked: In your blog about how to meditate (which is very helpful by the way), you mention God. What does God mean to you? Do you mean this in a traditional sense, or otherwise?
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“There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a...”
– The Bhagavad Gita
The Sannyas Way: The Root of Liberation Is... →
sannyasinath:
Up to now sannyas has been tethered to a master who initiates someone into it. But sannyas is not something which anyone can give you as a gift; it has to be received directly from the divine.
Who else but God can initiate you into sannyas? When someone comes and asks me to initiate him…
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unebelletragedie asked: Dear yogi, lately I've been noticing that I have negative feelings towards certain people, ideas and practices that I never really meant to feel negativity towards. I've never felt dislike towards what I find myself disliking now, but all of a sudden, it seems I've become averse to some things. How can I understand where this sudden animosity is stemming from, and how can I rid...
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chrysosanthemon asked: I often find myself taking what others say or do personally. I'm really trying to break that way of thinking, but so far have been pretty unsuccessful. I've read a couple of "self-help" books that touch on the subject but nothing really seems to help. Is there any advice you can give on how not to take everything so personally?
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“What we speak becomes the house we live in.”
– Hafiz
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eatlivewear asked: Hi there! Was scrolling through your blog (lovin' the new yellow background btw) and saw a photo of your visit to the Los Angeles Yogananda Lake Shrine Temple. It's actually not that far from me (discounting fretful LA traffic) but I haven't as yet gotten around to visiting. Just wanted to ask if you have an opinion on the place? Thanks!
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American Sannyas: Life Everlasting
There is a lifestyle in India knows as sannyas. Sannyas means, roughly, renunciation. In India, when a person becomes a wandering monk, they take the sannyas vow. Thereon out they are known as a sannyasin.
When you take the sannyas vow, you attend your own funeral. You are declared legally dead. And you leave society.
You practice meditation, do rituals, and beg for food.
This is a way of...
meeting my ex for lunch, krishna for dinner, and then taking the sannyas vow after the oscars. it’s gonna be a weird day :)
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romeoago-go asked: How does one look into themselves and find comfort? I want to tap this stream that I can feel within me, but the process of getting through these walls to get to it illudes me.
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“As Dogen says, people like what is not true and they don’t like what is...”
– Suzuki Roshi
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The Technology of Spiritual Evolution
Practice every day. Boom. You’re good to go.
A lot of you may feel inspired by reading certain quotes or teachings. But do you act on them? And do you try it once, or do it daily for a month just to see what happens?
It’s not enough to have interesting thoughts or to decide what beliefs appeal to you. Spiritual practices like meditation and prayer aren’t there to symbolize...
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jfkjackal asked: what do you think of paganism?
rayhanash asked: Hi, is there in fact anything called ''Inner Voice''? Is this the same as Intuition? Namaste, Brother :)
dealing with a hangover the west coast way while watching zombieland. while I hate drinking, last night was totally worth the hangover. dinner and wild karaoke in koreatown for my friend’s bday, lotta fun.
paying for it now :P
I love how wet surfaces in the rain become shifting canvases painted by car and street lights.
nyc rainy days ftw
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“Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more...”
– Ram Dass
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“You will find meaning in life only if you create it. It is not lying there...”
– Osho
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Inhaling deeply through my nostrils and pretending it’s the sweet midsummer evening air
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nashvillegentleman asked: I had been a Christian for most of my life. After studying Buddhism, practicing it alongside my Christianity, and feeling spiritually unfulfilled in my Christianity, I have made the leep into unlearning my former way of life. I meditate daily, have read and studied Buddhism, and found a great Buddhist study group. My question to you is, what do I do now, and do I really even need to become an...
sweetddisposition asked: I know you smoke, so I was wondering if I could get your opinion. I smoked habitually for about a year and it had the same effects on me as it normally does for anyone else. Once I started really cracking down with my spiritual path however, the effects reversed. It made me anxious, paranoid, depressed, stressed, pretty much all the things I wanted to avoid. I was wondering if you knew why that...
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Exploring Tibetan Buddhism and the Bodhisattva...
When it comes to learning to practice ways of compassionate love, no tradition exceeds tibetan buddhism in providing technology. Tibetan buddhism aims for enlightenment like any other spiritual path but the reason for the aim is different.
Many paths are profound and intimate, a love affair and intellectual relationship between a seeker and the divine. The tibetan buddhist path, however, seeks...
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