Sangha News
The Time of our Lives
April 22nd, 2013
What touches the heart? Truth. Understanding. Softness. Love. Compassion. That’s what’s happening here, something starts touching you that you never have seen. We are having the time of our lives – dancing, singing, laughing, experiencing life with all our senses… sitting in silence, cherishing the sunset with thousands of birds
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The Innocent Heart
April 17th, 2013
What is innocence? We enter this world with innocence – pure presence, no ego, curious about this vast, shining world which calls to all our senses. As we get older – start school, get friends, listen to teachers, to the society, to movies – this innocence is slowly being lost.
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Waves of Love
April 9th, 2013
It is autumn in Mevlana Garden. The high energy of the summer season is fading, and the slower pace brings peace to the garden of our Beloved. Glorious sunsets silhouette flocks of birds returning to their nests. Like them, the friends of truth – seekers, old and new – flock
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Sharing the Truth
March 23rd, 2013
What an opportunity we have, to sit together and to learn together! Sharing ourselves in letters to our beloved Master, touching the hearts of friends and helping them to see their own situations from different angles. It doesn’t matter how young or how old we are; in this timeless, eternal
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The Right Side Up
March 17th, 2013
Last weekend, we had the precious gift of Satsang with our beloved Master. This life is full of gifts – if we are available to see them. To be a sannyasin is to have the courage to live now, not like before. To live differently than before involves change, and
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The Natural Man
February 20th, 2013
Last week was Carnaval, when people put on masks and fancy dress to celebrate and distract themselves. This week, in Satsang we have the chance to drop our masks and distractions and to sit with the truth. The world is full of distractions, keeping us from looking within. Our Master
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The Yoga of Ah.
February 10th, 2013
First have the courage to come into the ocean. Then you can learn the joyful art of swimming. Then, the blissful art of drowning. Only then will real life begin. The Beloved graced us with his presence yesterday. He played with us like an innocent child, then spoke clear, timeless
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Freedom
February 2nd, 2013
What is freedom? There is freedom from, which is rejecting, rebelling, arrogant, angry. There is freedom for, which is choice, creativity, walking your own path. Then there is just freedom – beyond dualities. Nothing to break free from and nothing to do – just peace. The first two are steps
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The Gift of Sannyas
January 13th, 2013
Life in the sangha is full of surprises and blessings. To live in the now is to be ready for anything. To truly be a sannyassin is to accept the gift of life and to live it with awareness. Dropping our old habits and identities helps us to be ready
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