Sangha News
The Secret Ingredient
November 23rd, 2019
You are the secret ingredient that is flavoring everything. You are in the sound of the rain on the temple roof in the warm breeze flowing through the garden in the white gardenia opening its petals. When people ask us, what is the flavor of this place? What is the
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What’s Going On?
November 17th, 2019
What’s going on? Even if you don’t understand anything of what is happening here, in this gathering, just be quiet. Just sit there. And slowly, slowly you will understand, you will get ignited, you will feel, and you will become happy. And that’s how it is. It cannot be talked
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The Deepest Friend
November 9th, 2019
To sit with you. The night sky expands inside me, in wonder. Thousands of butterflies open their wings, pulsating under my skin. I have asked myself; how can I share about this friendship? It is the friendship with the depths of my own soul. The depths that, slowly, through years
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The most Amazing journey
May 17th, 2019
Sitting at your feet is the most amazing journey. I close my eyes. A warm desert wind that smells of cinnamon and coloured silk caresses our faces. And voices of ancient mystics are whispering beautiful poems. Thousands of trembling flames are floating on the Ganga, reflecting their orange light in
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The Heart needs no Language
May 8th, 2019
To be with a mystic is to live the mystery of life fully, consciously. Normally, we take this miracle of human existence for granted. We call ourselves human beings but the “being” is easily overlooked. In a world of constant distractions, it is very seldom that we give ourselves the
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I am in You
May 3rd, 2019
Like a boat which has traveled all oceans and finally arrived in its port, the tides have brought me to You. I feel that all steps I’ve taken so far were in your direction, even though I did not know, even if I did not remember. I wondered if
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Out of the Blue
December 1st, 2018
It can not be described What happens here. But just by sitting here something sinks in. I feel my feet in the sand. I smell the lilies. I hear the wind. And suddenly out of the blue I am not a heart inside the body. I am a body inside
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The Most Beautiful Leela
November 26th, 2018
Who am I when I am not me? When I do not know anything? When I do not look outside, but dive deep, deep into my own being? Who am I when I am not posting on facebook? When I am not getting messages from my friends nor news of
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Everlasting Spring
November 24th, 2018
Here we are. We are once again attracted to the oasis where spring is everlasting. Behind the Temple of the White Lotus the sun descends, melting in orange and rosy tones, but within, He is always shining and being in His presence for these precious days, we already feel fresh
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