Four Secrets to Deep Meditation

Reflections

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Four Secrets to Deep Meditation

Sage Patanjali lived near the time of the Buddha. In the Yoga Sutras he clarifies four powerful steps to deep meditation.

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“Exclusion and Embrace”

Reaching across a divide of difference, we must respect the reaching—and also the difference.

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Welcome summer visitor! Bathing in the warm sunlight. Enastros.com
#monarch #gardenfriends #meditation

Ring-of-fire eclipse of Sun (Surya Grahan) will be seen over northern India at their noon on June 21. Rahu solar eclipse in Gemini. Harbinger of transformation.
#vedicastrology #light #transformation #eclipse
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I wonder about the relationship of physical light to the light of consciousness.
#enastros #light #crystal #vedicastrology #hope #meditation

“These trees
Are prayers.”
—Rabindranath Tagore

I like the silver linings.
Working on valuing the dark clouds, as well.
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There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men.
There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women.
There is only one child in the world and the child’s name is All Children.
—Carl Sandburg

At day’s end I notice I’m wondering/worrying about tomorrow. How to wake up to the beauty that’s here right now!
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The justice-seeking turmoil in the wake of George Floyd’s wrongful death is a healthy response!
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Sitting still in a forest glade,
Resting in the silence of trees
And robin’s morning song.
Deep, fresh breaths!

...How could we tire of hope? —So much is in bud.
...We have only begun to envision
How it might be
To live as siblings with beast and flower,
Not as oppressors....
—Denise Levertov, “Beginners”

The natural world is our exten

There is a place where the sidewalk ends...
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow...
For the children they mark, and the children they know
the place where the sidewalk ends. —Shel Silverstein
Where the asphalt ends, here begins

Watercolors. When I want to do a cloud or a wave, I often get fuddled by what I think they look like. This one I painted upside down. Just shapes and colors. No preconceptions. Take a walk and let go of what things are—the names, the uses. Just

Energy of the divine feminine, in the form of Vedic goddess, Durga. This energy is within us, encouraging and empowering us to overcome obstacles. To create joy. To find fulfillment in what matters most!

Investment strategy. April starts, summer and fall harvests. Meantime reconnecting to cycles deeply rooted in the soul.

Sheltering in the Covid 19 storm. Better with a friend! #lunchonthelanai

Five minutes on a forest path changes everything! Stop. What do you hear? Stop. What do you smell.