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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Brad Yates and the Dalai Lama

In the coming months I have seemingly endless possibilities to look forward to. The Dalai Lama will be in town and if I can afford to, I'll see him speak in Radio City Music Hall. There are no tickets on the official site, but I've checked stubhub and other scalper (for lack of a better word) sites, and now it's just a matter of affording the cost.

Another VIP, hypnotherapist Brad Yates, will be in NYC in June. I came in contact with his work in California when I volunteered for Ananda Marga. My dear friend, Rebecca, has met him (I think) and followed his work, so I checked him out and found his work rewarding (and free!).

I just came back from a retreat in Plainsfield, MS, and I feel really inspired. I met with my meditation teacher, Acarya' Cirasmita' (that's ah-CHAR-YAH cheer-as-mee-TAH), or just "Didi." She helps me steer my boat straight, as it were. I am aware of a pattern I've created, which is to eat heavy, static foods starting in the dead of winter (stuff like garlic and eggs, maybe fish, but never meat) and by Spring when I meet with Didi I quit it and return to my practices. I also tend to get more and more lax with my practices (e.g. meditation, yoga, mantra chanting and dancing). Now is the time to remember, that I am here for a purpose. Sometimes that vision is clouded but to make it clear: I am here to raise my brethren from the darkness of themselves and to rise with them, into the light of Life, The Truth.

I send my Love and Light to all my brothers and sisters around the world, first, to my friends whom I love the most, next, my family, and then to all people I know, and finally, to all citizens of this universe. We are all Brahma. Let light shed in the darkness, let ego be restrained and harnessed, and let all beings find balance and spiritual victory. Parampitababaki, Jai!

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Amanda

The inspiration for my blog: Amanda. I sort of unconsciously decided, based on public opinion, that blogs were selfish, narcissistic. I now see how important a tool they are! My friend is traveling and moving about A LOT and it's wonderful to read her blog and be able to keep up with her comings and goings.

I want to immerse myself in a foreign culture, specifically a Latin American one, like she is. Maybe Mexico, just ONE. I NEED to learn Spanish fluently and it won't happen reading Spanish for Dummies.

But, for now, I am moving to my girlfriend's apartment in the town of my Alma Mater to work on our life together. It's not perminent, but, at the expense of sounding like a politician, it's a step towards our future.

I just spoke to Amanda from her research base in Costa Rica. She does not feel the pull towards family life I do, nor does she "believe." She is quite skeptical and nomadic and I applaud, no, laud her stamina. I want life simple. She wants life chaotic, unpredictable. One of the many reasons I love her. She is truly my soul-sister, a friend I have known for many generations.

We are karmic family. It's a deep relationship that I wish all people can be blessed with because our day to day lives are so filled with polite, empty banter with people we know nothing about. We absolutely thrive on those deep interdependent relationships. We need to share, as a species, and in today's world, we can't share. Our (western) society is so individualistic that we are without supports. We desperately need Love and Respect. I thank the Will of All Things for my soul-friends, my soul-family, my girlfriend, and for the new people in my life(s).