WEEK SIX
ZOOM Class Schedule
Monday, Feb 3rd: 7:15-8 ONLINE LINK HERE NO RECORD
Tuesday, Feb 4th: 7:15-8 ONLINE LINK HERE RECORDING HERE
Wednesday, Feb 5th: 7:15-8 ONLINE LINK HERE RECORDING HERE
Thursday, Feb 6th: 7:15-8 ONLINE LINK HERE RECORDING HERE
Friday, Feb 7th: 7:15-8 ONLINE LINK HERE RECORDING HERE
Saturday, Feb 8th: 9-10am ONLINE LINK HERE No record
Sunday, Feb 9th: 5-6:30pm with Clara Roberts-Oss IN-STUDIO and ONLINE LINK HERE No record
Day 34
TK Sribhashyam
Did you ask your father his definition of yoga?
"He told me that it's a way of developing mental peace and also respecting mental peace in others"
Day 35
You sit here for days saying,
“This is strange business.”
You’re the strange business.
You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.
You’re some weird kind of gold that wants to stay melted in the furnace, so you won’t have to become coins.
Say ONE in your lonesome house. Loving all the rest is hiding inside a lie. You’ve gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine.
Taste this.
It won’t make you wild.
It’s fire. Give up, if you don’t understand by this time
that your living is firewood.
This wave of talking builds.
Better we should not speak, but let it grow within.
-Rumi
Day 36
“Softer than the flower where kindness is concerned,
“Stronger than the thunder where principles are at stake.”
—Vedic definition of the enlightened
Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you’re diving in and experiencing the Self, you’re not closing yourself off from the world. You’re strengthening yourself so you can be more effective when you go back out into the world.
It’s like they say on airplanes: “First put your mask on, and then help those next to you put theirs on.” My friend Charlie Lutes used to say, “There’s a guy crying on the curb, and you sit down to comfort him, and pretty soon there’s two guys crying on the curb.”
So compassion, appreciation for others, and the capacity to help others is enhanced when you meditate. You start diving down and experiencing this ocean of pure love, pure peace — you could say pure compassion. You experience that, and know it by being it. Then you go out into the world, and you can really do something for people.
From “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity” by David Lynch (Tarcher/Penguin)
Day 37
Steve jobs (Apple)
“If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was a meditator, had a clear, brilliant open mind and he invented things that we had never dreamed of, he also had a “beginner’s mind.” His childlike belief in possiblility contributed to him building things no one had dreamed of…
At his memorial service, Steve Jobs left everyone there a small, brown box, you would never guess what was inside… The latest iPhone, iPad? No, left a book he first read in high school, again in India and then once a year.
The book was Autobiography of a Yogi, written in 1946 by the Indian Guru Parahamsa Yogananda about the science of yoga and the path to self realization. It was also the only book Steve downloaded to his iPad before he left for his final Hawaiian vacation.
“Your time is limited,” he said, “So don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
”You should transfer your attention from failure to success, from worry to calmness, from mental wanderings to concentration, from restlessness to peace, and from peace to divine bliss within. Paramahansa Yogananda
Day 38
The slower the breath, the more ability we have to calm the mind and live a long, healthy life. Slow the breath and be cool like Crush, the sea turtle in Finding Nemo. Check out the yoga science below:
“Many illustrations could be given of the mathematical relationship between man’s respiratory rate and the variations in his states of consciousness. A person whose attention is wholly engrossed, as in following some closely knit intellectual argument, or in attempting some delicate or difficult physical feat, automatically breathes very slowly. Fixity of attention depends on slow breathing; quick or uneven breaths are an inevitable accompaniment of harmful emotional states: fear, lust, anger. The restless monkey breathes at the rate of 32 times a minute, in contrast to man’s average of 18 times. The elephant, tortoise, snake and other animals noted for their longevity have a respiratory rate which is less than man’s. The tortoise, for instance, who may attain the age of 300 years, breathes only 4 times per minute.” - Parahamsa Yogananda
Day 39
How 'bout remembering your divinity?
Thank you, India
Thank you, providence
Thank you, disillusionment
Thank you, nothingness
Thank you, clarity
Thank you, thank you, silence. - Alanis Morrisette
Day 40
Pashyema
May we see 100 Autumns
|| tac-ca̍kṣur de̱va-hi̍taṁ pu̱rastā̎c-chukram-u̱ccara̍t ||
paśye̍ma śa̱rada̍ś-śa̱taṁ,
jīve̍ma śa̱rada̍ś-śa̱taṁ,
nandā̍ma śa̱rada̍ś-śa̱taṁ,
modā̍ma śa̱rada̍ś-śa̱taṁ,
bhavā̍ma śa̱rada̍ś-śa̱taṁ,
śṛṇvā̍ma śa̱rada̍ś-śa̱taṁ,
prabra̍vāma śa̱rada̍ś-śa̱taṁ,
ajī̍tāsyāma śa̱rada̍ś-śa̱taṁ
jyok cā̱ sūrya̍ṁ dṛ̱śe ||
May we continue to see the sun rise for 100 autumns
May we live, enjoy perfect health for 100 Autumns
May we enjoy, rejoice for 100 autumns
May we be be happy, content for 100 autumns
May we thrive for 100 autumns
May we listen well for 100 autumns
May we speak well for 100 autumns
May we be unconquerable for 100 autumns
May we continue to learn and pursue the path to enlightenment
May we continually move towards truth and
freedom
Let us awaken from sleepwalking
Here is a chant from the Vedas for peace among fellow human beings, in all other creatures and even in the functioning of nature. It is usually chanted in chorus for Universal Peace.
Ghosha Shanti Mantra (In Chorus Peace Invocation)
Maha Shanti Mantra (The Great Peace Invocation)
pṛ̱thi̱vī śānti̍r-a̱ntari̍kṣa̱gu̱ṁ śānti̱ dyauś-śānti̱r diśa̱ś-śānti̍r avāntara di̱śāś-śānti̍r a̱gniś-śānti̍r vā̱yuś-śānti̍r ādi̱tyaś-śānti̍ś ca̱ndramā̱ś śānti̱r nakṣa̍trāṇi̱ śānti̱r-āpa̱ś śānti̱r oṣa̍dhaya̱ś śānti̱r vana̱s-pata̍ya̱ś śānti̱r gauś śānti̍r a̱jā śānti̱r aśva̱ś śānti̱ḥ puru̍ṣa̱ś śānti̱r brahma̱ śānti̍r brāhma̱ṇaś śānti̱ś śānti̍r e̱va śānti̱ś śānti̍r me astu̱ śānti̍ḥ | tayā̱haguṁ śā̱ntyā sa̍rvā śā̱ntyāmahya̍ṁ dvi̱pade̱ catu̍ṣ-pade ca̱ śānti̍ṁ karomi śānti̍r me astu̱ śānti̍ḥ ||
May the Earth function peacefully
May there be peace in outer Space
May there be peace in the Heavens.
Peace, may there be, in all Directions
In all the intermediate directions, may there be Peace
May the Fire function peacefully
May the Air function peacefully,
May the Sun warm us gently
May the moon shine peacefully,
So the stars function peacefully,
May the waters function in peace,
May there be peace in herbs
May the trees (and forests) be peaceful
May the milch cows be peaceful
So the goats be peaceful
And the horses be peaceful,
May human beings be peaceful.,
May the Lord be kind and peaceful,
May the scholars (brahmanas) be peaceful,
Let there be peace alone (no strife)
Let there be Peace alone in me.
May I be peaceful as the Universe becomes peaceful
May peace be instilled in me, in bipeds and quadrupeds
May there be Peace
By this universal peace may I remain peaceful
And I pledge to remain peaceful
And pledge to create peace in bipeds and quadrupeds
May there be Peace in me, Peace alone in me!!