Just a snippet of the guided meditation at “9 am Unplugged” every Sunday at Unity North Atlanta.
We share acoustic music, interactive dialogue, guided meditation, and Love!
We are still producing some more guided practices that will be uploaded to the blog soon!
I am not a Yoga Teacher… It sounds so ominous, as if I am rejecting my “career” path of the past 20 years! But, it’s quite the opposite; I am affirming my sadhana (spiritual path)–and that’s what matters.
All speech has an intention underneath it– allowing the propagation of a misnomer, for the sake of simplification, is egregious to a seeker.
I am not a Yoga Teacher–really there is no such thing. Among many definitions: Yoga is the transcendental state of consciousness; Yoga is the union of the microcosm and the macrocosm– how can one embodied being teach that???
Yes, there are Realized Masters who benevolently impart their wisdom. They have Realized their True Nature and they are guides– but, the aspirant must still walk the path.
In fact, the Yoga Sutras explain that there are three ways to obtain knowledge. Intuition, Experience, and a Qualified Teacher. But, the highest knowledge, truth, is the convergence of all three.
The aforementioned Masters are desireless– but, they share these teachings with the understanding that we are all one and it is the right and privilege of all to Self-Realize.
There is no “Teacher’s Training” that can offer this– because it requires direct experience. That is the part that seems to be ignored by the conventional.
At this junction I am a Sadhaka, not a Yogi (they have attained Yoga), I hope to Realize this state. But, until then I am a coach, a guide, and an aspirant.
Step carefully
in the way
we’ve been so
graciously shown
Feel your feet
mindfully on
each of these
well placed stones
This simple path
laid out masterfully
Will certainly
lead you home
I am co-facilitating a regular service on Sundays at Unity North in Marietta, GA.
Please see the “Events” Section for details soon!
Greetings Dear Ones,
To my readers who are aspirants, this is a lovely quote from Swami J:
“In the systematic process of meditation, you gradually move your attention inward, through all the levels of your being, gaining mastery along the way. Eventually you come to rest in your true nature, which is beyond all of those levels. This action and the realization of this center of consciousness, is the meaning of Yoga”.
The goal of Yoga is Yoga.
Hello
Salutations
Hola
Ahoy
Felicitations
Aloha
Welcome!
What’s up?
What’s the situation?
How you doing?
Hey there
What’s brewing?
Hiya
Haaaaaaayyyyyyy…..
Howdy
Good day!
A different greeting
with each heart beat
I leave you with only one farewell
The only good bye worthy
of our meeting
and subsequent chance to play
A sincere, cultivated, and lovely
expression of Namaste!
The story of a world saved,
a man holding our hand
Guiding us with a new way of thinking
and a great sacrifice made
His love song began
With a star, sweet parents, wise men,
and salvation born on a manger’s floor
a great awakening unto man
a blossoming of consciousness like never before
a brighter light shone on God’s plan
He lived a life worthy of our praise
An example for you and I to follow
his encircling arms, and lasting embrace
a reminder that we are full, perfect, and not hollow
We are children of the sacred, armed with trust and light
The story of our life is whatever we make it
so let us give thanks and let our spirits take flight
with the transcendent joy in his story writ
a time spanning classic of love at first sight
I pour out
I fill up
All that is given is saved
Be still sweet cup
And, together, be raised
“I’m too busy to meditate”, does that sound like you? There are times that I have perceived myself as being too busy too. However, whether or not we are aware of it, we are meditating– we are often meditating on our inability to go inside. We may be meditating on our stress, on our busyness, on our distractions.
The “New Thought Philosophy“– which is heavily inspired by the Himalayan Tradition– subscribes to the principle, “We create our life experiences through our way of thinking”. If we are operating from a perspective of lack, then lack is what we manifest.
Meditation, prayer, and contemplation are a rights, they are privileges, and legacy. We are the pure consciousness, the silence, the unnameable transcendental state that appears to project outward and condense into everything we see. In order to maintain an awareness of our true nature, we must go inside.
All day long, like the transcendental consciousness, we are doing, making, creating. It is very easy to forget who we really are and fully identify with our actions and creations.
Then we feel separation. We feel like our plight is something “others” cannot understand; this is avidya.
The perceived duality of existence originates in this separation.
Yet, if we allot time, during meditation, to steep in our core– we can reduce the effects of this delusion. We still operate in the world; but, we are not so attached to it that we feel it defines us.
So, as the sages of old and new say, “Meditate, Meditate, Meditate”.
whatever I’ve done
whatever I may do
I will always come back to what’s true
and when the battle within me is won
I will return and make it up to you
From the Gross to the Subtle 