Enjoy Leslie Harpold's Advent Calendar: day 4 - I add "spend some time with those who love you too..."
Germany's Immigration Law Comes to Grinding Halt : Germany’s highest court has put the brakes on Chancellor Schröder’s first ever immigration law for Germany that was to come into force early next year, much to the delight of the conservative opposition.
tipsofallsorts/hiccup : ...The longest hiccup ever known was experienced by an American pig farmer whose hiccups persisted from 1922 to 1987...
If you know Tamil, enjoy Vikkal
e taha wairua mauri ora, which is a Maori phrase that loosely translates to English as a person who is of a spiritual kind; more accurately it carries a meaning and a sentiment that suggests the idea of those who are gripped by the being of a human spirit --- a human being.
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The Atlantic | November 2002 | Superiority Complex | Brooks : ...We have democratized elitism in this country. Now everybody can be a snob...you can construct your own multimedia community, in which every magazine you read, every cable show you watch, every radio station you listen to, reaffirms your values and reinforces the sense of your own rightness. it is possible, maybe even inevitable, that you will slide into a solipsism that allows you precious little contact with people totally unlike yourself. but in your enclosed sphere you will feel very important... (via Karl Martino, garret p vreeland)
Good News India: Site diary. ...Nearby I came upon 3 young boys -- all under ten-- racing each other on bicycles. Obvious truants! When I passed them one of them decided to race my car! I let the race go on for a while. The boy could barley reach the pedals but he was furiously cycling away. When I saw he was tiring, I said, "You are really fast." He retorted in a flash: "You call this fast? This is nothing! I didn't have the money to pump air into the tyres. If I had, you can't touch me!"
For me that little boy pedalling away cheerfully sums up what the other India is doing -- and his comment, what it will...
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Awarness is the key to all changes. : ...This is one of Buddha's great contributions to the psychology of man: the process of de-automatization, slowing down everything...
Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/02/2002 | Sage in his golden age : ...reincarnation applies to all people everywhere, whether they accept it or not..."There are people who want to use the name guru for me," he said with a snort. "When I hear that, I feel they just haven't seen a real one."...
Frankfurt Book Fair is "the largest trading event for rights and licences, with some 6,375 exhibitors, 150,000 trade visitors, and 390 agencies and rights dealers all from more than 100 countries." according to A Canadian in Frankfurt
Mahatma Gandhi Album : ...Gandhi (1869-1948), also known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born in Porbandar in the present state of Gujarat on October 2, 1869, and educated in law at University College, London...
Albert Einstein : Generations to come will scarce believe that such a man as this, in flesh and blood, ever walked upon this earth.
First Live Kriya with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Europe at Saturday & Sunday, 28th - 29th September 2002 Haus Auensee, Gustav-Esche-Strasse, 04159 Leipzig, Germany
Haus Yoga Vidya - Ashram Gut Hoffnungstal - im Naturparadies Rhein-Westerwald
Eric Costello's glish.com : CSS layout techniques was very useful. Thanks !
An introduction to the Upanishads : The word "Upanishad" consists of three words - "Upa" means "near", "ni" means "down" and "shad" means "be seated".
So, "Upanishad" means, "be seated at the feet of the Guru to receive the teaching."
Thinkers.com - "The School of Thinking is an independent business school. Known as SOT, it was founded in Manhattan in 1979 by Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson"
It is every Murugan devotee's dream. At least once in a lifetime, one should visit Lord Murugan's Aru Padai Veedugal, His Six Great Camps scattered across the length and breadth of Tamil Nadu. In Tamil Nadu, even beggar-devotees routinely make the circuit to these six (Tirupparankundram, Tiruchendur, Palani, Swami Malai, Tiruttani and Palamuthirsolai) temples and to many other famous temples sacred to Murugan and other great deities.
Art of Living Basic Course - second choice ! - first choice is "Self Realisation, Transformational and Kundalini Meditation Program"
Self Realisation, Transformational and Kundalini Meditation Program - Just do it ! - first choice ! - second choice is "Art of Living Basic Course"
Vipassana Meditation Course - I have not attended ! - Have you ? What has been your experience ?
Nisargadatta Maharaj on Meditation : ...My teacher told me to hold on to the sense 'I am' tenaciously and not to swerve from it even for a moment. I did my best to follow his advice and in a comparatively short time I realized within myself the truth of his teaching. All I did was to remember his teaching, his face, his words constantly. This brought an end to the mind; in the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am -- unbound.
I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the 'I am' in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared -- myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence.
My Guru ordered me to attend to the sense 'I am' and to give attention to nothing else. I just obeyed. I did not follow any particular course of breathing, or meditation, or study of scriptures. Whatever happened, I would turn away my attention from it and remain with the sense 'I am', it may look too simple, even crude. My only reason for doing it was that my Guru told me so. Yet it worked! Obedience is a powerful solvent of all desires and fears...
Floods in Europe - European Weather - Torrential Downpours lead to Flooding : ...Over 100 people have died from the floods in Central and Eastern Europe. We've mined the net for flood information and present that information by country...
His Holiness Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati Maharaj - Teachings, Messages
Sri Swami Sivananda : Guru Tattva
The Guru : ...Too many people spend too much time wondering if they will find the perfect Guru or not. Yoga masters say: "When the disciple is ready, the Guru appears."...
Maha Periyava : Gayathri Japam : ...We may cease to perform a rite if the fruits yielded by them are enjoyed exclusively by us. But we cannot do so if others also share in them...