|
|
Greetings and Namaste!
When I was twelve I had an experience while
lying on a rooftop in a meditative state when
a voice told me I would die by my 25th
birthday. It sounded like a very long time
away so it didn't trouble me. In my 24th
year I became very ill and ended up in Lenox
Hill hospital in NYC. They thought I had
lympho-sarcoma and would die in 3 months -
just before my 25th birthday. The words and
that voice came crashing back to me. I had
felt the Divine Presence in my life many
times and had recently met an extraordinary
meditation master, Swami Muktananda. I
prayed to the Divine and to this living saint
for blessings to live through this challenge
that demanded total surrender and to be able
to live a life of service if indeed there was
a life to live. I was visited by a radiant
form of the Divine, the Great Goddess - grace
descended, I survived and I've been blessed
daily with more opportunities to serve than I
can fulfill.
The power of grace is present in all times
and all places and can be felt in simple and
profound ways. How does it operate in your
life, in you, through you, around you? What
do you serve?
 |
|
|
Grace
Nothing pertaining to godliness or real
holiness can be accomplished without
grace.
St. Augustine
In efficacious grace, we are not merely
passive, nor yet does God do some and we do
the rest. But God does all, and we do all.
God produces all, we act all; for that is
what produces through our own acts. God is
the proper author and fountain of all; we
only are the actors. We are in different
respects, wholly active and wholly
passive.
Jonathan Edwards
Where the will of God leads you, the grace of
God keeps you.
Anonymous
All that I have realized I have realized
through devotion to my masters. Increasingly,
as I go on teaching, I become aware, humbly
and with real awe, of how their blessings are
beginning to work through me. I am nothing
without their blessing, and if there is
anything I feel I can do, it is acting as a
bridge between you and them. Again and again,
I notice that when I speak of my masters in
my teaching, my devotion to them inspires a
vision of devotion in those listening; and in
those marvelous moments I feel my masters are
present, blessing and opening the hearts of
my students to the truth.
Sogyal Rinpoche
The Tibetan Book of
Living and Dying
Kundalini is the yogic term for the power of
transformation and revelation - the power of
Grace, without which we would never see past
the confines of the ordinary mind to know our
unbroken union with the Infinite. Knowing
That and serving That, we become capable of
acting with unshakable compassion, boundless
love, unspeakable joy, penetrating wisdom
and patience born of the eternal. You are
innately capable of all this. Choose That
moment by moment if you want true
freedom.
Lawrence Edwards
|
|
|
|
|
Kundalini Research Network Spring Conference
May 14-16, 2010 at the Himalayan Institute
Perspectives
On Kundalini: Clinical, Research and
Traditional Views
Fri. 7:30pm
- Sun. Noon
Co-sponsored by the Himalayan
Institute, Honesdale,
PA
Registration Fee: $150
Register
before March 15th for
$125
Featured
Speakers include:
Lawrence Edwards,
Ph.D.
President of KRN
Pandit Rajmani Tigunait,
Ph.D., Spiritual Head of the Himalayan
Institute
Barbara and Charles Whitfield,
MD, celebrated authors and
teachers
Jyoti,
Ph.D., Spiritual teacher, author and founder
of Kayumari
Sat Bir Khalsa, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard
Univ. and leading researcher on Yoga
Dorothy Walters, Ph.D., retired professor,
author and poet on Kundalini
And numerous
more presenters!
Please click HERE
for more information.
This conference will offer participants and
presenters the rare opportunity to gather and
discuss the powerful impact that yoga and
meditation practices, spiritual emergence,
transcendent experiences and the
transformative power of Kundalini have on
individuals. Through keynote presentations
and panels of experts we will explore what
the Kundalini inspired process of
transformation and change looks like from
clinical, research and traditional spiritual
and yogic perspectives.
Saturday
evening Satya Franche will be leading kirtan,
the ecstatic practice of chanting the names
of the Divine.
The conference will be held at the wonderful
retreat setting of the Himalayan Institute in
Honesdale, PA. People attending the
conference can also participate in the yoga
classes, make use of the relaxing and healing
services of their spa and stroll the hiking
trails that cross their hundreds of acres of
hills and forests. Delicious vegetarian meals
are included in the modest accommodation fees
for those staying at the Institute. There are
also hotels nearby that people can stay at
while attending the conference.
Accommodations at the Institute and
conference registration can be done directly
with the Himalayan
Institute.
|
|
Thank you all
for your notes of appreciation for our
newsletter.
Everyone has
the heart to be a true friend of the soul, an
Anam
Cara. By embodying that ideal ourselves we
may serve to help
another to find love and compassion within
themselves.
Our highest nature is always
manifest in
relationship - to all other beings, to the
environment, in relation to our own body and
mind. Becoming mindful of the quality of our
relationships
allows us to learn where the light shines and
where it
needs to shine more. The ideal of Anam
Cara is to
continuously endeavor to expand the depth
and the
inclusiveness of the loving kindness we bring
into
every relationship, every moment, every breath.
If
you have any
suggestions, comments or sharings, for our
newsletter please don't
hesitate to e-mail me and I'll do my best to
respond.
The Anam Cara
Foundation is a 501
(C) 3,
non-profit
educational organization dedicated to
teaching
meditative practices. Our non-
denominational
programs are open to all. There are free
meditation instructions and downloadable
audio files of guided meditations on the
meditation page of our website.
Thank you for the many ways you have shown
support for The Anam Cara
Foundation. Because
of your gifts we can offer free programs and
instruction to thousands of people. If you
would like to
make a tax deductible donation please send it to
address listed below or go to our website
where you
can make a secure online donation. Click HERE.
That link will also bring you to our links
with Sounds True and purchasing gifts and
products from them will help support
The Anam
Cara Foundation.
I look forward to welcoming you
in person to our programs.
With
all my
appreciation and love,
I thank you all.
May all beings realize complete freedom from suffering and may all our actions reflect only wisdom, compassion, patience and love.
|
|
