nine bows to the musicians who continue to give so much!
Gurucharan........................tabla
Kevin Germain....................yayli tanbur Dona O'Dou........................tamboura
Divya Shinn........................vocals
Rick Roberts......................harmonium
did you know...
...I'm still looking for people to help with the evening chants. Specifically, I would love to have cymbal players, a cello and a sound engineer. If you're reading this and want to be involved with the Kirtan in Greenfield or Amherst please email me. Or maybe you know someone that would be just perfect. Please forward this email to that perfect person and put us in touch. |
Inspirational Corner
How to Have a Peaceful Life
- Jan Frazier
A peaceful life can't be provided for in a comprehensive way - taking care of the imagined future, for instance, or reaching out to the larger surroundings to insure security and comfort, a certain way of living. How to have a peaceful life really comes down to a very small thing: how to have a peaceful moment. This is a doable thing. (It is the only thing that is doable.)
Peace is the state that comes about when all of a person's attention is on what is immediate, when the entire awareness is aligned with the real, and there is no resistance to what is seen. What is real is the present moment. Something in the body of a human being recognizes the truth of this: that reality is only what is here and what is now, immediate in awareness. When the attention is directed toward what the present moment holds, without resistance or mental commentary, the experience is of peace.
What is useful is to see that it is only (ever and always, only) the present moment in which this business of peacefulness applies. Nothing but the present moment is real, or ever will be. |
Kirtan
Greetings! This Sunday at 1:45am marks the beginning of summer and on Saturday, exactly 6 hours before the Summer Solstice we'll be celebrating with an evening of chanting at Green River Yoga in Greenfield. 
...is a time
for people to come together, open their hearts and sing. For years
chanting has helped people to effortlessly reach a state of quiet and
stillness that easliy leads to meditation. While it's true that we can
chant in our car or in the solitude of our home, there's nothing like
chanting with others and with live musicians. Every kirtan is different
depending on the energy of the group, but as the evening progresses one
becomes saturated with the Name, the mind becomes one-pointed and
dropping into a deep state of meditation becomes effortless.