Hari Rai and I went on a walk today and were talking about
Sadhana and community as we often do...and we came to realize (well remember) the importance of continuing to have and participate in other community events besides
Sadhana. I continue to come back to the importance of having fun together with spiritual people, yogis, and our
dharma brothers and sisters. Continuing to keep our practice and our lives full of light and fun. I really wish we could start the 31 minute Guru Ram
Dass chanting in the evenings like they do in other communities and continue with farmers markets visits, art walks, potlucks,
saturday market, bowling, mini golf, snow shoeing...whatever...as a community. We are also planning to start attending other Kundalini Yoga classes in town during the week.
We all process so much at
Sadhana and it's 4:30AM for God's sake...we are definitely not in our best moods...most of the time we are barely awake!
Also
interfiath events...like Ram was talking about being a Catholic and I think it would be fun to visit where she worships.
Just a few of the many streams of consciousness running around up there.
Himat
2 comments:
I like that the bowling was fun. Also April 29th I'm doing an interfaith/peace panel along with Arun Gandhi at Unity Lake Oswego. So hopefully we'll have a good community presence there.
Hari Dass
It would be grand if all of us visited and interacted with other faith communities. Although I am Catholic, attending mass regularly, I also practice hatha and Kundalini yoga. My yoga practice has brought me the full gamut - to Catholicism, away from it and back again. I do not have a clue why that is. All I know is that as I began to practice yoga in 1987, I began learning about hinduism, sikhism, hatha and kundalini yoga, judaism, tantra Buddhism, all of it. I love it all and when I returned from Masters Touch in 1999, one year later I returned to the Catholic Church. Again, I don't know why. I am active in our Social Justice group and we are not the most popular group there, but it is rewarding work. Yoga is the basis for all of my life and my experience has been it opens us up to allow God to take us where we need to be. thanks for reading.
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