When the going gets tough, the in-touch meditate. Invitation to India & Level 2

November 18, 2008

Greetings Yogis, A friendly reminder that you are invited to come to

India in February to improve your ability to create your own peace.

This Level 2 course is a brilliantly designed guided tour of the

essential concepts and practices to achieve the goal of yoga:

" Yoga is control of the mind's thoughts. Only then do we sense our

SELF. Otherwise we think we ARE whatever we are thinking. " Patanjali,

sutras 2, 3, 4.

The trip will be about $3500, or $4500 with meditative tour (yatra).

So that is a consideration, but the experience is priceless. See

details at www.yogicadventures.com. and join us if you can.

" These times " are causing a lot of stress. I want to encourage us all

to continue our training to remain calmly above it. It is easiest to

commiserate, to react, to relent to the fears of others. But we are

playing a bigger game. In our culture we are not even humans having a

spiritual experience, we are consumers…units which consume stuff. So

if the flow of stuff is disturbed, it is understandably upsetting.

If a person is " spiritual " , meaning their focus is even partly on

things that cannot be taken away like peace, spirit, love, grace,

god, the ups and downs of the flow of goods will not be as

disturbing. Further, Yogi Bhajan, through these teachings, has been

building our grit to handle challenge – to eat it for breakfast – and

remain smiling. So please lean on your practice and go deeper into

yourself, resist the enticement of other's fears. Simply said, let's

Keep Up our spirit and radiate confidence for others to absorb.

Back to India, the village where Yogiji built his house and retreat

center is what I consider a " pre-consumer " culture. People there have

needs and lacks like anyone else, but there is a peace through

connectedness to what really matters like family, land, the daily

rhythm of life. That environment gives as much peace as all the

meditation we will do. It changes your normal perspective and

refreshes in a deep way. So if you have the means come for the

experience.

Blessings, GuruMeher, Los Angeles

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