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Category Archives: Yoga
Yoga By Candlelight
It was on my 18th spine-roll that I made the rude noise. It reverberated around the yoga studio like the sounding of the gong. I try so hard yet spiritual enlightenment and smooth digestion still escape me. My afternoon began … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Yoga
Tagged candlelight, gong, spine roll, spiritual enlightenment, stuffed animals, yoga studio
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Goy Joy Lives – I’m Meditating Live On My Cam To Abstract Sanskrit Chants
From my live cam: guest7: You now have two traditions where wisdom is associated with a beard: Hinduism and Judaism. Now if you embrace Islam, you’ll be on your way to embracing beard-loving religions. guest7: What’s your next beard-loving tradition … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Yoga
Tagged beard, beards, chants, hindu deity, Hinduism, Judaism, live cam, loving religion
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Guru Singh On Facebook
Here’s his website and here is his Facebook. I didn’t realize the Guru could even turn on a computer. A friend calls: "My friend used to go see Guru Singh," he says, "and he’s now facing ten counts of contempt … Continue reading
Posted in Guru Singh, Yoga
Tagged 80th birthday, contempt of court, Facebook, guru, luke ford
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Align The Heavenly Forces In Your Life
I don’t believe in astrology but I don’t deny its relevance either. I’m agnostic. But one can’t be agnostic in the way one lives. You either live as God matters or you live as if God does not matter. You … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Yoga
Tagged conscious action, god matters, lunar eclipse, new moon, saturn uranus, solar eclipse
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My Enemies List
As I walk around on Shabbat, I make a point of greeting every male Jew. I’m too modest to talk to female strangers (unless they are young and hot and seemingly eager to talk to me). When certain people refuse … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Yoga
Tagged long time sun, male jew, refreshing cup, shabbat, yoga center
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I’m Changing My Life
I’m not happy with where I am with my life. My economic model, for one thing, is broken. Therefore, I am changing. I am pushing myself to do things that are not comfortable to me. For one thing, I’m doing … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Yoga
Tagged bad habit, hot dates, meditative yoga, social failure, yoga center, yoga practices
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What Does The Guru Mean When He Says, ‘Love you’?
When Guru Singh walks past you, he says, "Love you." In his latest lecture, he explained how this means something different from "I love you." He was responding to those who think, "How can he love me? He doesn’t even … Continue reading
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Tagged different path, estuary, jewish woman, spiritual journeys, stretching exercises
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Sanskrit Prayers Are More Powerful
Kring emails: sanskrit prayers are indeed more powerful… i’ve prayed in hebrew, english, and spanish using jewish as well as catholic prayers…. but what you’re using there in sanskrit are not prayers, but mantras, more precisely. sanskrit is the language … Continue reading
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Tagged catholic prayers, hebrew, sanskrit prayers, spiritual level, telepathy
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Talking To God In Sanskrit
A few heretical thoughts:
Posted in Personal, Yoga
Tagged god in sanskrit, heretical thoughts, talking to god
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Persistent Spiritual Practice
Guru Singh writes: This entire event of our worldly existence receives its definition and then stimulation for its design via our perceptions. Perception is a matter of clarity vs obscurity, focus vs diffusion, commitment vs impulse, and on and on … Continue reading
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Tagged combinations and permutations, conscious focus, prayer work, worldly existence, yoga stretch, yoga work
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