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Day 6 . 🌞 @embodiedphilosophy MEDITATION RESOLUTION #meditationresolution Day 6 - “Seeing equality everywhere” with @neuro.namaste.nature.nourish . Journal: reflect what it means to you to see equality in everything. . 🌞 Do you find the idea of Source? Creative Intelligence or Something-bigger-than-me slightly terrifying? Off putting? Triggering? . Many seem to. . Exacerbated by many traditions’ teachings that our essence is divine in nature. . That is we (the world) are whole and complete. Unbroken. Joyful. . Eek? . Our nature covered by eons of stuff. (A multifaceted, multi dimensional topic). . Practice, therefore, is a path to remembrance . We are, at core, connected to everyone and everything else. . To me, this means exploring how to accept all, reject none. An attitude. An intention. An approach. While honouring boundaries of behaviour. . 🌞 @danaslampyoga , @drhillgroove , @neuro.namaste.nature.nourish , @thenycyogini , @kushridevi , @wanderingvayu , @nataraj.chaitanya, @milesneale , @oneikamays @nalandainstitute @susannaharwoodrubin #meditationresolution⁣ #meditation #embodiedphilosophy . Photo - Canggu 2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/CYbG8hVPZa9/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Meditation resolution Day 14 Teaching with @nina.Rao bhaja govindaṁ bhaja govindaṁ govindaṁ bhaja mūḍha-mate | samprāpte sannihite kāle nahi nahi rakṣati ḍukṛṅkaraṇe || Worship Govinda, worship Govinda, Worship Govinda, oh deluded mind! At the time of your death, Rules of grammar will not save you . 🐝 As the bees go deep into the flower to draw nectar, so we are called to go deep into ourselves to experience the sweetness of freedom. . 🐝 To go deep, we meditate on the names of the Divine whatever that is for you. Here we are shown that what we are whole and complete. We don’t need to keep seeking for more in the world . 🐝 This is freedom. To be grateful for what is without craving for more or different. . 🐝 Thank you @embodiedphilosophy for these 14 days of meditation. It is a wonderful way to begin this year. . @embodiedphilosophy @yogawithashton @oneikamays @mirabelle_sivajyoti @milesneale @susannaharwoodrubin @afroyoga @nataraj_chaitanya @nina_rao @wanderingvayu #meditationresolution #embodiedphilosophy Image Varanasi 2013 (at Varanasi, India) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKD-bPgJwwH/?igshid=pe3dpnokwgro

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Meditation resolution Day 13 Oṁ pūrṇamadaḥ pūrṇamidam pūrṇāt pūrṇamudacyate Pūrṇasya pūrṇamādāya pūrṇamevāvaśiṣyate Om. That is the whole, this is the whole; from the whole, the whole becomes manifest; taking away the whole from the whole, the whole remains. . 💫 We spend a lot of time striving, trying to be better, know more, be more,stand out. People spend thousands of dollars to improve their form and their mind. As we focus on spiritual path, thousands of dollars to gain knowledge. To look the part. Be the seeker. . 💫 Yet we were born complete. Whole. Enough.One with all manifestion. . 💫 We just need to remember. This is why we meditate. . 💫 As long as we lack the experience and understanding of our own Fullness we continue to think of ourselves as small, separate, disempowered individuals. . Our awareness throbs with all the power, grace, and wisdom of the universe. Our Sadhana prepares us to receive our own worthiness, our own enough-ness...... entering into and abiding in our own spacious awareness, we feel that we are everything, and everything is us. We are life experiencing itself. From @nataraj_chaitanya teaching. . 💫 . @embodiedphilosophy @yogawithashton @oneikamays @mirabelle_sivajyoti @milesneale @susannaharwoodrubin @afroyoga @nataraj_chaitanya @nina_rao @wanderingvayu #meditationresolution #embodiedphilosophy Image taken on Ma Ganga, Varanasi, 2013. https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ-B1YhpYMr/?igshid=pe8yrunxdk2x

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Meditation Resolution - Day 8 Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare . 🧡 The bus hurtled down the highway from Delhi to Agra. Early morning thick fog didn’t slow the driver down. . One hand on the horn, the other whipping the steering wheel from side to side to dodge cars. . 🚌 In Australia I am the passenger driver, hanging on and shouting instructions at every turn. Somehow in India, fear had melted away. . 🤷🏽‍♀️ Until Kylie screamed. We all sat up as the driver nearly launched through the roof. His second driver quickly put on music. Whether to calm the diver, the 5 of us or himself, it was hard to tell. . 🧡 Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare . 🧡 Hare Krsna blared out and the second driver gazed back to check the effect. We were singing and his face lit up. . 🧡 I first heard Maha mantra when in London as a little girl. I was mesmerised by the orange robes swirling, joyful smiles of the Hare Krishnas dancing on street corners. It is the first mantra I have learnt on the harmonium. Singing it over and over. . 🧡 On the bus, I continued to sing along and the second driver too. A decade later, his happiness of sharing the names of God, remain with me. When I speak of interconnectedness, it is this that flashes up. No words other than the chant and the shared joy as eyes met. . 🧡 . Nina explains we are taken across the ocean of existence with chanting Hare Krsna. The medicine of the name carried in the sweet syrup of music. Yes! This articulates the feeling I have when chanting it. . 🧡 Side note: after about an hour, the others had enough. Arousing from bus sickness medicated haze, Gail slid down to the front. Using hand gestures, swapped soundtracks over to several relieved sighs from the our crew. . 📱😂 . Thank you @nina_rao , Noah and Brad for practice today. . @embodiedphilosophy @yogawithashton @oneikamays @mirabelle_sivajyoti @milesneale @susannaharwoodrubin @afroyoga @nataraj_chaitanya @nina_rao @wanderingvayu #meditationresolution #embodiedphilosophy Photo of our destination in Agra. 2013. https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ0kn3mJpLb/?igshid=lis5s6fwpl72

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Meditation Resolution - Day 7 Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all. . 📿 The first mantra that I learnt & made a difference in Life. Over the years, more layers reveal themselves. . 📿 Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu May all beings everywhere be happy and free . It is the “all” that is thorny as @oneikamays explains. On the surface, easy to wish everyone be happy and free. . 📿 Until there is a trigger: Love those peeps - happiness and freedom for them! That group 🤔well ok. But this group, I’m fanging 🐍them big time. Fury and fire for them! . 😬 . Oneika discusses space for big emotions. Integration. Forming boundaries to stop harm rippling out. All part of practice. . 📿 Like yesterday, contemplating capacity to welcome big emotions. Flow & subside. As I empty, is the mantra true within me? . Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu . From Pema Choden: “Sitting meditation .. is a method of cultivating unconditional friendliness toward ourselves and parting the curtain of indifference that distances us from the suffering of others.. . Yet there is no guarantee that sitting meditation will be of benefit. It requires complete acceptance just as we are (maîtri). Most of us don’t want to stay with the nakedness of the present moment. If we relax with ourselves, meditation becomes a transformative process. Approaching it with a sense of humour and kindness, we find steadfastness. Through steadfastness we develop the four limitless qualities - May all sentient beings enjoy happiness and the root of happiness. - May they be free from suffering and the root of suffering. - May they not be separated from the great joy, devoid of suffering. - May they dwell in great equanimity, free from passion, aggression and prejudice.” . @embodiedphilosophy @yogawithashton @oneikamays @mirabelle_sivajyoti @milesneale @susannaharwoodrubin @afroyoga @nataraj_chaitanya @nina_rao @wanderingvayu #meditationresolution #embodiedphilosophy Photo @gailisedale at Mahabalipuram temples https://www.instagram.com/p/CJxYv5XJ6_C/?igshid=2y8f4fo007p8

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Meditation Resolution - Day 6 Maha Mrityunjaya ॐ त्र्यम्बकं यजामहे सुगन्धिं पुष्टिवर्धनम् | उर्वारुकमिव बन्धनान्मृत्योर्मुक्षीय माऽमृतात् || Aum Tryambakam yajaamahe sugandhim pushtivardhanam | Urvaarukamiva bandhanaan-mrityormuksheeya maamritaat || 🔱 . The day of chanting Maha Mrityunjaya. The great mantra takes us beyond death (fear, loss and grief) and disease. . 🔱 From @mirabelle_sivajyoti ‘s teaching on approach to mantra: “you can feel it if your heart is open to connect and if perception is polished subtly by sadhana or previous Samskaras. The subtle energy of intention, more than words ascribed to it, are of prime importance for efficacy of mantra meditation.” . 🔱 I chanted more than usual today. Struggling to embody the tradition’s teachings of interconnectedness. Fear is a good sneaker and ultimately underpins “me and them” thinking . . 🔱 Aum Tryambakam yajaamahe sugandhim pushtivardhanam | Urvaarukamiva bandhanaan-mrityormuksheeya maamritaat . 🔱 Anger, grief, pain isn’t bypassed with chanting and meditation. For me, the wave of powerful emotions continues to arise and subside. The practice “Embody compassion in the world, grounded in the wisdom of emptiness - @milesneale” is key. . 🔱 My intention is to let go of me, me, me and chant for all. Which is me and I’m them. . 🔱 Emotions form, (like dumping waves ☹️) I step back into centre, farewelling as they empty. Again and again. . 🔱 As I continue to chant: . Aum Tryambakam yajaamahe sugandhim pushtivardhanam | Urvaarukamiva bandhanaan-mrityormuksheeya maamritaat . 🔱 @embodiedphilosophy @yogawithashton @oneikamays @mirabelle_sivajyoti @milesneale @susannaharwoodrubin @afroyoga @nataraj_chaitanya @nina_rao @wanderingvayu #meditationresolution #embodiedphilosophy Photo taken at Shiva’s Brihadeeswarar Temple in 2013. https://www.instagram.com/p/CJvToDppjXm/?igshid=6o3oa136ssep

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Meditation resolution day 5 Om mani padme hum Embody compassion in the world, grounded in the wisdom of emptiness - teaching from @milesneale Om mani padme hum . 🙏🏼 The deep resonance of the chant sounds down through my feet. Everything quietened. Peace descending, Emptying out into presence. . Om mani padme hum . 🙏🏼 See @yogi_ma_ for beautiful reflection and images @embodiedphilosophy @yogawithashton @oneikamays @mirabelle_sivajyoti @milesneale @susannaharwoodrubin @afroyoga @nataraj_chaitanya @nina_rao @wanderingvayu #meditationresolution #embodiedphilosophy Photo taken at Wat Phnom in Cambodia https://www.instagram.com/p/CJs3XVgpTBN/?igshid=1u7sgp95lv8x0

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Meditation resolution . 🐘 Day 2 - Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha Sri Ganesha, gatekeeper of the temple. . The heart of the temple is his Mother. . The Mother. . She, who is the divine essence, within our bodies. . Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha . 🐘 Chanting the mantra, Ganesha reveals all the things that limit wholeness. . Shadows. Disconnection. Forgetting. . That the temple is my body and the Divine lives within. . Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha . 🐘 Chanting lays these things on the altar and he guides release and letting go. . To reveal the light and joy at the heart of us all. . Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha . 🐘 @embodiedphilosophy @yogawithashton @oneikamays @mirabelle_sivajyoti @milesneale @susannaharwoodrubin @afroyoga @nataraj_chaitanya @nina_rao @wanderingvayu #meditationresolution #embodiedphilosophy Watercolor painting of Ganesha, ca. 1775-1800, Guler (India). https://www.instagram.com/p/CJnpoVMpZed/?igshid=1cfui8xtsoek4