I woke up this morning with the sense America is back. The people have spoken across the land. This cloud around - a decade in length - of a president who used the highest office in the land for his own selfish and craven purposes has received the message. (And, this, of course, includes continuing to poison our election system with the huge falsehood that the 2020 election was “stolen” during the Biden era.) That highest office exists to serve the people. And, the people hav

in the car on the way to the airport departure area recently to drop my older son off (he departs to his new home base which is several states away and sorrowful to say ”good bye” which is really a “see you later.”) I come upon a scene which encapsulates so much of what I love about the subcontinent about India a women her car stopped at the arrivals entrance comes out of the driver’s side of the car and makes her way around to greet an older man there standing curbside she i

A few weeks ago, on a free-form Sunday, I was hanging with a couple of friends here in a small village in India. (Yes. Chai was involved!) One of us suddenly suggested that we venture out a bit and explore the area beyond the village. He claimed to know of some interesting places. We readily all agreed to this idea, and - in quick order - we found a tuk tuk and clambered on…Off the three of us went on an exciting Sunday adventure! After bumping along for a time (The roads ar

Bhagavan Nityananda Samadhi Shrine, Ganeshpuri, India The village of Ganeshpuri is very quiet during this time…It’s quite lovely. I love Ganeshpuri during all her seasons but this incipient experience of pre-monsoon, has - so far - had its virtues! (Though it is quite warm!) Speaking of monsoon, it seems the water tables are quite low in certain parts of India, concerningly so…Thus, this monsoon time - with its thirst and ground-quenching rains - is greatly anticipated. I was

Unbidden Yesterday I attended a meditation, a guided one, that emphasized an awareness of what arises unbidden in our lives. The sun rising in the morning, for example, and how the light presents itself, not necessarily a dramatic and glorious scene, though this could be the case. But how the light filters through the leaves, for instance. And unbidden could be the unexpected kindness that have come our way. There are innumerable examples that could be cited. It was a journe

True leadership, real power, does not swagger and insist on domination and adulation. It is based on service. It serves the people and this earth. This is in direct contrast to the insane, ego-driven leadership at the top presently commandeering the ship of state in our country, in these United States; an inhumane and highly destructive force. May integrity, empathy and sanity once again hold the upper hand, not this capitulation to unfettered greed and lust for power. It is

In front of Kailas Nivas, Ganeshpuri, India (A look back to two years ago…) I have been in Ganeshpuri, India for a little over a month now and I look back in wonder at all that has happened… Firstly, there seems never a dull moment in Ganeshpuri. In terms of daily happenings, this spiritual powerhouse of a place is filled with events both large and small. Pujas (rituals of worship) and other spiritual ceremony abound offering yet another opportunity to remember the divine…E

An interesting memory arose on this day…I have practiced hatha yoga over many years, since the eighties. I was introduced to it in 1982 or thereabouts, I believe, the same year I was introduced to a certain spiritual path out of India. I moved to an ashram later that year - where I lived for most of the next thirteen years. (That included some time in an ashram in India, but majority was stateside.) So, here’s the memory…. I believe I was a teenager when this took place. My

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