Dear Yogis,

Sunday again.  We had a fantastic Tarot Training Yesterday.  It is not just about the cards.  It is about where we find ourselves, how the cards help us to understand ourselves as well as others.  How the cards can help us find the heaven that is with us in the now.  When used properly, they can be a high TANTRIC TOOL. They are deeply spiritual and can bring the student back to the spiritual path…

According to Buddhist teachings, no matter how confused and tormented you and I may be at the moment, our underlying nature of  being is clear and pure.  In the same way that clouds come between us and the sunlight, so too our anxieties, depression and the suffering that they cause can temporarily obscure but cannot destroy or even touch the fundamentally clear nature of our consciousness..

Dwelling deep within us our heart and the hearts of every living person without exception is an inexhaustible source of love and wisdom.  According to buddhist writings, the ultimate goal of every person is enlightenment which occurs when all the delusions, greed, hatred, ignorance, presently obscuring our mind have been completely removed, and when all of our positive qualities have been fully developed.   This fully awakened state is characterised by unlimited compassion, and unlimited skill (or power).

We are taught that the  path to fulfilment is a gradual process of cleansing our mind of all its faults and limitations, and replacing these thoughts, with thoughts (and actions) of complete love and wisdom.  Because of this gradual approach of sutra, this is called the causal vehicle to enlightenment because of the emphasis on creating causes for a future result.

Compared to this sutra approach, tantrayana is a much speedier path to the goal of enlightenment.  The tantric yogi or yogini, learns to think, speak and act NOW as if he or she were already a fully enlightened buddha.  Because the powerful approach often bring the the future full awakening into the present experience, it is sometimes called the resultant vehicle to enlightenment.

According to Tantra, perfection is not something that is waiting for us in the future, HEAVEN IS NOW.  Everything that we need is with us in this moment, it is simply a matter of being able to recognise it.

This is the Tantric approach that we will be exploring… in the cards if you com to training, or here in the daily newsletters.

The present Tarot Training is closed, but I am enrolling for the next class which will start in July.  We will also be holding a on Sunday the 28th June at 2pm at the Studio.  At this time we will be coming together to learn more about the tarot, to swap skills, and generally link in with others who are looking for a deeper way.  TANTRIC TAROT.  Please let me know if you are interested… it is not an open house.  This will be a learning experience.

Have a wonderful Weekend.

NAMASTE JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

This morning I am going to talk to you about COOKING as a means to empowerment.  Usually, and I am sure you have felt this too, cooking is a way of being relegated to the kitchen… but look how many women (and men) have used it as a way TO GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN.

Take for instance Nardia Hussein.  She started her cooking life as a contestant on The Great British Bake Off. She had an arranged marriage (luckily to a good husband – good Karma), quickly had children and was marooned in her house all day in an industrial English town.  She suffered with depression, alienation and other emotional stresses, as you can imagine.  Whatever propelled her to enter the competition I don’t know.  She was the only Muslim, wore a voluminous black headscarf throughout the whole show, and doubted herself until the last few shows where she started to see her own potential.  She won.  When she got the prize she said “whatever happens, I am never, ever going to doubt myself again”.

She still battles her depression, but the person you see on the television is totally different now.  She has cooked a cake for the Queen.  More importantly, she has ditched the black for beautiful colours.  Her clothes and her headscarf are BEAUTIFUL colours.  She is shining through.

When are you going to take off the headscarf.

What made me think about this is because at one time my hair was the only thing I really felt I had control over (although I couldn’t have talked about it in that way).  Colours, curls, short long.  It changed all the time, but of course didn’t give me any control…. except on that one small thing, and it was only a temporary fix.

For the last 8 years I have grown it.  It is fast.  Last weekend I had such a strong urge to cut it – a need to feel differently about myself.  I examined that urge, and at the base of it was CONTROL.  Everything in our world has changed, and like you, I am still finding my feet.  I thought I was doing well, until that “hair thing” re-surfaced.  Luckily, I recognised it, and I didn’t manifest that anxiety.  I did what I tell you to do.  It hit the mat.  More yoga and certainly more meditation and more sleep, and I danced around the yoga studio to this song….

 

HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY – IN THE LIGHT

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

Good morning yogis,

THIS MORNING – TELEVISION

I am not addicted to the TV programme HOUSE, but I really like watching it.  Have you?  Over, and over and over again Karma is explored (although they never call it Karma).  They have patients “in extremis” who get  themselves checked in, mostly by almost dying in the first 5 minutes of the show.  People for whom there is no logical explanation of the problem, and House,  the hospital’s famous maverick diagnostician has to find out what caused the symptoms.  He rarely just treats the symptoms unless doing so is pulling back the curtain on the past.

His little team of helpers from time to time have to go to the patient’s house and scour it for something.  They don’t know what they are looking for and have to sift through the detritus of the past to discover the problems occurring in the now.  It happens in life.  The thing that appears to be causing the problem now, was caused by some “hiccup”, intentional or unintentional,  in the distant past.  Unfortunately, we need help to uncover it, which sometimes is painful.  We know uncovering the problem, easing the top off the scab to clean it up, isn’t going to be pleasant.  We don’t particularly want to go there.  The usual response on the show and in life is “Just give me a pill”.

This morning a husband and wife were close to death with an unidentified disease.. on sifting back the medical team discovered that the father 17 years ago apparently had sex (and a child) outside marriage…. he passed on a defective gene to both, who turned out to be the husband and wife in this time frame.  The clue? both had green eyes.  Unusual.  This whole situation had many ins and outs, blind alleys, mis-diagnoses, and went on for an hour, exploring  situations that occurred years ago which manifested in present time.

Today there was another “Karmic Backstory”.  House was totally rude to a patient, and refuses to apologise (in fact is grossly dismissive of his problem) although the guy really extended the olive branch, and goes above and beyond to level the playing field.  House, (who I think is on the spectrum), oblivious of what is happening compounds the problem over and over again with his insensitivity. Later in the episode, House  speeding home on his motorcycle – is followed by a police car – both pull over and guess who gets out of the police car?  The patient who in a cruel twist of fate turns out a senior police office, and arrests House using all of his disabilities against him!  We know that the Police Department isn’t going to care that House is a cripple, is a senior doctor, has clout…. Immediate Karma.  I know it is simplistic, but I enjoy it. It explores many ethical issues playing out in front of us daily.  IVF, The Gay Community, Incest and so on, and what they can cause medically.  How these negatives can manifest physically.

The program is even more interesting when you look for the Karmic content!!

TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT:   Yesterday was my day off and one of my stops was at Lincraft (for wool).  I made laundry balls.  I have some and they are fabulous.  In the picture to the right there are some old ones, and some “under construction”.  .  It is said that they save 20% of the usual tumble drying time, eliminate static etc.  But, commercially they cost $50 for three plus postage via the TV ad.  I make my own, and I make them for others.  They don’t have a cute face painted on the front that the advertised “Wet Balls” have, and they don’t have a foam centre.  They are scrap wool all the way through.  Go to www.wildnweedy.blogspot.com to discover how you can make them.  Easily. and save heaps.

Have a lovely day, and this evening in front of the television (if you can’t darn),  make some laundry balls.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE