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Dear Yogis,

ZOOM

FRIDAY:  11am ZOOM CAFE (all welcome-free).  5.30 RESTORATIVE YOGA
SATURDAY: 12.30 RESTORATIVE YOGA  2pm MAKING YOUR TAROT
SUNDAY: 10am STUDY TIME. The Bhagavadgita – “The ‘Gita and Yoga” (Repeat of last week.  If you were at last weeks class, this week is free.  If you were NOT at last weeks class, then the class is $20 for 2 hours).

THE YOGA BEAUTIFUL STORE:  I have loaded the Pendulum Board in two sizes…All items on the store include postage.  I use mine every day.

I have been speaking to you about my painting journey at this time.  I have been moving between the TAO OF WATERCOLOUR, and making a new pendulum board based on ancient power rituals.  In the process I have been reminded of my teacher ANDRE SOLLIER a Sumi Painter of note, and a ZEN ARCHER . This archery was his meditation.

Aiming the arrow at the target is the essence of aiming it at yourself.  So, learning the skill of archery is also learning the skill of self discovery.  We seek our centre of calm, listening to the inner voice and learning a keenness of vision.  We master the undisciplined flow of our hands, arms, shoulders and eyes.  We work with them, understanding the energy, mastering it.  It is this mastery, this stillness which can bring us closer to our selves.  Watching someone who understands this, paint or shoot an arrow is beautiful.  We are watching spirit in action.

This is the purpose of all spiritual disciplines.  When we pray, when we meditate even when we fast, we create a feeling of spaciousness, openness which brings us to “the One”..  This is a special kind of broad attention.  This change of attention brings us closer to the sacred.

This also happens when we paint in The Way of the Tao.  Grinding the ink takes time and allows us to calm the mind.  When the ink is ready we bring to mind the image we are going to paint,  and imagine it on the paper.  We sit and breathe until everything is right,  then bring the breath, the ink and brush and the paper together.

When you do this,  the stroke is beautiful, no hesitancy, the spirit is there.

In Sumi that is what is revered.  Not the perfection of the image, but the presence of spirit.

NAMASTE JAHNE

Dear Yogis –

My day off, so a short newsletter.  PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR STORE.   I have listed the new SMALL Pendulum Boards.  The prices include Postage in Australia.  I will also be listing the new GATEWAY LIFE-PATH READING. You can book with me PERSONALLY or tomorrow book from the web site. Email: yogafirst2@bigpond.com

 

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This ZOOM reading will reveal your path and purpose, guiding you through each phase of the LIFE PATH Integration process,.

To make this journey as effortless as possible…YOUR LIFE PATH ANALYSIS IS SPLIT INTO FIVE PROGRESSIVE, TRANSFORMATIONAL PHASES…The TRANSFORMATION, INCARNATIONS, PROFILE, THE ROAD AHEAD, and your ACTION GUIDE.   Begin your  LIFE PATH journey with me personally on zoom for only $215.25.

Or a Three Question introductory LIFE PATH reading for $85.00

All I ask in return is you spread the good news of archetypes, Individuation, and LIFE PATH Integration to your friends and family around you, so they too can rise above the blocks and challenges that have been thrown at them. 

Invest in this wonderful, life affirming program so that you can all have a fighting chance to step out of  “normal” into wonderful.

TO BOOK OR ENQUIRE:  Email: yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

SEE YOU ON ZOOM.

NAMASTE. JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

ZOOM
WEDNESDAY: RESTORATIVE YOGA 12.30, RESTORATIVE YOGA 5.30, MINDFULNESS MEDITATION 6.45
To do any zoom classes look on the home page of www.yogabeautiful.com.au decide on the class you want and pay on the TO PAY button at the bottom of the page.
Don’t forget to put your name and class on the message section of the PayPal docket.  Email me for your ZOOM ID.

THE BOOK OF CHANGES

I live in a world where I teach yoga with an emphasis on the the “why” not so much on the “how”, on the philosophy rather than the asana. My son reads physics for fun, read the table of elements to his unborn children, and physics to his grown children.  My friends read physics for “fun” no matter what their jobs are, and “enlighten” me with their current enthusiasms and discoveries.  I love thinking – it is a whole lot better than sudoku to keep the brain engaged.  Physics and Yoga/Buddhism are one understanding of the universe, expressed differently.  The Dalai Lama has for many years worked to bring these two disciplines closer.

To Paraphrase an old Chinese saying: “Mystics understand the roots of the Tao but not its branches, Scientists understand its branches but not its roots”.  Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science, but man needs both.  Mystical experience is needed to understand the deepest nature of things, and science is needed in modern life.  What we are looking for is not one to be absorbed into the other but a dynamic flow between them, between intuition and analysis.

As yogis we are beginning to understand the “oneness” of the universe which includes not only the world around us, the environment, what we think of as matter, but also our fellow human beings.  Our job as yogis is to show the way that life can be lived in harmony with nature. A balance between yin and yang.

In the words of Sri Aurobindo “nothing to the supra-mental sense is really finite: it is founded on a feeling of all in each and each in all”

In Buddhist Philosophy, the idea of all in each and each in all is believed to be based on a text called AVATAMSAKA SUTRA which is believed to have been delivered by the Buddha whilst he was in deep meditation after his awakening.  This sutra which has thus far not been fully translated into english describes how the world is viewed by an enlightened state of consciousness, when we finally understand that everything is one.  When all the outlines dissolve and we understand all that is.

In the last part called the “GANDAVYUHA”  it tells the story of Sudhana a young pilgrim who gives a clear and vivid account of the universe as he saw it during his mystical experience.  I shall give a paraphrase of this sutra by D.T.Suzuki, who uses a magnificent tower to describe Sudhana’s experience.

The Tower is as wide and spacious as the sky itself.  The ground is paved with precious stones of all kinds and there are within the tower (innumerable) palaces, porches, windows, staircases, railings, and passages, all of which are made of precious gems…
And within the tower, spacious and exquisitely ornamented, there are also hundreds of thousands… of towers, each one of which is as exquisitely ornamented as the main Tower itself, and as spacious as the sky.  And all these towers, beyond calculation in number, stand not at all in one-another’s way: each preserves its individual existence in perfect harmony with the rest; there is nothing here that bars one tower being fused which all the others individually or collectively; there is a state of perfect intermingling yet of perfect orderliness.  Sudhana the young pilgrim, sees himself in all the towers, as well as in each single tower, where all is contained in one and each contains all.

The passage of course is a metaphor for the universe itself and the perfect fusion of its parts known in Mahayana Buddhism as “interpenetration”.  This understanding is why we meditate.  Not just to lock ourselves away in silence, but to understand where we are in the matrix.   To transform. To experience the wholeness of nature and to live in it in harmony.

 

JOIN US ON THIS EXCITING JOURNEY

NAMASTE:  Jahne