From Wherever We Are

[Nichole]

I was going through my notes from the SYTAR 2008 and I wanted to share some of what Rama Jyoti Vernon shared with the us in the closing ceremony.

• Yoga enables us to let fall away all that we have accumulated in our lives. It falls away with Yoga and we remember that place where we are all One.

• You cannot see your back body, so venture into yourself and see it from the inside out.

• Establish relationships with others first and have everything grow from this place. Rama quotes Abraham Lincoln, who said, "I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends." (I think to, we can elevate even this sentiment by knowing our enemies as our own selves. I also think to the Twameva mantra: You are my father, you are my mother...you are my very Self...)

• From wherever we are, we are impacting our world and that of the whole world.

• Our work as human beings is to create nonviolence in our own minds, in our own hearts, in our own homes.

Namaste,

[Fin]

Hi Nichole,


Wonderful quotes, all of them hits home.

Thank you for posting them.

Namaste,
Fin

[Fin]

Many years ago (about 20yrs a go) I read somewhere, I think it was in a Buddhist text – “All that happens to you is a direct consequence of that which is inside you, i.e. circumstances mirror themselves.”
This seemed absurd – how can this be true – I am not inviting verbal abuse when I am caught up in a road rage incidence, or when I have exchanges with a surly unmotivated supermarket attendant who short changes me & then expresses much annoyance when I request redress, or someone losses restrain & expresses violence etc
This can not be so … I can't be inviting this, can I?

… 20yrs hence today I see things differently, its not that people are better drivers, or Supermarket attendants are better etc But what is true is that I am no longer angry or always in a hurry, or disorganised etc I am more composed & my world seems more composed – I no longer attract others anger. When situations occur (which they still do) – my polite & non threatening demeanour seems to put the other party at ease.

Just as I invite all the good things that happen in my life – I also engineer the “bad”. If someone is nasty to me – then I am being challenged – challenged to accept some aspect of myself which I refuse to acknowledge, the magic is the moment I accept it the circumstance seem to disappear they simply no longer occur – Supermarket attendant are no longer nasty – you express love and it just seems to bounce back in much larger quantity. I found out everyone wants to be Loved. Don’t you think if more of humanity realised this then it would be a joy to be in human form ...

The following from above says it all

Originally Posted by Nichole

• Our work as human beings is to create nonviolence in our own minds, in our own hearts, in our own homes.

The moment we realize this & practice this – then every step we tread seems filled with love , a path which seems to lead to Love…

Namaste,

Fin