Om Ganesha,
Morning Pujas and Prayers
July 31, 2004
Namaste my chelas all over the world,
The concentration that comes with meditation can be applied to every single part life and death.
Concentration takes on the entire world you live in from the moment you wake up and the second you fall asleep and even in sleep.
For the next little while make a list of what is needed around you.
This is the first step in concentration.
If you are fortunate enough to live on our Holy Land of Kashi, then write on your list how you can become intimate where you live.
See what has to be done and dig right into it, do not procrastinate.
Then bring your concentration to what your life still needs.
Do what you can this day to complete that which is in front of you.
Write down what you can do to become intimate with your world of Spirituality.
After all is written then see what you can do representing your Home in the Community and neighborhood.
This is how one begins to get to become quite acquainted with your meditation before you even sit.
Do not ignore light focus or a moment of steadiness.
As you begin to sit more and more you find that you do not lament for that which you do not have.
After a while you begin to live life in meditation.
The effect of life long meditation can be felt almost at once as you pay attention in the simplest circumstances.
The one thing meditation does not do is keep you separate from life.
Each day builds on another.
Once you have a habit of sitting and indeed at first it is a habit, until it becomes a way of life.
This creates of way of life your Spirituality begs for.
In the quiet of meditation even for a few minutes, you become less and less and when you are rid of a little of your burdens of stress you will find that the Sacred Spaces become more and more clear.
Experiment and explore your own awareness.
See how you can get to know your Inner Self.
By doing this one can stop or hesitate before putting one in a position of pain to your self and to others.
Now matter how long you sit, meditation still brings you to a higher state of mind.
Meditation is not just something you do it is something you are in relationship to the Divine.
The Mother Guru teaches you how to make God and Goddess your center and therefore their children which is humanity receives your compassion.
With out thinking begin to feel the Essential Self.
Write down what you have felt, even for a second.
Don’t think, just write.
This Spiritual Journey that we are taking together is bringing you faster and more fuller to the broadening of the Self.
Those who live in a Spiritual Community shares in the Soul Works of this Community.
When one’s life feels empty, sometimes one reaches for the world and after a while once the world has been tasted there comes the demand for more.
This is almost like a loud command from the ego to get more and more.
Yet when one lives in a community there is the Soul of the Community that reaches out to the globe and all peoples of the world.
By studying the Karmic Spaces your whole life can be enriched.
To direct mental energies is to give up tension.
When the subconscious is rid of all the worldly complexes the mind flows with such an ease.
Once you find yourself in the Cubby Hole, one automatically becomes quite tense and tight.
Then the anger comes in, not in a connecting Karma, in the actuality of the Karmic Space.
Darkness covers the light as one becomes blinded by the moment of rage.
One feels more and more lost.
It is at this time the simplicity of the breath can ease the pain of anger.
When you feel the walls coming at you and making the Karmic Space smaller and smaller, it is the continuing breathing deeply that slows down the mind.
The feelings of your intentions become destroyed if you do not concentrate on your breath.
As the breath calms then you become aware of the outention.
Then the gentle caress of the Light in the Cubby Holes awakened in you the desire to leave the anger and all the Cubby Holes behind you and to come closer and closer to the brightness of life.
Tonight the FULL MOON WIll BE OVER OUR SACRED MOTHER TEMPLE.
AS SHE RISES IN THE SKY FEEL YOUR WHOLE BEING RISE WITH HER.
I WILL BE DOING THE SAME HERE.
WORKING WITH YOU AND BEING WITH YOU AND SEEING WITH YOU THE BEAUTY OF YOUR SOULS.
Where ever you are, bring to mind and to heart the Beauty of our Kashi.
Flow inward and out ward.
Be eager to bow to the Moon Gods and Goddesses.
Let the Moon Herself light up the dark spaces that keep you in the rawness of anger.
As you look up at the Moon think on the words MY MA LOVES ME, MY MA LOVES ME, MY MA LOVES ME.
The human mind will be linked to the Cosmic Soul in the Moon Light.
My Pujas and Prayers are that you can feel gratitude for your life at the Feet of your Paramaguru and Guru and in this gratitude you learn how to live in the Soul and to give others what you have learnt.
I do Pujas to the Mother Laxmi who dances beneath the Full Moon For Her Chelas Eyes.
I love you my chelas.
Love Ma Jaya
Tenzin Yangchen
Jai Kali Ma Ki Jai
Always at His Feet, Our Neem Karoli Baba Ki Jai
Here are a few pictures of our FEED EVERY ONE PROGRAM.
Thank you so much for taking care of my children while I am on Retreat.
The kids all got so much to go to school with including Back Packs filled with supplies.
So much food was given to the hungry and the poor.
I thank all of you who sent in to our Jimmy DiFiore Memorial Fund, Keep it coming in and change lives and even save lives.
