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then becomes a dance that reects the immediacy of the love play of the cosmos, a dance
that gives form, here on earth, to the awesome
depth of the masculine and to the endless light
and openness of the feminine.
You will have to take some daring steps.
In real intimacy between man and woman,
a man must learn to master his minds movement, being fully present in this moment, liberating his consciousness from his old habits,
doubts, and fears passed down from his fathers
fathers father. He learns how to fully claim his
woman, his love, reaching into the depth of her
soul with his immovable presence.
In this, the Masculine Principle is a power
that enables a man to fully embrace a woman,
penetrate her with his real loving, invite her
to open as living love. To take a woman on
is to invite her on a journey beyond himself
and herself. He must hold steadfast in his
consciousness as he is challenged by her patterning, her subconscious conditioning, her
darkness. He must allow the challenges that
arise to change him, to turn him into a man
of strength and nobility. As he holds her, she
knows she can trust him, the depth he is entering and integrating.
In a sacred union, a woman must learn how
to trust the calling of her true self as love, to engage the moment in deep and utter surrender.
She must go beyond the guarding of her heart,
to fall wide open as universal love embodied.
She recognizes that the light she sees in him
is the light of her own real consciousness. She
has to trust that he is the masculine half of her
Self, no matter what takes place. She learns to
burn for this love, to keep stepping toward it
no matter how challenging it gets.
A man and woman who are willing to constantly die for great love will change the face
of this earth. Their bond puts their love of a
deeper place, their love of truth or Source,
rst. They journey beyond this earth in their
lovemaking, bringing with them profound love
that truly serves all.
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Someone we feel profoundly connected to
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loves us unconditionally, and inspires us to be
our very best selves.
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angry, manipulative, aggressive, defensive, dishonest, hungry souls that are threats to others
and, if not more so, threats to ourselves.
In those eeting moments when our lack of
Self-love has not been provoking condemnation, judgment, and attacks on others for withholding what we so desperately long for, it has
been at work waging war on us from within.
This void of Self-love causes extreme stress that
is destructive to the body and Spirit. It threatens
our hearts, raises our blood pressure, taxes our
immune systems, and steals our tranquility. No
matter how we look at it, lack of Self-love is the
deadliest dis-ease on this planet, and one that
we all must resolve to end now.
Lets face itthroughout our lives, few of us
have had any role models or encouragement in
Self-love. Because of this absence, the invitation to love our Self might seem like an elusive
if not overwhelming mission even to accept,
let alone begin. For some, it might seem arrogant or downright wrong to aspire to holding
a loving energy in their hearts for themselves.
These people often confuse Self-love with selfishness. Are you one of them? Whats so wrong
with loving your Self?
As unfamiliar or indulgent as Self-love may
at rst seem, we all know in our heart of hearts
that this love is the right thing to learn.
So where do we begin?
We begin with an accurate understanding
of what we mean by Self. Our true Self is not
the ego, the shielding we have had to develop
in order to survive. Nor is it our experiences,
education, physical appearance, or our accomplishments. Our true Self is the beautiful Spirit
we rst breathed into this body at our birth.
Self is our life force. It is the pure, powerful
essence behind the beating heart, the thinking brain, and the physical body that we own
today. Our true Self is a mysterious, mighty
power, a force of goodness and love and our
only truly renewable resource.
Anyone who has witnessed a babys rst inbreath knows Im not exaggerating. To see that
baby come alive with its rst breath is a miraculous sight to behold.
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One of the most powerful inuences on your
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to use. Flaying your Self with these words
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Take the mental tigers o your tail by slowing
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move through your day. Rushing around and
pushing yourself to go faster, do more, and
keep up in the rat race can be self-destructive.
It creates a false state of emergency and perpetual fear in your body. This fear puts enormous stress on your nervous system.
Instead, adopt this Self-loving policy: Breathe
deep, go steady, and take my time. This policy
allows you to respond strategically rather than
to react sporadically to lifes challenges and
opens up the mental space necessary to keep
you from freaking out under duress.
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Now I know what youre thinking, and I promise Im not suggesting you shirk your responsibilities. I am suggesting you challenge the
notion that the only proper use of your time
is for work. Studies show time and time again
that play time is essential to well-being. The
key to this play time is to engage in refreshing
activities without guilt. Guilt is not Self-loving
and serves no useful purpose. In fact, guilt for
enjoying yourself is perhaps the oldest form of
self-sabotage.
Let the guilt go and just play.
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Intuition is the voice of your most authentic
Self, and listening to your authentic Self is honoring yourself at the deepest level. By trusting
your intuition, you remain in integrity with
your true Self. It alerts you when your boundaries are crossed, directs you to positive opportunities, steers you away from danger, and
leads you toward all that is aligned with your
true nature and purpose. Choosing to trust
your intuition puts you in harmony with your
authentic Self, which is the greatest expression
of Self-love there is.
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known for her delightful humor and skill in
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ow. She is the author of 19 bestselling books on
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New York Times bestseller The Answer Is Simple. Her work has been published in over 37 languages, making her one of the most widely read
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f you stop to think even for a short moment, you realize that sex really
is the great mystery of our lives. Two groups, however, suggest very
dierent approaches to sex, and both of them are wrong.
One powerful group of forces is arrayed in culture to prevent us from
getting sex. They tell us that sex is somehow wrong, immoral, or sinful.
Even when we think we have gotten free of them, they pop up again inside our hearts or heads, wagging their ngers disapprovingly. And they
remind us constantly of all the trouble sex has gotten the world into
from the Trojan War to the Clinton/Lewinsky drama. Not to mention the
trouble it has gotten you and me intoemotionally, psychologically, personally, professionally, and physically. You have to admit that the sexual
conservatives have a point. If you want to keep life simple, clean, and
orderly, forgoing or limiting your sexual experience might be an excellent choice. If you like spiritual exercises, take a few minutes to list all the
times sex has gotten you into trouble.
Lots of conventional moralists and organized religion fall into this category. Religion wants to arm love and passion as virtues but to divorce
them entirely from sex. So moralist religion works hard to erect boundaries that will protect us from the pitfalls of sex. Yet while we all know that
sex requires some discipline, and that context and commitment count,
most of us know in our hearts that the moralists are wrong, and that sex
is ultimatelyand overwhelminglygood, and not merely a side benet
of achieving loving relationship.
It was perhaps the 14th-century Zen master Ikkyu who captured this
spiritual sensibility best:
With a young beauty, sporting in deep love play;
We sit in the pavilion, a pleasure girl and this
Zen monk.
Enraptured by hugs and kisses,
I certainly dont feel as if I am burning in hell.
thing right when he said, The degree and kind of mans sexuality reaches
up into the topmost summit of his spirit.
Let me give four examples of particular qualities of Eros and essence,
qualities that are the fundamental nature of higher consciousness in all
the nonsexual arenas of our lives. All of these qualities are paradoxically
and subversively modeled by the sexual.
Means and Ends Become One
In the erotic sexual, we need no reason or rationale to reach for summit
of fulllment. We act not to gain some vaunted empty prize. Rather, we
act for its own sake. We act for the very sake of the erotic sexual itself.
There is no distinction in the sexual between means and ends. They collapse into one in the realization that they were never distinct at all. The
path becomes the destination.
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150th anniversary of his birth, millions around
the world are learning why Vivekananda remains a revered gure. Tributes are being held
in India and in the West.
The leading disciple of the legendary 19thcentury saint Sri Ramakrishna, Vivekananda
came to the US in 1893 for the Parliament
of the Worlds Religions. He was an exotic
sight in his orange robes and turban; very few
Americans had even met a Jew or a Muslim at
the time, much less a Hindu monk. Against all
odds, the swami became an instant sensation
as a fresh voice that spoke with authority, in
impeccable English, about his own tradition,
religious harmony, and the universal truths at
the depths of all religions.
He quickly encountered two types of Americans familiar to us today: Christian supremacists who denounced him as a dangerous
heathen preaching false religion, and openminded, rational seekers who found his message and demeanor irresistible. His love of the
Divine was not only palpable to his listeners,
it clearly upheld the qualities of universal love
that their own pastors talked about but did not
necessarily live, and it transcended the boundaries of religious identity and the limitations of
what we in the West call faith.
Through word of mouth and adulatory press
coverage, he became such a superstar that
extra talks were needed to accommodate the
crowds that ooded the building that became
the Art Institutehence the location of Swami
Vivekananda Way. His time in America lasted
more than three years in two separate trips, including a four-month visit to the Bay Area in
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The Attitude Breathing Technique is a powerful pretreatment tool. Use this technique to
prepare your attitude before engaging in situations that are likely to cause stress and to trigger an unwanted reaction. You can also use it
if you are feeling o, irritable, or overwhelmed.
Using Attitude Breathing can help you connect
with your heart and nd an attitude that can
foster increased balance.
In Attitude Breathing, you focus on your
heart and solar plexus as you breathe a positive attitude. The heart will automatically harmonize the energy between the heart and solar
plexus, increasing the feeling of calm clarity.
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1. Recognize an unwanted feeling or attitude.
This could be anxiety, sadness, self-judgment,
guilt, anger, feeling overwhelmedanything
distressing.
2. Identify and breathe in a replacement attitude. Select a positive attitude and then breathe
in the feeling of that new attitude slowly and
casually through your heart area. Do this for a
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Practice dierent combinations of attitudes
that you want to develop. You can tell yourself,
Breathe genuine, Breathe courage, Breathe
ease, Breathe neutral, or whatever attitude
you need. Even if you cant feel the attitude shift
at rst, making a genuine and earnest eort to
shift will at least help you get to a neutral state.
In neutral, you have more objectivity, and you
save mental and emotional energy.
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HeartMath. HeartMath.org
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tation, I felt what I can only describe as buttery wings touching the edge of my heart. And
in that instant my whole being and body were
lled with a love I had hardly known existed.
Every cell of my body was loved, gently and
completely. Love was present in all of me. And
this love came from within me, from my own
heart. There was no other.
More experiences of the oneness of mystical love have followeddeeper, more ecstatic,
more blissful. But that rst direct experience
carried the sweetness of a rst love. From that
moment I knew that I was loved completely,
and it changed everything because it gave me
a security I had longed forthe security that
only love can give.
In every other relationship, even in the most
deeply passionate love aair, there are twous
and the one we love. We may long to get closer
and closer to our lover, and when we make
love there is a momentary taste of union on a
physical level. But then again we become two,
we are separate. Mystical love may begin with
the illusion of separation, that we are separate
from God, that we long for our Beloved. But
the journey takes us back to our own heart and
the truth of union: that lover and Beloved are
one and were always united. And in this union
there is a passion and depth of belonging that
can only be dreamed of in human relationships. As I discovered in that rst experience,
just one touch of this love nourishes every cell
in the body, meets every need in ways I could
never have imagined.
And the deeper truth is that this love is not
just within the heart, but underlies the whole
of creation. It is said that in the whole of the
universe there is only lover and Beloved. God
loves the creation and the creation loves God.
This is the mystical secret of all of life. What is
discovered within the heart belongs to everything. And the oneness of this love embraces
everything. When I
physically felt how love
touched every cell of
my body, and how I was
nourished by this love,
I was also experiencing
what belongs to all of
creation. The love that
belongs to God is not
limited and does not
discriminate. It is present within everything.
Yet like a sh in the
ocean looking for water, we seek what is all
around us.
It is a longing for this
love that draws the mystic on the journey of the soul. The mystic is one
who is not satised with the surface drama of
love, with the give-and-take of human relationships, but is called to go deeper. It is a dangerous and demanding journey into the depths of
the heart, into the sorrow and endless love that
one nds there. Here there are few signposts
but the primal vulnerability of the soul and the
seemingly endless longing for love. In an outer,
human relationship one can protect oneself,
create barriers against ones vulnerability and
wounds. In a relationship that is born on the
inside of the heart, in which there is no other,
it is much more dicult. It is ones own deepest love that calls: the Beloved is within ones
own soul. The vulnerability of oneness is both
painful and intoxicating.
But what is revealed within the heart of the
mystic, of the one who has given himself or
herself to love, is the great secret of creation:
that love is always present. Love is present
within our own heart, within every breath,
within every cell of our body and the whole of
creation. There is nothing other than love, and
the whole of creation is a continual outpouring of divine love. The great mystery is then
not that this love is always present, but that it
is hidden from ordinary everyday human perceptionthat we do not know how much we
are lovedhow we are made of love. That we
are love seeking love.
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, PhD, is a Su teacher
and author of a number of books, including The
Return of the Feminine and the World Soul. In
recent years the focus of his writing and teaching
has been on spiritual responsibility in our time
of transition and the emerging global consciousness of oneness, and on spiritual ecology. He
founded the Golden Su Center. His most recent
book is Prayer of the Heart in Christian and Su
Mysticism. WorkingWithOneness.org
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I love celebrating a new musical nd. Aykanna,
the duo of Sukhdev and Akahdahmah, has a
soulful, energetic sound, and they denitely
deliver on their new Mantra Mala. Recorded
during Sukhdevs pregnancy, this album is
lled with creative energy, whether mellow or
rhythmic, meditative
or danceable. Sukhdevs voice is like
honey, and Akahdahmahs drumming
is the heartbeat. The
instrumentation, including slide, electric
guitar and bass, and
the many instruments of Hans Christian, adds
depth. There are two 11-minute meditations
on the album. The rst, Wahe Guru, begins
like a lullaby, with gentle guitar, until halfway
through, when they kick up the energy to add a
healthy dose of fun.
Snatam Kaur says, Akahdahmah and Sukhdev deliver a message of hope with their music
and chanting in a pure, courageous, and joylled way.
A favorite track, Be the Light, is inspired
by Yogi Bhajan. I Love You, I Thank You is
a testament to the love between Sukhdev and
Akahdahmah, a sweet track and reminder to
let the people you love know how much they
mean to you. Light of My Soul is a lovely
combination of Kundalini and Naam yoga
mantras and prayers, a gentle track ideal for
Savasana. Funky Divinity is a groovy take
on the mantra Ang Sang Wahe Guru. A high
point, Akahdahmah shines here, both with incredible percussion and the message he gives
to listeners. Mantra Mala is a beautiful oering of the conscious music and uplifting spirit
that Aykanna is sharing with the world.
See Aykanna in person April 5 at Rudramandir in Berkeley! Aykanna.com
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get locked into a kind of negativity where suddenly we
dont even know why were with this person, and all we
see is the negative side of it. A lot of the trouble we get
into in relationships comes from this tendency to xate
on one side or the other and to try to use the relationship for ego ends.
In the Vajrayana tradition, the dierence with the
consort relationship is that you take on the fullness of
the communication from your consort, without trying
to manipulate, lter, or control what the mirror reects.
With the consort, were not only not hiding out, we are
actually dismantling our defenses so that we are able to
meet him or her face-to-face in the most naked, direct,
and complete way. When you see your partner in this
way, you become very aware that this is not a situation
you can control, yet youre willing to relate to the call,
the invitation to open and surrender. Youre willing to
open yourself to the reality of what another person sees
and reveals about you. Trungpa Rinpoche used to say
that when your consort communicates with you, theres
always something there for you; if you can manage to
not push it away, it becomes a gateway. In that moment
of opening, we touch our most fundamental self, unlock the well-springs of seless compassion within us,
and render ourselves naked before the deepest mysteries of the cosmos. It is strange, but that is what happens
through the unfettered and unbounded love of the consort, once it is set free.
We deeply love this other person, and the intensity of
that love thus becomes a gate for us into a much vaster
way of being. We want to be closer, ever closerbut
what is that wild urge? The Tantric insight is that ultimately, our love is the love of the universe; it is the
universes love . . . for what? For everything that is, for
all the beings in all of the worlds. It is boundless and
utterly seless. When we realize that fullythat love
is the nal realitythere is no longer any room for a
small, self-involved ego, and when we release that small
self, we are suddenly free and love is no longer something we feel or do, but is ultimately what we are. And
it is the consort alone who can help us give birth to this
realization.
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ourselves can enter fully and wholeheartedly into that
kind of relationship with our partner. One thing is
certain: you cant just wake up one morning and begin doing it. The ego is not going to give up that easily.
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needed: the right aspiration, genuine commitment, and
spiritual practice.
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relationship purely for narcissistic, ego ends, to aspire
that the relationship be a vehicle of spiritual opening,
growth, and realization for your partner and yourself.
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SOMATIC INQUIRY SESSIONS
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Vedic Astrology
VEDIC ASTROLOGY
Vedic Astrology (Jyotisha) was developed
by the illumined seers of ancient India to
help individuals attain the fourfold goals of
human existence: Dharma (Life Purpose),
Artha (Prosperity), Kama (Pleasure), and Moksha (Spiritual Liberation). It is renowned for
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Since 1972, Stephen Quong (Umananda) has travelled extensively throughout India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, meeting and studying with many of the greatest masters of
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Anandamayi Ma and other highly respected spiritual teachers, whose guidance, blessings and personal example have been a major influence in his life and work.
Stephen is one of a very few Americans honored by the Indian Council on Astrological Sciences with the titles of Jyotisha Kovida, Jyotisha Vachaspati, and Life Fellow,
and is respected by astrologers and clients around the world for his expertise in Vedic
Astrology. Upon meeting him in 1993, K.N. Rao, then director of the largest astrology
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A personal consultation with Stephen will include helpful, practical advice offered
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future. Business, legal and financial issues can be discussed. All consultations are private, confidential, and tape-recorded for your convenience.
Stephens international clientele includes prominent spiritual teachers, healers, political leaders, business executives, portfolio managers, attorneys, scientists, doctors,
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as clients.
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Elizabeth Burke MA
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We spend an enormous part of our energy holding back basic needs and feelings
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Michele T. Newmark, M.S., D.D., has been involved in the study of human sexuality for over 30 years. The basis for her work is grounded in Reichian Therapy. Michele
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