Gurmukh's Kundalini Proverbs/ Yogi Tea, the Book

I love Yogi Tea bag quotes. Now whenever I make tea without a cosmic fortune I feel slighted! If you too are more excited about the Satsang at the end of the string then the chai itself, you will love Gurmukh's book "The 8 Human Talents". I have been savoring it all month as we explore the Chakra system at Laughing Lotus. Here are a few highlights:

"I once heard someone say that the greatest prayer isn't in any scripture or ceremoney; the greatest prayer is simply to call out, "Help!".

"Fake it until you make it" ...
"With dinner, as with everything, it's a matter of understanding that if you just show up, everything will fall into place.
It's that way with money, too. I have known multimillionaires who are the poorest people I have ever met. They worry constantly about money. I have been privileged to be the guests of people who live so humbly it is impossible for us in the West to imagine, and their homes are filled with an abundance of food, laughter, and love. These people embody the human talent of boundlessness. It is about perception."

Sat Nam & Amen

"Birdwings" --Rumi

Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror
up to where you're bravely working.

Expecting to see the worst, you look, and instead,
here's the joyful face you've been wanting to see.

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open,
you would be paralyzed.

Your deepest presence is in ever small contracting and expanding,
the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated
as birdwings.




These contrasting phases of the mind, like the phases of the moon, happen in our lives. The mind itself is a natural phenomenon. Like Nina, sometimes we think "We Got" sometimes we whine about everything we Ain't Got-- Rumi sees the pairs of opposites-- the glass half empty and the glass half full as part of the same whole, there is no shame in the flickering between the opposites because once you really look at the truth beneath the thought form there is always a unity-- "I GOT LIFE" is Ms. Simone's final exaltation! We all have the flapping of the birdwings of our thinking minds, be them open or closed with what we see as positive or negative thoughts, but at the base of it, when we look into the mirror of ourselves and give the whole game a little space, we FEEL the unity of our bird body, that there is wholeness beyond the fluctuation of the changing, flickering, kaleidoscopic day to day experience. Here's to that LIFE that is always with us and our commitment to FEEL it directly

McSweeney's Yoga Proverbs

Angele sent me these weird and hilarious contemporary proverbs. I hope to pen some myself someday. Though mine won't be quite as cynical as:

"It's the squeaky wheel pose that gets all the attention from the instructor while the rest of the class suffers in silence."

haha check it out here: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/5/14schachter.html