About Me
I'm joining Service Space because ... to bring my meditation practice outward into the world :-)
A good day to me is when ... HUGS
My hero in life is ...PANCHO
My favorite book is ...The Alchemist
One thing I'm grateful for is ... Today, I feel really grateful for my friends in life.
Stories From Spain: Emergination
Oct 22, 2018, 1 comments, 14 smiles
For the past two weeks, I’ve been in Burgos, Spain. A place where 40,000 pilgrims walk through for the Camino de Santiago. It’s been blue skies and sunshine. But today, sitting in the living room of Casa del BienEstar, I’m surprised to see little rocks of ice are falling from the sky.
I’m here in Spain because I’m looking for a place to continue in deep retreat, and dear noble friend Joserra said there could be the possibility of holding space for silence here in the expanding field of Burgos.
Bloom Where You Are Planted
Nimo was here a week ago sharing his music with the Spanish community. A painted quote he gave as a gift to Joserra reads, “Bloom where you are planted.”
This is exactly what Joserra and many of the Spanish volunteers anchoring the field here have been doing in Burgos - Miki, David, Arianna, Quique, Pablo and Sabine to ... Read Full Story
London Dialogue With Satish Kumar And Nipun Mehta
Oct 19, 2018, 9 comments, 24 smiles
[At a powerful retreat in London last weekend, we had the privilege of listening to a dialogue with Satish Kumar and Nipun Mehta. Below is the transcription of part of the audio recording.]
Satish Kumar: Nipun and I had a dialogue about meditation and medicine [during the break]. These two words come from the same root in Latin, and so meditation or medicine both mean pay attention. When you pay attention to your body it becomes medicine. When you pay attention to your mind, spirit, inner world - it becomes meditation. And meditation is not only when you sit cross-legged, closed eyes, for half an hour to one hour every morning. That's a good practice every day, but that could extend throughout the day. Here you have lots of quotes on mindful living -- that is to pay attention to everything you do. From eating to sleeping, ... Read Full Story
Self-Trust In An Uncertain World
May 30, 2017, 9 comments, 10 smiles
As I sit to write this blogpost with the help of a very good listener - an mp3 recording, I remember the examples of ladders like Audrey, Nipun and Trishna with their uncanny listening abilities and how blown away I've been by their follow-up emails or posts. This reminded me of a passage Zilong shared recently from Joanna Macy:
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Joanna listened to me patiently and when I finished she put her fork down on the table decisively, looking straight at me with a hint of frustration, and said, “Yuka, you don’t have to be smarter than everybody. You don’t have to know all the answers. They already have their answers. What you have to do is to be loved by them.”
“Be loved? How?” I asked, puzzled.
“You are loved not because you are smart or whatever. People love you because they feel they can tell you the truth. That’s what you have ... Read Full Story
