Ghee better than butter?
Why cook with plain butter when you can reap the health benefits of its clarified form? <Printable Version> By Karta Purkh Singh Khalsa Reprinted From Yoga Journal April/May 2000 Your…
Recipe: Mung Beans & Rice (Kitcheree)
<printable version> Mung Beans & Rice Cleansing Diet. Eat only mung beans and rice for 30 days as a mono-diet. Cook with lots of vegetables. Yogi Bhajan says," You Americans…
The Long Time Sun
Thought while meditating this morning: The sun shines on us all equally. It warms us equally. It casts our shadows equally. We should light upon all we meet like the…
Voluntary Hardship
I've started officially teaching Kundalini yoga at a place called Le Studio in Hollywood. The teachers I've studied with have all spoken of this feeling that comes through you when…
Meditation for Cold Depression
Got this from Tej Kaur Khalsa last year 3/8/2006. Many people suffer from depression these days. It's a sign of the times. Our fast paced world actually gives us a…
Service: The Selfless Vaccum?
So I was re-reading some of these posts and I realized they’re really long and quite a bit heavy. Not to mention they’re two months old. (I can mention it, you probably shouldn’t) So I thought I would put some things down in more raw form as they come to me. For example, this morning during Sadhana-meditation some stuff occurred to me. Yogi Bhajan saying (and I can’t reference the quote directly but…) basically when you serve others, The Creator serves you. I understood it as it came to me in meditation, but explaining what I think it is, is a whole other thing. (more…)
Can A Human Be Greater than God?
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? —Woody Allen,
The soul comes through the human to experience duality, the world of good and evil, opposites. If God is so great, how can there be so much suffering?
One of my yoga teachers was telling a story about someone in their family who, while meditating went to the place beyond time and space where souls decide to come into this life. She related that these souls are fighting for a chance at human life. Being human is so great that souls fight to come here to earth and angels are jealous of humans because of all they are able to experience. Yet, when we get here, each of us suffers. That makes no sense. Life is cloaked in suffering. Out in the world of duality, the world of opposites, we bounce between good and evil and we suffer. Why on earth would a soul want to come into that? Perhaps it is to become more powerful than God. (more…)
The Paradox of Worship
When you worship, when you bow, you’re bowing to your own soul potential within. This is why idols and graven images are so dangerous. The ego wants to classify and…
The Paradox Of The Common Soul
A Word About The Common Soul We live in a dual world. Everywhere you look outside there are opposites and polarity. Up and down, hot and cold, in and out,…