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3 Nov
2013
“Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.”
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tag Archives: onelove
29 Oct
2013
Angkor Wat and “One Dolla Chia”
Drive Nacho Drive wrote an awesome piece about their experience at Angkor Wat.
To say the least, we shared some of the same emotions when arriving at the magical site.
The trail wound its way through the trees for a while, and soon we noticed some half-buried hand carved stone work protruding from the jungle floor. As we walked on through the dense foliage more and more stone carvings were noticeable under cover of vines and half buried in the mud. Suddenly the trail hooked to the left and we found ourselves on an unexcavated stone thoroughfare of some kind, lined on both sides by intricate carved statues of seven-headed snake creatures, ferns, and round columns.
We felt what it must have been like for the first discoverers of this site, to be walking in the jungle and to come upon fragments of an ancient civilization.
Read more — here.
Image via Drive Nacho Drive
14 Oct
2013
“Eventually you will come to realize that love heals everything, and love is all there is.”
13 Oct
2013
Poetry Corner: What Buddha said to the Monks
Where is this One? How can we find that One?
The Saints say that the One is hidden in the Name.
The Divine Name. The name of Love.
And that by constant repetition,
gradually but INEVITABLY
the Presence that is hidden in the Name reveals itself!
Where? In our own hearts!
The medicine of the Name
hidden in the sugar syrup of music
begins to cure us of our sadness;
begins to cure us of our fascination with STUFF;
to cure us of thinking that happiness will come to us from the outside;
that if we have just one more hit; a better car;
a more beautiful lover, or more beautiful lovers;
a good relationship; a better relationship; ANY! relationship;
it will be enough.
When the Buddha came out of the jungle after His Enlightenment,
he said, “YO! Monks…guess what? Stuff doesn’t make you happy.
The nature of stuff is that it will NEVER be enough!
Or something like that…Via Krishna Das!
7 Oct
2013
Ziggy Marley Talks Yoga, Meditation, and Jamaican Culture
The Marley family has served as an inspiration for a long time now. Bob’s message of love is so strong. Ziggy, is a funny guy. When you see him interviewed, he is always exuding positive energy that is rooted in deep love. We get to hear his take on yoga and music from an interview with Dan Wilf.
As the fire-keeper in the great musical linage of his father Bob Marley, Ziggy’s positive vibrations transcend his live performances and serve as a call to action for human rights and environmental activism across the globe. YOGANONYMOUS’ very own Dan Wilf had a moment to ask Ziggy a couple of questions about his music, and much to our surprise and delight, his yoga practice.
DW: Lots of people have called your music and lyrics inspirational, positive, and uplifting — the same words used to describe the practices of yoga. Are you in fact a yoga practitioner?
Ziggy Marley: Yea mon, I started learning the yoga when I was just a youth in high school. The reason why I started to learn about it was because I was looking into different philosophies and ideas and doing my personal search. I found a few books in high school, and started doing the exercises, it made me feel more flexible and spiritual. You know, more comfortable in my body and things.
DW: Right on, that’s what its all about. Meditation has long been linked to reggae music and Jamaican culture. Do you think that there are lots of parallels between reggae music and meditation?
ZM: Ya mon, you know music is one of the original things that existed in the universe and an integral part of the human spirituality. It is like the original meditation. So yeah, of course there are similarities between the yoga and music and reggae music especially. For me reggae music is like a meditation, a mantra, a spiritual thing that is from the heart and the spirit. This is how I look at the music I make, it’s very spiritual. Yoga is very similar for me in that aspect.
Read more at Yoganonymous — Here.
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3 Oct
2013
The Artist’s Rituals
Daniel Sidell, an art curator, connects art to the spiritual world.
Although an artist is free to do and make anything in the studio, she has a responsibility to do something. And that requires tremendous discipline and the willingness to ask the most fundamental questions. Each day she goes into the studio asking: “Who am I?”—”Who am I in relationship to this blank canvas, to the world outside the studio, to Nature, History, or a God who judges me?” …
Given the nature of their work, then, most artists I’ve worked with have developed a set of intentional practices and habits, spanning the profound to the mundane, the complex to the simple, that give a liturgical form to their work. These are very similar to the liturgies and spiritual disciplines of various religious traditions that include a sensitivity to their lived space, meticulous attention to their materials, certain postures, and, I might add, contemplation and meditation: a willingness to spend long hours just sitting in a chair looking at their work.
28 Sep
2013