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Some meditation seeds.
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Krishnamurti
Carl Jung Tao Te Ching
Ger Murphy
_Mary Oliver Wild Geese
'Lost' David Whyte Crowfoot W.H.Auden
Pesha Gertler
Jesus Click here for whole text of patanjali's yoga sutras
From Krishnamurti
"Do you think a leaf that falls to the ground
is afraid of death?
_Do you think a bird lives in fear of dying?
_It meets death when death comes, but is not concerned about death; it is much too occupied
with living,
with catching insects, building a nest, singing a
song, flying for the very joy of flying.
_Have you ever watched birds soaring high up in the air without a beat of their
wings,
_being carried along by
the wind?
_How endlessly they seem to enjoy themselves!
_They are not concerned about death. If death comes, it is all right, they are
finished.
There is no concern about what is going to happen;
they are living from moment to moment, are they not?
_It is we human beings who are always concerned
about death - because we are not living.
That is the trouble: we are dying, we are not living."
J Krishnamurti 'Think on
These Things'
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_From Tao Te Ching
Thirty three
Knowing others is wisdom;
Knowing the self is enlightenment.
Mastering others requires force
Mastering the self needs strength.
He who knows he has enough is rich.
Perseverance is a sign of will power.
He who stays where he is endures.
To die but not to perish is to be eternally
present.
Tao Te Ching (Nine) Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English Wildwood, London
1976
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Here is a poem from Ger
Murphy who completed Contemporary Yoga
Teacher Training
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This is
my place.
A
shape of rubber matting has become a home,
_A
magic carpet
_An
open grave,
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A place to meet my lover,
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A shrine,
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A site to sit alone.
From
the sacred to the sweaty,
From
the dancer to the drone,
When
I step on board ,bow to my lord, the next step has
begun.
I
am blessed with twist and stretch,
Fed
with breath and bend,
The
flow of water, tongue of fire , wake my sleeping land,
`till
I feel a hand take me, make_ me ,break me ,
_this
is the plan ,I am in my clan,
_and I am not alone.
Ger Murphy_____ June 2005.
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From Carl Jung
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True love will always
commit itself and engage in lasting ties; it needs freedom only to effect
its choice, not for its accomplishment. Every
true and deep love is a sacrifice. The lover sacrifices all other possibilities, or rather, the illusion
that such possibilities exist. If this sacrifice is not
made, his illusions prevent the growth of any deep and responsible
feeling, so that the possibility of
experiencing real love is denied him.
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Carl Gustav Jung from
‘Aspects of the Masculine’ Routledge p 65
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Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
from 'Wild Geese' Mary Oliver
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