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Can You Bow?

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Can you bow like a broken necklace scattering your brightest tears? All other yoga postures Simply remove the stiffness. To bend is the first freedom. Don't just bow to the master, bow like a bee to a grain of pollen. Genuflection of a thirsty panther by a water hole at sunset. Snow melting into mountain stream laughter. Bow down to the croak of a tree frog in the jasmine vine at midnight. To the plums of September thumping the ground, showing you the way to fall, the way to split open and offer your juice. Bow to the silence of the doe who, after all, is eating your roses. Bow to the wail of the newborn American whose mother crossed over the border last night. To your own breath and the secret name in your heartbeat, bow down.  Fill the hollows of your body  with the blues of the sky. Bow so completely that you shatter your crown and sow the earth with stars.
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Align

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        You are not here to blame, to judge, or to be "right." You are not here to save the world. Many have tried to save the world. They are gone yet the world is still here. You have come for a greater purpose: to align with the golden sun of Beauty shining from the core of your chest. That is the Christ. Resting as inner alignment allows this outer form to manifest the gift of personhood. You are not a collective. You are not a group identity. You are here like a raindrop to make the world more beautiful by giving the Sun an exquisitely particular place to dance. You are here to embody the ocean in a tiny bead. Nature longs to hear your single local note in her cosmic symphony. Without you, her harmony would not sound quite the same. O Friend, align the body, breath, and mind with the Sun in your heart. Relax into radiance. Then your gift will arise without effort, gentle as the next inhalation. Given. Given. Many resist this gra...
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Don't Worry

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  What is there to worry about in the present moment? Five times in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells us not to worry. Don’t worry about your life, about what you eat or drink, about the clothes you wear, or about the future. Take no thought for tomorrow!”   Can you worry in the miracle of Presence? Worry is the past and future. The mind of worry is the mind of time. And time is made of your thoughts. When thoughts of the past and future dissolve, there is no time, no worry.   On this Sabbath morning, for a few minutes, or at least for a breath, can you relinquish the past and future, let go of stories, and simply feel this inhalation, this exhalation? Not in your mind, for that is only the concept of “breathing,” but in your chest, as pure sensation. Put your hand on your solar plexus, with tender love, in the valley just below your beating heart, just above your belly. This is the valley of prayer. Feel the rise and swell, then the fall and kenosis, “...
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