Newsletter Eleven

Newsletter #11

Land of Yoga Newsletter #11

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29/04/08

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Hi folks, welcome to wintry chills
and windy hills, heating bills and vitamin pills!
I hope you all keep warm
and eat well, and still get some light each day.

10 minutes of loose stretching in the morning
always makes for a strong body through the cold months.
It's great for blood circulation.
A sun salute or two brings rejuvenation!

Please feel free to respond to any of the following articles,
write in your own questions, or offer health opinions.
Your contribution is most welcome!

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HEALTH TOPIC OF THE WEEK

ARTICLE: THE CORRIDOR OF WESTERN MEDICINE

I have recently written this article about Illness and Health.
It is my intention to get this published around the world
in health journals and daily newspapers,
as an alternative opinion on Health management.
It may be controversial.
If you feel like responding to it in any way,
please feel free.

CLICK HERE to see article.

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PHILOSOPHY: AWARENESS

"Truly the mind is like space; it seems to face in all directions;
it seems to transcend everything; it seems to be everything.
But in reality, the mind does not exist.
I am one and in everything. I am unbounded and beyond space.
How can I see my own Self appearing or disappearing?"
(Avadhutta Gita, 9 and 10)

"For you and me there can be neither union or separation.
In reality, neither you nor I nor this world exist.
I am neither bound nor free.
I am without beginning, middle, and end.
How can there be a meditator and meditation?"
(Avadhutta Gita, 15, 39, 44, 50)

Ok, let's face it: this type of philosophy is very advanced,
and probably difficult to integrate into one understanding.
The Avadhutta Gita is to my mind the 2nd most important
yoga text ever written (behind the Bhagavad Gita).
It is the 'Song of the Everfree'.
It is all about Non-Duality,
and its truths lie in the simple fact
that humans relate to everything subjectively.
As an access to Freedom, one must understand
that all dualities exist as constructs of the Ego.

And the Ego, essentially, is Fear.
Humans seek certainty and control.
They do this because it is hard for them to actually let go
and totally trust everything and everyone in their life.

What the Avadhutta Gita tries to explain
is that freedom lies in the space of 'letting go'.
By relinquishing the self into the 'dance',
everything becomes God-like and beautiful.
There is no longer a Self living in a world.
There is just Life, and nothing is wrong, nothing is right,
and we are all drifting in a beautiful dream.

So where does awareness come in here?
To have an awareness of all things at once,
including the breath, muscles, time, other people...
if one has total awareness, there will not be any separation.
But there is a fine line
where awareness confuses itself.
An awareness of one's awareness is a curious drama.

That's why the Avadhutta Gita says you are not meditating.
There is no meditation. You are the whole universe moving...
every death, illness; every laugh and cry; every human
you agree with and disagree with.

Enjoy it.

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UPCOMING EVENTS:

ENTER THE YOGA DREAM

This Sunday May 4th
10am - 3pm.
5 Hour Yoga Session.

Please note the normal 10-12 class runs
and people can go after that if they want.
Others can continue and go back in.
This class moves at a comfortable pace
through different poses and breathing exercises
and meditations.

Anyone can do it.
You are all invited!

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ASTROLOGY

Thanks to our new Astrologer Joe Lyons
who has been doing this for over 40 years.
He has written, off the top of his head,
the following. It all relates to planets and the Now:

Just imagine Mercury, poor old thing, he is such a prankster, 
messing around with all that money that the gullible, 
greedy Taureans have been hoping would bring them 
untold wealth from illusory investments, 
Hoping to cash induring April/May. 
What a shock it must have been for them, 
a few Aquarians would also have been caught out, 
off guard with Mercury applying to a square to Neptune. 
Well, who is to blame? Mercury of course will be the scapegoat.

But why did you not warn us they cry, asking of Mercury?
You fatheads; why didn't you check your horoscope 
for this information, I am not to blame.
Your fault for being a greedy Taurean, 
or an Aquarian who trusts the word of a friend suggesting, 
I have a good tip for you on the stock exchange;
whisper, whisper. Gotcha! Never trust Neptune; 
unless of course you have an artistic streak. 
Thursday news will bring it all out. Deception, naturally.

Never blame Mercury, that's me I mean. 
I just love playing expensive jokes. 
More from me in the next edition. 
By then I shall be out of Taurus and into my own sign of Gemini. 
Wow! Then I really will be playing games. 
Not perhaps so much with money, more with the media.


Joe Lyons can be emailed at joseph@wordsworthreading.com.au.




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Thanks everyone, hope you enjoyed this one.
If you have any responses to any of the passages,
your feedback is welcome.
This is a public forum, for health.

Also, any questions for Doctor Qu'ac would be appreciated.

Make sure your breathing is soft and deep,
and that your body is not bearing the tensions
of your day.

All the best, Toby.

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