Animals teach meditation 7: our hands can talk!

Each chakra has been assigned a zone on the hand - here is a chart. But again, refer to a teacher for further info on what to do with the info you get from your hands.
Anyone wants to report a special feeling in one of the fingers? which hand was that?

Animals teach meditation 6: start your meditation practice

Advice from both our animal and human meditation experts: meditation is deeper when you do it in a group. Join a meditation group near you! See here (if your country is not listed, contact us).

Animals teach meditation 5: checking vibrations again...

Or ask a friend... Anyway, let us know what you felt.

Animals teach meditation 4: get your Self Realization

Warning: if you are a human, especially an adult, animal lessons could not be enough for you to properly learn meditation. Please refer to a human instructor for more details - we'd be happy to refer you to one if you ask.
Seriously now, to get your Self Realization, go here.

Foot soak now

Happy Sahaja Thankgiving

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Animals teach meditation 3: why meditate?

Animals teach meditation 2: Meditation is for you if...

 

If you're a cat, don't worry: your natural ability to hunt will not disappear.

What will vanish is just the added violence you might have got from living with a nervous human or in a violent human environment. :))

Animals teach meditation

As our star Garfield is out for a short vacation :), we are starting a new series, "Animals teach meditation". If you´ve got photos of animals looking like they are meditating, please contribute.

Lesson 1: Is meditation for me?

 For copyright owners of the photos: please don't get our hides. No money will be made out of this kind of meditation!

New mantra for not feeling guilty

Enlightened email

via Noise Of India Cartoons

Quiz - a yogi meets a tiger - some answers we got by email

Rayavarapu Narayana Rao: A sensible tiger says Annapurna mantra

Supraja Krishna: Tiger will come closer to hear that clearly

Kunal Shah: As Shree Durga Maa is in the yogi's heart, the tiger should take him to his destination

Sunil Gaonkar: The tiger will run for shelter


Thank you all who have either commented on the previous post or sent us your answers by email. I found some of your suggestions quite interesting...

The Tiger ;)

Quiz - a yogi meets a tiger

A yogi unexpectedly meets a tiger in the jungle. He starts saying Shri Durga mantra.

What does the tiger do?

Geek meditation session

via Joy of Tech

Chello Sahaji

Last week, during Adi Shakti puja weekend the Ontario collective attended the Kitchener Waterloo Multicultural festival where our group, "Chello Sahaji" was invited to perform.

During the phone discussion with some organizers, Glenn (a member of the group) was asked about the correct pronunciation of the group name. So he told him how to spell it and the guy wrote it down.

But somewhere between this time and the time the boards with the schedule were printed, the name and the pronunciation were mixed so here is the result of how our group was advertised:

Shopping fun

I was shopping in a supermarket, and I noticed in a shopping cart there were: green chillies, lemons, coconut, camphor, candles and incense.

I waited to see its owner and I saw a lady, so I said "Jai Shri Mataji!".

She turned suddenly towards me shocked and said: "How did you know? I have never met you".

I said: "We have two brother carts."

***

I went with an Indian yogi in Italy to shop.

I noticed he was buying a huge quantity of bananas so I asked him: "What are you going to do with so many bananas?"

He said: "They are very good for Hanumana principle."

And I went on with my shopping. He saw a lot of meat in my cart so he said: "Why so much meat"

I said: "It is for Durga principle."

A lot of joy,

sis Mirvat

New Garfield

From nmirel:
I felt, being harsh to Garfield all the time is not fair:)

Hence my second and last 'version':

Clean your room

Here is a good joke from "nmirel". We also included the praises :)


my humble attempt...for fun
you're doing a great job!!! thank you!
nmirel

1.column:
John: Garfield, you forgot to clean up your room yesterday!
Garfield: You know, meditation gave me a different vision to look to my life.I don't hold on clutter and emotional baggage from yesterday.

2.column:
John: Make sure, your room looks spic and span tomorrow morning!
Garfield: I don't live in the future. It's my attention is in the present, then no worries, concerns are present.

3.column:
John: Gaaaaarfield! TIDY UP your room NOW!!!

Tired...

Via Sid

Real funny stories - brain switch

Before posting some of answer to our "contest" here is a funny story from yesterday.

We had a nice puja in Kitchener-Waterloo area (Ontario, Canada) and it was the first time I was asked to lead the puja.

Now, before going forward, I have to explain you something.

Those of us who are moving to another country are in a strange position. We slowly, slowly forget our mother tongue or talk have a strange accent and we can never speak perfectly the new language. Also, we can understand both languages, even if talked right after another, but when we are to speak it takes us few seconds be able to go from one to another. It is like we have a brain switch that changes the output from one language to another.

So now back to the puja. I got all planned out. I got a transcript of what needs to happen at the puja, with a list of songs, even approximate times when each has to happen so we finish in time. I was 100% sure that there was nothing I missed.

We started the puja with a short meditation, we went through few mantras.

Behind me there was a Romanian yogini with a cute 3-4 years daughter and she told her something, I don't remember what, in Romanian language. At that moment, the switch in my brain changed to Romanian.

And happily I spoke on the microphone:

"Acum sa spunem mantra pentru Nirvichara si sa stam in meditatie pentru 2 minute"

that is: "Let's say the mantra for Nirvichara and spend 2 minutes in meditation"

Something did not sound right... The room was at once quiet and I started the mantra and so did everybody else. I did not realize what has just happened until few second later.

Only after we finished the mantra, it occurred to me that some yogis from the 200 yogis in sitting behind me might not be so proficient in Romanian so, to help them, I translated in English :)