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I have practiced daily meditation for 20 years. I follow the system of meditation and other spiritual disciplines as outlined By Sri Eknath Easwaran who founded the Blue Mountain Center for Meditation in Tomales, California, USA. I am a member of a local meditation group and (when life permits) meet with like minded meditators every Wednesday (in person for many years and now on Zoom). If you want to learn more visit: https://www.bmcm.org/ Easwaran has written a lot of books about his system of meditation as well as commentary on religious texts like The bhagavad Gita and The Upanishads. You can do his system with any organized faith or none at all. I kept it after I left the Catholic Church.
I learned of this system when I was in my 20's crashing at a co-worker's house. I find the system and his teachings very practical and sustaining and it has formed the structure of my life for two decades, providing genuine ideals as well as tools to reach those ideals.
In the past year, I have Begun to Be 'fannish' about it in the sense that I write poems Based on some of the guru's anecdotes which form kind of parable illustrating certain points and I make cards for people in my group as well as a friend who lives at the meditation center in California.
On Tuesdays and Sundays there is a program from the center in California and today was a special day honoring Sri Easwaran and his teachings (he died in 1999 and his wife died this year at the age of 101!)
Here's one of the cards
I have not been ale to attend meditation group because of the boys' father's absence (and the boy's soccer practice schedules) so Minor and I have been doing a kind of book club using a biography of Gandhi that Easwaran wrote.
So here is a short poem about a defining incident in Gandhi's early life.
coatless and trunkless
shivering all the long night
Maritzburg Station
cast off, thrown out, left alone
by dawn, a great soul was born
Here's a video of him talking about the nature of happiness.
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Fannish 50 #3: Agatha Christie
Fannish 50 #4: Museums
Fannish 50 #5: Hard Boiled Detectives
Fannish 50 #6: Steampunk
Fannish 50 #7: Facial sheet masks.
Fannish 50 #8: J-hope of BTS
Fannish 50 #9: Collage materials
Fannish 50 #10: Holiday blend coffee
Fannish 50 #11: Inspector Rebus
Fannish 50 #12: Postcards
Fannish 50 #13: Jigsaw Puzzles
Fannish 50 #14: Holmesian Poetry
Fannish 50 #15: Miniature rooms
Fannish 50 #16: Jeeves & Wooster
Fannish 50 #17: The ocean
Fannish 50 #18: Audiobooks
Fannish 50 #19: The Tuesday Murder Club series by Richard Osman
Fannish 50 #20: Chocolate
Fannish 50 #21: BVM
Fannish 50 #22: Bees & honey
Fannish 50 #23: Agust D/SUGA of BTS
Fannish 50 #24: BTS
Fannish 50 #25: Snoopy
Fannish 50:#26: Detective Kosuke Kindaichi by Seishi Yokomizo
Fannish 50 #27: Jimin of BTS
Fannish 50 #28: The language of flowers
Fannish 50 #29: Tea
Fannish 50 #30: Lord Peter Wimsey by Dorothy L. Sayers
Fannish 50 #31: Moon
Fannish 50 #32: Jungkook of BTS
Fannish 50 #33: Tarot
Fannish 50 #34: RM of BTS
Fannish 50 #35: the KonMari Method
Fannish 50 #36: Short stories
Fannish 50 #37: Crowley of Good Omens
Fannish 50 #38: Autumn
Fannish 50 #39: the art of Edward Gorey
Fannish 50 #40: the works of Edgar Allan Poe
Fannish 50 #41: the teachings of Sri Eknath Easwaran
I have practiced daily meditation for 20 years. I follow the system of meditation and other spiritual disciplines as outlined By Sri Eknath Easwaran who founded the Blue Mountain Center for Meditation in Tomales, California, USA. I am a member of a local meditation group and (when life permits) meet with like minded meditators every Wednesday (in person for many years and now on Zoom). If you want to learn more visit: https://www.bmcm.org/ Easwaran has written a lot of books about his system of meditation as well as commentary on religious texts like The bhagavad Gita and The Upanishads. You can do his system with any organized faith or none at all. I kept it after I left the Catholic Church.
I learned of this system when I was in my 20's crashing at a co-worker's house. I find the system and his teachings very practical and sustaining and it has formed the structure of my life for two decades, providing genuine ideals as well as tools to reach those ideals.
In the past year, I have Begun to Be 'fannish' about it in the sense that I write poems Based on some of the guru's anecdotes which form kind of parable illustrating certain points and I make cards for people in my group as well as a friend who lives at the meditation center in California.
On Tuesdays and Sundays there is a program from the center in California and today was a special day honoring Sri Easwaran and his teachings (he died in 1999 and his wife died this year at the age of 101!)
Here's one of the cards
I have not been ale to attend meditation group because of the boys' father's absence (and the boy's soccer practice schedules) so Minor and I have been doing a kind of book club using a biography of Gandhi that Easwaran wrote.
So here is a short poem about a defining incident in Gandhi's early life.
coatless and trunkless
shivering all the long night
Maritzburg Station
cast off, thrown out, left alone
by dawn, a great soul was born
Here's a video of him talking about the nature of happiness.
Fannish 50 #1: Sherlock Holmes
Fannish 50 #2: Many Fandoms - Fannish Items I Own
Fannish 50 #3: Agatha Christie
Fannish 50 #4: Museums
Fannish 50 #5: Hard Boiled Detectives
Fannish 50 #6: Steampunk
Fannish 50 #7: Facial sheet masks.
Fannish 50 #8: J-hope of BTS
Fannish 50 #9: Collage materials
Fannish 50 #10: Holiday blend coffee
Fannish 50 #11: Inspector Rebus
Fannish 50 #12: Postcards
Fannish 50 #13: Jigsaw Puzzles
Fannish 50 #14: Holmesian Poetry
Fannish 50 #15: Miniature rooms
Fannish 50 #16: Jeeves & Wooster
Fannish 50 #17: The ocean
Fannish 50 #18: Audiobooks
Fannish 50 #19: The Tuesday Murder Club series by Richard Osman
Fannish 50 #20: Chocolate
Fannish 50 #21: BVM
Fannish 50 #22: Bees & honey
Fannish 50 #23: Agust D/SUGA of BTS
Fannish 50 #24: BTS
Fannish 50 #25: Snoopy
Fannish 50:#26: Detective Kosuke Kindaichi by Seishi Yokomizo
Fannish 50 #27: Jimin of BTS
Fannish 50 #28: The language of flowers
Fannish 50 #29: Tea
Fannish 50 #30: Lord Peter Wimsey by Dorothy L. Sayers
Fannish 50 #31: Moon
Fannish 50 #32: Jungkook of BTS
Fannish 50 #33: Tarot
Fannish 50 #34: RM of BTS
Fannish 50 #35: the KonMari Method
Fannish 50 #36: Short stories
Fannish 50 #37: Crowley of Good Omens
Fannish 50 #38: Autumn
Fannish 50 #39: the art of Edward Gorey
Fannish 50 #40: the works of Edgar Allan Poe
Fannish 50 #41: the teachings of Sri Eknath Easwaran