From nothing to something, from source to its’ formless manifestation, is sound. And the first sound was AUM, which is actually three sounds that encompass birth, life, and death or creation, preservation, and destruction, or Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva. How extraordinary that we have been gifted the portal of this now moment (Atha), to hop on the Om Express to destination cosmos or God or Spirit or whatever resonates for you. The Om Express catapults us onto a trackless track that is right on time for, no time, into the stationless station that is home, or Om.

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Samskaras are often referred to as the grooves of our mind. Our habitual thought patterns persist in deepening these grooves wether they lead to happy or hell. These grooves get to be groovy or ghastly, dependent upon our own consciousness around them. Like water flowing and carving out the landscape of planet earth, our thoughts carve out the landscape of our minds.

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Now equals: No Other Way. There is no ‘way’ to find, and no pot of gold to discover, there is no book to unearth and no guru to locate. ‘The way’ can only move through you, as you, atha, in this very now moment. The way is not separate from you, ‘the way’ is YOU.

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Sankalpa is your sincere vow to uphold an intention born from the wedlock of your mind and heart. The practice, is to remember that vow as often as you can throughout the day and simply make the next right choice to honor it.

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We fear uncertainty, so to fear death then, is the same as fearing life, each one, is unknown to us. But in life, it’s the ‘efforting' to know the unknown, that is our suffering. It’s the mind being completely lost and mantically trying to manipulate circumstances, to re-arrange moments, to finish a puzzle that has no border. We are looking for all of the straight edge pieces that do not even exist!

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When I find myself disliking, my partner in crime, is blame. Rabbit holes upon rabbit holes can be filled with disliking other people and their behavior, our government, pollution, someone’s FB post, my own self, religions, genders, races, on and on to infinity. Disliking is just as addictive as liking. And neither of them contribute to, or constitute love. In both cases, the mental mind space is being flooded with what is wrong, what is not good enough, and what we don’t have. This is toxic.

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In my liking, I hold on, I wrap my fingers around dense bars I believe to be real. I obsess and run perpetually down the narrow, narrative of of my mind, a mundane, uninspired, well worn path that I know, oh too well. I assign myself the impossible mission of freezing indefinable feelings inside ever changing moments to bottle them up, so I can drink them at my leisure, and by leisure, I mean attachment and even addiction.

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It’s way more convenient to change lanes from me looking at me, to me, pointing out “ego” in you, and in this yoga teacher, and in that neighbor, or in that stranger. If I keep my head buried in defining ego or judging the ego or making it about everyone else but me, then, I reject any opportunity to clearly see how my ego can actually serve me. When I liberate myself from believing I am my job, my looks, my spouse, or my bank account, I no longer have to claim those things for fear of losing them; I am empowered to use them, as the power tools of cooperation, connection, and integration.

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Every time we participate in comparing, whether it’s in the form of dollars, degrees, or downward facing dogs, we choose to assess ourselves based on an evaluation form of which we have no idea who created. We have no idea what values and ideals it accounted for and whether or not they align with who we actually want to be.

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SLOW. The S is for stop, the L, for look, the O, for observe and the W for witness. Slow is not stagnant and slow is not suppressed. Slow is savory, stimulating and ultimately, slow is sovereignty. Slow is the direct access to self authority. Ironically, slow, is the fastest vehicle you can take to to a liberated heart.

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