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Larchfire: Photography from India, Nepal and Tibet, plus quotations primarily from traditions in Yoga and Buddhism

This tuning into the subtler dimensions is possible only by cleansing our ordinary perceptions and by quieting the mind. The requirements of meditation, as well as of any serious prayer, is to be present with stillness and a silence of the body, mind and the emotions, so that one might hear a rose petal fall, the sound of the thoughts arising, and the silence between thoughts. The arising of thoughts and emotions is a part of the play of Nature, and watching this play with complete equanimity, without being disturbed, belongs to the Spirit. Alert without agitation, a centered-self without being self-centered, a sage does nothing, nothing of his own or for himself, but everything is accomplished. —Ravi Ravindra, <i> Pilgrim Without Boundaries </i>
<i> L1218 above Dharamsala </i>

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This tuning into the subtler dimensions is possible only by cleansing our ordinary perceptions and by quieting the mind. The requirements of meditation, as well as of any serious prayer, is to be present with stillness and a silence of the body, mind and the emotions, so that one might hear a rose petal fall, the sound of the thoughts arising, and the silence between thoughts. The arising of thoughts and emotions is a part of the play of Nature, and watching this play with complete equanimity, without being disturbed, belongs to the Spirit. Alert without agitation, a centered-self without being self-centered, a sage does nothing, nothing of his own or for himself, but everything is accomplished. —Ravi Ravindra, Pilgrim Without Boundaries L1218 above Dharamsala

meditation Dharamsala Ravi Ravindra