Been a long time since I posted here. 2020. In a few months, or less, was it, COVID-19 hit us with a vengeance. A friend of mine died that year. I suspect it was COVID as some very fine people were taken from us by that thing. John Prine sure surprised me. Anyway, just back for a visit. It is listed as a blog of mine on my Facebook page. That led me here, to see it again. Looks better to me now, somehow. 

Happy New Year 2020

Well, it is 2020 now. Looks like I posted nothing here in 2019. I forget this blog but maybe others don't. Maybe others read it secretly, learning dirty little secrets about me. Mindful of the title. Thought about today. Some people, especially women as I see it at this time in my life, have an addiction to talking, to gossiping, to chatting incessantly about meaningless stuff. Forgive me, I know that sounds harsh but I've been let down by women who talk in their cars when they have sacred mantras on disk they could play. They could make their cars holy places but they are more tuned to being money making places and I understand the influence society has on that. In fact I see being devoted to the path, to this science of the Self could be like being gay or black or female or Hispanic or any of the other marginal peoples, minorities.
Playing Shri Guru Gita from the Siddha Yoga website today.

Ego. I wonder if I have an ego problem as I look at jobs and read the pay rates. I was just totally out of it for so many years. Not in touch with the growing cost of living. Molding, they say. Do they mean molting, like what birds do shedding feathers?
I am recalling all those years at home now. Getting more in touch with the time I live in.

Body, mind and wealth

We used to sing t his song, Gurudeva Hamara Pyara (To Our Beloved Guru) at the beginning of satsangs at the Informal Siddha Meditation Center in the 90's. I have been singing it again on my own. I am getting closer to it. One line says, one should know the Guru to be one's own body, mind and wealth. I like that.
Originally my key line in the song was He is our life's support. Of course with Gurumayi now the Guru that would be She is our life's support.
Gurudeva hamara pyara hai jivana ko adhara
Gurudeva hamara pyara hai jivana ko adhara.

The mind, the ego. Aren't they the same? Yes. D.R. Butler says ego is part of the mind, the Antakharana and indeed now I am learning it is a tattva (which means truth). A little ad here for Splendor of Recognition. It is by Swami Shantananda who you may like to know is Puerto Rican. He also has a lisp but I haven't seen or heard him in a video or live at an event in so long. That was the big think in 1992. He had a lisp. One of the swamis in Siddha Yoga.

Body, mind and wealth

We used to sing t his song, Gurudeva Hamara Pyara (To Our Beloved Guru) at the beginning of satsangs at the Informal Siddha Meditation Center in the 90's. I have been singing it again on my own. I am getting closer to it. One line says, one should know the Guru to be one's own body, mind and wealth. I like that.
Originally my key line in the song was He is our life's support. Of course with Gurumayi now the Guru that would be She is our life's support.
Gurudeva hamara pyara hai jivana ko adhara
Gurudeva hamara pyara hai jivana ko adhara.

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It's important to remember we are all only One.There is no one else but our Self who is supreme consciousness and bliss, Divine. Shakti has covered the Self, Shiva, with a veil called illusion. It is a game Shiva plays so he can relish the joy of Self-Realization

What? Why?

I have been considered a very cynical downer. In high school, especially, I was viewed that way. So, what am I doing with this Guru and liberation stuff? What is my ulterior motive? Well, motives arise. I think of them all the time. Here are a few; to improve my inner state, to improve my material conditions though I really don't know how meditating and chanting are supposed to do that. I guess a lot those hippie acid heads could be asked that question. What are they doing with this ego destroying stuff? Aren't we famous for ego?