Sri Sri Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari on "Restoring the Natural Rhythm of Earth Through Individual and Collective Meditation," Tathaastu magazine, Jan-Feb 2010.
"Nature and all of its harmonies are in you. They gave birth to you. Know that you are connected to the inexhaustible source of the cosmos in your own heart. [...] "
"Nature celebrates continually, without rhyme, without reason, through the universal rhythm of the seasons, through every life form,through every physical manifestation. We humans often miss the joy and celebration that life is, because we have too many other distractions and priorities. What we are missing is our own soul's peace and harmony, the dance of our own Spirit,the music of our own heart.
Alone and joining with others, let us invoke the abundant, regenerative energies that are all around us. Let us create ripples of joy and celebration that nourish our world. What is more important than arousing our awareness of all the ways that life supports us?"
Sounds a lot like the teachings of Breema bodywork philosophy, Ridwhan Sufi teachings - and Jewish Kabbalah! And didn't a certain rebbe (I believe reb Yeshi was the name), say something about first making your heart like that of a child in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven?
From whichever source it comes, I am so grateful for the receiving, in such abundance, that we get to enjoy of these wisdom traditions, now, in the 21st century - no trekking required!
Even so, I will soon be journeying to the land of the Vedas for a clinical internship at Punarvasu Ayurveda Prabodhini. And, though the earth we all stand on is the same at the center, no matter where we go, I do consider with joy what it will be like to walk the earth over there, tuning into new rhythms of earth on which this science was first based.
