Daily Dose - Oct. 21 2013 - MoonDay/Shiva/Luna - Shiva, Yoga, & Peace.

What a powerful week and a half we have just passed through! With that full moon in Aries plus the eclipse, we're all experiencing very potent shifts! Today's daily dose contains a couple of my quotes on Yoga. If you are not practicing Yoga (which includes many branches and styles) or something similar (Qi Gong, Tai Chi, etc.) I invite you to receive these words as confirmation to start or go deeper! These systems of spiritual science teach and allow us to embrace the quickly shifting and changing times, and how to smoothly ride through the experiences of life, especially if they are difficult or challenging.

Monday is often considered Shiva's day of the week (as if they weren't all his ;P ) and is a particularly good and auspicious day to fast.

• Yoga teaches us stability in life. It does so by giving stability to the body and mind, and so it is reflected in Life. Sometimes we fall or stumble, but we do so sincerely, and are stronger and kinder for it.
• Yoga is not just stretching; it requires a commitment to become strong; to be strong and adaptive, being firm and elastic simultaneously, in the body and the mind.
• When we slow the breath and focus the mind, the bliss of stillness enters our awareness. By this state of being we perceive and experience the miracle of life constantly - peace is the result of this.

"The Tao never does anything,
yet through it all things are done.

If powerful men and women
could center themselves in it,
the whole world would be transformed
by itself, in its natural rhythms.
People would be content
with their simple, everyday lives,
in harmony, and free of desire.

When there is no desire,
all things are at peace."
- 37, Tao Te Ching, translated by Stephen Mitchell

Daily Dose - Oct 5 2013 - Saturn/Kronos/ ~ Death, Time, & Discipline

• Live to learn how to die. We are given time on this planet in these bodies to 'die' and be 'reborn' before physical death, so we may know and remember the meaning, beauty and power of life, our purpose here, and the immortality of our spirit.
  
• If you know me/are local, make sure you attend one of my YogiShaman Trance Breath Empowerment or other Shamanic Journey workshops to experience this Alchemical process and transformation. Visit www.Miguelfl.com for more info.

• Does the way you live your life make you grateful? If it doesn't make you grateful don't waste your time. If we are unsatisfied we must ask why. In time the answers will come. Stay open.
  
• Each of us will, at some point or other, leave this life and this body. When it is time, Death comes for us all. It may be tomorrow, in 80 years or even today, but rest assured, he will come.
  This can be a source of stress, worry and fear, or a source of empowerment and enlightenment. So let us not waste our time here, and truly life live, enjoy all it has to offer, knowing the sacred in all things, being kind to ourselves and others and being grateful for this day, this breath.
  
• Time will heal all our wounds, and forgive us all our trespasses against ourselves and others and make us wise. For this healing and liberation to begin, however, we must set ourselves to our way without harming self or other.
  
  Make choices that help and support rather than hinder and cause guilt or fear. Thought we may stumble or fall, even many times each day, we have from then on to become better, to become who we wish to be, who we really are. 

Look, and it can't be seen.

Listen, and it can't be heard.

Reach, and it can't be grasped.

Above, it isn't bright.

Below, it isn't dark.

Seamless, unnamable,

it returns to the realm of nothing.

From that includes all forms,

image without an image,

subtle, beyond all coneption.

Approach it and there is no beginning;

follow it and there is no end.

You can't know it, but you can be it,

at ease in your own life.

Just realize where you come from:

this is the essence of wisdom.

- 14, Tao Te Ching

Daily Dose - Oct 3, 2013

• When we judge anyone in anyway, we are actually judging ourselves. When we think someone is "closed off" or narrow minded, it is in fact our own self that is exhibiting and experiencing that condition.

• Remember, it is the natural tendency of everything and everyone to evolve. This is the path of least resistance.

From chapter 34, "Impermanence of All Things" of the Kural

• There is no baser folly than the infatuation
  that looks upon the ephemeral as if it were everlasting.
  - 331
• Do good deeds with a sense of urgency,
  before death's approaching rattle strangles the tongue.
  - 336

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"Success is as dangerous as failure.

Hope is as hollow as fear.

What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure?

Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky.

When you stand with your two feet on the ground, 

you will always keep your balance.

What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?

Hope and fear are both phantoms

that arise from thinking of the self.

When we don't see the self as self,

what do we have to fear?

See the world as your self.

Have faith in the way things are.

Love the world as your self,

then you can care for all things."

- 13, Tao Te Ching