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

Oct 9 2013 - Wednesday/Woden's Day/Mercury/Thoth - Emotions, Yoga & Letting

• Things happen, Life happens, there's nothing we can do about that. Our reactions to those things, however, dictate how we experience life, and the quality of that experience.
  
  Essentially, the reality of our happiness is a reality and decision we either create or deny by our every day actions and attitude - we can choose to smile and be grateful and joyous for our life - and all that it is - or we can choose otherwise. The former is Yoga.
  
• Having the ability to witness emotional reactions within the body and mind and choosing to release the proceeding attachment to and identification with that reaction and emotion is Yoga. Thus we are never disturbed from our sense of peace and experience life with clarity and joy.

"The gentlest thing in the world

overcomes the hardest thing in the world.

That which has no substance

enters where there is no space.

This shows the value of non-action.

Teaching without words,

performing without actions:

that is the Master's way."

-43, 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 4, 2013 - Friday/Venus/Libra/Hathor ~ New Moon in Libra!

I've been revisiting a lot of  my old writings (and emotions!) the last few days, which seems to be very fitting for this New Moon we're experiencing. I wish a smooth, balanced and liberating new moon to all of you, and hope you find today's dose both appropriate and supportive for this transition! Bless

• The more I choose to feel gratitude, the more there is in my life to be grateful for.
  
  The world of abundance exists through the doors of Peace.
  The key that opens those doors is Gratitude.
  
  Only when we are grateful for all our experience, for all of life just the way it is - only then do we open ourselves, our life, and our very consciousness to change - only then do we gracefully accept, embrace and create transformation.
  
  -Miguel Antonio

• When we learn to breathe efficiently and correctly, then all we do in life will be done efficiently and correctly.
  
  Breath is the constant within all our activities and spectrum of life and thought.
  
  When we can breathe with gratitude always and deliberately, then all actions are done in thanks and joy, bearing the fruits of peace and a constantly beautiful experience.
  
  Life becomes and endless stream of miracles.
  
  -Miguel Antonio
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Whoever is planted in the Tao
  will not be rooted up.
  Whoever embraces the Tao
  will not slip away.
  Her name will be held in honor from generation to generation.
  
  
  Let the Tao be present in your life
  and you will become genuine.
  Let it be present in your family
  and your family will flourish.
  Let it be present in your country
  and your country will be an example
  to all countries in the world.
  Let it be present in the universe
  and the universe will sing.
  
  
  How do I know this is true?
  By looking inside myself.
  
  
  -54, 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