People Make Your Earth Experience

The more one looks around at their daily experience, the more one realizes that one cannot go through existence without other people on the planet. There is just no way that one is going to have an experience of life living in major cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City without acknowledging that people are important.

As I have spent time playing with my grandson at the toy store, in the park, at a restaurant, one knows deep in their soul that this wonderful interaction of love is only possible because there is someone else taking responsibility for creating the toy store, operating a restaurant and a community dedicated to making life a terrific experience for children by creating a neighborhood park.

Look around as you prepare for the holidays and the feel the festive air refreshing you and acknowledge the people who make your life existence a full experience.

Enlightenment is Jagger Kabbalah

Who will save our poor, poor slebs from the evils of spiritual enlightenment? In the News has noticed the re-emergence of a trend so terrifying (and so last year) that we feel compelled to warn other slebs about its red-bracelet-wearing, blessed-water-drinking ways.

Yes, Kabbalah is back. And this time, it wants a Rolling Stone.

"Its promises of spiritual enlightenment and help with building a better life have already won over the first lady of pop," the Daily Mail reports today. "Now the esoteric cult of Kabbalah can add the name of Sir Mick Jagger to that of Madonna on its list of followers."

This claim is based on Mick being papped wearing red string around his wrist, which is indeed symbolic of belonging to the Kabbalah religion. It's not exclusive to the Kabbalah religion, however - but let's not let that put us off a good story.

The Mail goes on to report the many spiritual enlightenment-type claims Kabbalah makes, noting that: "[A] centre, in Jerusalem, promises to show followers how to 'remove every form of chaos, pain and suffering' and 'ultimately to erase death itself'."

Next they'll be promising the son of God will come back to life and walk the earth!

Need more proof that Jagger hearts Kabbalah? The story goes on to note that Jagger is beginning to possess the piety and modesty of living associated with spiritual enlightenment. For example:

"Last month, [Jagger and his partner L'Wren Scott] stayed at the 374-room Indian palace home of the Maharaja of Jodhpur and collected mystical trinkets for their £10m Chelsea home."

Late for the Dali Lama

We were geared up for a mind-altering experience with the Dalai Lama, but officials gave us only partial access to the teachings because we were late for the opening session.

Thousands of devotees converge on McLeod Ganj, part of the township of Dharamsala, where the Dalai Lama gives a limited number of free public lectures each year.
Those of us who did manage to file into the Main Temple were disappointed. We got as far as a leafy courtyard opposite a modest gated building, the Dalai Lama's residence.

An elderly bespectacled man with yellow and scarlet robes shuffled by, surrounded by minders. The Dalai Lama smiled at us before moving upstairs where he gave his lecture.

Too bad none of us spoke Tibetan. The radio frequency for English translation did not work.

So we sat there for an hour watching the Dalai Lama speak, sipping milky tea, smiling and laughing without understanding a word he was saying to an otherwise enraptured audience.

This Life & Essences

Gazing at all the people on the second floor of Nordstroms from the 3rd flow through the escalator, one gets a sense of all the interconnections between all of us walking the planet today. One then thinks about the family members and friends, and business collaborations.

Yudhishtara calls it the relationships of "essence". Let's talk about this in Satsang.

Stress is Time Related

It is just an observation but does it seem that stress is always time related? That is what I have been finding the past few weeks. Let's discuss it in Satsang.

Trust Yourself

Thoughts are coming at you all day long.
Coincidence is occuring all day long and you observe it.
You think it - it is occuring.
Awareness of it all is around you.
Trust Yourself.

See you in Satsang.

Milarepa & Satsang

There is a new movie coming out - "Milarepa" is a sort of "Batman Begins" version of the early life of renowned Tibetan saint Jetsun Milarepa (1052-1135). A follow-up film, which is due out in 2009, will cover the magical deeds and great powers of the legendary yogi and poet, who achieved enlightenment in midlife and blended Buddhism with sorcery according to the story.

For now, let us know that , "Milarepa" concerns the religious figure's hardscrabble origins, when he was a young man named Mila Thopaga (Jamyang Lodro). In this visually spectacular film shot near Tibet's border with India, "Milarepa" focuses on the misfortunes of Thopaga's family after the death of his wealthy father.

Let us discuss this further in Satsang.