Please don’t ask me to be your ordinary friend. It’s too painful remaining silent when I see your enlightened body poking out from beneath your sleeves.Mood: 'fine' at 6:29 PM Feb 20view more
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need,
but not your emptiness.
Kahlil Gibran
"Love
is patient and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, and it is not proud.
Love is not rude, is not selfish,
and does not get upset with others.
Love does not count up wrongs that have been done. Love takes no pleasure in evil
but rejoices over the truth. Love patiently accepts all things. ..
It always trusts, always hopes, and always endures. Love never ends.
Saint Paul to the Corinthians
"You are
awareness. Awareness is another name for you.
Since you are awareness there is no need
to attain or cultivate it.
All that you have to do is to give up being aware
of other things, that is of the not-Self.
If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self."
Ramana Maharshi
"... this self alone is the
friend of oneself, and this self alone is the
enemy of oneself."
Bhagavad Gita
"Who Looks Outside, Dreams. Who Looks Inside, Awakens."
Carl Jung
"...only when one realizes the unity in all diversity
can the feeling of love for every created being be developed,
transcending all apparent differences.
Love for God implies love for all.
Each and every individual
should be looked upon as the
manifestation of the Cosmic Entity."
Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
"We know... in an Intuitive way...
the Truth is not found "out there".
You cannot get to This Truth from "out there".
It's the other way around.
The Truth is Inside. ..
And because it is Inside,
and we live mostly outside,
for us to realize this inner Truth,
we need to "turn"..."
Sri Humananda
"We are aware, by analysis, experiment and observation,
that broadly speaking, we have three avenues of knowledge,
two of which are in direct relation to our normal world-experience,
and one is unknown to most of us.
These channels of perception
are sense, reason
and intuition."
Swami Krishnananda
"Empty yourself of everything.
Let the mind become still. Ten thousand things rise and fall
while the Self watches their return.
They grow and
flourish and then
return to the source.
Returning to the source is stillness,
which is the way of nature..."
Lau Tzu
In Yoga tradition, when it becomes clear to you that the quest for the knowledge of the Self, and the merging of the individual self with the Divine is truly, to you, more important than worldly life - that the space between the warp and woof of the fabric of life is more important than the cloth itself - then, as a sign of your commitment to this goal, provided that the path you are going to follow is a path of yoga, you obtain a yogic name. Your yogic name can be assigned by your Preceptor, or your Spiritual (Enlightened) Friend, or a Yoga Saint, or your Guru, or in some cases, you can "choose" your name via a Divine Intuitive sense.
Because of a number of deeply spiritual reasons, prompts and insights, I came to the name of Humananda, or it came to me. Humananda is Sanskrit and means "He who finds Bliss in (the sound of the) "Hum" (of the Universe)." For me it is one of the easiest ways to "tune in" to the Oneness. If you listen, right now, you yourself can hear the "hum" all around you. And if you listen more closely, you can hear it even inside of you. For me it then becomes Me, and then I am That That I am. Hence, Humananda.
My primary Yoga Teacher is the Kavi Yogiraj Mani Finger, founder of the Integrated Science of Hatha, Tantra and Ayurveda, (ISHTA) - a Sanskrit word meaning personalized, or individualized, Life president of the Yoga Teachers Fellowship of Africa and Patron of the International Yoga Teachers Association, and the founder of the Southern African Yoga Teachers Fellowship, and also father and Teacher to his son, Yogiraj Alan Finger
Nowadays I teach Yoga publicly and free of charge from a studio in Maine to many who are curious and have never heard of yoga in any serious way, and I teach privately to the few who adore it and want to live it, whether it be Tantra (from the root Sanskrit words tanoti, meaning expansion, and trayati, meaning liberation), or Yoga in general. Send a message for more info.
I generally add friends here who have ..Yoga as their primary preoccupation in life.. and those who are seekers of Self or are otherwise known to me as significant in either their Being or their Work.
Sri Yukteswar on a warm day, Leonardo da Vinci in his studio, People who have mastered the appropriateness of caring, People who try to keep the balance of thought and feeling, Seekers of Self, and open, emotionally courageous people.
Interests
General
I am interested in what exists inside of me depending upon where my consciousness is steered. So that makes me very interested in who is doing the steering and why some things appear interesting to me and others not at all. The old Raga-Dvesha (likes and dislikes) thingy. So I guess my interest is in the
driver-in-me, but also in others - to see how they steer, and to what, and why. And if they can change direction, and
how that works for them
and in them, and in me. So, not so much the "what" as the "why" and "how". Then there is the stuff below as well...
Music
Soft, slow stuff of any kind mostly. Music that
touches me "in here". Stories, layers, like ..Leonard Cohen.. and others sometimes, or just great lyrics, and emotional stuff, even if loud. Oh, and some gentle Chopin is really cool. And finally, from time to time, something so movingly appropriate comes along, like the honest, sweet and grace-filled farewell prayer to a friend you are now listening to on this page.
Movies
For entering into a level of illusion deeper than the one we are usually in, fast moving action can be effective, but mostly the more
coherent foreign films, you know, those with a story. And layers of meaning. Movies where you sort of have to partake and ..give a little of yourself.. to get the full effect. Other times, just pure escape from myself and when the world takes on a quality so real that it is almost impossible to get from there to Here... and when I start scaring myself sometimes a good movie helps.
Television
Some at times. The news and documentaries, Nature, History, Discovery, Nova... involved programs, rather than the spoon-fed "here's what you must think" stuff. And like movies, some that serve as effective distraction when I seem to need it. Stuff like "24" and "House", or comedy... some anyway. No "reality TV"... it is not real anyway...
Books
Any religious writing really, specially the East - Vedas, Upanishads, the Gita, and that entire field. Sivananda writes well, as does Sri Yukteswar and Yogananda. Then, any alternative yet sophisticated life-argumentative stuff. Zen, the Western
philosophy and psychology branches - the older guys like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and even older like Confucius and King Wen and the Duke of Chow, Lau Tsu, then also Camus, Hegel, Kant, Hume, Husserl, Moore, Spinoza, Buber, Freud, Rogers, Maslow, Adler, and yes, Skinner too, then, some of the Classics, and oh yes, good contemporary poetry.
Heroes
The Great Yogis and other Enlightened ones... my Teachers and Friends and the significant women in my life without who I would most likely be completely different... and probably much worse off.
The best thing about starting over is that we can always do so, right now. No matter how far out things become, we can always begin again, from right here. The liberation and absolution within this eternal moment is always here beside us, like an old familiar friend waiting for us to take notice once again. Arms wide open ~R~
I've made the change to Facebook now. It's been nice here, specially because of people like you, but I think it will be even better on the other side. See you there. Namaste.
Comments
Jul 5 2009 3:19 AM
May 12 2009 6:04 PM
"SEEK TO DO BRAVE & LOVELY THINGS THAT ARE LEFT UNDONE BY THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE.
GIVE GIFTS OF LOVE & PEACE TO THOSE WHOM OTHERS PASS BY."
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
LIVE LIKE SUMER
BE UNIQUE
SHOW COMPASSION
SEEK KNOWLEDGE
EMBRACE YOUR CREATIVITY
SEE BEAUTY IN YOUR SURROUNDINGS AND OTHERS
BE TRUE TO YOURSELF
GIVE BACK
HAVE FUN
SEEK ADVENTURE
BE OPEN TO NEW IDEAS AND EXPERIENCES
SHOW YOUR INTELLIGENCE
INDULGE YOUR CURIOSITY
BE BRAVE
ACT DON’T WAIT
Sumer Nicole Alvarez -- 5/30/85 – 7/30/05
“WE MUST BE THE CHANGE WE WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Apr 9 2009 11:32 PM
Beautiful Gregory Colbert photos that depict more than what mere words could ever express. The essence of connectivity.
Mar 31 2009 1:39 PM
thanks for the friendship,
i do know it to appriciate :).
It's a honor to get to know you here on MySpace
and i am really glad and happy now :).
I'll look forward to you and wish you a very good time.
May GOD bless you and your loved ones @lways and for ever.
Take good care my dear friend until we meet again, thank you so much.
Much blessing greetings from a friend in Germany, 'Lady'.
PEACE - ONE LOVE - Nuff RESPECT :).
...
See you then .. insha'allah.
..
Bless you, bye.
~ Namaste ~
Angelic :).
Mar 17 2009 7:27 PM
The best thing about starting over is that we can always do so, right now. No matter how far out things become, we can always begin again, from right here. The liberation and absolution within this eternal moment is always here beside us, like an old familiar friend waiting for us to take notice once again. Arms wide open ~R~
Mar 6 2009 7:18 PM
Feb 14 2009 1:56 PM
May your Valentines Day be filled with love! ~R~
Feb 6 2009 7:20 PM
The body is ephemeral as a bubble
Made of water and dancing chemicals
With the divine breath of life, Its form appears
Reflecting the world perfectly as it passes through
Leaving no trace behind
The form dissolves
The breath returns home
Its beauty cannot be captured
Only witnessed and appreciated
Wishing you awareness of your own reflections
They are beautiful art in motion
~R~
Feb 4 2009 3:08 AM
Jan 16 2009 10:06 PM
Sarasvati
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.(ANDRE GIDE)