Time for Relationships

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Our beloved Christine’s birthday falls at the end of June. In former times, during this whole month, your cards and letters poured in, and Christine read each one with great joy.

The last few years, instead of sending cards and letters, you poured your hearts into the mantram, first as she was preparing to shed her body in summer 2022, and again in her honor in the following years.

So let’s continue this tradition, and make special effort with our mantrams throughout the month of June. Sunday, June 29, will be our actual celebration of her birthday, with a special program on Satsang Live and a day of mantrams for peace and healing in the world. For more information about how to participate in the day of mantrams for peace and healing in the world, please go to bmcm.org/christine.

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This week let’s start chapter 6 of Take Your Time on pages 127–135. Here Easwaran warns us not to take for granted the notions of modern progress, speed, and efficiency. He calls us instead to take time for relationships and to cultivate what is essential: “the timeless values and fundamental virtues that make us human.” And Easwaran makes clear that this effort builds on the skills we’ve been training throughout our book study:

“If we have been slowing down the pace of our life, practicing one-pointed attention, and loosening our likes and dislikes, we should begin to see the benefit of these new patterns in all our relationships. For these are some of the tools that can help us make for ourselves a personal world rich in companionship.”

• If you have a particular issue you are struggling with right now, look into this reading for tips, and then try them out this week.

• The suggestions for practice for chapter 6 are on pages 151–152. Can you find a specific way to practice the first suggestion this week? Let us know!

  • Cultivate personal relationships in all your activities. It will help to reverse the depersonalization of our world.

For spiritual entertainment, here is a treat from Easwaran. In this three-minute video Easwaran suggests that much of our thinking is not necessary.

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Permanent Joy

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Our beloved Christine’s birthday falls at the end of June. In former times, during this whole month, your cards and letters poured in, and Christine read each one with great joy.

The last few years, instead of sending cards and letters, you poured your hearts into the mantram, first as she was preparing to shed her body in summer 2022, and again in her honor in the following years.

So let’s continue this tradition, and make special effort with our mantrams throughout the month of June. Sunday, June 29, will be our actual celebration of her birthday, with a special program on Satsang Live and a day of mantrams for peace and healing in the world. For more information about how to participate in the day of mantrams for peace and healing in the world, please go to bmcm.org/christine.

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Easwaran ends chapter 5 of Take Your Time with a tantalizing glimpse of freedom and the permanent joy it brings. And he notes that our inexperience with this rarefied state is part of what makes the path there so challenging.

“One of the main difficulties in grasping this is that we don’t have anything lofty to compare with the humdrum pleasures of sensory experience. Until we have tasted something higher and longer lasting, it’s hard to understand what spiritual figures in all ages keep trying to tell us: ‘Permanent joy is far, far higher than pleasure that comes and goes.’”

Let’s read this section, pages 118–124, and savor the taste of freedom.

• If you have a particular issue you are struggling with right now, look into this reading for tips, and try them out this week.

• We’ve been extending our practice of training the senses by working through the ideas and suggestions on page 125. Read through that list and choose an experiment that fits best for you this week.

Playing With Likes and Dislikes

In this week’s reading, pages 110–118 of Take Your Time, Easwaran continues illuminating the dynamics of likes and dislikes by focusing on a connection “unsuspected today” between food and the mind.

“When your mind is under control, your taste buds will ask politely for food that is good for you. But when you are speeded up, your palate is likely to clamor for its old favorites – and you are going to be much more vulnerable to its demands. In this way, by observing how the mind responds to food, you can get a precious early warning when your mind is starting to get speeded up or out of control.”

Let’s take a fresh look at training the senses through Easwaran’s eyes and continue moving toward living in freedom.

• What is Easwaran telling you about the workings of your own mind? This week, use this new understanding to get some cooperation from your mind when it is being uncooperative. Tell us how it goes!

• As a challenge this week, try this experiment from the “Ideas and Suggestions” on page 125:

  • Go on a leisurely outing with family or friends, doing what they like, enjoying their enjoyment.

For our spiritual bonus this week, here is Easwaran reading the passage “Living in Wisdom” from the Bhagavad Gita.

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Living in Freedom

We are now halfway through our book study of Take Your Time. It is wonderful to be absorbing a full book of Easwaran’s together as a spiritual community.

Easwaran begins chapter 5 by discussing the dynamics of likes and dislikes:

“Often, rigid likes and dislikes are merely a matter of attention getting stuck. We get caught in a groove of what we have been conditioned to like or dislike, and we can’t imagine getting free. When we find that others have their attention stuck in their groove too, friction results.

“Usually, without thinking, we react negatively and move away. But we can learn to play with our likes and dislikes instead, and once we taste the freedom this brings, it can be quite enjoyable.”

This week let’s read pages 103–110 and take another small step toward living in freedom.

• Which lines particularly strike you, and how can you apply them to your life this week?

• The suggestions for practice for chapter 5 are on page 125, and we can start with the first one:

  • When you find yourself daydreaming – for example, anticipating some special event – bring your full attention back to the present. When the event arrives, focus on it completely. If you find yourself dwelling on it afterwards, bring your mind back to the present again. You’re teaching your mind to enjoy without grasping – and to be present here and now.

And to close, here is a spiritual entertainment treat from Easwaran. In this three-minute video Easwaran shows the importance of learning to train our attention.

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Finding Balance

As we study Take Your Time, Easwaran is giving us tips on how to bring about a spiritual renaissance. The small changes we are making to enrich our relationships and find peace may be subtle, but they are powerful. And Easwaran assures us they can quietly change the world. What are you finding in your life?

This week let’s finish chapter 4, reading pages 94–100. Easwaran continues his theme of bringing our energy into balance:

“When you live in balance, you are in joy always – not joy in the sense that things always take place in the way you want, but because you are never disturbed and have a quiet confidence in yourself that cannot be shaken”

• Is there a tip in this reading that is particularly challenging for you? How will you wrestle with it this week

• We’ve been extending our practice by working through the ideas and suggestions on pages 101–102. Read through that list and choose an experiment that fits best for you this week.

Energy at Our Beck and Call

“I appreciate the person who is energetic by nature,” Easwaran writes in this week’s selection, “but I have special admiration when I see someone who suffers from lethargy learn to turn it into a torrent of activity. Vigor, vitality, energy, and will can all be developed. I have seen really lackadaisical men and women turn into dynamos.”

Let’s read from the bottom of page 88 through 94 in Take Your Time and continue learning from Easwaran how to access our energy. May we become real dynamos!

• Read this article as if you and Easwaran are having a conversation. What advice does he give you, and how can you apply it this week?

• As a challenge this week, try this experiment from the “Ideas and Suggestions” on pages 101–102:

  • Most of us find we have energy for jobs and activities we enjoy. Try doing with enthusiasm a necessary job that you don’t particularly enjoy. Put the task you dislike first on your list. With training, you can actually begin to juggle these likes and dislikes to release more energy into your life.

For our spiritual bonus this week, here is Christine Easwaran reading the passage “When You Call” from Isaiah.

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The Energy We Need Is Always Present

In chapter 4 of Take Your Time Easwaran introduces a major theme: accessing the endless source of energy that he says is part of our birthright as human beings. The chapter’s epigraph reads, “The energy we need is always present; we just need to learn to release and harness it.” Having prepared us in the prior chapters by helping us grow our ability to slow down and use one-pointed attention, Easwaran now guides us in using those skills for this challenge. This week let’s start with pages 84–88.

• Is there some tip from Easwaran in this reading that you tend to skim over because you have already heard it many times before? Try focusing on it this week.

• The suggestions for practice for chapter 4 are on pages 101–102 of the current edition of Take Your Time, and we can start with the first one:

  • It is important not to confuse slowness with lethargy. In slowing down, attend meticulously to details. Give your very best even to the smallest undertaking.

And for bonus inspiration, here is a five-minute video in which Easwaran describes a connection between cultivating patience and deepening our devotion.

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Complete Concentration

As we now read the closing of chapter 3, pages 73–79 in Take Your Time, Easwaran presents various facets of what it means to be master of your attention. “When concentration is deep,” he explains, “we may forget our body completely. In fact, we may forget altogether about that dreariest of subjects, ourselves. This is the real secret of happiness.” And as we forget ourselves, Easwaran explains, we lose any sense of being separate from the rest of creation: “This awareness of unity is the distinguishing mark of spiritual awareness. Such people will consider you as part of themselves, and their welfare as part of your own.”

• Identify something in your life that you find confusing at this time, and where you wish you could ask Easwaran for his tips. See what he has to say in our readings. How can you apply his words to your situation?

• We’ve been extending our practice of one-pointed attention by working through the ideas and suggestions on pages 80–81. Read through that list and choose an experiment that fits best for you this week.

Don’t Wobble

“When we do things with only a part of the mind, we are just skimming the surface of life,” Easwaran warns us in this week’s reading from Take Your Time. Throwing light on the dynamics of divided attention and its resolution, he explains:

“Nothing sinks in; nothing has real impact. It leads to an empty feeling inside. Unfortunately, it is this very emptiness that drives us to pack in even more, seeking desperately to fill the void in our hearts. What we need to do is just the opposite: to slow down and live completely in the present. Then every moment will be full.”

Let’s read this section, pages 68–73, and continue observing the connection between one-pointed attention and slowing down.

• What is the most important thing that Easwaran said to you in this reading? How can you apply it in your life?

• Let’s continue extending our practice of one-pointed attention using the ideas on pages 80–81. Here’s a suggestion for this week:

  • Remember the Buddha’s words: “When you are walking, walk; when you are sitting, sit. Don’t wobble.”

  • Consider a situation or activity in which you tend to “wobble.” Try using one-pointed attention to not wobble.

For our spiritual bonus this week, here is Christine Easwaran reading the passage “The One Thing Needed” from Tukaram.

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One Thing at a Time

In this week’s reading, on pages 62–68 from Take Your Time, Easwaran brings the topic of one-pointed attention to focus on one of his favorite themes, personal relationships:

“Effortless concentration is the secret of all personal relationships, whether it is with casual acquaintances, co-workers, colleagues, friends, or family. And when relationships are not particularly cordial, one-pointed attention is even more important. It is an exceptional person who can give complete attention to somebody who is being unpleasant, but when you can do this, you can slowly disarm even a hostile person simply by listening without hostility, with complete and even loving attention.”

Let’s take a small step toward making the spiritual renaissance a reality in our lives by giving our best attention in personal relationships this week!

• If you have a particular issue you are struggling with right now, look into this reading for tips, and try them out this week.

• As a challenge this week, try this experiment from the “Ideas and Suggestions” on pages 80–81:

  • When talking with someone, give that person your full attention, even if his attention wanders or she is saying something you dislike.

For our spiritual bonus this week, here is Easwaran reading the passage “Four Things That Bring Much Inward Peace” from Thomas à Kempis.

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Directing Attention at Will

We hope you’ve been enjoying the Take Your Time book study as much as we have. We feel Easwaran used this little book to frame for us, his students, what the spiritual renaissance should look like and how we can make it happen. What an opportunity!

We are ready to dig in to chapter 3, starting with pages 57–62. Easwaran now introduces one-pointed attention and makes the case for its necessity for training the mind and living in freedom. And he reveals that the benefits extend even further:

“When we learn to recall attention from the past and keep it completely in the present, we reclaim a tremendous reserve of vital energy that has been trapped in the past like a dinosaur. Every time we do this, we restore a little more of our vital wealth to the present moment.”

• What is Easwaran telling you about the workings of your own mind? This week, use this new understanding to get some cooperation from your mind when it is being uncooperative. Tell us how it goes!

• The current edition (2006) of Take Your Time has suggestions for practice, set apart on blue pages, to encourage experimentation. The suggestions for chapter 3 are on pages 80–81, and we can start with this one:

  • When your attention gets caught somewhere other than here and now – for example, in some past event you can’t stop dwelling on – bring your mind back to the present.

For our spiritual treat, we are pleased to share the final segment from the Easwaran video “The Other Shore.” Note that the full video is 26 minutes, but the excerpt begins at 19:05 and the player should start there automatically. Of course, you are welcome to back up and watch more as well.

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Slow Down Your Mind

This week let’s finish chapter 2 of Take Your Time, reading pages 48–54. Having offered a number of skills and strategies for prioritizing our time and relieving pressures, Easwaran now reaches what he describes as “the real crux of slowing down: developing an unhurried mind.” And he makes clear that the implications are profound:

“The Buddha called this ‘living intentionally.’ It is a way of life. Slowing down is not the goal; it is the means to an end. The goal is living in freedom – freedom from the pressures of hurry, from the distractions that fragment our time and creativity and love. Ultimately, it means living at the deepest level of our awareness.”

• Is there a relationship in your life that you wish you could improve? Read this article for tips from Easwaran. Try applying those tips, even if you can’t apply them directly to this particular relationship.

• We’ve been extending our practice of slowing down by working through the ideas and suggestions on pages 55–56. Read through that list and choose an experiment that fits best for you this week.

For our spiritual treat, we are pleased to share the next excerpt from the Easwaran video “The Other Shore.” Note that the full video is 26 minutes, but the excerpt goes from 12:26 – 19:05 and the player should start and stop automatically at those times. We’ll share the final segment of this video next week. Of course, you are welcome to watch more now as well.

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Ask What’s Important

In chapter 2 of Take Your Time, Easwaran has been giving us a list of ways to get started with our practice of slowing down, with each being a skill he says will grow through practice. This week let’s read pages 42–48, which includes Easwaran’s “red pencil” exercise:

“Long ago, when I began to see the benefits of meditation, I wanted to be sure I made time for it every day. But I couldn’t see how I could fit it in. I had an extremely busy schedule, with responsibilities from early morning until late at night.

“I valued all this, but I was determined to make meditation a top priority. So I sat down and made a list of all the things I felt bound to do.

“Then I took my red pencil and crossed out everything that was not actually necessary or beneficial. Some of the results surprised me. I found I had been involved in activities that I couldn’t honestly say benefited anyone, including myself. I had simply become used to doing them. When I surveyed what remained, I found I had freed a number of hours every week.”

• Read this article as if you and Easwaran are having a conversation. What advice does he give you, and how can you apply it this week?

• We are working on slowing down, using the ideas and suggestions from Take Your Time. This week try the “red pencil” exercise, described on pages 44–45 and in the excerpt above.

For our spiritual treat, we are pleased to share the next excerpt from the Easwaran video “The Other Shore.” Note that the full video is 26 minutes, but the excerpt goes from 5:09 – 12:25 and the player should start and stop automatically at those times. We’ll share the next segment of this video next week. Of course, you are welcome to watch more now as well.

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Slowing Down

In this week’s reading, page 34 to the top of 42 in Take Your Time, Easwaran recounts:

“…gradually I understood that living completely in the present is the secret of an unhurried mind. When the mind is not rushing about in a hurry, it is calm, alert, and ready for anything. And a calm mind sees deeply, which opens the door to tremendous discoveries: rich relationships, excellence in work, a quiet sense of joy. It was a revelation. There was a door to the discovery of peace and meaning in every moment! All I needed to open it was a quiet mind.”

Then he starts right in with eight ways for us to share in that revelation by making the best of the time we have every day.

• Is there a particular situation that causes you to get speeded up or agitated? What tips does Easwaran offer in this reading that you could try out in this situation? Even if the tips don’t seem to directly apply, try them anyhow and tell us what you find.

• We are working on slowing down, using the ideas and suggestions on pages 55–56. This week let’s try:

  • Experiment with getting up a little earlier each day. Use the time you gain for getting a more relaxed start on the day: more time for breakfast, a few minutes’ walk, or reading something inspirational. Avoid the temptation to check e-mail, catch up on the news, or anything else that you know just adds to the pressure or speeds you up.

For our spiritual treat, we are pleased to share the Easwaran video “The Other Shore.” Easwaran begins with a precise examination of the way we usually see the world – divided into the things and people we like and the things and people we don’t like. This duality (often unconscious) determines not only how we act, but how we see life. It is possible, he suggests, to jump beyond those opposites – and he tells us how.

Note that the full video is 26 minutes, but the excerpt ends at 5:09 and the player should stop automatically at that time. We’ll share the next segment of this video next week. Of course, you are welcome to watch more now as well.

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Facing Pressure Without Losing Peace of Mind

This week in our new Take Your Time book study, Easwaran presents two of his favorite lofty examples of inner strength and mastery: his grandmother and Gandhi. And for each, he highlights their complete command of time, pressures, and priorities. Of Granny, Easwaran write, “She arose daily with the morning star and worked till evening – sometimes, when necessary, well into the night, long after others had gone to bed. She did everything carefully, giving each task her full attention without pressure or hurry, enjoying her work without ever being driven by it.”

• Let’s read this section, pages 27–33, and continue working together on slowing down.

• Which lines particularly strike you, and how can you apply them to your life this week?

• Let’s continue extending our practice of slowing down using the ideas on pages 55–56. Here’s a suggestion for this week:

  • Meals are a great time for giving relationships a more important place in your day. If you often eat alone, find a friend to share lunch with. Give yourselves enough time not to hurry – and avoid talking business!

For our spiritual bonus this week, here is Christine Easwaran reading the passage “In the Midst of Darkness” from Mahatma Gandhi.

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Take Your Time

In this second week of our Take Your Time book study we’ll begin chapter 1, covering pages 19–27. We hope you find this opening as compelling as we do. As usual Easwaran makes clear that the implications are practical and profound:

“It may sound paradoxical, but however tight our schedule, however many things clamor to be done, we don’t need to hurry. If we can keep our mind calm and go about our business with undivided attention, we will not only accomplish more but we’ll do a better job – and find ourselves more patient, more at peace.”

• What is one statement that speaks to your heart in this reading? How will you put it into action this week?

• As a challenge this week, try this experiment from the “Ideas and Suggestions” on pages 55–56:

  • Set aside a regular time for reflection. A weekend morning, before the day gets started, is a good way to begin. You might use the time for thinking about what’s really important to you in the long run – a “Lifetime To Do” list, or even a “To Be” list.

• If you don’t yet have the book Take Your Time available, make sure you get it so you can join for the rest of the book study. We offer a 20% discount on books sold through our distribution partner indiepubs.com. The discount is applied automatically when you add to cart. Here is a link to Take Your Time on that site.

The Gift of Time

We are pleased to embark together on a book study; we’ll systematically read a whole volume from Easwaran – which is a great habit to practice together. So let’s start right in with Take Your Time, beginning with the foreword from Christine Easwaran on pages 9–18. Christine writes:

“In this book, Easwaran offers ways to develop the skill of living in the present so that we can open up the promise held within each moment of our lives. The more we practice, the more we discover in the time we have – and so the nearer we move to having all the time in the world. That, Easwaran says, is our birthright as human beings. It has already been granted to us; we simply have to learn how to claim it.”

Let’s take this opportunity to support each other in staking this precious claim!

• Is there a particular situation that causes you to get speeded up or agitated? Look into this reading for tips and try them out this week.

• The current edition (2006) of Take Your Time has suggestions for practice, set apart on blue pages, to encourage experimentation. Let’s use those suggestions to extend our practice of slowing down. We’ll start with this experiment from the list on pages 55–56:

  • See if you can find a situation where you’re regularly pressured to speed up. Can you think of a way to forestall it, perhaps by starting earlier or rearranging your time? If you can break the pattern, you’ve made a major gain in what the Buddha calls “intentional living.”

• If you don’t yet have the book Take Your Time available, make sure you get it so you can join for the rest of the book study. We offer a 20% discount on books sold through our distribution partner indiepubs.com. The discount is applied automatically when you add to cart. Here is a link to Take Your Time on that site.

The Power and Peace of Meditation

Easwaran begins this week’s reading with a stirring quote from the Gita (6:26):

Wherever the mind wanders, restless and diffuse in its search for satisfaction without, lead it within; train it to rest in the Self. Abiding joy comes to those who still the mind.

Let’s read the article, “The Power and Peace of Meditation,” on pages 23–27 of the Summer 2014 issue of the Blue Mountain Journal along with the journal’s final article from Easwaran on page 29. And may we each be inspired to deepen our concentration in meditation!

• Let’s continue extending our practice of one-pointed attention. Is there a tip in this reading that is particularly challenging for you? How will you wrestle with it this week?

• In this issue of the journal, Easwaran repeatedly describes how one-pointed attention is especially rewarding in personal relationships. Let's try it out this week: plan a time of day when you will give extra effort to one-pointed attention to those around you. For example you might choose a meal time when you will be eating with others.

• In one week, on February 28th, the eSatsang will begin studying Easwaran’s Take Your Time. To prepare, make sure you have the book available.

  • We offer a 20% discount on books sold through our distribution partner indiepubs.com. The discount is applied automatically when you add to cart. Here is a link to Take Your Time on that site.

For our spiritual treat, we are pleased to share the final excerpt from the Easwaran video “Love Alters Not.” Note that the full video is 34 minutes, but the excerpt begins at 26:45 and the player should start automatically at that time.

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Six Ways to Tame an Unruly Mind

“The essential problem in doing one thing at a time is that we don't really want to—or, more accurately, the mind doesn't want to,” Easwaran diagnoses in this week’s reading from The Power and Peace of a One-Pointed Mind. What a familiar predicament! And yet, he assures us, “The ability to work on a job with total concentration, and then put it out of your mind when necessary, is a skill which can be cultivated.” This week’s article, “Six Ways to Tame an Unruly Mind” on pages 11–22, is full of practical tips for building one-pointed attention skill. We are eager to hear how you put them into action.

• Is there some tip from Easwaran in this reading that you tend to skim over because you have already heard it many times before? Try focusing on it this week to extend your practice of one-pointed attention.

• In this week’s reading, Easwaran writes, “…what I recommend is simple but intriguingly difficult: do only one thing at a time and give it your full attention. This is the key to doing a good job of any kind.”

  • This week, try to notice a time when you feel inclined to do more than one thing at a time, and experiment with choosing to be one pointed instead. Let us know how it goes!

• In two weeks, on February 28th, the eSatsang will begin studying Easwaran’s Take Your Time. To prepare, make sure you have the book available.

  • We offer a 20% discount on books sold through our distribution partner indiepubs.com. The discount is applied automatically when you add to cart. Here is a link to Take Your Time on that site.

• Thank you to everyone who has participated in our month of mantrams for peace and healing in the world.

  • Here at the BMCM, we are honored to be receiving your books and pages full of mantrams. We have gathered them all together before Easwaran's picture, to be offered today, February 14 - Ramagiri Aspirations Day - when the Ramagiri residents re-dedicate themselves to Easwaran's legacy and way of life. Your efforts this month are joined with the Ramagiri residents’. This is our collective prayer for Divine help for our suffering world.

  • Let's keep those mantrams going, Easwaran reminds us we have no idea of the power of the mantram, so can imagine every repetition may be helping someone in need in these difficult times.

For our spiritual treat, we are pleased to share the next excerpt from the Easwaran video “Love Alters Not.” Note that the full video is 34 minutes, but the excerpt goes from 9:35 – 26:45 and the player should start and stop automatically at those times. We’ll share the final segment of this video next week. Of course, you are welcome to watch more now as well.

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The Power and Peace of a One-Pointed Mind

After a fascinating month spent on the challenge of turning spiritual ideals into action, we’ll now drop that topic and turn to The Power and Peace of a One-Pointed Mind, the Summer 2014 issue of the Blue Mountain Journal. Let’s use this journal study to work together at deepening our practice of one-pointed attention!

We’ll start by reading the brief pieces on pages 2 and 3, and then continue with the title article from Easwaran on pages 5–10. One powerful theme Easwaran draws out here is the connection between complete attention and detachment: “Through many, many years of unremitting effort based on the practice of meditation, we can train the mind to be detached from every attempt to cling for security to anything outside. That's what detachment means: you need nothing from anything or anyone outside you; you are complete.”

• What is the most important thing that Easwaran said to you in this reading? How can you apply it in your life?

• In this week's reading, Easwaran writes, "Doing a routine job well, with concentration, is the greatest challenge I can imagine. You're not just doing a job but learning a skill: the skill of improving concentration, which pays rich dividends in every aspect of life." Can you make a plan to practice that skill during a routine job this week?

• In three weeks, on February 28th, the eSatsang will begin studying Easwaran’s Take Your Time. To prepare, make sure you have the book available.

  • We offer a 20% discount on books sold through our distribution partner indiepubs.com. The discount is applied automatically when you add to cart. Here is a link to Take Your Time on that site.

• If you’ve been filling a little mantram book for peace and healing in the world, it is time to send it in! We hope to gather all the books by February 14, a day especially inaugurated by Christine as “Ramagiri Aspirations Day.” On Aspirations Day, the Ramagiri residents gather to rededicate themselves to Easwaran’s legacy. We hope to place all those books full of mantrams before Easwaran’s altar at Ramagiri. That will be a fitting offering for peace and healing in the world.

  • Let’s all send our mantram books to:

    BMCM
    PO Box 256
    Tomales, CA 94971

For our spiritual treat, we are pleased to share the Easwaran video “Love Alters Not.” Easwaran recites from Shakespeare throughout the talk, commenting on the accordance with the Bhagavad Gita and the Dhammapada, and on how each of us can learn the skill of unchanging love.

Note that the full video is 34 minutes, but the excerpt ends at 9:35 and the player should stop automatically at that time. We’ll share the next segment of this video next week. Of course, you are welcome to watch more now as well.

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