ANNOUNCEMENT
A DAY OF MANTRAMS FOR PEACE AND HEALING: TUESDAY, JUNE 29
Our 100th Birthday Gift for Christine Easwaran
We invite you to join us in a day dedicated to peace and healing in the world by keeping our mantram going as much of the day as possible and, if you care to do so, even as you fall asleep. This will be our best possible gift to Christine for her 100th birthday.
On June 29, let’s all participate together in the BMCM Satsang Live. We will start writing the mantram at 3:40 p.m. PT before the program begins at 4 p.m. You can find your time zone here. We will make BMCM Satsang Live the centerpiece of our mantram day, and we invite you to join us.
Feel free to write in here on the eSatsang if you would like to share reflections about your mantram day. We’ll share your impressions with Christine!
We are pleased to embark together on a book study, which is a new endeavor for us as an eSatsang. In the past we have studied journals and book excerpts, but now 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. If you’d like to buy a copy in our online store you can use the coupon code T8GNR8 to receive a 40% discount. Please note that book delivery from the BMCM may take up to seven days, so you may want to order from an online retailer that offers expedited shipping. Please note that the BMCM discount on books is not available from online retailers.
