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!
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. 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.
