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hem and to have believed in them and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span on a journey impossible to accomplish alone here s audio of class chanting with apologies for recording quality daniel was at class so listen for his amazing tabla the mangalam https mondaynight blog wp content uploads 2018 09 mnc 9 17 2018 mangalam mp3 gayatri and om namah shivaya mantras https mondaynight blog wp content uploads 2018 09 mnc 9 17 2018 gayatri ons mp3 posted in uncategorized leave a comment july 22 2018 by suzingreen july 22 2018 back home in princeton i came down to my office a couple of weeks ago it was early morning and i needed to get something once down here i thought i d check the ac filter i was expecting dust and cat hair what i found was a small handful of ants a bit of a shock but nothing i couldn t handle i took the whole mess outside sent them on their way and slipped the filter back into place or tried to except i couldn t get it back in and since i d turned the unit off before pulling out the filter and since it was already hot and humid outside the room was heating up it was only then so intent had i been on the filter that i noticed the real problem a huge stream of ants was pouring in through a tiny opening at the seam where the window meets the wall hundreds of ants winged and wingless invading my now sweltering office i raced upstairs grabbed the vacuum brought it down plugged it in and began my attack it was brutal i was brutal it was overwhelming i was overwhelmed and those ants kept coming at a certain point i had a moment of pure terror and that was when it hit me i realized that what i was feeling was not so different from what people opposed to immigration feel my border was breached and i was desperate to protect it that was the moment my heart opened which is not to say i ve changed my position on immigration refugee crises and open borders i have not closed borders make no sense to me i m as engaged as i can be in the fight to right what i believe is a terrible wrong but those ants showed me i m not so different from those others i tend to vilify we may profoundly disagree but i am damned if i m going to let my heart close down the ants taught me that there is no great moral to this story i tell it to bear witness to my determination to stay open to people with whom i disagree it s really that simple if i ve learned one thing in seven decades of life it s that staying open is actually much safer than shutting down and a whole lot more interesting i ve been catching up on krista tippett s on being podcasts this week if you d like some excellent soul medicine for staying open i highly recommend her conversation with luis alberto urrea click here to listen posted in suzin green suzin green chanting and meditation tagged anti immigration ants closed borders immigration krista tippett luis alberto urrea open borders refugee crisis leave a comment march 12 2018 by suzingreen december 4 2017 monday night class not knowing is true knowledge presuming to know is a disease march 11 2018 a week ago it seemed like spring and then a wild crazy nor easter blew in the mother of all storms thick heavy snow coming down a mile a minute thunder and lightning adding to the show trees down power out and the time that rules the dance of daily life stood still truth be told i rather like these times that are in their way outside of time in the space between years ago i was in a meditation retreat with baba muktananda he was teaching the ham sa mantra part of the practice was to focus our awareness on the space between the breaths to remain in that spaciousness for as long as we could four five six seven eight nine maybe ten seconds he showed us how in that space between the breaths we touch eternity poised outside the limiting constructs of time one of the curious experiences i had during that weekend retreat was excruciating pain in my left hip which began in the saturday morning session and continued through the closing on sunday night ardent yogini that i was i soldiered through and here s the thing at the end of the retreat the pain was gone gone and has never returned was the pain and i am talking about 48 hours of non stop physical agony a kriya an illusion something burning up i will never know but it did teach me that what i perceive and what is actually happening are not necessarily the same that when i think i know or as the tao te ching verse quoted above says when i presume to know the odds are knowledge is not happening it s a tricky business this knowing and not knowing this i with all its presumptions agendas associations projections and attachments it really does close up the space and i won t say i know this but i sure do feel it in my bones the spaciousness of that space between the breaths that s where it s all happening or not happening that is where i want to live here s my dharma talk from monday december 4th it could be called what we are is so much more interesting than what we think we should be this is a rather freewheeling talk with a handful of lol moments audio of december 4 2017 dharma talk https mondaynight blog wp content uploads 2018 03 12 4 17 dharma talk mp3 audio of on tara tuttare ture swaha opening of class https mondaynight blog wp content uploads 2018 03 12 4 17 om tara opening mp3 audio of navarna and om namah shivaya mantras https mondaynight blog wp content uploads 2018 03 12 4 17 navarna mantra chanting mp3 the texts we were reading this text back to front but this verse called for a front to back context so i also read the two preceding verses i m copying them here in that order 72 when they lose their sense of awe people turn to religion when they no longer trust themselves they begin to depend upon authority therefore the master steps back so that people won t be confused he teaches without teaching so that people will have nothing to learn 70 my teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice yet your intellect will never grasp them and if you try to practice them you ll fail my teachings are older than the world how can you grasp their meaning if you want to know me look inside your heart 71 not knowing is true knowledge presuming to know is a disease first realize that you are sick then you can move towards health the master is her own physician she has healed herself of all knowing thus she is truly whole prepping for this class which happened to fall on a super moon evening this poem from lex hixon s mother of the universe jumped out off the page this book used to be my go to text as i ve grown simpler with age however lex s versions of ramprasad strike me as being a bit too thick i want everything pared down to its essence reading this poem over and over though and typing it out just now well let me say that myriad adjectives not withstanding it s a rather potent map and quite soaring i am a child reaching out to catch the moon ramprasad lex hixon who in the world can know what mother kali really is she is beyond the reach of every scripture every system of philosophy as the radiant blackness of divine mystery she plays through the lotus wilderness of the sacred human body the practitioner of meditation encounters her power deep in the blossom of primordial awareness and within the thousand petal lotus that floats far above the mind kali is the conscious core shining through every awakened sage who delights in oneness this has been demonstrated by countless realized beings ma tara is the queen of freedom within all hears she reigns timelessly and tenderly planes and dimensions of being more vast and subtle than anyone can imagine are found within her womb of encompassing wisdom the goddess alone knows the extent of her power who else could possibly know laments the singer of this mystic hymn everyone will laugh at my attempt to swim the shoreless sea of her reality but my soul belongs to her and my heart delights in longing i am a child reaching out to catch the moon as usual the final word goes to mary oliver this poem is vast we can read it over and over again and always discover something new the mockingbird mary oliver all summer the mocking bird in his pearl gray coat and his white windowed wings flies from the hedge to the top of the pine and begins to sing but it s neither lilting nor lovely for he is the thief of other sounds whistles and truck brakes and dry hinges plus all the songs of other birds in his neighborhood mimicking and elaborating he sings with humor and bravado so i have to wait a long time for the softer voice of his own life to come through he begins by giving up all his usual flutter and setting down on the pine s forelock then looking around as though to make sure he s alone then he slaps each wing against his breast where his heart is and copying nothing begins easing into it as though it was not half so easy as rollicking as though his subject now was his true self which of course was as dark and secret as anyone else s and it was too hard perhaps you understand to speak or to sing it to anything or anyone but the sky posted in suzin green chanting and meditation tao te ching tagged kali lex hixon mary oliver mother of the universe navarna mantra om namah shivaya om tara tuttare ture swaha ramprasad tao te ching tara the mockingbird 2 comments post navigation older posts welcome to the monday night blog april 18 2021 it s been a couple of years since i ve posted here and about that long since i stepped back from recording and performing to focus on writing a book as the book takes on more coherent shape i ve been thinking about returning to blogging how perfect then that on this day when i realized this would be the best portal to post words to the chants we ll be doing this evening that music brings me back here october 8 2019 visitors to this blog know that over the last few years my posts have been far and few between this has never been about a lack of care it has only been and continues to be about lack of time i started writing a book about my work earlier this year the writing hums along but does require all my extra bandwidth i ve thought about pulling the plug on this blog but it s such a content rich portal and has been such a labor of love i can t bring myself to take it down and who knows down the road perhaps i ll find the energy for blogging and compiling this book in the meantime thanks to everyone who visits here do keep scrolling down through the archive there really is a great deal of material here with love to you all sg november 28 2015 i started teaching monday night class at the princeton center for yoga health in 1997 i d been a student of siddha yoga since the 1977 and had recently moved on from that guru centric tradition although the paradigm of guru yoga no longer worked for me i still found tremendous beauty power and wisdom in the yogic path so i immersed myself in a process of discernment separating out what i now saw as dogma and magical thinking from what i perceived as essential truth monday night class was born from that inquiry in monday night class early years i clung to traditional texts and teachings as i grew stronger in my process i started taking more risks allowing my inner vision to guide me class grew year after year developing deepening opening into its essential heart the monday night blog began in 2010 we were working our way through stephen mitchell s translation of the tao te ching along with this text i was bringing in sacred poetry stories and wisdom teachings from parallel traditions it made sense to collect all this material in one place and the monday night blog was born along the way we started recording my dharma talks and class chanting adding an audio dimension the demands of my life have forced me to cut way back on regular blogging hope springs eternal however and i hope to return to more regular posting in the new year thanks for visiting we look forward to seeing you again and again always suzing monday night class beloved books in no particular order this is not an exhaustive list of all source texts i bring to class simply a gathering of ones i come back to again and again robert bly the kabir book forty four of the ecstatic poems of kabir the seventies press 1977 kabir ecstatic poems beacon press 2004 the soul is here for its own joy sacred poems from many cultures ecco press 1995 thomas byrom the heart of awareness a translation of the ashtavakra gita shambhala dragon editions 1990 daniel landinsky love poems from god twelve voices from east and west penguin compass 2002 coleman barks michael green the illuminated rumi broadway books 1977 jane hirshfield women in praise of the sacred 43 centuries of spiritual poetry by women harper collins 1994 mary oliver a thousand mornings penguin press 2012 west wind houghton mifflin 1977 dream work atlantic monthly press 1986 american primitive little brown 1978 house of light beacon press 1990 why i wake early beacon press 2004 blue iris beacon press 2004 swan beacon press 2010 thirst beacon press 2006 stephen mitchell tao te ching a new english version harper row 1988 bhagavad gita a new translation harmony books 2000 lex hixon mother of the universe visions of the goddess and tantric hymns of enlightenment quest books 1994 michael stone the inner tradition of yoga shambhala 2008 edwin bryant the yoga sutras of patañjali a new edition translation and commentary 2009 chip hartranft the yoga sutra of patanjali a new translation with commentary shambhala 2003 osho tantra the supreme understanding rebel publishing house 1975 archives april 2021 march 2019 january 2019 october 2018 september 2018 july 2018 march 2018 february 2018 december 2017 november 2017 october 2017 september 2017 august 2017 july 2017 june 2017 may 2017 april 2017 march 2017 november 2016 august 2016 june 2016 may 2016 november 2015 july 2015 march 2015 february 2015 october 2014 july 2014 june 2014 january 2014 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