0 Meditating on the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland Forty years ago today I found myself walking up a forest path from my home in Wellington, New Zealand, headed for the Ananda Marga meditation center. I was about to take initiation on the path of tantric meditation. Not the weird erotic cult kind, (sorry if that…

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0 Monk Dude’s Log: Earth Day 21, 550. 59 solar orbits completed. On November the 5th, when I wailed my first wail in Napier General Hospital, 320,000 other Earthlings also took birth. The day this army of Scorpios emerged into your world was a Saturday. The next day God did it all over again, even though He was…

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0 Here’s one my favorite stories from the Ramayana scripture, now available as a popular comic series in India (I’m not making this up). The Divine Rama needed to cross from India to Sri Lanka to rescue his wife, Sita, from top bad guy, Ravana, so Rama’s devotees were helping him to build a bridge.…

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