Jai Yoga

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06/22/2023

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“We are concerned and feel for other people’s suffering. We want to do something about it, but compassion involves a certain kind of paradox. 
 
When you respond from your human heart’s point of view to another person suffering, and your heart is open, you experience incredible pain. So most people respond with their intellect and they pull away when they get in the presence of suffering because they can’t handle it. However, if you keep your heart open it hurts like hell, because when you start to appreciate that 'they' are 'us' and not just 'them,' you can’t intellectualize it anymore, you can’t pull away. 
 
Then there is another level of reality, where all the suffering is a route to awakening, one way or another, and you see there are no errors, and you are then faced with the paradox. 
 
Compassion then becomes the ability to embrace both planes simultaneously, so that you have equanimity in you that comes from allowing it to be what it is, and at the same moment allow your human heart that is wanting to do something about it, reach out to do so. 
 
It’s the balance between those two things where the fullness of spiritual compassion arises – it’s where you don’t judge, just because the world is not understandable to you. The human ego part of you has to get out of the way, and you’ll find that when you get that balance working, you are very effective in doing what can be done.  
 
You start to realize that you can’t take away all the world’s suffering, while at the same moment, there is a way in which you see that you are a part of the machine of healing and compassion." 
 
-Ram Dass 
 
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06/19/2023

It was so nice to have the monks in town for a visit. I enjoyed the new memories and the reflections on past times with the monks. They have blessed my life so deeply.

06/05/2023

Their back🙂!

We have a series of special programs lined up for Gunnison promoting compassion, unity, and healing. To learn more and see the full schedule, use the button below.

01/10/2022

Indeed. You are not broken.

Rest, weary one.
Lay your head down.
You have travelled far.
I have no clever words for you.
No system to teach.
No image to maintain.
You’ll find no philosophy here.
No answers to your many questions.
I offer only presence.
Sanctuary.
A bed.
A meal.
A small kindness to repay yours.
I am no better than you.
My guru is life.
My lineage is love.
I do not separate the enlightened from the unenlightened.
I teach nothing I do not live.
I quote not from books but from the cracks in the heart.
I see your fragility yet I see your immense power.
You are not broken.
Don’t let them tell you that you are broken.
We met long ago when dust settled to form worlds.
I think I saw your courage then.
Close your eyes;
I will keep watch tonight.
~ Jeff Foster
Art by Albena Vatcheva

01/02/2021

It is with a heavy heart to announce that the Hot Spring Yog Retreat is postponed due to covid. I’m so sorry. For those of you who were counting on the retreat for much needed break please message me. We will figure something out. Love to you all, stay strong.