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Navaratri chanting
There is a nine night (10 day) celebration called Navaratri which starts this year on the 19th of September and finishes on the 27th. During that time we will have daily chanting on the conference line at 6.30 am – 12 verses each day of a beautiful spiritual poem called Saundarya Lahari.
Full moon & Equinox fire ceremonies
On the 5th it’s full moon so we will be having a fire ceremony at 5:30 p.m. – it’s part of our monthly pattern to take conscious action while the moon is at it’s most powerful.
On 22nd it’s the equinox – a time of subtle planetary balance and ideal for meditation and spiritual reconnection. It occurs at exactly 7.20pm local time and our ceremony (at the temple at Steve’s place in Jubilee pocket) will span that time so that we are in active meditation as the transition occurs. A time for powerful and deeper experience.
So what is a fire ceremony and why would you want to attend?
There’s a push on at present to raise funds for leukaemia research by getting people to sponsor you to shave your head. I’ve been tempted to do the same but a part of me wasn’t comfortable with that. Not the idea of being bald - that’s something I’ve done several times over the years of being a sannyasin. It’s something that brings up the question “Why shave your head?” For me it’s an outer sign of an inner difference. A bald statement that I am making a different choice about how I live my life.
Cyclone Hamish has just rushed past and continues to wreak havoc further down the coast. Thank you for your messages of support. Many of you have asked how I was affected by the cyclone and recent floods.
Well, Hamish was a bit of a fizzer. We had worse weather in the tropical monsoons of February and found ourselves cut off many times by floods both locally and across the main highway. I had my own local flooding across my veranda, Continue Reading
A message of good cheer to greet you from hot, sweaty Queensland.
I’m sitting in my office, Continue Reading
Another day in paradise - the birds are singing, the dogs happily asleep, and I’m starting my fist ever blog! Yee haaaa - or should I say OOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMM.