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on Feb 04, 2011
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Dear Family and Friends:
This is day 12 in Uganda. I just completed a motorcycle ride through a village, holding onto the driver for dear life and shouting this is Africa, this is Uganda!! The Villagers were all waving and laughing at me and with me, the could tell I was terrified and exhuberant. The roads are dirt, very rocky, holes, bumps hard to explain the difference. It was total bliss for me.
Today, is the first really fun day, it has been a busy schedule and
hard work. Today, was my first hot shower, electricity only some time,
hot water almost never, no stoves, kitchens are these pits. The hotel
isnt really a hotel, well, lets just say it is hard for me to believe
we actually had to pay to stay here (smile). Noise all the time, hard
to breathe cause of the red dirt.
The school has no bathrooms or toilets, no shower, only pits. The
school has 400 students half are aids orphans, the woman I am
traveling with co founded the school 3 years ago. They have no
textbooks, the teacher writes everything on the board.
Posted by: bobbanner
on Jan 27, 2011
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Posted by: bobbanner
on Jan 26, 2011
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WHO’S DRiViNG THE DREAMBUS?
Resources:
Love’s Quiet Revolution: The End of the Spiritual Search by Scott Kiloby
An Extraordinary Absence by Jeff Foster
The End of Your World, Emptiness Dancing, and Falling into Grace (reviewed at http://www.hopedance.org/media-reviews/books/1905) by Adyashanti
I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj
Never Mind by Wayne Liquorman
Ask the Awakened by Wei Wu Wei
Women of Power & Grace: (Nine Astonishing, Inspiring Luminaries of Our Time) by Timothy Conway
Collision with the Infinite by Suzanne Segal
Be Love Now by Ram Dass
The Mystique of Enlightenment
(The unrational ideas of a man called UG) by UG Krishnamurti
Perfect Brilliant Stillness (beyond the individual self) by David Carse
The Open Secret by Tony Parsons
Freedom and Resolve by Gangaji
Reflections of the One Life (Daily Pointers to Enlightenment) by Scott Kiloby
Posted by: bobbanner
on Dec 09, 2010
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Buddha Candle: $15 (free shipping & handling). Please go to http://hopedance.org/purchase to order..
Posted by: bobbanner
on Nov 30, 2010
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WE ARE SCREENING THE SWEDISH DOCUMENTARY CALLED
WIKIREBELS
WHICH IS VERY GOOD. SEE POSTER AND DETAILS IN SLO ON
On Sunday 28th November 2010, Wikileaks began publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain. The documents will give people around the world an unprecedented insight into the US Government's foreign activities.
Posted by: bobbanner
on Nov 30, 2010
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Gatekeepers
Look behind
the path littered
skeletons of perceptions
PAST
shaking their bones
eyeless sockets
see the truth
in apathy and self serving
Posted by: bobbanner
on Sep 10, 2010
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Posted by: bobbanner
on Sep 06, 2010
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We Are Domesticated Animals
Yes sir
I'll do whatever you say
I'll think whatever you dictate
bow to your superior money
intellect
power
mansion
house
muscles
empire
pretense at authority
whatever
it doesn't make any difference
Posted by: bobbanner
on Aug 27, 2010
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Jalaluddin Rumi
Some Introductory Notes
It is a burning of the heart that I want; it is this burning that is everything, more precious than the empire of the world, because it calls God secretly in the night. — Rumi
Jalaluddin Rumi was born in Afghanistan in 1207 and died in Konya Turkey on December 17, 1273. He was the founder of the Mevlevi Order of the Whirling Dervishes and is regarded as one of the greatest spiritual teachers of all time — one of the True Human Beings... "a brilliant intelligence, an ecstatic, a careful worker in the world, a teacher, a magnificent poet, and a constant Friend of the soul's evolving."
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on Aug 26, 2010
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Raffi Khatchadourian, Letter from India, “The Laughing Guru,” The New Yorker, August 30, 2010, p. 56
ABSTRACT: LETTER FROM INDIA about Dr. Madan Kataria and laughter yoga. In the pantheon of celebrity doctors, Madan Lal Kataria has claimed for himself what is surely the strangest mantle. He is a physician who has transformed himself into the leader of an international movement that promotes laughter as a cure for just about any ailment - physical, psychological, or spiritual. He is known as the Guru of Giggling. Estimates of the number of people who engage regularly in Kataria’s exercises are as high as two hundred and fifty thousand, but there is really no way to gather precise figures.
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