Patterns of Living – Jipala Kagan

Patterns of Living May 19, 2022

Sita Ram, Sita Ram, Sita Ram, Jaya Sita Ram सीता राम सीता राम सीता राम जय सीता राम Sita is the incarnation of Lakshmi, Goddess of abundance. She is the embodiment of love and virtue. Her husband Ram, is the incarnation of Vishnu, Lord of the universe. He was a living vessel of effused truth, compassion and bravery. Together they symbolize the union of the feminine and the masculine energies, the powerful partnership of intuition and action. Mantras are prayers, patterns of letters, words, sounds and breath, that consecrate intention into form. By chanting the songs repetitively, we evoke the sacred energies. We can use this tool to unify the separate sides of the self and to heal the violent divisions in our culture. The intertwined energies of Sita and Ram, balance the right and left sides of the human brain and regulate the parasympathetic and sympathetic aspects of our…

Patterns of Living December 16, 2021

The Light of Water

“Out of nowhere the light will appear. It is all happening on Earth, follow the natural law. Where there is darkness, there is only the sun to shine through. What we go through is only for our own good. If to admit this, is as easy to stay with every battle fought and won, the stronger that we fight anew. Dark then light, dark then light.” Bernie Kagan 1973- Brindaban, India -Neem Karoli Baba You lightly tread over the threshold, passed under the archway (it was really pretty) and plunged directly into the darkness (Yikes). It is Water season. The spotlight is on fear and the acts of fearing. Security, survival and willing your life forward, these traits make up the bones of Winter. The primal fear is that you won’t make it through alive. It is a mini -confrontation with death. Will I survive? If I do, does it even…

Patterns of Living November 4, 2021

Six Steps of Focusing

The Six Steps of Focusing Eugene T. Gendlin PH.D 1- Clear the Space 2- The Felt Sense 3- Finding a Handle 4- Resonating 5- Asking 6- Receiving What the heck does this mean? Let’s do some decoding. First take a few breaths and feel your feet on the ground. Get comfortable, is there anything that will make your body happier? Do you have to get a drink of water, a snack? Maybe visit the restroom? Bring your attention inside yourself and feel your body. Where does it begin and where does it end? Scan your insides? Maybe there is a lot going on, it may feel chaotic or you may feel numb. No Judgements, just take stock of the overall feeling of everything. You may want to start clearing a space for yourself by either stacking the worries and moving them to the sides of your inner laboratory. If you…

Patterns of Living December 18, 2019

Trimurti

Charles Eisenstein spoke at Naropa University for the 2019 John and Bayard Cobb Peace Lecture Presentation.. This is a snippet of the talk. “Today the dominant narrative, whether we recognize it or not , is a war narrative, not only on the obvious level of U.S foreign policy, identifying enemies around the world and bombing them, but also in our basic understanding of how the world works and how to solve problems. War thinking permeates the public psyche. To build a peace narrative, we need to identify the existing war narrative.” He went on to discuss the tendency for nature to be inherently chaotic and have intelligent organization simultaneously. And (paraphrasing here) that we will need to have a lot of genuine compassion not idiot compassion, really walk in another person’s shoes, and sacrifice our righteous identity for us to see some healing and growth out of the polarization that…