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The Barking Dog
Prince Arjuna is charging into the battle of Kuruksetra. His kingdom has been stolen from him and he intends to win it back. Riding on the war chariot with him is Lord Krishna, the Godhead. Before him and around him are thousands of soldiers, armed and ready for the battle. As Arjuna gets closer to the field of war he freezes in terror; in front of him, in both parties, his own and the opposition he notices familiar faces; he sees his friends, he sees his brothers and his uncles, he sees his sons and grandsons, he sees his teachers.
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Evolution Revolution
What dwarfs television and radio as a medium for affecting universal change? What is a galaxy more effective than the World Wide Web (and its infant brother Face Book) for spreading a (global) causal message? And what outshines Twitter as a viral seed-spreader for higher universal consciousness? _____________________ I’ve had a lot of conversations lately with perplexed people. They are perplexed about the world, or more specifically by the dire state of our planet. Fat greedy bankers make them apoplectic. Corrupt politicians have them calling for blood. And religious fundamentalists get them frothing at the mouth with rage.
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Master's of Return
Many years ago someone wrote me a letter suggesting that I ban one of the guest writers from my web page. He’d been outed by the newspapers as a liar and the ‘letter writer’ felt his presence on my page somehow condoned what he had done, and therefore threatened the integrity of my work. In other words, it threatened my integrity. I thought about this for about thirty seconds and came to the conclusion that allowing this man (a very old and dear friend) a presence on my site would not threaten my integrity at all, what would really threaten my integrity would be kicking him off when there were so many others liars, thieves, adulterers, hypocrites, judges, fornicators, gluttons etc. thirsting over my material for a little spiritual quench.
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Divine Capital
If you know anything at all about economics (most people don’t know a lot) you’ll know that good business should always first and foremost be about offering service. A lot of people place the word service into their mission statement but don’t really back it up. This is not a judgment, merely an observation; I have made the mistake myself, many times in my life and always to my detriment. When it comes down to serving on a daily basis, for most people it is much more ‘statement’ than it is ‘mission.’
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Back to the Soil
On my customary walk around the beautiful grounds of Coomb Abbey the other day I exercised my usual mediation with nature. I have been told strongly (in my intuition) that when the consciousness is expanded we (as a species) are capable of ‘seeing’ universal law through the medium of the natural world.
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When in Rome
I realised recently that the Christian bible (perhaps all the bibles) is probably a book of science, it’s all about mathematics. And the great prophets, they might (possibly) be scientists (or mathematicians) trying to teach us about universal laws using a simple language. The five books of Moses (The Torah) the parables, the commandments, Paul’s letters to the Romans and the Corinthians, Revelations – they are all screaming at us ‘this is the schematic of the cosmos, and these are its laws’.
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Freedom Through Expansion
I don’t know if any of you are Star Trek fans, I have watched the modern day parables ever since I was a kid and Captain Kirk threw cartoon aliens around a plastic movie sets. I particularly loved the Voyager series with Captain Catharine Janeway. My favourite episode was End Game, the final in the series. By way of telling you why I loved it so much, I’ll give you a short synopsis of how the story goes; Captain Janeway is back on earth. After getting lost in space with her crew and spending hundreds of episodes trying to find her way home again, she is finally on terra firma, but at the cost of many Voyager crew members who lost their lives on the return journey.
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The Third Servant
I read a great verse in the Holy Qur’an recently, it said ‘God favours those who strive, he does not favour those who do not strive.’ It is easy to read a line like this and allow yourself to see God as an flawed individual that judges us from some celestial place and says, ‘he’s working hard, I’ll give him more’ or ‘she’s a bit lazy, I won’t give her anything at all.’ I didn’t read it quite like this. I read it that the Holy Prophet was trying to convey in the language of the day that the universe is a malleable and moving force and that we - as part of its very fabric – are at the helm. If we strive, with our imaginative thinking, with our creative talking and with our purpose driven doing, it will respond. And the more we strive, the greater the response will be. I like this truth. It concurs with my own experience.
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Masterclass
I’ve been running my masterclass now for several years, I have released two successful DVD sets recording the events and I have waxed lyrical about the nature of my philosophy on more occasions that I care to remember, and yet some people are still confused about what it is I teach on these courses. Some think that they will turn up and be subjected to a knock-out or submission session, reminiscent of the classes I held some twenty years ago. Not so. That was another life time. For me animal day died with disco. Others think that the class will be filled with traditional martial arts or conventionally taught thumb-lock/shoulder throw self defence. Again, not so, not on my shift. I have never taught unrealistic or unworkable physical technique. The precedent i set is this: if I could not make or have not made it work in a real situation, I simply do not teach it. Others still think that mine is a masterclass in martial arts. Whilst admittedly I offer a coating of physical technique, this is not a martial arts course. Not really, certainly not in the physical sense. Whilst I do play with the arts, it is only in order to excite and encourage practitioners to explore the milieu and invest in a good core system: for my money, done properly an apprenticeship in a real fighting art is still one of the very best ways of mastering your vessel. So whilst we do hit pads and cultivate powerful striking skills, it is used more as a means of cleansing through perfection of a single technique than it is to turn people into fighting machines.
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Gethsemane
It is Ok to be scared. Everyone is scared. Some of us just hide it better than others. People (I have noticed) use fear as a reason to postpone or abandon their adventures. They put plans on hold until such time as they no longer feel scared. They plan to get fit before joining a martial arts class, or ‘brave’ before taking that first fearful step towards freedom (from job, from relationship, from bad health). ‘When I’ve got a bit more money/experience/time/confidence I’ll leave my job, start my own business, travel the world.’ People miss out on their chance at adventure because they are waiting for the next time, another time or the elusive ‘right time’. But of course we all know that there is never a right time for the reluctant and the scared. There is only now, and our ability to be certain.
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