Blackstone Yoga Center Newsletter

Let's Start a Dialogue

We all want to be spontaneous. Well, this newsletter is spontaneously acting on an idea that just surfaced in my mind. As you know, if you have been following my e-journal, I have tapped into a underground spring of words that usually comes to the surface through relationship, such as an email dialogue. All I need is a heart felt question of a spiritual nature to fill up several pages with words. Since I have no idea what these words are going to say, I can only assume that they are helpful to the questioner. Most of the time they feel very pure, and I always welcome any indications that my water is contaminated with self interest. We all want pure water.

So, here is the idea. I would like to create a space on this site for questions and answers for those who are in search of their truth. Actually, every thing we seek is a search for truth in some form or another, so there is really no conditions placed on the question , other than it be heart felt. When the heart asks, the heart responds.

Here is the format. E-mail a question, and I'll respond. If the Q/A seems of larger interest, I'll post in on the new page for Q/A, leaving out your name, of course. Yoga is a spiritual path, but not a religious path. Yoga is a recipe of liberation that can be used in any religion. Just some of the names have to be changed to protect the intolerant. But, the point is that yoga is experiential, in the same way that a drink of water is an experience. Yoga leads us to the experience of God within, and that experience has no name.

One can say what an orange tastes like, but no matter how detailed or poetic the words are, words will never substitute for the experience of tasting the orange. The same with God. All the religions and scriptures in the world cannot replace the experience of That which dwells within. Yoga is the practice which points us in the direction of this direct experience, and this direct experience of God is the goal of all religions. As my guru says, Truth is One, Paths are Many.

So, I'm willing to give this idea a try. Who knows, it just might help someone who is thirsty. It could also be interesting to see what people are feeling about the meaning of their life and why we are not finding answers in today's noisy world.

Finally, these questions and answers are not for a "talking head" argument that we see on TV. We are not after opinions and perspectives and which is right or wrong. In a dialogue there are no right and wrongs, but only the inquiry that goes deeper and deeper, expanding as it goes until the pairs of opposites are transcended with a truth that is larger than the parts.

I begin from the experienced principle that I don't know the answers, nor is what I say the last answer. One never arrives and claims truth for one's own,. Truth is a process which always begins and ends with the awareness of unknowing. To find truth one must be comfortable in not knowing, because truth is always a living discovery, and not a dead piece of information. To search for truth is to be alive.

Thank you,
Ed
Om Peace
1/30/07
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