Comments on: A Monk, Bowing and Palms Coming Together http://happylotus.com/2009/09/27/a-monk-bowing-and-palms-coming-together/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:07:03 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Nadia http://happylotus.com/2009/09/27/a-monk-bowing-and-palms-coming-together/comment-page-1/#comment-16907 Nadia Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:56:22 +0000 http://happylotus.com/?p=4196#comment-16907 Hi Bryan, It is interesting how you found your way to my site. I am grateful that you did and thank you so much for sharing your journey. No matter who I meet or talk to...the same lesson always seems to appear which is that life has a way of taking you places and that things always have a way of working out for the best. Good for you for being so happy with the life you have now. That is awesome. :) Hi Bryan,

It is interesting how you found your way to my site. I am grateful that you did and thank you so much for sharing your journey. No matter who I meet or talk to…the same lesson always seems to appear which is that life has a way of taking you places and that things always have a way of working out for the best.

Good for you for being so happy with the life you have now. That is awesome. :)

]]> By: Bryan Little http://happylotus.com/2009/09/27/a-monk-bowing-and-palms-coming-together/comment-page-1/#comment-16856 Bryan Little Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:21:23 +0000 http://happylotus.com/?p=4196#comment-16856 I was directed to Tinybudha website and then linked to your blog by my son who is at Univeristy. I enjoyed reading some of your blog and will read more later. I did not know what Nameste really meant even though I spent time in an ashram in northern India where we always greeted each other with Om Shanti and Nameste. Your comments about living in India are so true and I can still remember sitting in meditation on a marble floor with the sun on my face so content yet so much in culture shock. Now a days we live 6 months a year in Bali and 6 months on Vancouver Island and really enjoy our lives. We are a product of "Becareful what you ask for" and "When the time is right you will know". Two years ago, after working 17 years in developing countries all over the world but mostly in Asia, I dreamed of early retirement and enjoying the fruits of my labour and now we have the life that most can only dream about. When I worked in the Sudan I was nicknamed by my associates as "the Monk" because of my spiritual nature and long hours of meditation trying to find myself and when I was not looking for it I found the most beautiful person in Indonesia who I am now married to and blessed with a little girl who is wise beyond her years. I must have given so much in past lifes generating all this Karma to be enjoying such a blessed life now. I was directed to Tinybudha website and then linked to your blog by my son who is at Univeristy. I enjoyed reading some of your blog and will read more later. I did not know what Nameste really meant even though I spent time in an ashram in northern India where we always greeted each other with Om Shanti and Nameste. Your comments about living in India are so true and I can still remember sitting in meditation on a marble floor with the sun on my face so content yet so much in culture shock. Now a days we live 6 months a year in Bali and 6 months on Vancouver Island and really enjoy our lives. We are a product of “Becareful what you ask for” and “When the time is right you will know”. Two years ago, after working 17 years in developing countries all over the world but mostly in Asia, I dreamed of early retirement and enjoying the fruits of my labour and now we have the life that most can only dream about. When I worked in the Sudan I was nicknamed by my associates as “the Monk” because of my spiritual nature and long hours of meditation trying to find myself and when I was not looking for it I found the most beautiful person in Indonesia who I am now married to and blessed with a little girl who is wise beyond her years. I must have given so much in past lifes generating all this Karma to be enjoying such a blessed life now.

]]> By: September Month in Review « Mommy Mystic http://happylotus.com/2009/09/27/a-monk-bowing-and-palms-coming-together/comment-page-1/#comment-16639 September Month in Review « Mommy Mystic Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:44:06 +0000 http://happylotus.com/?p=4196#comment-16639 [...] A Monk, Bowing, and Palms Coming Together by Nadia at Happy Lotus [...] [...] A Monk, Bowing, and Palms Coming Together by Nadia at Happy Lotus [...]

]]> By: Nadia http://happylotus.com/2009/09/27/a-monk-bowing-and-palms-coming-together/comment-page-1/#comment-16558 Nadia Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:48:17 +0000 http://happylotus.com/?p=4196#comment-16558 Hi Kaushik, Kind of cool how we grow and evolve. We end up embracing things we never thought we would. Goes to show you...life is definitely an interesting ride. :) The rituals in India are really moving. Thank you so much for sharing your observations. Death there is handled quite differently than here. Hi Kaushik,

Kind of cool how we grow and evolve. We end up embracing things we never thought we would. Goes to show you…life is definitely an interesting ride. :)

The rituals in India are really moving. Thank you so much for sharing your observations. Death there is handled quite differently than here.

]]> By: Kaushik http://happylotus.com/2009/09/27/a-monk-bowing-and-palms-coming-together/comment-page-1/#comment-16545 Kaushik Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:19:29 +0000 http://happylotus.com/?p=4196#comment-16545 Yeah, if I five years ago I had read what I write now, I would have thought it insane, so never judge, it does come back. Namaste is powerful--a few years ago my maternal grandmother passed away in India and I happened to be there and experienced the rituals, and noted a couple of interesting things. One, that death is not hidden from children, and the other was, in that part of India, as the funeral van meandered to the crematorium, people in the street would stop and momentarily touch their heart with their fingers and end in a bowed namaste. It was moving. k .-= Kaushik´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BeyondKarma/~3/dxnV80wI-ow/" rel="nofollow">Floating…</a> =-. Yeah, if I five years ago I had read what I write now, I would have thought it insane, so never judge, it does come back.

Namaste is powerful–a few years ago my maternal grandmother passed away in India and I happened to be there and experienced the rituals, and noted a couple of interesting things. One, that death is not hidden from children, and the other was, in that part of India, as the funeral van meandered to the crematorium, people in the street would stop and momentarily touch their heart with their fingers and end in a bowed namaste. It was moving.

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]]> By: Nadia http://happylotus.com/2009/09/27/a-monk-bowing-and-palms-coming-together/comment-page-1/#comment-16540 Nadia Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:59:51 +0000 http://happylotus.com/?p=4196#comment-16540 Hi John, You are welcome and thank you for being open about your experiences in learning to see what judgment truly is all about. What I have come to learn is that people are mirrors for one another. I recently wrote about this in the post right before this one. When we get so worked up about something that someone has said or done, it is because we are projecting ourselves onto that person. Good for you for seeing this truth and making progress on it. That is awesome. :) Hi John,

You are welcome and thank you for being open about your experiences in learning to see what judgment truly is all about. What I have come to learn is that people are mirrors for one another. I recently wrote about this in the post right before this one. When we get so worked up about something that someone has said or done, it is because we are projecting ourselves onto that person.

Good for you for seeing this truth and making progress on it. That is awesome. :)

]]> By: Nadia http://happylotus.com/2009/09/27/a-monk-bowing-and-palms-coming-together/comment-page-1/#comment-16539 Nadia Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:54:05 +0000 http://happylotus.com/?p=4196#comment-16539 Hi Eva, Thank you so much and I am so happy that you feel so much love inside of you. That is wonderful. As for Indonesia, I hear it is beautiful. One friend of mine is now in Bali and another friend is heading there next month. Hopefully, one day I can experience it for myself. Namaste to you too! :) Hi Eva,

Thank you so much and I am so happy that you feel so much love inside of you. That is wonderful.

As for Indonesia, I hear it is beautiful. One friend of mine is now in Bali and another friend is heading there next month. Hopefully, one day I can experience it for myself.

Namaste to you too! :)

]]> By: Nadia http://happylotus.com/2009/09/27/a-monk-bowing-and-palms-coming-together/comment-page-1/#comment-16538 Nadia Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:49:56 +0000 http://happylotus.com/?p=4196#comment-16538 Hi Robin, You are so right, a person can be close to God irrespective of where they are and whether they engage in ceremonies or not. That has been my belief for years. Acknowledging the Divine is a way of life, not something that is left to when a person goes to a temple or a church or ashram. So I totally agree with you. And thank you so much for all the kind words. You are very kind and you have lived an amazing life too. We all have in our own way which I know you know. :) Namaste to you too, Robin! Hi Robin,

You are so right, a person can be close to God irrespective of where they are and whether they engage in ceremonies or not. That has been my belief for years. Acknowledging the Divine is a way of life, not something that is left to when a person goes to a temple or a church or ashram. So I totally agree with you.

And thank you so much for all the kind words. You are very kind and you have lived an amazing life too. We all have in our own way which I know you know. :)

Namaste to you too, Robin!

]]> By: Nadia http://happylotus.com/2009/09/27/a-monk-bowing-and-palms-coming-together/comment-page-1/#comment-16537 Nadia Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:47:00 +0000 http://happylotus.com/?p=4196#comment-16537 Hi Evelyn, Thank you so much for all the kind things you wrote. I am so touched. :) You raised an important point...it does not matter the manner in which some pays their respect to another. It is the intention which means more. And thank you so much for mentioning that in some traditions, the positions of the palms together to indicate certain levels of respect. Also in some traditions, the right hand symbolizes certain things as does the left hand. There is so much more that goes into it than people realize. :) Namaste to you too, Evelyn! :) Hi Evelyn,

Thank you so much for all the kind things you wrote. I am so touched. :)

You raised an important point…it does not matter the manner in which some pays their respect to another. It is the intention which means more. And thank you so much for mentioning that in some traditions, the positions of the palms together to indicate certain levels of respect. Also in some traditions, the right hand symbolizes certain things as does the left hand. There is so much more that goes into it than people realize. :)

Namaste to you too, Evelyn! :)

]]> By: John Duffield http://happylotus.com/2009/09/27/a-monk-bowing-and-palms-coming-together/comment-page-1/#comment-16524 John Duffield Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:08:17 +0000 http://happylotus.com/?p=4196#comment-16524 Hi Nadia. Beautiful, truthful post. Thank you. I'd like to comment on your first lesson. I like to call this "foolish discrimination" because it's calling people names for things we do ourselves. If we look hard we can catch ourselves doing it all the time...and then stamp it out. Here's some persoal examples. I've looked down on people for being fat, after gaining twenty pounds myself. I've called guys names for speeding, and was caught by the gendarmes for speeding myself a few hours later. And so on, and on and on. O.K., but after watching myself do this for a while something eventually dawned on me. Everything I'd judged people harshly for.....I'd done myself....albeit sometimes differently. Maybe I'm not a pathological liar for instance, but I've told my share of white lies. Maybe I'm not a thief per se, but I've taken more than my fair share of stuff on occasion. Id' better not judge thieves and liars too harshly then, because they and I are "the same but different". When I began to see this clearly, I also saw this. I'd been judging MYSELF harshly. I'd been calling MYSELF names all along. Once this got through my thick skull.....my judging began to diminish. I can't say I've gotten rid of all of it.....but I'm sure making progress now. And here's the best part of it. I feel heaps better about myself and the world. .-= John Duffield´s last blog ..<a href="http://ourcryforhelp.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/heartshots-for-the-law-of-attraction/" rel="nofollow">Heartshots For the Law of Attraction</a> =-. Hi Nadia. Beautiful, truthful post. Thank you. I’d like to comment on your first lesson. I like to call this “foolish discrimination” because it’s calling people names for things we do ourselves. If we look hard we can catch ourselves doing it all the time…and then stamp it out. Here’s some persoal examples. I’ve looked down on people for being fat, after gaining twenty pounds myself. I’ve called guys names for speeding, and was caught by the gendarmes for speeding myself a few hours later. And so on, and on and on. O.K., but after watching myself do this for a while something eventually dawned on me. Everything I’d judged people harshly for…..I’d done myself….albeit sometimes differently. Maybe I’m not a pathological liar for instance, but I’ve told my share of white lies. Maybe I’m not a thief per se, but I’ve taken more than my fair share of stuff on occasion. Id’ better not judge thieves and liars too harshly then, because they and I are “the same but different”. When I began to see this clearly, I also saw this. I’d been judging MYSELF harshly. I’d been calling MYSELF names all along. Once this got through my thick skull…..my judging began to diminish. I can’t say I’ve gotten rid of all of it…..but I’m sure making progress now. And here’s the best part of it. I feel heaps better about myself and the world.
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