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On Community: No one but you…

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· November 7, 2013

On Community: No one but you…

Do you sometimes feel that you are alone in what you are doing; that you may have part of your community but not all of it; that you have people you love but you need a guiding force? Do you spend too much time online hoping to feel connected or to make up for lack of connections that really feed your essence?

Let me tell you something. I have been part of a community all my life. First it was my raucous family of 8 in a 2, then 4, bedroom house; then boarding schools where you could feel totally connected, or totally alone, or both. Then, college, where we had freedom to choose our communities. Wooo hooo, that was great! I chose not to be part of a sorority because I didn’t want anyone telling me who I could be with and who I couldn’t be with. I, the private school Catholic girl, got to jump in and date Jewish men.

My father asked me why I didn’t pick up my dates at the Newman Center (Catholic center) instead of the Synagogue. Ha, I wasn’t picking them up at either of those places. I was meeting them in life and parties in my new community of 4,000, not 200. Then I got swept into a community of hippies protesting. Yes, doing lots of drugs and, yes, craving a much deeper connection to The Divine to break all the barriers and have true freedom. This path led me to yoga, meditation, and a life of spiritual community, then into creating spiritual communities all over Canada. And I could go on about that since there is no happy ending to anything (there are just continuums) but we rarely see that except in hindsight.

Communities start, hopefully grow and evolve. You come into them at whatever station you board that train. It may be in its barely-begun evolution, in a growth spurt, it’s congealing stage, or it’s already coming apart and reforming into something you may or may not feel connected to. I have experienced all these.

A community is not a stagnant thing, but a living organism that grows and shifts and dies and maybe is reborn in a different form. I want to invite you in; to be part of my community. It will be taking a huge leap this year and I want you to be in it as that leap is happening.

If you sign in, you will get a gift from me that will serve you. This is just the beginning of the gifts you will receive. I also want you to know that I look forward to hearing from you, for that is what community means—that we are connected and are part of each other. I also count on you taking my offers to uplift yourself as they come, for truthfully, a community is not just a resting place, but also hopefully one that pushes you to grow. I can promise that I will do that to, and with you, for you are part of my large and amazing community.

If you want to find a new place in life, a new place in yourself, a new place to get the light and understanding that your essence craves, then please stay tuned, for that is the platform of this community. I want to help you bring forth your light and know how to fan those flames; to pick yourself up when you fall down; to have more discipline to do the things that you know you should, could, and would because they will serve you and those around you. Work is truly worship. Love you.

Wahe Guru love to you,

Gurutej Khalsa

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Categories : Energy

Tags : communities, community, life, Yoga

Your Essence Can’t Be Bought

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· January 29, 2013

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If you knew that getting connected or reconnected to you was the key to everything, what would you be willing to do for that? Would you be willing to scale the highest mountain? Cross the deepest ocean? We say we would do all these things for love and yet it is always the love of another. I invite you to be willing to do those things for you.

I want to share a story with you. This was a conversation between the children in our community when my children were growing up. Pritham said this at 4yrs old. It was about who you love most.

The children were discussing if they loved Tej or God more, one day, and each child in the community said God, but Pritham wouldn’t say it. They all said, “You have to chose God.” She said, “Actually you know who I like best? Me! If I don’t like me, how can I like anyone else. God lives in everyone, you know.”

Are you ready to take the leap to dive into the amazingness and funk of you? If yes, I have something for you now. This is a special and my support in the most important climb you will ever make; more intense than Everest; more rewarding, too.

Go here for the special this week: http://darkhibernation.com/store/get-your-skinny-back/#.UP2S8aFxecI

Waheguru love to you,

Gurutej Khalsa

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Categories : Health

Tags : Children, community, connectedness, Get your essence back, Gurutej Khalsa, Pritham, Yoga

Have You Noticed the Synchronicity?

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· January 24, 2013

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Today I had played a CD my son gave me last week. It has been sitting on my desk for a week now and it’s very unlike me. It was a CD he had made for Pritham but never gave it to her. He made me a copy. The first song was so profound I was sobbing. My super sensitive son (who acts like he is not) let me know that he profoundly got his sister’s struggle and that he deeply appreciated her in so many ways.

He is not a man of many words, but through this mixed CD he communicated more profoundly what he did not say in words. At her memorial he self-assigned to be in charge of parking. No one asked him; he just saw it and did it. He stayed down there helping latecomers, all the while hearing all that was going on and being a part of it in his way.

I was greatful for his calm, still presence; greatful that he came to and through me; greatful that he loved and got his sister more than I ever knew.

They are so different from one another. He, living in Oregon off-grid, a contractor, with a wonderful partner and children, a close and loving group of friends, some new and most he grew up (in more ways than one) with. Boys to men and they have wonderful women in their lives. She, driven to do more and be more, had communities all over, was in medical school. She took her disease as something to study and create a site with all that she had learned and ways to beat cancer, your cancer. She knew that her practice would be that. She knew she would make it through. She always planned and succeeded at whatever she tackled. I had no doubt that she would succeed in this journey too. Success just looked different than I thought it would or should. She too had the love of her life. She too had a community that was with her till the end and beyond.

Who is your community? How do you serve it? How do you cherish it and help it grow? You are part of my community and I am feeding you my heart and soul. Please eat up.

Wahe Guru love to you,

Gurutej Khalsa

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Categories : spirituality

Tags : community, Gurutej Khalsa, memorial, Pritham, synchronicity, Yoga

Wahe Guru, How Are You?

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· October 3, 2012

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Everyone I speak with has amazing challenges and amazing openings right now. They seem to be coming together. One to polish us and the other to give us incentive to keep up. This mantra, “Keep up,” has a flip side which is, “Be kept up.” It is amazing when you keep up, others are inspired and long to include you. We all long for community. We are tribal beings. We love loving relationships, but we will put up with less than loving relationships. Look at what lonely people watch on TV. Soaps, right? Why? Because they feel part of those people. There’s this study which found that people have no loyalty to certain stations – only to the programs they want. Ha! We could have told them that without a study. Outright loyalty is to what makes us laugh or cry, feel more whole or feel more fortunate. Our loyalty is to learning something we are interested in or think we need. TV is not our true community, nor is YouTube.

Who is your community? How are you serving your community? How is your community serving you? Every day is miraculous. Don’t waste even a moment being vengeful, jealous, mean, catty, hurtful. Instead, go inside that person who may have hurt you and see their pain. Say this prayer for you and for them, “I’m sorry, please forgive me. I love you.” Yes take it on. It isn’t about who is right or wrong. It is about who can wake up fastest and shift the energy. We are energy beings, so as we tell our kids, “Be the big one.” It will remove your anger, etc. Oh, just try it. It can’t hurt you and it could create more ease in your community. Remember, you don’t have to like them, but chose to love them. It is very healing even when not apparent.

Wahe Guru Love and Blessings to y

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Categories : Thoughts

Tags : challenges, community, how are you, loyalty, mantra, relationships