The Monarchs of Money (20min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_VxdLJdDU#! Well made and watchable documentary on Central Bankers, and how they control finances, are more powerful than government ... and indirectly greatly affect our lives. Useful for broadening onces horizons and gain perspective ...

The nature of mind is the background to the whole of life and death like the sky, which enfolds the whole universe in its embrace. ` SOYGAL RINPOCHE

Real love lets itself out of the heart. It overflows from the will and waits to be received by others. Love does not arise, planned. Nor does it take shape, premeditated. Where there is love, there is truth. Where there is truth, I dwell therein." ~ SAI BABA

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. ~ JOHN MILTON: Paradise Lost

At the beginning all sorts of bad thoughts will rise up in your mind the moment you sit down to meditate… Because of this certain disciples abandon their spiritual practices. If you attempt to chase a monkey, he will try to leap on you in vengeance. And thus it is with the old impregnations (samskaras); bad thoughts try to avenge themselves and redouble their efforts as soon as you strive to awaken in yourself benefic and divine reflections. Your enemy is ingenious in ways to paralyse your efforts to have him expulsed from the house. Resistance is a natural law. —Swami Sivananda

Gampopa, Milarepa’s greatest disciple, asked him at the moment of their parting: “When will be the time for me to start guiding students?” Milarepa replied: “When you are not like you are now, when your whole perception has been transformed, and you are able to see, really see, this old man before you as nothing less than the Buddha himself. When devotion has brought you to that moment of recognition, that moment will be the sign that the time for you to teach has come.” It is my devotion to my masters that gives me the strength to teach, and the openness and receptivity to learn, and go on learning. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche himself never stopped humbly receiving teachings from other masters, and often from those who were his own disciples. The devotion that gives the inspiration to teach, then, is also the devotion that gives the humility to go on learning.

still time to join and hear my lecture ... and celebrate spring and JYOTISH on the beautiful ashram grounds, see details in flier