ISKCON Halifax

On Tues­day I walked 20 min to the Jiva­mukti Yoga Cen­tre and into ‘SUNSET GITA’
with Joshua Greene. 

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Some peo­ple might think that monks are intol­er­a­bly aus­tere, and that they don’t eat very much. But, if you are a Hare Krishna monk, you know that fast­ing means feast­ing!

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Yes­ter­day we went trick-or-treating on the streets of New York! 

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Yes­ter­day I vis­ited Kula Yoga, a large yoga stu­dio in Man­hat­tan.  The entrance is deceiv­ing.  I didn’t see any sign.  It seemed like an entrance to an apart­ment above a store­front.  As we entered I was amazed to see 2 lines of peo­ple — one going up and one com­ing down — with a few breaks here and there.  We went up 3 flights of stairs to get to the room where the shoe rack was.  Then we back-tracked down nar­row hall­ways and stairs to a large room with huge win­dows on one side.  Wood ceil­ings and a brick wall added to the char­ac­ter of the place.

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   With lit­tle more than one week left here in Hal­i­fax and the Mar­itimes of Canada, we are try­ing to fit in as much book dis­tri­b­u­tion and chant­ing as we can, weather per­mit­ting. Aside from the weather, the only other thing that tends to get in the way is the mind.

Spir­i­tual life is so dynamic because it is a moment to moment affair.  Our con­scious­ness is like a fire. 

My friend and medi­a­tor of tonights’ NYU dis­cus­sion told a story to illus­trate steadi­ness in spir­i­tual life.  He was walk­ing with a senior monk in India who pointed to the stars and said, “see how they’re fixed and shin­ing?  That is sthita or steady. 

Yes­ter­day I went along with my friends to NYU to help them with their cook­ing class.  We had around 40 stu­dents.  Chris demon­strated Gujarati Squash.  Every­one heard, watched and even­tu­ally tasted! 

The ashram here has a large library of books, and I’ve been perus­ing through them look­ing for titles I’ve never seen before. 

This after­noon we went to Cole Har­bour Dis­trict High School to do a pro­gram with a friend of ours who we met last spring. She is a high school teacher, and is pio­neer­ing a yoga pro­gram within the Hal­i­fax Regional School Board.