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The Book of Tea

by Kakuzō Okakura

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Moments of Kabir said: " Tea books help raise awareness about the joy of tea but your help and interaction is needed to raise awareness about how to source rain forest rescue teas!

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After The Event

by Christopher A. Brown

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Moments of Kabir said: "

After The Event by Brown is an amazing journey into the Nonmind of the native americans. So far it has been filled with twisting "nonthinking", something for the tribal and the yogis for sure.

One must step out of the mind and into the heart to start

After The Event by Brown is an amazing journey into the Nonmind of the native americans. So far it has been filled with twisting "nonthinking", something for the tribal and the yogis for sure.

One must step out of the mind and into the heart to start to dance with this book. Herbert Marshall McLuhan would have been able to do it easily. Now Chris, always the man of the moment, perhaps Mr. Brown will also be remembered for the truthful statement made in the 1960’s that “the medium is the message.” This book helps us to truly and fully know why, and once that is clear, you can enjoy the next step, which is to see what is happening "After the event".

When we view the generations before us, and their building of America, we see that "getting there," was all the fun. What’s left is the cultural and artistic ashes of that endeavor. We want to build the new continent, alive from within, never forgetting that all conclusions are provisional, and as such are only working models.

In the book, Chris take on the truth about corporate deceit and its impact on consciousness via topics of sex. He says, "What is illustrated is that the greater need of human existence IS the securing of the well being of the next generation IF the dependence of it upon our actions is invoked through awareness of the threat against it and a focus on parental love instead of sex."

Is he on the edge of taboo? What do the ancient Gurus have to say about sex? Meher Baba says, "SEX is decidedly one of the most important problems with which the human mind is confronted in the domain of duality. It is one of the “givens” in the make-up of human nature with which one has to deal. Like everything else in human life, sex comes to be considered through the opposites which are the necessary creations of the limited mind. Just as the mind tries to fit life into a scheme of alternatives such as joy or pain, good or bad, solitude or company, attraction or repulsion, so in relation to sex it tends to think of indulgence and repression as alternatives from which there is no escape. It seems as if man must accept the one alternative or the other. Yet he cannot whole-heartedly accept either, for when he tries repression he is dissatisfied with his lot and longingly thinks of indulgence. When he tries indulgence he becomes conscious of his bondage to the senses and seeks freedom by going back to mechanical repression. The mind remains dissatisfied with both alternatives and there thus arises one of the most vital and complicated problems of human life." Meher Baba has it so right on, but back when that was given to humanity, corporations were not running amok into our lives at the rate they are dividing families and destroying the fabric of our unity in these days of the "quickening".

Chris is a yogi in modern times, and all yogis take on difficult truths while doing their inner work. The Arising of the problem of sex, in the Chris experience is the start of a right view into our modern day situation. And he has the spirits of Meher on his left and Herbert on his right, and the native americans behind him.

This book is a must read, and just like all the good stuff, you will not find it in a yoga studio. This one is the one you wanna get, if you are ready for why renunciation of craving made possible through awakening.

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Oct 07, 2008 02:37AM · see review