Wednesday 13 February 2008

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Thurs. Jan. 31/08 - Calgary, Alberta
It was rather shocking news throughout Canada. The newspapers headlines amplified “Cold Reality”. Regardiung 2 toddlers, 1 and 3, found frozen to death lying in the outdoor snow clad in diapers and the father, still alive, frost-bitten on a native reserve in Saskatchewan. Temperatures had reached minus 50 degrees Celsius.
The “Reality” is life’s duality, the extremes and how to cope with them?
I bundled up to a minus 27 degree in the Calgary afternoon chill to do my body some service- exercise and move the body airs around inside. I had brunched with a primary school teacher at the residence of Gaurachandra, a marvelous saxophone player and spiritual man, along with Vanipriya, his wife, and Jagannath his son. Conducive for such chilled weather we had our hot soup while speculating over the decision for Toronto to open a black-only school for black kids.
Wouldn’t this ignite a new segregation? Even racism? Moreover, from a monks perspective isn’t this decision highly bodily conscious? All the decades of efforts to defuse racism seems to now have gone straight out the window. I find such social shifts very interesting.
Our evening event was a satsang, home program, of chanting and encouragement towards chanting.
Chanting is where the real warmth lies.
5 kms.

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