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Nov
2010
Blog
Creating Time and Space for Yoga
by Kino MacGregor Yoga inspires us, moves us beyond our normal boundaries, and asks us to dedicate ourselves in new ways. Even if you are just beginning your yoga experience, you already know the unmistakable peace left in your body after an amazing session. If you are lucky enough to have a regular yoga practice…
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30
Nov
2010
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Choosing Peace
by Kino MacGreggor You create your reality by the thoughts that you think. Your attention is itself responsible for your life experience. No matter how awful the traffic jam is, how loud your neighbors are, how inconsiderate people may seem, how delayed the airplane is, you are the one who is in control of your…
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30
Nov
2010
Blog
Integrating Practice with Life
by Kino MacGregor It’s easy to seem peaceful in the quiet cave of your own mind. It’s much harder to face the test of integrating your learning with your life. No matter how peacefully you might leave your daily meditation or yoga practice, there is nothing like a seemingly callous or thoughtless comment from a…
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30
Nov
2010
Blog
Staying Through the Storm
by Kino MacGregor Confrontation is a grey zone on the spiritual path. Should you fight your way out of a defeatist victim-mentality? Or should you take a few breathes to ventilate your hostility before taking your inner rage out on your fellow freeway drivers? When is it appropriate to stick up for yourself & when…
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30
Nov
2010
Blog
Everyday Awakening
by Kino MacGregor Awakening and enlightenment are two of the most objectified and misunderstood signposts along the spiritual path. Often construed as something outside yourself, many true and genuine seekers mistake the process of gaining spiritual insight as a process of looking for the missing element in their own being. Yet awakening cannot occur to…
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30
Nov
2010
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The Delicate Time of Life
by Kino MacGregor Our life is short, yet a real sense of time eludes us. It is more common to get hooked on the world of sensory pleasure than to live a spiritual life. E-bay, appointments and shopping consume the grasping mind. Television seems calmer than silence. Pain and loss are more addictive than gratitude…
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30
Nov
2010
Blog
A Conscious State of Consumption
by Kino MacGregor Living in North America, we are part of a society that exports the flashy famousness of the newly discovered. We are collectively in a rush to unearth the next hidden secret and produce our very own million-dollar invention. This makes us brilliant innovators, forward thinking dreamers and daringly ambitious artists, and yet…
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30
Nov
2010
Blog
The Body Doesn’t Lie
by Kino MacGregor The mind enjoys putting on a melodramatic show. From the thick plot of stress, anger, pain and loss, it proclaims that we are “just fine”, “coping quite well” or “not really bothered at all”. The body, by contrast, doesn’t lie for very long if at all. Its simple proximity to nature cannot…
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30
Nov
2010
Blog
The Dirty Sounds of Silence
by Kino MacGregor Have you every noticed how noisy we all are? In the last twenty years, we have invented and now need iPods, iPhones, CDs, portable DVD players, louder motorcycles, super jet engines, walkie-talkies, reality TV shows, music videos and Starbucks. Silence is like a dirty word in the modern vocabulary. When you sit…
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30
Nov
2010
Blog
The Hidden Key to Health
by Kino MacGregor Food is not who you are. It is a way you communicate with the world. You express things through food, through eating, like you do through any art form, but it nevertheless is not who you are at your deepest essence. Your eating habits are merely habits, not your life or your…
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