Torah-Veda

An Interspiritual Journey
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Torah and Veda are two ancient sources of spirituality still vibrant today. Torah is conveyed through the sacred language of Hebrew and Veda is conveyed through the sacred language of Sanskrit. The focus here is on meditation, mysticism, philosophy, psychology and the underlying spirituality that has been incorporated into religions, and not as much on the religions themselves. Your comments and posts are welcome.


Quote of the Week 419 - Listend/Hearing for Non-material Sustenance

Quote of the Week 419 - Listening/Hearing for Non-material Sustenance


Every one who is thirsty, come and drink. He who has no money, come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good. Let your soul delight in abundance. Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, that your soul will live…


--Isaiah 55:1-3, The Living Torah translation by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan

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Interfaith/Inter-Spiritual Contemplative Groups


Please check out the following, which is an ongoing activity that may be of interest:


https://www.zgatl.org/contemplative-group.html


https://www.zgatl.org/ongoing-groups.html


http://www.interfaithci.org/contemplative.html


https://faithallianceofmetroatlanta.org/recent-events/programs-events/ongoing-programs/











Thursday, April 30, 2009

Quote of the Week 89 - Israelity.com

Another complication to the situation is that it might not be so straightforward that yoga’s Hindu chants to more than one god represent idolatry. Many other theologians have posited that since they all essentially represent manifestations of the one primary godhead, Brahman, the additional Hindu gods can be seen as analogous to Jewish mysticism’s concept of the sephirot, the kabalistic manifestations of the Jewish God’s various components of holiness.

--From Israelity.com blog, 04/23/09

Note: I continue to make inroads on the international scene! The phrase “other theologians” in the above quote links to my amazon.com book page! Also, I was recently contacted by a writer for the English version of Haaretz, a leading Israeli newspaper, who was researching yoga and Judaism due to a yoga studio opening in Jerusalem. He quoted me in his article, and the article was picked up by another Israeli web site called Vos Is Neias. You can find the Haaretz article at www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1074339.html under the title “Kosher-style yoga” which was published on 04/03/09 and the Vos Iz Neias article at www.vosizneias.com, under the title “Jerusalem – Kosher-Style Yoga for Observant Jews Kept Very Pareve” which was published on 03/26/09.

I have also been contacted by a freelance writer for The Forward, who is conducting research for a potential article on yoga and Judaism.

The beat goes on.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Quote of the Week 88 - Lao Tzu

The ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle:
Totally fascinated by the realm of the senses,
it swings from one desire to the next,
one conflict to the next,
one self-centered idea to the next.
If you threaten it, it actually fears for its life.

Let this monkey go.
Let the senses go.
Let desires go.
Let conflicts go.
Let ideas go.
Let the fiction of life and death go.
Just remain in the center, watching

And then forget that you are there.

--Lao Tzu

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Quote of the Week 87- M. Glazerson

“Disintegration of the material and taming of the physical senses awakens the innermost being of man wherein lies the divine spirit. Union with the element of the Ein/Nothingness brings one to the foundation of the Ani/I/Ego.”
--from The Grandeur of Judaism and the East, Judaism and Meditation by Rabbi Matiyahu Glazerson