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January 7, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha watches a small hula group who came to perform for him today... Palaniswami shares stories first to the group. Next the performance. Brief video excerpts below. Meanwhile the rain on the mountain is making the Wailua river fill up. A brief explanation from...
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January 6, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? This is Bodhinatha with a pilgrim who was here last week. Lakshmi Kanthareddy. We step back to yesterday, which was another busy tour day... On a special visit to the Hindu temple, here are the 3rd grade children from the Kula School with their...
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January 5, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha has recently been putting in many, many hours of work on the Shum language, picking up where Gurudeva left off years ago, to make that this powerful legacy of inner teachings are codified and brought into use again as Gurudeva intended. Gurudeva made...
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January 1, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? ~~~~~~~~~~~ END OF PHASE Today is the last day of our short 4-day phase. This edition of TAKA will remain posted over our coming three-day retreat, until Dvitya Tithi, Sun One, Friday, January 5th. The Ganapati Kulam gave their news today... it was a...
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December 31, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Linda Smart This young man, Joe Chikiar , has been coming to the temple daily for a few days, reading Gurudeva's books. He has a strong interest in spiritual life and is searching direction.
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December 30, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? The Rahavendran family are here for the their last day of pilgrimage and had darshan with Bodhinatha today after having been with us for over a week. Pillaiyar Kulam News At lunch today the Pillaiyar Kulam share their news. Shanmuganathaswami described all the work...
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December 29, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? We begin a new phase today... with a wonderful Sun One Homa. Bodhinatha read a discourse he had written on the four philosophic perspectives of the Shum language and then gave marvelous spontaneous "bhashya" on his own talk... watch for it in the days...
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December 26, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is Sun Six today...the last day of a long, productive and busy phase here with many activities, guests, pilgrims. ~~~~~~~~~~~ END OF PHASE Today is the last day of our phase. This edition of TAKA will remain posted over our coming two-day retreat,...