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May 14

Deepening in Divinity 

Hello 🙂 

The next Free Online Group Healing is this Friday 16th May @ 1pm London time. If you feel drawn to do so, please let your friends / fam / etc. know by sharing this link with them. 

Please book your place if you can remain on Zoom for the duration (1hr) in a quiet space free from distractions. Thank you 🙏 

I would like to share something from the Q&A discussion during the last Group Healing. I loved this so much when one of you said it, that I requested it in written form afterwards. “The quote (as I remember from a few years back) was spoken by Yong Oh, a teacher at the Durango Dharma Center: “I’ve learned to love all of my karma, the good and the bad.” The phrasing may be simple, but living from that truth is hard!” 

As many of you know, I attended the recent in-person Deepening in Divinity class in Wakefield, MA. I am honestly still speechless about it… The only comment I can make, is that it has transformed my system and my life on every level I am aware of (and probably also those I am not aware of). The gratitude I feel for the Grace we all received from Merlin remains raw, tender, precious… Whenever I sit down and contemplate it, tears come to my eyes.

During the class, we were also gifted one night with the presence of a talented kirtan artist who used to play with Krishna Das, called Shubal. He recounted a Darshan he had once had with Amma. During it, he asked Her, “What can I do about my addictions?” Amma responded by explaining that his addictions were like a comb for a bald head. She went on to say, “The medicine for your illness lies in the space between your thoughts.”

For online private sessions, book here (NB : ‘Schedule’ button must be pressed after payment, or the booking is not accepted and money returned):-

Please do not contact me regarding scheduling, rearranging or cancelling. Instead, please utilise the email you receive from Calendly for this. It can end up in your junk mail, so please check.

NB: lateness, no-showing, cancelling or rescheduling less than 24 hrs in advance of the session time will result in you being charged in full.

I am very happy to announce that the film ‘The Necklace’ made by one of you, was selected for the SXSW LONDON Festival 🙂 This short film, in ‘The Laws of Desire’ category, will show on Monday 2nd June @ ‘Rich Mix’ cinema 6:15pm, and on Wednesday 4th June 9:15pm @ ‘The Curzon Hoxton’ cinema. Here are links to explore :-

https://www.sxswlondon.com/session/shorts-laws-of-desire-f910fbf5

https://www.sxswlondon.com/session/shorts-laws-of-desire-2b39db7d

I will leave you with this today. Divinity is not a perspective. It’s way beyond that. It is so much deeper and fuller… It’s that which is holding all perspectives, all positions, all experiences – everything. It’s That. 

Love,

xDaisy 

Sep 9

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Real bliss is within 

Hello 🙂 

“Just as the flower falls away when the fruit takes shape, worldly desires will disappear when detachment ripens. No desire can bind such a person afterwards, whether he lives at home or in the forest. One who has established God-realisation as his goal will not attach any importance to anything else. He has already understood that nothing physical is permanent and that real bliss is within” ~ Amma

Another way of touching on this area, is to perceive – fully, without holding back – that what we want and what we need are rarely related. I’m sorry to break it – if it is news – to you, but it’s true. And yet, in every single moment we are getting exactly what we need. 

The Free Online Group Healings are now weekly. I hope you are as pleased about this as I am 🙂 Other than dates I cannot do, I have begun scheduling these weekly instead of fortnightly. The link below will allow you to book them. The next Free Online Group Healing is Friday 20th September @ 1pm London time. If you feel drawn to do so, please let your friends / fam / etc. know by sharing this link with them. 

Please book your place if you can remain on Zoom for the duration (1hr) in a quiet space free from distractions. Thank you 🙏

I thought I would share some of my notes from Amma’s U.S. Tour with you now. During Oakland program, Amma explained to us in a speech that we must never try to compare ourselves with others. Instead, always see from the perspective of the True Self. 

During the Washington D.C. program, there was a public Q&A and a young woman (probably 20 or thereabouts) asked a beautiful question concerning what to do when, although we do not express anger  or resentful feelings to a person directly, when we walk away from the conversation with them, these are still going on in our mind. Amma said, if we introspect, we will find that the anger we feel towards someone really arises from expectations or from being judgemental. She continued, saying that sadness also gets expressed as anger or as revenge. We do not understand the mental state of the other person. The world is like a mental asylum, with each of us being either crazy or on the verge of being crazy. 

Although a snake may be frozen in ice, if it is left in the sun the ice will melt and the snake will all-of-a-sudden rise up and could bite us. Only by going through the circumstances of life, will we understand what our own latent tendencies are.

If we get into conflict with someone, immediately we should move away from the situation and contemplate – go within. In order to become aware of the gap between our thoughts and actions, we need patience. Amma said that each situation is our Guru, our Teacher. Seeing any person as a mirror for ourself, we will learn a lot. 

Anger is a double-edged sword, with which we get hurt first. Or it could be likened to a hot iron ball : when we throw it at someone, we get hurt first. 

However, if an animal like a deer is eating our vegetable patch, it is no good saying, “My dear, dear, dear deer, please stop eating the vegetables.” Instead, we need to take a stick, wave it at the deer and shoo it away with words. 

The world is like an examination hall. We need to go through many circumstances in life in order to learn all the lessons. Amma said that we may fail when facing a situation, but never give up. 

‘Awareness’ was the only word which Amma used repeatedly in English throughout this Q&A (the rest being in Malayalam as usual), which I found interesting. Amma continued : whatever action we perform, the first 10% is not within our control. But the following 90% is within our control. If through having the proper awareness, we can make the initial action as positive as it can be, then the rest will follow accordingly. In order to develop such awareness, we need to do spiritual practices like meditation or Archana (the 1000 Names) regularly. 

Amma finished by saying to the woman directly, “Whatever your conscience tells you to do, you should do that.” 

I am currently in London offering in-person sessions until the 16th September and will come to you if you live within tube Zones 1 or 2. Please contact me via regular text, WhatsApp or Telegram to arrange this and please pay before the session via bank transfer, cash or PayPal. NB: lateness, no-showing or cancelling / rearranging less than 24 hrs in advance of the session time, will result in you being charged in full. 

Alternatively, here is the link to book online private sessions for whenever you like :-

Please do not contact me regarding scheduling, rearranging or cancelling : instead, utilise the email you receive from Calendly for this purpose. It could end up in your spam, so please check.

NB: lateness, no-showing or cancelling / rearranging less than 24 hrs in advance of the session time, will result in you being charged in full.

Love,

xDaisy