Tantra Yoga

Nasrudin sat on a river bank when someone shouted to him from the opposite side:

- “Hey! how do I get across?”

- “You are across!” Nasrudin shouted back.

 A certain man asked the famous Mulla Nasrudin, “What is the meaning of fate, Mulla?”

Mulla replied, “Assumptions.”

“In what way?” the man asked again.

Mulla looked at him and said, “You assume things are going to go well, and they don’t - that you call bad luck. You assume things are going to go badly and they don’t - that you call good luck. You assume that certain things are going to happen or not happen - and you so lack intuition that you don’t know what is going to happen. You assume that the future is unknown. When you are caught out - you call that Fate.”

Adapted from: “The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin” by Idries Shah. 

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1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

2. Memorise your favourite poem.

3. Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want. Good luck poem

4. When you say ‘I love you’, mean it.

5. When you say ‘I’m sorry’, look the person in the eye.

6. Be engaged for at least 6 months before you get married.

7. Believe in love at first sight.

8. Never laugh at anyones dreams.

9. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it’s the only way to live life completely.

10. In disagreements fight fairly, no name calling.

11. Don’t judge people by their relatives.

12. Talk slowly but think quickly.

13. When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, “Why do you want to know?“

14. Remember that great love and great acheivements involve great risk.

15. Call your mum.

16. Say ‘bless you’ when you hear someone sneeze.

17. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.

18. Remember the three R’s: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibilities for all your actions.

19. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

20. When you realise you’ve made a mistake take immediate steps to correct it.

21. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.

22. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

23. Spend some time alone.

24. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.

25. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

26. Read more books and watch less TV.

27. Live a good honourable life. The when you get older and think back, you’ll get to enjoy it a second time.

28. Trust in god but lock your car.

29. A loving atmosphere in your home is so important. Do all you can to create a tranquil harmonious home.

30. In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.

31. Read between the lines.

32. Share your knowledge, it’s a way to acheive immortality.

33. Be gentle with the earth.

34. Pray. There’s immeasureable power in it.

35. Never interrupt when you are being flattered.

36. Mind your own business.

37. Don’t trust a man or woman who doesn’t close his/her eyes when you kiss.

38. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.

39. If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others whilst you are living. That is wealth’s greatest satisfaction.

40. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.

41. Learn the rules then break some.

  Unknown Author

One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old, hat the well needed to be covered anyway and that it just wasn’t worth retrieving the donkey. So he invited all his neighbours to come over and help him.

They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone’s amazement, he quietened down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well and was astonished at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up. As the farmer’s neighbours continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off!

Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up.

The Author: Unknown

 Florence Shinn

The unexpected happens, my seemingly impossible good now comes to pass.

Florence Shinn 

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity.

Omar Ibn Al-Halif

Back then only Sun Woman had a vagina.
Only Sun Woman and her brother Moon Man
had anuses. They traveled, not knowing their privilege
until they came upon a settlement. Outside the igloos
were lumps of caribou breasts and rich suet –
the villagers had to suck their meat without swallowing
since there was no way for them to expel it.
Babies back then were cut from the womb, the mother
sewn back together with braided caribou sinew.
Sister Sun and Brother Moon wanted the kind of love
siblings could not give to each other
so they looked among the people for companions.
Moon Man, to consummate his marriage, took a knife
and gently slit his wife in the crotch. Instead of blood,
a vulva and vagina appeared. Sister Sun
was the first in the village to give birth
by breaking her water and going into labor.
Her baby was the first of the village to have both genitals
and an anus. The women of the settlement sang their praises,
wielding knives between their legs. Then, men
and women alike seized meat forks
and stabbed themselves in the rear.
Those who hit the right places gained anuses
and the party began. People, like none other before them,
gobbled down food and gulped up love.

From HIM-WHOSE-PENIS-NEVER-SLEPT–Denise Duhamel
Poetry based on Eskimo mythology
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