ARTICLES

Everyday Enlightenment
written for the Essence of Life non-profit organization (January 2011)
The search for what is true is the “spiritual search”: the quest for awakening or enlightenment. Today, there seems to be so much talk about “awakening”. Never before – at least in the known history of humankind - has there been so much interest in spiritual matters. What was once reserved for mystics has become commonplace. And what once required years of seclusion in a cave at the top of the Himalayas has not become available to us in the everyday context. To many of us interested in the path of awakening, “enlightenment” is no longer a mysterious word. But it is still an apparently mysterious process!
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The Divine Feminine
written for the Essence of Life non-profit organization (July 2010)
For too long we have lived as a species in the grip of a patriarchal dominator model. One in which ego has ruled over compassion and “profit at all cost” has ruled over “for the benefit of all concerned”. The masculine energy of forward-thrusting progress and creating “bigger and better” things has led to an insane world of over-consumption, the rape of the planet and a huge imbalance between “have’s and have not’s”. Now there’s nothing wrong with a bit of masculine power … it is a vital part of life! But it’s been running rampant and has dominated the sky-line. Nature, however, is forever wise and the pendulum today is swinging in the other direction to bring in the feminine.
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Living a Radiant Life
written for the Essence of Life non-profit organization (June 2010)
Well, I must say I was quite flattered as I am nearing my 50’s now and that day I had been working long hours of travel and teaching! So I paused for a moment to reflect on “my secret”. This was my answer: “True radiance comes from the inside out. True health is an abundance of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being. What you see is a dedication to the embodiment of these qualities so that I can live a life of radiant joy and passion in order to better offer my services to the world.” Or words to that effect!
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Radical Awakening
written for the Essence of Life non-profit organization (June 2010)
Whether we experience these changes and challenges as fear or as excitement is a choice we each have to make. Because the new frequency is about making new choices in our lives. We are in the midst of a new evolutionary impulse that is creating the possibility for a fundamental shift in how we see things, in our beliefs, our thoughts, our feelings, our words and our actions. It's a new paradigm of living and being and we are being birthed into it. And, like all births, it is both painful and exciting. It is out of the chaos that something new is born. It is at the darkest hour that we stand at the edge of a rebirth into the light of a fresh dawn.
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The Power of Love
by Viriam Kaur for Yoga Magazine (February 2011)
The true power of love is the opportunity for wholeness that it gives us. When we enter into an intimate relationship we, receive one of our biggest opportunities for transformation.
“Awakened Relationship is about true relating, rather than having a relationship”, says teacher and author Amoda Maa ]eevan. "Far from being a romantic illusion, love holds the key to awakening ... but only if there is willingness for emotional and spiritual growth. The thing I realised is: love always brings up anything unlike itself to be seen and be healed.”
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Awakening to Change
by Tania Ahsan for Kindred Spirit (Summer 2011)
There is a need when on the spiritual path to seek out answers but Amoda says that the key turning point for her was when she dropped the search. “In dropping the search, there was surrender to what is and to life itself. This shifted from searching in spiritual teachings to enlightenment within life itself and it allowed life to be my teacher.” Ironically, Amoda had a profoundly affecting visionary experience, once she’d stopped looking for it, through simply following the yearning she still felt at the end of the searching.
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