A Journey up into the Mountains
Several of the Monks traveled to the mountains to stay a few days at the Camp Slogget lodge in Kokee. On the way they stopped by Waimea Canyon, as well as the Kalalau Lookout. They took the time to hike, meditate, and enjoy the outdoors.
Monks take a Journey to Polehale Beach
For their annual 3 day retreat some of the monks took a trip to polehale beach on the northwest side of kauai, and then spent a night up in the Mountains at a lodge in Kokee.
Vivek and Meenakshi Vyas Visit from Sacramento
Vivek and Meenakshi Vyas with daughters Ananya and Ariyana made their first visit from Sacramento, northern California, on the occasion of Vivek's birthday. They've wanted to visit ever since hearing about us from one of our sishyas at the Himalayan Fair about seven years ago.
October 2nd Homa
Today a new phase begins at Kauai Aadheenam. The three worlds are connected through the Homa fire as we offer prayers to the inner worlds.
SSC Mauritius Mission Ganesha Chaturthi Part 2
Click here to view Part Two collection of photos celebrating the organized chaos of Ganesha Chaturthi at our Spiritual Park in Mauritius
Help from an Unexpected Source
For the past three days our Buddhist landscape architect has been exploring the sacred Siva Gardens with Sadasivanathaswami. The goal is to bring forth from within the most gracious, enchanting and meaningful landscape ideas for around Iraivan Temple.
Martin Mosco was sent here by Jim and Natalie Levin, at their expense, to spend 11 days creating a master plan. Martin is an amazing fellow and an intuitive maker of sacred space.
He stepped on the inner path when, at age 11, he was drowned in an infinite ocean of light. Nothing was ever the same. He studied for 20 years with a Tibetian master, and 12 more with a Japanese Zen master. At one point he took three years to do 108,000 full prostrations (he did that twice, as his master thought he had done the first set imperfectly!)
He is taking today off to visit the Limahuli garden on Kauai. And six of the monks are off to Kokee Park for three days. It will be Jaya's first such outing and all are excited for him.
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Brahmachari Jaya Becomes a Supplicant
Today Brahmachari Jaya took his supplicant pledge. This stage indicates that he is no longer "aspiring" to be a monk but has made a firm and clear decision to follow the monastic path, having settled his affairs in the world. As a supplicant he pledges to continue his spiritual work and is now in a state of "begging" or supplicating the order to be accepted as a full postulant Sadhaka.
From Our Gurus' Teachings
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