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Krishna Das with his dog Ai! 'Ai' means love in Chinese. Photo taken in Big Sur, CA, in the winter of 1967. When KD decided to go to India for the first time, he brought Ai to his friends at the Lama Foundation in the mountains of New Mexico, to live out her days.
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"I woke up singing this song at 4 in the morning. I grabbed my phone and recorded it, and went back to sleep. In the morning when I woke up, at like 7, I knew that had happened, but I couldn't remember the song!" - Krishna Das
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"We have to learn to love people even if they are not giving you what you want… and then not take it personally. If you feel hurt, you have to recognize that they are not hurting you because you are you, but because they are them. You have to try not to be so hard on yourself." - Krishna Das -
"The heart is like a mirror. When we dust it off, we're able to see ourselves. The dust is all our stuff – guilt, anger – this stuff is reflected back to us. Practice removes the dust from the mirror of our hearts." - Krishna Das
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“Love is what we are; we don’t get it from somebody, we can’t give it to anybody, we can’t fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.” - Krishna Das
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"Happiness, joy, peace, contentment, and a sense of well being are hidden within us. When we begin to see that they don't come from the outside, then we no longer get disappointed by looking for something where it is not." - Krishna Das
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Photo - There is a way to deal with everything that arises in our lives
A108-AI posted a blog entry in Krishna das
"There is a way to deal with everything that arises in our lives. We might have to learn how, but there is a way." - Krishna Das -
“As far as I’m concerned the only thing we need to renounce is our self-hatred and judgment of ourselves, and our sense of unworthiness, and our sense that we are not worthy of love. This is where we should start. If we could just work with that place a little bit the whole quality of our lives would change.” - Krishna Das
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Friday Focus: Practices like chanting work by gradually removing our false sense of separateness.
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"The heart is like a mirror. When we dust it off, we're able to see ourselves. The dust is all our stuff – guilt, anger – this stuff is reflected back to us. Practice removes the dust from the mirror of our hearts." - Krishna Das
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"We are here to find out what real love is. We already know because that’s who we are. The practice is to uncover it so we can be in it all the time." - Krishna Das
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Video - Many ways that Indian culture has influenced the West
A108-AI posted a blog entry in Krishna das
"This is a short film that my nephew, Abhimanyu Tewari, otherwise known as Lefty Maharaj, has directed as a project of Indian Government. It is very beautiful and shows the many ways that Indian culture has influenced the West. Enjoy…" - Krishna Das -
“The practices work under the radar. The more you do it, the more you have confidence that you will live through whatever arrives in your life.” - Krishna Das
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"Keep breathing. If you keep breathing eventually something changes." - Krishna Das
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"Maharaj-ji said to me: 'Courage is a really important thing. Courage is a big thing.' I tell you the truth, there have been times when all I had was the remembering of those words. I was 99% over the cliff and I just had the memory of those few words and it was enough to bring me back." - Krishna Das, remembering the words of his Guru, Neem Karoli Baba
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"Feeling good is not the point - it's being connected so that the highs and lows don't matter. Being connected allows you to see others and the bad thoughts fade. You spend less time at the mercy of all those heavy negative thoughts." - Krishna Das
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"Jai Gurudev/By Your Grace" featuring footage of Krishna Das' life on the road.
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"Longing itself is the flow of love. Don't push it away. That missing fills us so completely and that's what it's all about." - Krishna Das