{"id":1026,"date":"2014-09-05T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2014-09-08T22:58:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T02:58:19","slug":"petal-16-stop-mind-stop-abide-only-in-the-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/2014\/09\/petal-16-stop-mind-stop-abide-only-in-the-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Petal 16: STOP, MIND&#8230; STOP! ABIDE ONLY IN THE SOURCE."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Sun Aug 10th, 2014 3:50pm Washington Square Park, NYC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1421\" alt=\"DSC_0692\" src=\"http:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC_0692-500x352.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"317\" \/><strong>WITNESS:<\/strong><br \/>\nWashington Square Park on a Saturday afternoon &#8220;contains multitudes&#8221; as Walt Whitman might say. There are people walking dogs, playing jazz, taking pictures, walking hand in hand or walking solo. In the midst of all this whirl of activity is an oasis of peace. On a beautiful, circular painted lotus are two practitioners in orange. They are doing\u00a0<em>asanas<\/em>\u00a0and sitting in deep silence. Some people glance at them and dismiss them as just another part of the park circus. Some look at them with idle curiosity. But others look upon their practice and recognize that something important and very real is going on here. Those onlookers just might have been open to receiving the blessing. \u00a0\u3000\u2013Yajna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1112\" alt=\"DSC_0695\" src=\"http:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_06951.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"415\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1287\" alt=\"DSC_0701\" src=\"http:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC_0701-462x500.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"500\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1426\" alt=\"DSC_0710\" src=\"http:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC_0710-500x336.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"336\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1428\" alt=\"DSC_0721\" src=\"http:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC_0721-500x330.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1415\" alt=\"DSC_0723\" src=\"http:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC_0723-500x279.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"279\" \/> ***<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1348\" alt=\"DSC_0726\" src=\"http:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC_0726-353x500.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The color of the book SATORI is reminiscent of the beautiful moon.<br \/>\nIn a certain light, its subtle gold color mysteriously transforms into a shining \u00a0silver.<br \/>\nI have only seen it twice.\u00a0Have you seen it yet?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Today is the Super Moon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun Aug 10th, 2014 3:50pm Washington Square Park, NYC WITNESS: Washington Square Park on a Saturday afternoon &#8220;contains multitudes&#8221; as Walt Whitman might say. There are people walking dogs, playing jazz, taking pictures, walking hand in hand or walking solo. In the midst of all this whirl of activity is an oasis of peace. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}