January 2003
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MESSAGE FROM WAYNE
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Happy New Year to you!
As I prepare to go to visit my beloved Ramesh I am struck with the wonder that is this Life. The sheer vastness and variety of experience in this manifest world is awesome in its magnitude. That we can Love so deeply, feel so richly and hurt so excruciatingly fills me with gratitude for this gift of life.
My New Years wish for all of us is that in the coming year we get everything we need and not everything we deserve.
With much love,
Wayne
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Wayne will be visiting Ramesh in Bombay through early February. He will then go on to Amsterdam for Talks (see below). He will resume Talks in his home (broadcast live over the Internet)on February 13.
UPCOMING EVENTS
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WITH RAMESH BALSEKAR
Daily Talks in His Home: 9AM Sindhula, N. Gamadia Rd. #10, Bombay, India (Helpful info for people planning to visit Ramesh can be found in the Ramesh Balsekar section of the advaita.org website)
WITH WAYNE LIQUORMAN
Amsterdam.................................Feb. 7-9, 2003 Contact: Ronald Valk Tel 020 646 2160 Email: ronald.valk@wanadoo.nl
Sedona, Arizona.........................Feb. 28 - Mar. 2 Contact: Karen Phone: 928-284-0777 Email: angelgirl@sedona.net
Talks in Wayne's Home will resume Feb. 13.
927B Sixth St., Hermosa Beach, CA (check website for times or call 310-376-9636) Note that these talks will be broadcast LIVE over the Internet.
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THE ADVAITA PRESS STORE
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NEW BOOK--------------
Advaita at Kovalam - 2002
This presentation volume was privately published in India by Heiner Siegelmann, (a long time devotee of Ramesh's and the organizer of the Kovalam, India Seminars) and a copy was given to each of the participants at the 2002 Seminar. The book contains previously unpublished extracts from various letters Ramesh wrote to disciples as well as extracts from notes Ramesh made preparatory to the 1989 and 1990 Kovalam Seminars.
Hardbound, 83 pages, 71/2 x 10 1/2 w/ photographs $16
Click here http://www.advaita.org/apstoreforwarding.htm or go to the www.advaita.org website, click on Advaita Press Store and then Latest Releases and you will find this book as well as a new video about Ramana Maharshi, another video about Nisargadatta Maharaj as well as a new Ramana pictorial book and a book of wonderful poems inspired by Hafiz (it is the book Wayne has been reading from in recent Talks)
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MORE NEW VIDEOS ADDED TO THE MEMBERS AREA OF THE WEB SITE
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Fellowship Members may now view several new videos taken of Ramesh's Talks in Germany and in Bombay. The Bombay videos are a bit hard to hear due to all the noise coming in from the Bombay streets but they capture the feel of the Talks in Ramesh's home.
Also to be found in this area are new videos of Wayne's recent Talks in Hermosa Beach.
Visit www.advaita.org to see latest schedule, live and recorded video, chat, books/tapes and much more.
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BECOME A MEMBER
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If you have not yet joined the Advaita Fellowship but would like to become a member... click on the link
http://216.86.195.102/members/register.asp
or visit the advaita.org website and click on BECOME A MEMBER
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2003 MAUI RETREAT DATES SET
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The annual October retreat with Wayne in Maui, Hawaii will take place from October 11-18, 2003.
This year's retreat was again extrordinary. So much laughter and tears and deep deep connection.
There are only 25 places and the retreat this year was fully booked so if you are hoping to attend next year, now is the time to confirm your spot for 2003.
Pictures can be viewed at: http://www.advaita.org/graphics/maui2002/page.htm
Contact Donna in the Fellowship Office to make your reservation. Call 310-376-9636 or email: fellowship@advaita.org .
Pictures from previous years retreats can be viewed at:
http://www.advaita.org/graphics/maui2000/maui2000.htm and
http://www.advaita.org/graphics/maui2001/maui2001.htm
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PHOTOS FROM KOVALAM RETREAT
If you are interested in viewing photos from Ramesh's recent seminar in Kovalam, go to the advaita.org website and click on EVENT PHOTOS.
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the fear comes
the fear goes
despair appears
next
joy arrives
and then it leaves
up
and
down
in
and
out
the pendulum swings
this is Life
wayne