The world we live in today is weighed down by calamities (fire, wind, and water), mental disruptions, chaos politics, and rampant violence – particularly violence against women and children. These manifestations of ignorance (avidya) are poisons that have to be addressed at the subtle, root level of consciousness. Such needed ‘elixir’ can only be shaped spiritually through the combined cultivation of daily mantric practise, conscious action, energetic discernment, and heartfelt devotion....

(An Online Offering • 12/8 • by Sherwin) This total solar eclipse happening in Aug is gonna be a complicated one – occurring in the nakshatra of Ashlesha, the serpent star, which entwines and embraces too tightly. It represents the poisons yet-to-be-transformed within the karmic field. Sitting between the signs of Karka Simha (Cancer and Leo), this star also marks a purifying transition between Water and Fire elements, meaning that real healing can only truly happen when the depth of past...

Something shifted after our meditation at the Dakini’s Cave. A seed, long dormant, began to sprout. Perhaps that seed was planted 7 years ago when I was first in Ladakh? Or 15 years ago even, during my first visit to Tibet? Or: maybe from a previous lifetime. Of late though, I have been bogged down by a quiet despair. A part of me struggled to reconcile the violence unfolding in the world right now, on so many levels. The extreme ignorance to the extent of causing harm to the land, both...