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April 2005

His Holiness

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Welcome Home

Shakti Kutir, Bangalore

WELCOME HOME, APRIL 2005

HONOLULU ART OF LIVING NEWS

1. Wisdom: The Art of Living Is Very Simple

2. Fresh Breath — A Sudarshan Kriya Refresher Course

3. Honolulu Satsang Schedule

4. Art of Living Course Part 1 in Honolulu in May

5. Ashtavakra Intensive Course First Two Weeks of June

6. Join Guruji for an Advanced Course in Chicago in May

7. The Daily Sutra and eSatsang Digest

8. Knowledge: 1997, Tokyo, Japan, Tommie Schmitz

9. Art of Living Links to bookmark

1. Wisdom: The Art of Living Is Very Simple

The art of living is to gain this ability in life. It's very simple.

Just a skill:

the ability to free your mind of the past, to free your mind of the

future

fears, and to be able to play with every situation that is in front

of you.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Bhakti Sutras #15

2. Fresh Breath — A Refresher Course April 30th

9:00 am —1:00pm, Saturday, April 30, 2005; Tuition: $25

Does your routine seem a bit stale these days? Has it been a while

since you could attend Satsang? Has your schedule crowded Home

Kriya to the sidelines some days? Fresh Breath is an opportunity to

let

all of that go and start fresh! On Saturday, April 30th Honolulu

Satsang

will host Fresh Breath—A Sudarshan Kriya Refresher Course. Please

join us to share a review of the practices, some Knowledge, yoga

stretches, and meditation, before Long Kriya and a festive closing

meal.

This Refresher Day is for Graduates of the Art of Living Course, Part

1

only. The location in Honolulu is awaiting final confirmation. The

hours

will be 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. The Tuition will be $25 in cash or by

check

made payable to cash. Space will be limited. Please reserve your space

by return email to honoluluartofliving . An application will

be

emailed to you to complete and submit with your payment.

Shoulds —

Your concept in

the mind that

things should be

a certain way

causes pain in

the mind. The

cause of distress

is set concepts in

the mind.

Daily Sutra

from Sri Sri

Ravi Shankar

We care for the

World and we

care for you.

Welcome Home HONOLULU ART OF LIVING NEWS April 2005

©2005 Art of Living

Foundation Honolulu

3. Honolulu Weekly Satsang Schedule — Twice a Week

Honolulu Satsang meets at the Energy House on the University of

Hawaii at Manoa Campus. ( http://www.hawaii.edu/campusmap/ )

Sunday morning: 9:00 to11:00 am and Wednesday evening 6:30 to 8:30

pm. Due to space scheduling conflicts, only two Wednesday Satsangs

will be held this month: April 6th and April 27th.

4. Art of Living Course Part 1 in Honolulu in May

A fine finale to the school year, and a great start to Summer, is the

Art of

Living Course Part 1 to be held in Honolulu from Friday, May 13

through

Wednesday, May 18, 2005. Repeaters are encouraged to join us, too!

This workshop teaches skills to release stress, to quiet the mind,

and to become more centered and balanced. It explores the healing

secrets of the breath, and teaches numerous breath techniques

including the powerful and revitalizing Sudarshan Kriya.

The effects of the workshop are profound.

The benefits last a lifetime.

Part 1 Course in Honolulu: May 13 thru 18, 2005

05/13, Friday 6:30-9:30 pm

05/14, Saturday 9:00 am-1 pm

05/15, Sunday 9:00 am-1 pm

05/16, Monday 6:30-9:30 pm

05/17, Tuesday 6:30-9:30 pm

05/18, Wednesday 6:30-9:30 pm

$250 Tuition (less $50 non-refundable advance registration fee)

Repeaters pay $50 Tuition.

Please contact Pauline Sheldon directly to register for the Course

email: psheldon or local telephone: 371-6071

..

5. Ashtavakra Intensive

Plan ahead to attend a first for Honolulu — an Ashtavakra Intensive

Course will be offered weekdays only for 10 days in the first two

weeks

of June, 2005. We need at least 6 people to sign-up and complete the

Course in June to be able to join the ongoing `once-a-week' Ashtavakra

group when it starts again in the Fall. This is a great opportunity!

Reserve your place by reply email to honoluluartofliving

Anger is

meaningless,

because it is

always about

something that

has already

passed.

-- Sri Sri Ravi

Shankar

We care for the

World and we

care for you.

Welcome Home HONOLULU ART OF LIVING NEWS April 2005

©2005 Art of Living

Foundation Honolulu

6. Join Guruji—an Advanced Course in Chicago in May

Five days and nights with The Master over his Birthday!

Could you ask for anything better than that? Celebrate silence with

The Guru.

Do an amazing Part II course under his guidance.

This is your only chance to spend so much time with him this year in

North

America. This year Guru Dev will not be in America for Guru Purnima.

Make the best of this opportunity!

Start Thursday, May 12, 2005

Registration from: 4pm to 6:30 pm at the resort

End date: Monday May 16, 2005 after evening Satsang about 9:00

You are welcome to stay on Monday night and spend more time with Sri

Sri!

Airport: O'Hare International Airport, Chicago IL

Location: Indian Lakes resort

$500 Cost Includes: Meals, Course Fee, Birthday Celebration, Public

Talk.

Accommodations Charged Separately.

Pre-registration is Required as there are only 510 spaces.

Advanced Course additional information or to reserve a place contact:

In Central Time Zone — now 5 hours ahead of Hawaii:

Priyanka - priyanka.malhotra

<priyanka.malhotra 734-678-1760

Deepika - deepikadesai

<deepikadesai 773-814-2653

You may request the complete announcement of the Chicago events

by return email to honoluluartofliving We will forward it to

you directly.

7. The Daily Sutra and eSatsang Digest

Two free email lists are available from eSatsang.net for Graduates of

the Art of Living Course Part 1. There is a daily email of a quotation

from Sri Sri and a daily digest of world-wide Art of Living

activities and

events. You can receive either one or both of these to start your day!

Have you signed up? It's easy if you follow this link:

Daily Sutra and eSatsang Digest sign-up site: http://www.esatsang.net

Attaining the highest, one never feels, "Oh,

I have attained, let me sit back." No, the very

nature of the highest joy is to share, is to

bring it to everyone. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Don't take it

Seriously

Take life not

serious. If you

take life very

serious, then

you are bound

to be disturbed.

The only way you

can maintain

your equanimity

is to take it as a

play, as a game,

and not take

anything too

serious.

-- Sri Sri Ravi

Shankar

We care for the

World and we

care for you.

Welcome Home HONOLULU ART OF LIVING NEWS April 2005

©2005 Art of Living

Foundation Honolulu

8. Knowledge: 1997, Tokyo, Japan, Tommie Schmitz

Here is a sample of the Knowledge notes that people sent in

February 1997 after Sri Sri twice requested them. He said that people

read the Knowledge and then forget it, so he asked people to write

their

own Knowledge. Do you remember the Knowledge? Or do you need to

write your own Knowledge notes?

HOPELESS:

Are you feeling hopeless? Destroyed and wiped out by life? By

something you did or you can't stop doing? By something done to you?

What's the use? Utter despair. You cannot go on living and you cannot

die. You are really a mess. Are you feeling this way?

An alcoholic, a drug addict, a criminal in prison (rightly or wrongly

accused), in a wheelchair or hospital bed, in the gutter. Or sitting

at a

desk in a high-rise office building, in pain – physical, emotional,

or both.

You've tried so hard to make things better. And now it's no use.

This is hopeless.

It's a beautiful place. No, I am not making fun. Once your mind

has shut down, even for a little while, there are no more excuses, no

more rationalizations, no more fantasies, no more arguments, no more

complaints, no more running, no more trying to understand or to be

understood -- just the pain… you… and the tears. Hopeless.

And now your mind is quiet. Now you can feel some peace. Now

you can look at that pain and accept it totally, without judgment.

You can

surrender.

Then you can walk right inside that pain and find a huge surprise:

You can feel the love inside. You find that at the very center of what

you've been trying to lose is what you've been looking for. And even

with the pain, help is already there. Hopeless is a wonderful place.

-- Tommie Schmitz

9. Informative Links to Bookmark

www.artofliving.org Art of Living Foundation

http://bookstore.artofliving.org Art of Living online Bookstore

www.5h.org The 5H Organization

www.iahv.org The International Association for Human Values

www.esatsang.net Daily Sutra & eSatsangDigest sign-up site

The Art of Living Foundation is a nonprofit educational organization

Please direct your questions and comments to:

honoluluartofliving

Jai Guru Dev

Being Natural -

When you are

natural, when

you don't

pretend, then

you are very

close to the

Divine.

-- Sri Sri Ravi

Shankar