A Health UpDate Message from Akasa Levi ~ please post
.♦. Hey My Friends ~ As many of you know, I have a serious health problem - I'm currently involved in a tedious, enduringly slow, extended medical leave. Yet, I’m using this hiatus as a rich opportunity to do a sort of home-based retreat -- I’ve semi-retired myself from meditation group teaching due to Parkinson's Disease. This is what Michael J. Fox currently has and Robin Williams had - this 'tremor' movement disorder disease that has dopamine frontal brain-issues with degenerative effects on the whole neurological system --Sad huh-- From Muhammad Ali to Salvador Dali, to Linda Ronstadt - many have succumbed to PD - even Adolf Hitler had it ! --But, just for him, my Jewish grandmother would've been glad. The real good news is I'm gradually re-motivating my Sadhu Spirit and re-balancing my Chi-energy and trying to restorie my awful wry humor, all of which PD callously hijacks and drains me of.
Bless you - some of you dear ones just kinda 'get' me and know me-- others somewhat well and others only slightly -- so let's do a catch-up social visit some afternoon time, some tea at my place is quite welcome - please feel that you can come too. Let's set it up.
Possibly this Spring 2017, I may be open to a weekly sit - a simple, small mindfulness meditation group. I want to share more of those bizarre practice stories a la India, and what it was for me to be with those Masters daily -'Live'- adventures on my Kandy to Kathmandu runs --before my ego's memory content looses them, poof, forever... A'nicca !
What's presently ongoing ? I'm seeing a few highly motivated individuals for various Buddhist-based 1-on-1 inner-work: counseling, therapy, personal mentoring - or consulting on a project you'd still like to get my ‘take’ on. I still have some time before my rickshaw arrives. Please be welcome to connect with me by phone or email. ________________________________________Bless you - some of you dear ones just kinda 'get' me and know me-- others somewhat well and others only slightly -- so let's do a catch-up social visit some afternoon time, some tea at my place is quite welcome - please feel that you can come too. Let's set it up.
Possibly this Spring 2017, I may be open to a weekly sit - a simple, small mindfulness meditation group. I want to share more of those bizarre practice stories a la India, and what it was for me to be with those Masters daily -'Live'- adventures on my Kandy to Kathmandu runs --before my ego's memory content looses them, poof, forever... A'nicca !
♦ The Laughing Buddha Sangha in Santa Monica encourages a Maverick Spirited Inner-Quest through a "Mindfulness-Awakening" style of meditation practice that nourishes a rebellious, iconoclast intelligence and a Big Good-Hearted Mind --where eventually the illusionary ‘Me' itself discovers and recognizes my own 'Buddha-Nature' here/now --mindFULLY present-- with a Fullness of Mind and a Fullness of Heart --my Lama Yeshe called it “Big Love” At our Truest Core, this contemporary 'Journey' phenomena we're all on - is really all about Awakening the Compassionate Healing Awareness of a Wise Empathy Naturally Deep Within Us All....
It’s There, Fer Shur…
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It’s There, Fer Shur…
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Here's Some Persons
Living with Parkinson’s
Living with Parkinson’s
or deceased due to
Parkinson’s Disease.
Parkinson’s Disease.
André Courrèges (1923–2016) French fashion designer
Bhumibol Adulyadej (b. 1927) current King of Thailand
Billy Graham (b. 1918), American evangelist
Bob Hoskins (1942–2014), English actor
Casey Kasem (1932–2014), American Radio disc jockey
Deborah Kerr (1921–2007), British actress
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005), American politician
George H.W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
George Roy Hill (1921–2002), Oscar-winning film director
Janet Reno (b. 1938), Attorney General (1993–2001
Johnny Cash (1932–2003), American singer-songwriter
Linda Ronstadt (b. 1946), Grammy award -winning singer
M. Scott Peck (1936–2005), Self-help psychiatrist / author
Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), "Life" photographer
Michael J. Fox (b. 1961), Canadian/American actor
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016), The Greatest
Pope John Paul II (1920–2005), Roman Catholic Pope
Robin Williams (1951–2014), American actor / comedian
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), Spanish artist / painter
Sir Michael Redgrave (1908–1985), British actor[
Steve Alten (b. 19--), US author/jazz/tonight show host
Vincent Price (1911–1993), American horror film actor
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Dick Clark, Arthur Koestler, Christopher Guest, Mao Zedong, Eugene O'Neill, Pierre Trudeau,
May the Many, Many Generations of Buddha-Blessings of Warm Wisdom-Kindness Radiate from Within You All ~A~
1-310-459-2268 --- AkasaLeviZZ@msn.com
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