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Katrine, I hope the message “Stay home” is purely figurative and doesn’t mean you aren’t going to do your World Tour one of these days – if it does, a lot of AYP Yogis here are going to be disappointed
[/quote]David, I’m sure Stay Home means stay in Europe - sorry tough 
Katrine - down on knees bowing and kissing ground 
, thanks for your great reply, and also the other replies which I still go back and re-read.
Your perspective on “understanding” really struck home, this is something I’ve been getting to grips with myself and in fact is the great asset of this forum. It seems it is not enough to simply have the experience without the mechanisms of understanding to stay on the wave of the experience. Like a surfer learning the art, it is a combination of feel, experience and understanding that keep her on the wave and then it all becomes an exilarating joy, at least that’s what it looks like, I’m constantly loosing the wave and clambering onto the next one.
Ok if your not going to write a book then obviously you will have time to come to Ireland and give a retreat here, maybe for a weekend. I’m sure I could organise a few bodies to attend. In fact David might even return to his homeland to avail of the opportunity. 
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…laughing…
Sparkle:
Don’t forget it’s yourself you are bowing to - it is your depth you are kissing.
Louis. You can’t lose what you are. Would there be waves apart from the ocean? Why settle for being a wave, when you can have your cake and eat it too? You are oceanic. Waves and all. Period.
Has it crossed your mind that you don’t accept that waves die down? This is hard to accept only as long as you limit yourself to being a wave only. You don’t need to clamber onto the next wave. You already are it. Without you, no wave!
Things are not what they seem. Not only is it not enough to have the experience without the mechanism of understanding - it is impossible! It never was possible! You just thought it was. 
The “mechanism of understanding” is the ecperience, the experiencer and the experienced. No division. The mechansim of understanding is awareness. It is alive. And the source of all. It is not possible to “not stay on the wave”. You are always it! However - it is possible to identify with stories that tell you otherwise. But those stories are not real. Good story - granted - but not real.
…still laughing…
I’d love to come to Ireland, Louis. Some money will “rain” on me one of these days, and i can afford to go In the meantime i feed the children, walk the dog, cook dinner and all the rest of it
PS. Didn’t know you were a good old Irish lad, David
Did you know my favorite beer used to be Guiness ?
Hi Katrine
Do you ever worry about the certain death of family members and yourself?
Hi Maximus
Hmm…
Yes and no.
I definitely feel fear. To me - all fear is basically a fear of death. Death of identity (through “loss”); death of body; death of form. I know that I don’t know what “death” is.
But - I never worry about the death of family members or myself. After the cancer 10 years ago; the worrying stopped. When confronted with an acute situation (i.e. when my daughter was critically ill last year) fear enters…but then a great calm settles in me. As if a finger pointing to a stirred sea had the capacity to still the ocean. The calmness is that sudden and equally profound. This has been so for many years. So - fear is there - fear comes and goes - but I let it. I don’t fight it. I accept it is there. It rises and falls in me. And when it is gone, I don’t transfer it into the future. Or rather - I don’t fill the Now with fear. The calmness won’t let me. Fear is past; the source of fear is past. Past is usually thought. I never talk about fear inside - it is simply not at all interesting.
Worrying (which is inner dialogue and tension) is a complete waste of Now.
I also know that “staying home” is deathless. I can’t tell you why I know this. Only that what is is what is.
I couldn’t agree more. This is an important statement and something that I try to live by. I know you are aware of this Katrine but it’s worth saying that not only is worry a complete waste of now, but most thoughts or pre-occupations with things (other than what you are doing at the moment) are a complete waste of now. They take you away from what is in front of you, what you are currently doing and detract from your overall enjoyment of life.
A good example for me would be that I used to eat and read the paper, eat and surf the net, eat and think about what happened, what might happen etc. For the last year or so, I make the effort to just eat and enjoy every moment of it. Not only is it not boring, everything tastes so much better and the experience is so much more fulfilling, richer and more real. The other day I ordered some sushi and ate while watching TV. The next thing I know, not only am I finished eating, I completely missed it and could hardly remember any of the enjoyable details (as I love sushi). So it was a good reminder to not waste my opportunity to really be there and fully live the experience of “eating” which is reward in itself.
I guess the above is fairly accurate unless you are trying to live the experience of multi-tasking! 