30th Edition of Shadow Dancing With Mind - A Great Year for Blogging

WELCOME TO THE 30^TH EDITION OF SHADOW DANCING WITH MIND

This is probably going to be the last Edition of Shadow Dancing with Mind of the year

2013. Its been a wonderful blogging journey… won the award for TOP INDIAN BLOGGER hit another milestone of 300K hits at my blog… got an offer to write a book about blogging to be distributed across India through Landmark Book stores… feels good but personally I have learned a lot… blogging made me a better person, I guess as it lead me to introspect every now and then about things that I was doing at the time and working towards the things still stuck in future. But yes its been a great journey Friends and thank you all for being with me sharing my joy, reading my thoughts and Haiku … hope my blogposts have helped you some how as it always does for me…

SO HERE IS ANOTHER EDITION FOR YOU TO READ AND LET ME KNOW IF YOU LIKE IT… CHEERS!!!

READER:'Tao Te Ching' by Lao Tzu

After many years, I started reading Tao Te Ching (the translation by R B Blakney) again and

realize again that the real great books always gives deeper insight, every time you read it. The book “Tao Te Ching” by Lao Tzu is the most translated book in the world after Bible and reading these books, actually can transport one to the ancient times and align with the thought processes that started thousands of years back and still survive the test of living mankind’s journey across time. To understand the early history of human lives and its meaning, the old books are far better than the archeological remains. Just like the Veda’s for Hindus, perhaps to know more about those ancient civilization, books like “Tao Te Ching” gives a better perspective and insight.

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UP,CLOSE & PERSONAL : WHY WEALTH MOVES AWAY...?

Why 85% of the 3rd generation of Successful Family Businesses, are not able to hold on to their lead in wealth creation and in some cases completely fade out? Why the Goddess of wealth, Lakshmi is not a permanent occupant of most of the Family Business establishments?

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NEWS: SPIRITUAL HAIKU CONTEST 2013 WINNERS - Sponsored by Paras Dharma Ashram

CONGRATULATIONSHAIKU POETS ...

...for winning All Expense Paid Spiritual Retreat in Rishikesh (Himalaya) in Spiritual Haiku Contest 2013  Click here to know more about it...

SpiritualHaiku Contest 2013 - Some thoughts from the Winners.

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STILL LIFE:

AnotherDay in Deva Bhoomi - Rishikesh

Recently one of my friends asked me, which temple I visit to meditate and practice sadhana and I said, "You don't need a temple, just sit down any where on the banks of Holy River Ganges, you will find peace". And I believe it so... as many of the Rishi, Saints and Sadhu's have been doing Tapasya in and around this place for thousands of years and the Ganges has been the source of their energy...

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ChennaiBloggers Club 2nd Anniversary....

It was a real pleasure to meet interesting people in my meeting with Chennai Bloggers Club members and tried to capture some of those moments... Here it is ... I hope you will enjoy it...

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THOUGHTSTHIS WEEK AND HAIKU

This section is about sharing thoughts and some of the Haiku that have had me thinking… hope you will like it…

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Hope you will enjoy this edition... look forward to your comments and visit to the next Edition... please click on the “Join this Site” button on the right hand side top corner to follow my posts on this blog... I will be grateful.

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Spiritual Haiku Contest 2013 - Some thoughts from the Winners.

Some of the winners of Spiritual Haiku Contest 2013 have to say this..

Jana Žufić

Artist - Crotia

Greetings from the Adriatic Sea!

Personally, I can't wait to meet everyone, especially on such an interesting occasion. Hope I'll see and learn a lot during my stay in Rishikesh. I have always wanted to visit India, but the foothills of the Himalayas and the sacred river Ganges must be down right awe-inspiring... so I guess I'll just let my breath be taken.

Best regards,
Jana

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Dear Sashi,

Thank you for the great news

I am circling Florida by car this week, with erratic access to Internet. I am sending you a picture from mission San Luis, I will try to send all my bios profiles etc... but I have only an iPad with me, so it might take a while.

Best, Anna

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Dear Shashi,

I am overwhelmed. Thank you so much for this honor. Dear Shashi,

I am overwhelmed. Thank you so much for this honor.  I am out of town at present

but I will try to send you a picture and profile early next week.

Thanks again,

Julie Warther

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Shashi     

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Om Namah Shivaya    

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Winner of Haiku Contest 2013

NEWS: SPIRITUAL HAIKU CONTEST 2013 WINNERS - Sponsored by Paras Dharma Ashram

CONGRATULATIONS HAIKU POETS ... 

...for winning All Expense Paid Spiritual Retreat in Rishikesh (Himalaya) in Spiritual Haiku Contest 2013  Click here to know more about it... - Sponsored by "Paras Dharma Ashram" - An organisation, based in Kushinagar, which believes in making people's life better through love, compassion and selfless service.

AND THE WINNER OF RETURN AIR TICKET ALONG WITH ALL EXPENSE PAID SPIRITUAL RETREAT IS...

Julie Warther (Writer – USA)

She wins Return Air Ticket from USA to Delhi (India) to participate in week long 'all expense paid spiritual retreat in Rishikesh' for the following Haiku Submission…

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at the mountain's peak

an inchworm reaches the top

of a blade of grass

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Julie Warther is a member of the Haiku Society of America and the 2012 winner of the Robert Frost International Haiku Award.  She recently completed a two week residency at The Studios of Key West in Florida and is a regular contributor to a number of both print and online haiku journals.  Julie lives with her husband and three children in Ohio (USA) where she enjoys the small-town life.

...AND THE FOLLOWING POETS (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) WIN ALL EXPENSE PAID WEEK LONG SPIRITUAL RETREAT IN RISHIKESH… 

(FOR OTHERS, DON'T DESPAIR, SPIRITUAL HAIKU CONTEST 2014, WILL BE ON SHORTLY. TO BE NOTIFIED FOR THE SAME, PLEASE SEND A MESSAGE AT THE ADDRESS WRITTEN BELOW...)

Nazarene Garmonsway

University Student  - New Zealand

in moonlit dust, forms

Suspended in forest shade

Like shadows punctured,

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Kate S.  Godsey

Psychotherapist, poet, photographer - USA

let me change like clouds

unfolding into faces

of the infinite

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Anna Lipniacka

Physics Professor - Switzerland/ Norway

The Sea

Salty water flows

sweeping my fingers like time

I was seabed once

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Claudia Schoenfeld

Event Manager – Germany

dot, by dot, by dot,

lanterns strewn across the stream,

i follow seaward

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Claudia Schoenfeld lives with her family in a small town close to the Black forest. She blogs at 'Jay Walking The Moon'  and is co founder of dVerse Poets pub, a bustling and alive online poetry community. She loves traveling, painting, exploring nature on her road bike and every once and a while (psshhh) she steals away to play the piano in the half-dark..

Eduard TARA

Mathematics teacher - ROMANIA

                               Still hearing the sound

of the ancient ocean’s waves –

Himalayan wind

Born on February 10, 1969, in Iasi, Romania. Mathematics teacher at a secondary school near Iasi. Member of Romanian Haiku Society since 1992. From 2002, he had won 130 prizes at international haiku contests and 12 prizes at international tanka contests. Awarded haiku poems in 26 countries, all the continents (excepting Antarctica…). The poems were written or translated by the author himself in 20 different languages.

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Sasa Vazic

Journalist, translator, editor, writer - Serbia

at the edge of spring . . .

the dark scent lingering in

a wilted rose bush

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Saša Važić is a freelance journalist, astrologer, translator, writer of prose and poetry, essays, book reviews. Author of over 1000 articles on various topics which appeared in newspapers and journals, member of the Association of Literary Translators of Serbia. Co-Owner, Co-Publisher and Co-Editor of Simply Haiku, member of the editorial boards of the Haiku Association of Serbia and Montenegro's magazine, Osvit, of Haiku Novine (Niš, Serbia), International Editor for moonset (Oregon, USA), and member of the World Haiku Club and the Haiku Oz (Australia), her haiku have been included in over ten national and international haiku anthologies and in a number of national and international haiku magazines. To date she has received 52 awards and commendations. Largely, through her translation efforts she has brought English language haiku poetry, articles and books to Balkan readers and vice versa. Važić is the editor of the bilingual Haiku Reality 

Jana Žufić

Artist - Crotia

withering wind’s wake –

unveiling stars beyond stars

beyond bare branches

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Born on December 27, 1978 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Jana Žufić is a multimedia artist and

transdisciplinary experimenter. Her fascination with “the poetics of orderly chaos”, as she calls it, is reflected in her works. She lives in Croatia, between Poreč – a small town on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula – and the capital Zagreb – home of the Zagreb School of Animation and the New Tendencies*, which both played an important role in her formation. Her main field of interest lies at the intersection of new media, (animated) cinema and contemporary art. She worships Mother Nature, thus enjoying outdoor activities such as swimming or hiking, but also engaging in indoor yoga practice on an almost daily basis. She started writing haiku in January 2012, at the turning point of a spiritual crisis.  [*Pictured in front of Vjenceslav Richter's Systemic Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia]

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CONGRATULATIONS EVERY ONE, YOU ALL WILL BE RECIEIVING AN EMAIL FROM PARAS DHARMA ASHRAM VIRTUAL CITIZEN CO-ORDINATOR WITHIN A WEEK OR TWO WITH MORE DETAILS AND INFORMATION.

FOR OTHERS, DON'T WORRY, SPIRITUAL HAIKU CONTEST 2014, WILL BE ON SHORTLY. '

TO BE NOTIFIED FOR THE SAME, PLEASE SEND A MESSAGE AT...

TWITTER - @VerseEveryDay
Google+ - +Shashi S 

NOTE: 

A) Number of poetry submissions were very less, so the organisers have had decided to increase the number of winners in Spiritual Haiku Contest.

B) To know tentative details of the Spiritual Retreat program, please click here...

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ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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Win an all expense paid Spiritual Retreat...

29th Edition of Shadow Dancing With Mind

I have started writing my this public blog in the year 2010 (I started writing my blog in 2004, with my  personal thoughts and poetry) and I am so happy that, people across the world liked what I write (almost 300K hits) and gave me an award as the Top Indian Blogger in the Topics of "Religion and Spirituality"... and this Edition in celebration of the same. I hope you will like, what I have had written in this edition. Most importantly  please, if you are a poet, submit your poetry on or before 30th September to win "All Expense Paid week Long Spiritual Retreat" in Himalayas and if you are talented enough, probably you will win "To and Fro Air Ticket" too, from your country to Delhi. So don't miss the chance to visit the spiritual capital of the world - Rishikesh in Himalaya...

NEWS:
COUNT DOWN BEGINS - To Win All Expense Paid Spiritual Retreat in Himalaya,Write Haiku or Poetry before 30th Sept 2013

Write a HAIKU OR POEM on "Spirituality" on or before 30th September 2013, and win a chance to be one of the 5 WRITERS who will be offered an All Expense Paid (including Air Fare) Week long stay in Winter Spiritual Retreat in Rishikesh, Himalaya Or in Kushinagar. The top two will be offered To and Fro tickets from their country to Delhi as well.

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Would You Like To Collaborate On A Book AboutBlogging?

The last one and half  month has been amazing for my social media journey. Won the prestigious award Indian Blogger Award 2013 for the things I am passionate about, "Religion and Spirituality" and then one of the Publishing House offered to Publish "A book on Blogging", which will be distributed across India by Landmark (The Book Store of Tata's). [The publishing house has scheduled this book to be published by March 2014 and I have to give the final manuscript at the end of Dec 2013]

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UP CLOSE & PERSONAL:
Sanjay Pinto, pleaseaddress the Nation at 8.03AM

In last one month, two of my very close friends became authors and one of them is Sanjay Pinto (The other is Raghu Raman) and as he loves the extempore style, the moment Sanjay saw me at the launch of his book, “Speakers Are Made, Not Born” promptly appointed me the host along with his wife Vidya to welcome the guests at the Don Bosco School auditorium. It was a beautiful evening spent along with many of my old friends listening to the dignitaries at the dais. The master of ceremony was a welcome change as school going kids, honed by Sanjay’s ‘Silver Tongue Academy Resource’ delivering perfect introductions and speeches.

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THE READER: 

The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga by C G Jung

WELL KUNDALINI IS NOT ABOUT SEX...

When ever some one talks about Kundalini, Tantric or Cakra’s, an image appears of wild and lurid psycho spiritual rituals and sexual forms that even most imaginative sex industry will find hard to replicate. But in our scriptures, this is not fiction but a science that was developed from the beginning. Starting from Laya yoga, transforming into a defined practice, that is aimed at attaining higher state of living, through inner search and meditation. Kundalini meditation, in my opinion, is what westerners call now as ‘Psycho-analysis’ with steps to really know ‘Who Am I”.

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MUSIC: 

A beautiful blend of traditional andcontemporary songs - Coke Studio @ MTV Season 3

Music has a great effect on us, it has the power to move us to the higher state of living from the point of just 'living'. Our ancient sages has been aware of this effect of music, sound vibrations and chanting etc. so ensured that we are in touch with music in our lives through various rituals, customs and samskara. Hence most of our ancient and vedic knowledge is bound in the various forms of music, mantra chanting or plain vibrations of sound.

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WANDERLUST:
The Path Within (Part 1)- Two days in Rishikesh Himalaya

Every year, I visit Rishikesh in Himalaya but this time I got a chance to visit devbhoomi (God’s own earth) in the Hindu month of Shravan (July – Aug). Shravan month is sacred in Hindu system for various festivals that are celebrated during this period like Janamashtami (Lord Krishna’s birthday), Raksha Bandhan, Naag Panchami, Basava Panchami etc. Shravani Mela is a major festival time at Deoghar in Jharkhand with thousands of saffron-clad pilgrims bringing holy water around 100 km on foot from the Ganges at Sultanganj.

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The Path Within (Part 2) - Two Days in Rishikesh

As I was in Delhi during the time of Kanwar Yatra, I thought of going to Rishikesh to bring Ganga Jal (Holy Ganges Water) for the rituals in home. So here is my pilgrimage to Rishikesh from Dehradun divided in Two Parts, (due to the length of the post was too big to be unleashed on un-suspecting readers). The story below is from the day two in Rishikesh...

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STILL LIFE:

Through The Lens of Kanvaria - Dehradun ToRishikesh

Lakhs of devotees every year, make an annual pilgrimage in the month of Shravan (July-August) to Haridwar,

Rishikesh, Badrinath, Kedarnath in Himalaya to fetch Holy river Ganges water and bath their local Deity Lord Shiva in villages,  towns or city temples across India. These pilgrims are known as Kanvarias.

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Catching some rain drops...

This monsoon season, I happen to travel to Pune and Mumbai on work and collected some rain drops on the

way... here it is....

Breeze mopping the slate clean

Clouds pregnant with raindrops

Sky still remains hung up and grey...

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I have reviewed books for many friends, great writers and some not so great but never a product. First time,"I am reviewing mint-o Ultramintz as a part of the Product Reviews Program at BlogAdda" so don't really know how to go about it but decided to share my actual experience with it.

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Om Namah Shivaya

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