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Tomorrow, Saturday 21st June , Weekly Silent Meditation

Austin Tang — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 14:57:50 +0000

Join us in the Manifest Nirvana Meditation Hall

After a period of deep stillness and reflection following the passing of our beloved teacher, Andrew Cohen, we are now slowly emerging from a three-month pause. This time of silence has been both a mourning and a deep listening—a turning inward to honor the profound impact of Andrew’s life and teaching. Connected to the ongoing movement of evolutionary becoming, we are gently resuming our rhythm.

The weekly silent meditation at Manifest Nirvana will now continue, offering a space to commune in the vastness of the Ground of Being, to rest in the still center of all that is, and to affirm together that the flame of awakened consciousness he so passionately ignited lives on—in us, and through us.

The local start times are:

8am PDT – 9am MDT – 11am EDT – 4pm UK – 5pm CEST – 8:30pm IST

Passcode: 524222

We are looking forward to meeting you in the Meditation Hall of Manifest – Nirvana.

warm regards
Manifest Nirvana Team

Access the Meditation Here (15 minutes before the start time) Code: 524222

Meditation in Manifest Nirvana

My first Nirvana meditation was amazing. Never felt deep presence and emptiness like this before. I thank you and Andrew with all my heart to have opened my eyes to such possibilities.

– SN

Thank you… I was surprised to go into the deep theta state without the support of the group or technical supports I usually have for this.

– BN

If I had any doubts about the power of meditating online, they were completely dispelled by today’s session. No time, no distance, only a deep field of silence, presence and pure being.

– MP

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I Don’t Want to Be a Burden in My Old Age

Austin Tang — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:57:56 +0000

I am not afraid of growing old. Let the wrinkles come—I will wear them like medals, proof that I have laughed, cried, and lived deeply. Let my skin loosen and fold like pages in a well-loved book. Let my hair silver and shine, a crown earned by years of stories.

I do not fear the quiet. Solitude is no stranger; I have learned to make peace with my own company. I have sat in stillness and found strength there. I know how to rest in the silence without being swallowed by it.

But what unsettles me is something else—fate. That unpredictable force that sometimes tucks you in at night like a loving hand and other times leaves you standing in the rain, forgotten and cold.

I do not want to become a burden—a sigh of exhaustion behind closed doors. I do not want my presence to feel heavy in the room or my name to be whispered in tones of weariness. I do not want my dependence to become someone else’s silent sacrifice.

I want to be like the wind—restless, moving, always dancing forward. I want my old age to be a poem of resilience, a morning brewed with memories, a sunset painted with hope. I want to keep learning, keep loving, keep discovering—never stagnant, never finished.

I do not fear aging. I fear being boxed in by a life I didn’t choose—a life that shrinks instead of expands.

So I will keep walking forward, not clinging to what was, but embracing what still can be.

And if the day comes when my steps falter and I lean on others more than I would like, I will offer my gratitude freely, never forgetting that love is not a burden—it’s a gift.

To those who carry others with patience and tenderness—you are the quiet heroes of this world. Thank you

Holmes

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Thought for the Day…01/20/23

Austin Tang — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:57:01 +0000

One of the best

feelings in the

world is knowing

that your presence

and absence both

mean something

to someone.

Good Morning

#bestfeeling #presence #absence #meansomething #someone

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Feeling God’s Presence During Covid-19; My Concerning Mammogram; Human Dignity & Political Power

Austin Tang — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:53:22 +0000

October 20 – 23, 2020 / 2 Cheshvan 5781

Feeling God’s Presence During Covid-19

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

My “Concerning” Mammogr a m

by Eve Levy

Human Dignity and Political Power

by Daniel David Slate

[VIDEO] Staying Sane in an Insane World

by Rabbi Tzvi Sytner

A Little Kindness Goes a Long Way
by Emuna Braverman

Holocaust Survivor’s Miraculous Reunion with His Brother
by Rabbi Levi Welton

Gal Gadot’s Favorite Jewish Prayer

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

JEWLARIOUS

Things People Say at a Shiva

by David Kilimnick

[VIDEO] Jtube: Monty Python: The Argument

by BBC

10 Headlines Using Anti-Israel Double Standards
by Jewlarious.com Staff

Weekly Torah Portion Click Here…

Today’s Quote – Cheshvan 2

Today’s Photo – Cheshvan 2

Noam Chen’s photo of the Great Synagogue of Tel Aviv. Built in 1926,

it has recently been restored after decades of being inactive, and is now open to the public.

NYTimes: Mitch Landrieu Reminds Us That Eloquence Still Exists

admin — Fri, 26 May 2017 14:45:51 +0000

So beautiful – thank you for sending Tina! I particularly appreciated this bit:

“We subsist now on a meager vocabulary of winners and “losers,” of “sad!” naysayers and “nut job” adversaries. We’re asked to see an absence of eloquence as the presence of authenticity. But that’s bunk. Words, like monuments, matter.”

Love,
Liz

With Memorial Day around the corner a friend from Juilliard and world class musician sent email with the enclosed article. It brought tears to my eyes.

Sincerest thank you for all that you do to make the world a better place.

B. Tina Ebey

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/opinion/mitch-landrieu-new-orleans-mayor-speech.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

The mayor of New Orleans just gave a speech on race and history that you need to hear.

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IDGY DEAN Live at the National Arts Club

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:34:31 +0000

A self-described feminist loop artist, mystic and yogini, Idgy Dean infuses her one-woman psychedelic rock with a calming Zen presence that belies the emotional intensity of her DIY beats. Although she released her debut LP Ominous Harminus in 2015, the Brooklynite otherwise known as Lindsay Sanwald has been making music since she was a teenager, inspired to play drums, guitar and bass and write her own songs by the dual presence of Kate Bush and Nine Inch Nails. If those influences sound divergent at first glance, think again – Dean’s music combines a visceral mysticism with a performative grandeur that reflects the dark and the life-giving in equal measure, doling out tribal drum beats and clangorous guitar lines underneath airy vocals during her live shows, which are symphonies of emotion wrought from loop pedals. A magnetic performer, Dean’s ethereal experimental pop has naturally found its way into theater, when she was responsible for the live score of The ETLE Universe, a “queer feminist cyborg time-travel epic thing.”
With recent TV appearances, movie synch and brand licensing deals. featured selections to both the Red Bull Music Academy and Adrien Grenier’s Wreckroom Records, Idgy Dean is taking off. This is a rare opportunity to catch her in a relatively small venue at the National Arts Club. You will be in for a real show. Idgy Dean is a fully formed multimedia artist, and she will be projecting her work, as well as performing live. Check her out on Youtube to get a preview.
Come early to enjoy the art, drinks, and good company at the National Arts Club!
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