An active mind never gives up.

A grateful mind is grateful for everything in life, even hardships.

A sincere mind uses 100% of its energy.

A humble mind is able to bring its energy into its lower abdomen and master its thoughts and emotions.

Let’s look at the right hand.  The right hand represents the 5 requirements to complete our soul.  They are:  honesty, diligence, responsibility, an unchanging mind, and good manners.  Put your right hand down with the palm of the hand facing up and the back of the hand down flat next to the paper and draw the outline of the fingers.  On the tip of the thumb write “Honesty,” on the tip of the index finger write “Diligence,” on the tip of the middle finger write “Responsibility,” on the tip of the ring finger write “An Unchanging Mind,”and finally on the tip of the little finger write “Good Manners.”

Honesty requires us to be truthful every moment, even if telling the truth might not be beneficial to us.

Diligence is accomplished through devotion and sincerity.

Responsibility means taking ownership of our actions, our thoughts and our emotions.  It is an excellent tool to control our egos.

An unchanging mind requires us to keep going no matter the obstacles or circumstances.

Good manners means remembering to say “Thank You,” “Please,” “I need your help,” “I am sorry,” and in general being courteous and respectful of other people.

This is how you can measure your own condition by using the fingers on your left and right hand. Let’s try it.

Looking at the thumb on your left hand, on a scale from 1 to 10 mark where you are with respect to a “Positive Mind.”   Keep going with each finger on each hand. When you are finished, redraw the length of each finger in accordance with where you marked it on the scale from 1 to 10.  In this way you will discover what your strengths are and where you need more work.

Please remember this simple test whenever you are struggling with your spiritual growth.  These ten tips are essential to develop a healthy growing soul.

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Answer:  There are many types of fruits and vegetables.  Some we can grow year round because of our greenhouses.  We grow the leafy salad greens year round.  We have already planted tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, cucumber, and hot pepper.  The organic herbs we grow are mint, sage, oregano, thyme, cilantro, and basil.   Cilantro and basil are the only herbs that don’t grow by themselves each year.  We have to plant them every year.  In May we will plant heirloom corn, peanuts, and fennel.  This is the second year we have grown peanuts.  If we have good success with the crop this year we will probably keep planting them.  The heirloom corn that we plant has not been genetically modified or treated.  It is less sweet and more chewy and sticky.  This year is the second year that we will be planting heirloom corn.

Question:  Are any of the fruits and vegetables from the organic garden served in the Mago Dining Hall?

Answer:  Yes.  All of the leafy salad greens come from the organic garden.  The tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, potatoes, corn are served in the dining hall when we have them available.  We are not a very big garden, so we can’t always supply the dining hall with fruits and vegetables from our organic garden.

If you stay in loneliness, however, it can affect your hormones and your emotional health.  When these times of loneliness come, please consider changing them into opportunities for solitude. When you turn them into opportunities for solitude, your mind naturally becomes quiet and still and you start to feel full inside and you can listen to your inner voice.  When you connect to your inner voice you are connecting with your “True Self.”  When we can connect with our True Self we can become centered, happy, creative, and peaceful, and attract to us those individuals that will nurture this within us.  In this way we are being true to ourselves and able to develop authentic relationships with others.

There are other kinds of relationships that can support us as well. During the month of May is the time to remember and express our gratitude to those who cared for us and protected and nurtured us when we needed them the most – I am referring to the relationship between a mother and her child.  Through that relationship we learned about trust, security, and love.  Let us take this time to especially remember the love that our Mother Earth has given us. Let’s show her how much we love her on this Mother’s Day.

Recipe for Vegetable Curry
2 potatoes peeled and cut into cubes
1 medium carrot peeled and cut into cubes
1 medium onion sliced
(You can also add broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, corn, apple to it.)
2/3 cup Korean curry powder (or any type of curry powder but the Korean curry powder is the best for this recipe)
2/3 cup water added to the curry powder
6 cups of water
2 tablespoons corn oil or canola oil

Cut 2 potatoes into two-inch cubes and cut the carrot a little smaller than the potato cubes. Slice the onion.

Warm the pot you are going to use to cook the curry. Pour the oil into the pot and then add the onion, salt, and pepper to taste and stir them together. Do the same thing with the potatoes and the carrot.

Add water to the pot enough to cover the vegetables. Bring to a boil. Boil the vegetables until the potatoes are 4/5 cooked.

Mix the curry and water together and pour the mixture into the pot slowly so the curry can be mixed well with the other ingredients. Be careful not to burn them. Once they are boiling, reduce the heat to a simmer. Simmer for 5 minutes. During this, please stir the vegetables so they don’t burn. Now you can add more vegetables or fruits that you like such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, corn or apple.

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What’s in your mind now? Your life that you are experiencing now is the result of the information in your mind. You perceive things, make a choice and take an action in response to the choice, consciously or unconsciously. And the cumulative results of the choices you have made and actions you have taken are what you are experiencing as your life. This is what it means when we say your life is the result or manifestation of the information in your consciousness. The information that you are storing now in your consciousness will contribute to shaping your future. This is why it is important and helpful to learn to manage the information in our consciousness and to use the functions of our mind. Mediation is an answer.

When you think your life is not exactly proceeding the way you wish, when it feels like there’s something missing in your life, when you feel lost and your life feels disoriented, that is the time you need to take a pause and see what’s really happening in your life, inside and outside. This is what meditation is for.

We have a big concern. The condition of the world and our planet is really a huge concern, and we don’t know the answer yet. But we will find the answer in recovering true human nature, the caring and loving nature of the human heart. We don’t need to create it because it is already there. We have only to go into our mind and find it, bring it up and let it shine through what we say, what we do, through our presence. This is why we see hope in meditation. That is the power of meditation.

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This is a great program for those who want tools to develop themselves through Tao and identify as a healer for others.

Ultimate healing comes when you get connected to your true nature, Tao. The journey to find Tao within is one of the most meaningful, rewarding, and joyful experiences in your life.

In order to get connected to Tao within, you need to pass through multiple layers of resistance and obstacles such as habits, negative thoughts (doubt), and negative emotions (fear). In many cases, these forms of resistance and obstacles are associated with unaccepted painful emotional experiences. These unaccepted experiences may be the cause of health problems or symptoms in the body. By accepting these experiences, they become integrated into your Whole Self, relieving the symptoms or problems they helped to cause. This integration brings you power, wisdom, peace and healing.

Through this program, you will learn to communicate with your body, to listen to the messages from your body and become deeply connected with your Whole Self. Healing is a natural outcome of this recovery of the inner connection and self-awareness.
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