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Being on the water in a kayak is a special way to end the day. While swimming i had been too low in the water. In a boat too high. But a kayak is for me the Goldilocks equivalent of just right. This provides for me the ability to be in and experience the true beauty and purpose the Ocean holds. Watching the various areas of movement as the waves make their separate pilgrimage. Floating at times and seeing my progress contrary to the tide or wind. Feeling the intent of the powers at work is an amazing event. What an incredible place to meditate while at rest or in movement. To focus on the horizon or waves while paddling. To let go of everything else. Not to shut out, but to just let go. To get into a rhythm where the paddle is light in my hands and barely kisses the water. In doing so to achieve an effortless movement not to be found in digging deep and hard as in a hurried impatient stroke. To hear only my breathing and the fragile crystal bite of the paddle. It comes very close to reaching the same peaceful and content feeling i experience in class at The Boston School of Boabom. The feeling, experience and movements are to me quite similar. A truly natural, nurturing and cleansing experience.

In this my time spent learning this ancient and healing Art becomes a very real part of my life. As such i become a very real part of my world. i am able to slow down, experience and enjoy the company of my environment. The slow powerful rise of an Ocean swell as it picks me ever so gently up and surges me forward before it continues on its way. Sharing its power, strength and maybe an ever so faint laughter of glee. The wind urging the waves onward to greet me with a wet hug of welcome. The sunlight dancing white, silver and gold on the water as it shares its warm and loving light. Showering and reenergizing me as i travel its shimmering path. Both paddling and drifting at rest prove an enriching visit. The stress and frustration of the day drifts away with the tide and is released. i feel a part of the wonderful and moving experience that is Nature. i return to the beach, better for the small investment in time i have spent on the water. Much like the investment in time spent in a Boabom class.  It too pays a dividend in the peaceful, relaxed yet reenergized feeling it helps me to create in myself. So get outside be a part of our environment. Do not use it, be it. Feel, see, listen and breathe the incredible experience we are a part of. Or better still attend one of the free intro classes offered each week at The Boston School of Boabom! It is much cheaper than a kayak, it’s FREE! And in my experience it can get you to the same place. Plus it is something you can do year round!   Either way, it’s a start my friends it’s a start. Sojammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Dark Horse (Boabom North)

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“…Slowly, what he respected before he now despises, and in this change he uses words as an implacable weapon. Human shall now mean not-animal, the female shall become a servant, belonging to man. Man shall be the entire species, of mother and father, only father shall rule, while the daughter shall not share in the spoils of the son, this son of man, the untouchable lord. Everyone will forget they are daughters and sons of the Female. This has been the first and only conflict;, also and it is yours, too which you shall must truly overcome.” (‘The Legend of the Mmulmmat’ – Dialogue between Saargan and Haal, the Black Amlom)

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You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again.
So why bother in the first place?
Just this: What is above knows what is below,
But, what is below does not know what is above.
One climbs, one sees.
One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen.
There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up.
When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

Rene Daumal (1908 – 1944, France)

(a contribution by Tim)

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The first speaker hides the mountain of his own faults;

his opponent searches for the other’s faults with a needle.

Having seen them take turns defeating each other,

I am uncomfortable about positing the validity of convention”.

Gedun Chopel, 1903-1951, Tibet)

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It is time for my second Boabom Samae, and for a little reflection. I find myself wanting to express something … ephemeral. The feeling is one of transition. It is said that we find it difficult to notice real changes in our personalities because we are biased to perceive continuity. Yet I can almost hear the low rumblings of a shift to another phase of thinking, being, and becoming. And Boabom is one of the catalysts, as well as a realm within which the change can manifest itself. I once lived in a heady cloud of thought, ignoring action, but now, little by little, Boabom brings my ideas in line with my body — now body and mind are becoming more rooted yet more free, mysteriously joined through the art.
A quote from this stage left a great impression on me: “The body follows the head, and the head follows the eyes.” Perhaps all our problems stem from wayward heads and wandering eyes. In Boabom, as in life, we often need to fix our eyes on a point, and thereby discover a dynamic balance.
As I move forward in a swirl of changes and challenges, I hope I can always find a center of stillness from which to direct my best energies.

Yohan (Boabom North)

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The Boabom Council wishes everyone a great positive energy, a happy solstice, new season, and new year!

With the Sosltice, Summer in the North and Winter in the South, the Boabom Arts celebrate the ending of one year and the beginning of a new one, a new cycle, with energies renewed and eyes fixed forward, anticipating new steps on an evolving path and in the dance that all join in, sharing the rhythm of all life on Earth.

We can all take time now to meditate on the cycle that has passed, to enjoy and celebrate the fruits of our labors. Just as all of us have grown, expanding and evolving over the past year, so too have the Boabom schools grown, expanded, and evolved. We would like to recognize several of their achievements here.

1. Development and Growth of the Boabom Schools: All of the Boabom Schools have continued to grow and expand over the past year, able to offer more teachings and receive more students, and able to bring the Boabom Arts to more people!

2. Books about the Boabom Arts: This year has been very productive in regard to books about the Art. Three books by Asanaro have begun or continued their lives: Bamso: the Art of Dreams was officially published  in English, Mystic Meditations was published in Spanish and English, and the translation of the Legend of the Mmulmmat into English is nearly complete, and will be published soon.

3. Internet Media: This year has seen the publication of the new website boabomsur.com, and the schools have begun to work with social media such as Twitter and Facebook. As well, the Boabom Journal and el Diario Boabom have flourished, receiving submissions from many students around the world. The official page of the Boabom Council, boabom.org, has been redesigned and perfected, and has been translated into many languages; we can highlight its complete translation into Tibetan as a great accomplishment of this year.

4. Aid and Community Assistance: This year the Schools, each in its own way, have worked to go beyond the teaching, to put the idea of sharing energies into practice, working with groups and organizations that need assistance. For example, the Northern School has sponsored the Tibetan Altruism Association, based in Lhasa, and has also helped other organizations, including Heifer International, the Eastern Service Workers Association, Alliance Guinea, and others. The Southern School has been working ceaselessly on ecological concerns, experimenting with alternative construction and reforestation, and at the same time, helping other institutions, such as Coanil (corporation for helping handicapped children in Chile). They have also given aid to various organizations working in recovery efforts in response to the 2010 Chile earthquake.

This past year has been a great journey, and this coming cycle will be marked by even greater advances, a further step towards true knowledge of ourselves, as we focus our thoughts so that our future efforts will be intense, auspicious, and with positive results, in the life of each one and in that of the Schools.

May the positive energies to come illuminate your future path! May the stellar winds always blow in your favor!

Sojamm! Sojamm! Sojamm!

Ammait-Sojamm!!!!! to all the Am’Ato!!!!

Ammait-Sojamm!!!!! to the Teachings!!!!

Ammait-Sojamm!!!!! to the apprentices and all the Mmulargan!!!!

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