ᴋᴅ ᴟᴅ ᴅᴅᴅᴅᴅ, ᴇᴀᴅᴅᴅ, ᴇᴅᴅ ᴅᴅᴅᴅ, ᴇʸ ᴅᴅᴅ ᴅᴅ ᴅᴅᴅᴅ, ᴀᴅᴅᴅ, ᴅᴅᴅᴅ ᴅᴅᴅ, ᴅᴅᴅᴅᴅ, ᴅᴅᴅᴅ, ᴄᴅᴅᴅ, ᴅᴅᴅᴅ, ᴅʸ ᴅᴅᴅᴅ, ᴅᴅᴅᴅ, ᴅ
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I always look at the ocean as a temple, you know, as a place that I go to to worship nature.
When it's cold and windy, it's hard to feel you're in a temple.
New York can get cold. The good swells are usually shooting far between there and not just like, you know, washing machine survival kind of things.
It's classic New York, you know, you think of surfing in the warm climates maybe somewhere in California or in Hawaii or some exotic place in the Pacific.
But heck, we live in New York and we're from Queens and why not surf?
You know, it's definitely a challenge to be a seeker in the middle of New York City.
But, you know, it's a challenge to be a seeker anywhere really. I mean, you know, the real challenge comes from within.
The environment is maybe not as physically beautiful.
It's dirty, it can be there's crime, but it's part of life.
And ultimately, I mean, it's such a nice philosophy is to embrace life and try to, you know, transform it and transcend it.
So that's what I guess we're trying to do here and we are doing.
I'm a surfer and I'm a monk and they go hand in hand.
I'm a student of Sri Chinmoy and he advocated a path of living in the world.
He thought that we had to live in the world in order to transform it. We're like modern monks.
The last place I would have thought to have lived in any case would have been New York City.
Much less live in New York City as a spiritual seeker and as a surfer.
It's very inhospitable to both activities.
You know, when I moved to New York City, I didn't even know there were waves here.
New York has started surfing at the beaches in New York, which is about half hour from where we live.
Waves can be good mostly in the winter and fall, you know, where hurricane swells come.
It can be good and there's certainly days when I don't want to go out because it's too frothy, too crazy, you know, out there.
But a lot of the time it's just small or semi-small or you take what you can get.
New York City
I learned to surf in California at Lindemar Beach and then graduated to Ocean Beach.
I mean, I didn't grow up religious, but to me surfing was a way I could really feel connected with nature.
When I was out of the water, I couldn't capture the same feeling and I really wanted a greater sense of fullness in my life.
I began to seek to look for something, to look for a spiritual teacher.
A spiritual teacher is not like a university teacher or like a kindergarten teacher.
He can take you for where you began or where you are and actually give you inner experiences.
It's a very special connection.
I taught me how to silence my mind and feel a vastness inside my heart.
When I read his philosophy about the ocean, being in the ocean meant a lot more to me.
When you sit on your surfboard or you take away, you feel the vastness of nature and openness.
It's very similar to meditation.
With energy, I think, that you get from sports, it only goes to a certain place and then it stops.
And then with meditation, you can take that same energy and consciousness and continue past the physical.
And that was the ultimate goal of the spiritual life.
We feel like drops, but we're really part of this ocean.
I feel the vastness of nature inside me.
When I sit on the surfboard, I feel the vastness of nature inside me.
I'm feeling the vastness of nature inside me.
I feel the vastness of nature inside me.
itinqu in San Francisco than I attended.
There was a surfer named Bill Coleman.
ŠiçinmaĊ gave him the life of N navig, means indomitable.
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Nirvik was an underground body surfing legend, a big wave pioneer, and he gave me a real sense of the spiritual roots of surfing, in particular the things that drew him and a bunch of his friends from Southern California to the north shore in the 50s.
Nirvik was an underground body surfing legend, a big wave pioneer, and he gave me a real sense of the spiritual roots of surfing, in particular the things that drew him and a bunch of his friends from Southern California to the north shore in the 50s.
Nirvik was an underground body surfing legend, a big wave pioneer, and he gave me a real sense of the spiritual roots of surfing, in particular the things that drew him and a bunch of his friends from Southern California to the north shore in the 50s.
Nirvik was an underground body surfing legend, a big wave pioneer, and he gave me a real sense of the spiritual roots of surfing, in particular the things that drew him and a bunch of his friends from Southern California to the north shore in the 50s.
In 2001, Sri Chinmoy went to Kauai, I mean he loved Hawaii, and one of Sri Chinmoy's students brought Titus Kinamaka, the legendary Hawaiian waterman and native Hawaiian, to see him.
Sri Chinmoy has a consciousness when you're in his presence, and you get a similar consciousness in the ocean, especially in big waves, so I think that he saw that consciousness in Sri Chinmoy.
And it was unusual to me because, again, Sri Chinmoy's Indian and Titus is Hawaiian, but there was a real understanding between the two.
The ancient Hawaiian surfers and Polynesian surfers had gurus, like Sri Chinmoy, they called them kahunas.
Everybody from society went to them for advice, for blessings, they led prayers, they led meditations, but even more so the kahunas blessed the surfers, they blessed their boards, and they prayed for waves.
Hawaiians still have kahunas, and the kahunas still guide an aspect of Hawaiian society.
And I think Titus felt that Sri Chinmoy was a guru and a kahuna.
Sri Chinmoy wanted to pay homage in his own way to people who've done inspiring things, to people who've tried to better the world within their own sphere, whether they were a world-class athlete or president of a country like Mandela.
Now, I thank you very much. Thanks, I've been learned. I'm really honored to take part.
After we got back from Hawaii for whatever reason, Sri Chinmoy began to give me a lot more responsibility.
I began to travel more with them and we went to dozens of countries and got to meet hundreds of really, really incredible people.
And along the way, I invited a bunch of people, including some surfers, to come and meet them.
I got to see the world in a sense through his eyes. They really were the best years of my life.
So we created a unique way of honoring them as a soccer player, a score overhead for doing something spectacular.
Sri Chinmoy had a platform device where it actually physically lift the honoree overhead with a one-on lift.
I pray and meditate. When you pray and meditate, you develop inner strength.
But my inner strength, I don't pray to God to give me strength to lift heavy people low.
I pray to God and God blesses me with inner strength and power and I use it to inspire mankind.
Thank you. I am very humbled and honored to be included in this group of people and to be connected with everyone here today and all these people throughout the world.
My job takes me around the world. I meet people in all different cultures and societies and walks of life and it's just a beautiful thing.
I have an amazing life and I cherish it. It's so nice to have an occasion like this to share with everyone else.
Thank you all. Take care.
Thank you.
It was devastating.
To sincerely say, it's taken a couple of years to kind of try to feel like I'm coming out of it.
As a group, we're growing more. We're trying to understand each other as humans more, as divine beings more.
It's a challenge but it's inspiring too because there's always hope and there's always the feeling you can do more and transcend and manifest the devotion you feel within yourself.
Ultimately, I learned that life is much more than it appears outwardly.
It's an inner perfection, an inner satisfaction that I can safely say everybody has within them that capacity to reach.
It's a challenge.
It's a challenge.
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