Jayapataka Swami was one of my early inspirations in my service to Food for Life. I wrote him many times through letters and later emails for guidance in the 80s and 90s as a monk, and whenever he saw me he told me, “Please tell...
Category: Spiritual
Paul Rodney Turner: Australian Food Yogi’s Mission
posted by: Paul Rodney Turner
November 22, 2013
First printed Australian Yoga Life and put the www.ayl.com.au Nourishing the soul Sitting on a beach in Sri Lanka at the beginning of his world tour earlier this year, Food For Life (FFL) Global director Paul Rodney Turner was quietly reflecting on his life journey....
Saint Francis of Assisi and Compassion for Animals
posted by: Paul Rodney Turner
October 20, 2013
Saint Francis of Assisi Excerpt from: FOOD YOGA – Nourishing Body, Mind & Soul A new book by Paul Rodney Turner, the Food Yogi There are basically two distinct schools of Christian thought: The Aristotelian-Thomistic school and the Augustinian-Franciscan school. The Aristotelian-Thomistic school teaches that animals are here...
Achieving Mind-Body Harmony in Billiards
posted by: Paul Rodney Turner
October 19, 2013
Excerpt from The YOGA of POOL – Secrets to Becoming a Champion in Billiards and in Life (by Paul Turner) Mind management allows us to influence physical reality. As beings of both gross and subtle energy, akin to yin and yang, our mind often responds to...
A Tribute to Rodney John Turner
posted by: Paul Rodney Turner
August 14, 2013
Fairfax, Virginia USA A eulogy to my father, Rodney John Turner, on the occasion of his funeral, May 15, 2001 (first time published) My dear family and friends, First, I would sincerely like to thank you all for coming today to pay your last respects to...
Original Title: Keeping it real – while still seeking spiritual emancipation.
posted by: Paul Rodney Turner
August 7, 2013
I gave Srimad Bhagavatam class today in the Hare Krishna temple in Riga, Latvia , on this verse (http://vedabase.net/sb/3/20/6/ ). Initially, I felt unqualified and somewhat perplexed. I mean, I am not a Vedic scholar, nor a self-realised soul in any sense, and yet this...
The inside story of Food for Life
posted by: Paul Rodney Turner
June 23, 2013
Sunday Talk at the Radha Gopinath Temple in Chowpatti, Mumbai, India. On June 16, 2013 I was asked to give the Sunday lecture to the congregation at the famous Radha Gopinatha temple in Mumbai, India. My talk was an introduction to food yoga, a solution...
A warrior of light and a deliverer of love
posted by: Paul Rodney Turner
May 13, 2013
LISTEN TO THE SONG generated by UDIO Another version created by SUNO Note: This lovely poem was gifted to my heart while lying on a beach in Bali one night… As the heavens opened up and revealed their soul, I remembered so much and knew...
A poem for the Maestro – Jayadeva (John) Richardson
posted by: Paul Rodney Turner
May 2, 2013
https://www.udio.com/songs/8M87apH6xjdg3Vso2CsiNf Happy blessed day, to the most blessed man, who inspires so many and can put you in a trance, using words of wisdom cloaked in feelings of love, as they float very gently down from Vaikuntha above. He will counsel your heart — and...
Whatever comes to my mind, is a funny kind of bind, When your heart feels blind, but then you remind, Your SELF, that it’s all ok, even though, just the other day, You had to pay, for a previous melee, when you chose the wrong...