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…as we ponder and navigate the meaning of non-attachment, of how not to muddy the river after the distractions have precipitated during a given days’ practice, steadiness is a virtue. Given that all objects arise from the same source, it doesn’t ultimately matter which you choose. What matters is the steadiness and clarity of your focus upon it.
The Dude abides. ~The Big Lebowski
“Son, I’m goin’ all the way, ’cause I wanna see how it ends.” ~Brother Meadows, quoted on NPR’s “All Things Considered”
Lately I’m thinking a lot about obstacles, steadiness and presence. The Yoga Sutra Conversations with Kate & Jenni have afforded me this opportunity, and the timing, for me, is particularly [...]
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One of the very practical things about the Sutras is that it introduces on level ground many methods of listening, or yoga.
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Picking up in the middle is the fate of all humanity. We always wake up, when we awaken, in the midst of a life, a breath, a sentence and the trick (which is the opposite of a trick) is to continue being awakened for whatever we find. Well, I’ve been blessed to awaken to a conversation among yoga teachers on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Please meet Jenni & Kate, if you haven’t already. You’ll be glad you made their acquaintances 
And this is where yoga comes in. My practice has given me the structure to observe the relationships between the shapes I embody and ideas, emotions, sensations and experiences I am processing. Yoga specifically addresses how we process and digest energy, specifically our food, emotions, rest and desire. Through breathing, circulation, motion and rest we can intentionally influence the efficiency with which we process our life experience. And this is the most important thing about weight,…
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…Truthfully, I’ve had precious little connection to jalandara. Conceptually, I understand why a “top” on the cooking pot is important. My experience has been lackluster, however.
Until I read a description that added the chest wall expansion of “false inbreath” to the external action of flexion of the upper cervical vertebrae.
Listening to some Buddhist Geeks tonight on the eliptical, as I am wont to do, I was knocked off my rocker, so to speak, when the “Dharma CEO” Buddhist Nun guest, Robina Courtin, said that the comfort & ease we know as objects of attachment are “honey covered razors.” Was it simply that I love these [...]
The present moment is always utterly unique in content but identical in form: it is timeless. This is our key to universal consciousness, always with us, never separated but not always acknowledged.
