Every day, I’ve practiced yoga and/or meditated for 46 years. This blog is an effort to celebrate these amazing practices, to share some of the fruits of these years of practice, and to explore what they offer us all.
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Looking for love in all the wrong places
This song lyric pretty much sums it up.
Great yogis and sages say we can’t find love, and happiness, in the variable world–at least not the deepest sort that’s unaffected by circumstances. We are talking about a love, and happiness, that endures despite all.
This love, and happiness, is right here with us all the time, according to the sages.
We’re simply looking in all the wrong places.
According to them, we need to turn within and meditate and do yoga, and then we just might be fortunate enough to encounter this love and happiness, or get glimmers of it.
And at least then we’ll be looking in the right place, which is certainly a good place to try.
See you on the path… no, I mean the road to happiness… and love!
Version 2.0
Yoga and meditation help us reset and transform into enhanced versions of ourselves. Sort of like you and me 2.0… over and over again, modifying and adjusting and improving. This transformation can be nuanced and very subtle or substantial.
The practices poise us for the grace of The Great Transformer to “adjust” what needs adjustment for the always variable circumstances of our lives.
2.0… 3.0… 4.0… 4.2….
How unique!
Unique flavors, unique tones on a piano with an infinite keyboard, unique tapestries–each person, each event, each moment of time… unique.
Yoga and meditation can awaken us to this and help us be more present to the time we have–unique.
Such grand support
Yoga and meditation support our well-being in all regards and in all circumstances. Like that which support the domes of grand stone buildings, the practices buttress our lives lifting us, while firmly grounded here on earth, toward the heavens. In truth, the practices help us realize this Grand Buttress that is always there supporting and … Continue reading Such grand support