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My dharma, whatever I might have thought it is, according to Maitri, is being her cat bed. Is it possible to have multiple dharmas?
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Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
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The chant this evening was “no war, yes, peace.” It is not enough, if things are going to change, just to say what we don’t want. We need to offer and work towards alternatives.
United States Capitol, January 9, 2020
Contemplating Ganesha and Yoga As Skill in Action
Ganesha is only at the most surface level literally the remover of obstacles.
Rather, in exchange for a lot of dedicated practice, Ganesha is the one who helps us how to leverage or elide the obstacles.
These obstacles are ones that Ganesha, being a playful deity type of character, just might have put in our way in the first place, so we could learn, so we can more skillfully and compassionately approach the next obstacle, and so on and so on.
On the Way Home from Tuesday Night Yoga Practice at William Penn House
I was supposed to have been in Seattle, but work kept me in DC. Instead of cancelling the substitute who had graciously agreed to lead the practice, I took the class. It was sweet to practice with my students without leading.
