On the Way Home From Tuesday Night Yoga Practice at William Penn House
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Signs Around Town (Excerpt)
Wouldn’t make a bad epitaph. In the mean time, trying (sadhana).
Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
State of the Garden
Excellent example of why it is good to look and pause before taking action–such as picking a blossom.
Dogwood (and the Five Acts of Shiva)
Tight buds of next Spring’s
Flowers amid reddening
Leaves about to fall.
Note: The five acts of Shiva are concealment, revelation, creation, sustenance, and dissolution
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Kashmir Shaivism (and Ecstatic Fatalism)
I have been told more than once that one cannot technically be a true practitioner/believer in the tenets of Kashmir Shaivism without believing in some form of Godhead. As a nontheist who still finds the teachings and practices informative and useful for how best to live, I ask consistently whether that is really true.
I’m sure a purist (religious or academic) would say there’s no anything to the philosophy without being a full believer. But what I think one gets from practices designed to heighten awareness of a divinely connecting universality in the wild diversity of life without a belief that what is universal a priori points to “God” is a recognition that with all that is troubling and difficult and hurtful and evil in this world, the very complexity and outrageousness of being is yet wonderful and inspiring in itself.
In a word, when all else fails, laugh (and create and live) with an ecstatic fatalism.
Painting by Sandra Dooley. Cuba 2014
