Warm and Humid Sunrise
It was gray when I woke and mostly gray—though not raining most of the day. For a few fine minutes the sky called me to watch.

It was gray when I woke and mostly gray—though not raining most of the day. For a few fine minutes the sky called me to watch.

Leaving aside whether there is such a state as enlightenment and whether nirvana is enlightenment or its equivalent, I believe one should always question one who promises “the” path and doesn’t just offer “a” path that has served the one offering teaching or access.
Of course, other than potential issues in any community that makes such exclusive promises, one is always free to taste and explore and reinterpret the “the” as “a.”
We are bound in time and space in this body/mind. One of the purposes of the yoga and meditation practices is to help us see from a less bound perspective so that we can navigate and order ourselves more optimally in time and space, which should serve to make things seem more easeful and gracious.
Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
My friend Dan just posted on his blog a great Gary Snyder quote on the need to do maintenance (of the self) in order to be most creative. The idea that we need to maintain our tools and toolbox, as it were, in order to be most creative, is exactly what we are taught about the tantric yoga sadhana — practice. With our yoga practice, diet, lifestyle, work, consumption, participation in community, we seek to live progressively more in alignment with the undulating fabric of space, time, and apparent world so that we have maximum well-being best to serve ourselves and others with delight. In our sadhana, we include both study and experience (experience includes meditation, asana, and pranayama). As both John Friend and Paul Muller-Ortega teach, we engage in the practices and studies to learn with ever expanding insight how to see and experience the highest first and live from that place. Living and practicing with such an intention is, I think, the maintenance done so we can live out all of our lives as a reverential and creative act.
Dan–I look forward to reading the sermon.