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Signs Around Town
Uh oh. Must be time for a puja to Kali in her aspect as the goddess of sequencing.
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Shrishti-Sthiti-Samhara?
It was an unexpected delight to get a yoga philosophy lesson as part of the mandatory “Records Management for Everyone” course.
The five acts of Siva are creation, maintenance, withdrawal, concealment, and revelation.The lesson had the first three covered. Missing from the lesson, though, were concealment and revelation. Perhaps those were thought of as less apt to records management.
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Another Random Spam Poem Written Near the End of Another Busy Day (Meditation on the Path of the Tantric Yogini)
I don’t know whether
It’s just me or if everyone else
Encountering issues
Let me know
if this is happening
More beautiful than I imagined!
Truth small absolutely.
But despite it I delighted.
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Shiva-Shakti?
Cucumber growing, not as typically in the shape of the symbol for lingam, but in the shape of the symbol for yoni.
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Lila (Play of Shiva and Shakti)
Another perfect
Two sweet cherry tomatoes
One yellow. One red.
And some coriander about to flower.
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Overheard in the Stairwell at Work
When I was coming downstairs in my building today, I overheard someone say to her colleague, “she said it wasn’t yoga; it was a core workout.”
I didn’t hear anything else. I wonder whether it was the teacher, a student, or an observer who was the “she” being quoted. I wonder what the person I heard speaking and what the person she quoted meant by yoga.
As for the “core workout,”I’m pretty sure, based on the location of the conversation–stairwell in a Federal office building–that by “core workout” it meant a class in the gym focused on toning and strengthening abdominal muscles.
In contemplating this snippet of conversation, I decided that yoga is the best core workout I know, if by core we mean center or essential–the very heart of being. What is yoga other than practicing and applying certain techniques to try and better live and act from the core of our being? Toned abs, if we get them, are just a bonus.
