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Uma Washing
Uma the goddess combining tapas with sauca.
See Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra II.32
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Thoughts on Sadhana
Part of my daily practice is to take a walk. Despite the unseasonable cold and the overly scheduled, high stress day I was having, I made sure I still went for a walk. Once outside, I experienced beauty to lighten my heart and to bring freshness to the rest of the day’s work. That’s the purpose sadhana.
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Outside Inside
What we see in front of us depends on where we choose to go and what crosses our path.
What we see reflected depends on what we bring to the picture (including how we look at things).
Inner courtyard at the Freer Gallery.
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I Left Work A Half Hour Later Than I’d Intended
I must have been completely in tune with Kali, the goddess of sequencing.
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Creativity
We may not be able to change much of what we get in life–where and when we were born, certain innate talents and physical attributes, but we have the choice at every moment what we will create with what we have been given.
Will we create beauty and happiness where we can? The point of the yoga practices, I think and have been taught, is to lead us to choose what best serves more and more often.
For example, I cannot create a monumental sculpture if the only art material I have is a point and shoot camera. I could do nothing but lament my lack of resources, or I can still make art.
What do you choose with what you have?
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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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Gorgeous Autumn Day In the Neighborhood
It is always possible to appreciate beauty, no matter how challenging things are. It is in these moments of recognition that healing takes place.
