Found Exhortations (Pick One or Several)
Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
Sun Burning Through Clouds
We need protection from the sun as much as we need the sun. The yogi philosophers could perhaps point to this pair of opposing forces/needs as an example of the elemental pulsation of opposites (spanda) that is universal to all… (READ MORE)
Love “the Cow Lakshmi” Part
Fascinating video about Bhagawan Ramana Maharshi.
Looking Within
The great texts and teachers of meditation exhort us to look within with the promise that by so doing we will find great peace or bliss or splendor. For many, though, initial attempts at meditation are just as likely to… (READ MORE)
More Ephemera
Spring flowers are not much more ephemeral than are we from the perspective of infinity (or even geological time). I think one of the central aims of yoga philosophy is to make some sense of the need for recognition of… (READ MORE)
Camellia Blossom
Thunder clouds pelt rain Strewing winds reveal beauty’s Soft ephemera. Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
Signs Around Town (and Tuesday Night Yoga)
Xome join us on Tuesday nights. All levels of experience welcome. Suggested donation is truly a suggestion–like the admission to the Metropolitan Museum. Pay what you can. Bring a friend from in or out of town. Comment or email with… (READ MORE)
Signs Around Town (and the Yoga Siddhi of Bi-Location)
The “shelter in place” signs in my building demarcate suites where designated groups of employees are supposed to gather in the event of a threat to human safety where it would be safer to hunker down in the building than… (READ MORE)
Signs Around Town (Excerpt)
When we do a yoga pose, it is an act of creation; asana is in its own way a dance form. Every time we practice, it is our choice whether to make a pose a full and deep expression of… (READ MORE)
Cicada Watch
Here’s some useful, along with some merely anecdotal and highly subjective discussion on the impending arrival of more cicadas than usual. I don’t remember them being overwhelming in 2004, but vividly remember being astonished by them 17 years earlier than… (READ MORE)