A Good friend sent this link to an article about the 7th annual Yoga competition in L.A—-
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/fashion/19fitness.html?pagewanted=1
Could this all lead to the following??…
Subject: MONK GLOATS OVER YOGA CHAMPIONSHIP
(WORLD NEWS — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE)
“I am the serenest!”
LHASA, TIBET– Employing the brash style that first brought him to prominence, Sri Dhananjai Bikram won the [...]
Reading at Yoga Bodhi Tree 11/25/2009
Pray to whoever you kneel down to:
Jesus nailed to his wooden or marble or plastic cross,
his suffering face bent to kiss you,
…have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point [...]
Reading from Anara Practice – 11/18/2009
Finally I am coming to the conclusion
that my highest ambition is to be what I already am.
That I will never fulfill my obligation
to surpass myself
unless I first accept myself,
and if I accept myself fully in the right way,
I will already have surpassed myself.
- Thomas Merton
Reading at Bodhi Tree practice 07/01/09
What if?
What if religion was each other?
If our practice was our life?
If prayer was our words?
What if the Temple was the Earth?
If forests were our church?
If holy water the rivers, lakes and oceans?
What if meditation was our relationships?
If the Teacher was life? If wisdom was self-knowledge?
If Love was the [...]
“There is a lot of confusion over this imaginary goal, this spiritual concept referred to as enlightenment. So let’s clear it up, once and for all. It has nothing to do with some future, hoped-for experience. To imagine that it does is just the play of spiritual desire and self-centered escapism, of mental commentary, memory [...]
Reading at Bodhi Tree 11/10/2009
If you treat a man as he appears to be,
you make him worse than he is.
But if you treat a man as if he already were
what he potentially could be,
you make him what he is destined to be.
-Wolfgang von Goethe-
“All you need to be a full-fledged yogi or yogini is your own body, your own breath and a few good friends.”
Mark Whitwell
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