Posts Tagged "relationship"
Forgotten Family
The Secret Life of Red by Linaji Reading at Koloa Practice 8/11/2011 As I descend into basement shadows, I am washed in red. Smoothness is not a choice on the earthly plane. As light reveals, so also shadows are spawned. With this I must learn to rock my ignorance to sleep to await its hungry cry. I must feed my insincerity its milky gruel. I must give my meanness rapt attention. I must dine...
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Reading at Koloa Hong Wan Ji practice 6/14/2010 Relationship is not strangled by claims. Intimacy is tempered by lightness of touch. We have moved through our day like dancers, not needing to touch more than lightly because we were instinctively moving to the same rhythm. A good relationship has a pattern like a-dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on...
Read MoreI Want Both of Us
Reading at Anara practice April 13, 2011 I Want Both of Us To start talking about this great love As if you, I and the Sun were all married And living in a tiny room, Helping each other to cook, Do the wash, Weave and sew Care for our beautiful Animals. We all leave each morning To labor on the earth’s field. No one does not lift a great pack. I want both of us to start singing like...
Read MoreLove after Love
Breathe by Linaji Reading at Anara Practice 01/5/2011 The time will come When, With elation, You will greet yourself arriving At your own door, in your own mirror, And each will smile at the other’s welcome, And say, sit here, Eat. You will love again the stranger who was yourself. Give wine, Give bread, Give back your heart To itself, to the stranger who has loved you All your life, whom you...
Read MoreYoga Wedding
There is probably never a more likely place to practice yoga than in a relationship. In fact the root of the word in sanskrit, ‘yuj’ essentially means to yoke or to bring together. Not much is said however in yogic texts about the yoga of relationship. A wise yogi once said: “A paradox of life is that one is fundamentally alone, yet one cannot exist outside of...
Read MoreA Frightening Conclusion
Reading at Waimea practice 07/20/09 man-sun-and-sea by linaji I have come to a frightening conclusionThat I am the decisive element.. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In...
Read MoreWhat is relationship in Yoga?
“A paradox of life is that one is fundamentally alone, yet one cannot exist outside of relationship” – author/yogi -Joel Kramer When It is that time of season as we see the petals of spring start to respond to the ever-present calling of the sun and the ‘urge to merge’ is supposedly strongest; it is appropriate to flex the yogic muscles and take on the complex subject of...
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