Yoga and Ice Cream

LIKE A BABY LEARNING TO WALK, WE LEARN THIS SKILLFUL BALANCE OF ENGAGEMENT AND DETACHMENT GRADUALLY. AND LIKE A TODDLER, WE NEED ENCOURAGEMENT  WITH EVERY FALTERING  ATTEMPT WE MAKE TO ESTABLISH THIS INNER UPRIGHTNESS ANY MOVEMENT TOWARD GREATER KINDNESS AND COMPASSION IS TO BE CELEBRATED. ANY SKILLFULNESS  IN STAYING CALM IN THE HEAT OF THE…

Like many profound, beautiful, and powerful arts and sciences, yoga has suffered from the spiritual poverty of the modern world—it has been trivialized, watered down, or reduced to clichés. The deep and eternal essence of yoga has been misrepresented and packaged for personal profit by clever people. At the hands of some, yoga has been…

Silence means – to speak and think by oneself and for oneself Solitude means – all ends in one- oneself- And oneself means all ends Whatever is said by silence contains All  possible meanings or answers. Motabhai Bombay. 1982.

We could say that your breath is a truth. You don’t have to interpret it and it isn’t based on your thoughts or feelings. Whatever is going on in Your Life, you breathe in and out. Sometimes you breathe quickly, sometimes slowly, but you are always breathing, until your time here is done. At that…