Love Laughter Inspiration Simplicity
R. Sharath Jois
"You should not be practicing to have a 'good' practice, but instead to keep steadiness within yourself. Practice happily regardless of whether it is 'good' or not. Sometimes some postures will not be possible, but when you accept the good and the bad and everything becomes equal for you, that is yoga."
- R. Sharath Jois
Burnt To Ash
"All Inquiry is meant for one purpose; to take you experientially into the unknown as efficiently as possible. Once you get there, simply be still because inquiry has delivered you to its destination. The rest is up to Grace. Do not hold onto any knowledge that comes your way. Even the greatest revelations much not be clung to, or you will end up with a head full of memories and a heart empty of substance. The truth is ever new, existing only in the now. The highest truth is beyond knowledge and experience. It is beyond time and space, and beyond beingness, consciousness, and oneness. Just remember that all direct path techniques are meant simply to undermine, to cut away, the one who is performing them. No matter what spiritual path you've walked or what teachings you've followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes the itself. The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. The, and only then, is the Ultimate realized. True Enlightenment destroys enlightenment. As long as you can refer back to yourself and say, 'I'm enlightened', you not. Enlightenment is authentic only when there is no one left to be enlightened. Even to say 'I am nobody', is one too many. There's a point when you intuitively realize that to be Free you have to give up your attachment to Freedom. You have to quit asking yourself: Is it still there? Am I okay? You have to decide to never look over your shoulder again to see if you're free or if others know you're free. You just have to let yourself burn there - no matter what. This isn't something I can help you with. I can tell you what you need to do, but you have to do it. In the beginning, teachers can help a lot. But the deeper you go, all they can do is point, and clarify, and tell you what you need to do. Only you can take this step. Nobody can push you in to this place."
- Adyashanti
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"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."
- Louise Erdrich
Hamsa
No Expectations
A spirit that lives in this world
and does not wear the shirt of love,
such an existence is a deep disgrace.
Be foolishly in love,
because love is all there is.
There is no way into presence
except through a love exchange.
If someone asks, But what is love?
answer, Dissolving the will.
True freedom comes to those
who have escaped the questions
of freewill and fate.
Love is an emperor.
The two worlds play across him.
He barely notices their tumbling game.
Love and lover live in eternity.
Other desires are substitutes
for that way of being.
How long do you lay embracing a corpse?
Love rather the soul, which cannot be held.
Anything born in spring dies in the fall,
but love is not seasonal.
With wine pressed from grapes,
expect a hangover.
But this love path has no expectations.
You are uneasy riding the body?
Dismount. Travel lighter.
Wings will be given.
Be clear like a mirror
reflecting nothing.
Be clean of pictures and the worry
that comes with images.
Gaze into what is not ashamed
or afraid of any truth.
Contain all human faces in your own
without any judgement of them.
Be pure emptiness.
What is inside that? you ask.
Silence is all I can say.
Lovers have some secrets
that they keep.
(Rumi)
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9 Insightful Comments:
W O W!!! I LOVED it too!! Just breathtaking~~ xo
Glad you liked it. Ah. I wish I were a dancer. ;-) xoxox.
YOU ARE! xxxx
I am a huge "So you think you can dance" fan, and gotta love Coldplay too:) Love the blog, I feel like I've been traveling this morning just looking at your beautiful pics.
Namaste,
Mandy
Thanks for comment Mandy. SYTYCD is a huge guilty pleasure of mine. Just love it!!!
Nice video. A great mix of modern dance, break dancing, and I saw elements of Capoeira in there too. I Wanted to let you know that I have quietly followed your blog and Ashtanga videos off on for about a year now. I love your practice. I'm hoping to eventually get there too, but trying to balance ashtanga with Capoeira. Again great video.
Wow! I've always loved capoeria! Actually, I tried to learn at one point. So much fun. However, sometimes I tend to go into too many directions so I've stayed focused on Ashtanga, but would love to try it out again if I found a good teacher here in Stockholm.
Thanks for posting!
Capoeira is great. In terms of a teacher, it depends upon the style you are looking for. The more acrobatic stuff you tend to see is indicative of the Regional style of capoeira. It tends to look more like traditional martial arts, and is very athletic. Another major style is Angola (named for the region of Africa many early caporistas come from). Angola is a slower game, but more strategic and played closer to the ground. It's kind of like playing chess with your body. There is also contemporary which tends to combine the two styles and uses both to provide a more fully developed understanding of Capoeira as a whole. From what I know there are two schools out your way: 1. Capoeira Senzala Regional/Contemporary 2. Groupo de Capoeira Filho de Angola (The Sons of Angola Capoeira Group). Depending upon what you are looking for, I'd suggest trying a class or two with both and see what you like better. I'm sure there are other schools, but those are two of the bigger ones listed on the web.
Wow. Thanks for the information. I'll definitely look in to it in the near future!
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