March 2012
48 posts
Orpheo Looks Back
Andrew Bird
“Orpheo Looks Back” by Andrew Bird.
Wen uuu (Evenings Remix)
Shlohmo
Shlohmo - Wen uuu (Evenings Remix)
Krishna’s 10 Definitions of Yoga in the Bhagavad Gita. →
elephantjournal.com
For in addition to asana and pranayama, yoga according to the Bhagavad Gita is:
- Clear, discerning, totally voluntary, dynamic participation in one’s life.
- Everlasting, primal, revealing, the archetypal light and fueled by love.
- Sacrifice that elevates us, motivates us, informs us, actively engages us and does so in a manner that is harmonious to all other living beings.
- Selfless, cleansing, freeing, balancing, inspiring, and joyfully performed actions based on a vision in which one experiences peaceful interconnectedness with all life around them.
- Nourished in the company of other yoga practitioners, by offerings of love, and the understandings they give rise to.
- Heightened sensitivity and awareness of all life around us and within us, and an outpour of love in reciprocation with life’s wonder and beauty.
- Fearless, illuminating, and a journey that does not end with death.
- Vision that excludes nothing from its practice.
- Intimate connection with the whole universe, with eternal realms even beyond the manifested universe, and with our own being’s endless capacity to love.
- Pure, determined force that moves us toward the mysterious and secret, and connects us with the wonderfulness of existence, of being and of all life.
it is not what we carry, but what we let go that defines us
(i then see cyclic existence as an organic symphony rather than a metronome and feel there is a fluid and graceful dance to the way time unfolds.)
Words to keep inside your pocket:
- Quiescent - a quiet, soft-spoken soul.
- Chimerical - merely imaginary; fanciful.
- Susurrus - a whispering or rustling sound.
- Raconteur - one who excels in story-telling.
- Clinquant - glittering; tinsel-like.
- Aubade - a song greeting the dawn.
- Ephemeral - lasting a very short time.
- Sempiternal - everlasting; eternal.
- Euphonious - pleasing; sweet in sound.
- Billet-doux - a love letter.
- Redamancy - act of loving in return.
Pablo Neruda, “Rapa Nui”
At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.
Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you. — Maori Proverb
