Posts Tagged: suffering
Yoga for Climate Action: Svadyaya
Je me sens coupable parce que j’ai l’habitude
C’est la seule chose que je peux faire avec une certaine certitude
-Lhasa de Sela
Yoga for Climate Action: Svadyaya
Je me sens coupable parce que j’ai l’habitude
C’est la seule chose que je peux faire avec une certaine certitude
-Lhasa de Sela
Yoga for Climate Action: Tapas
In the coming years, we will need to hold onto a complex hope that never forgets the damage being done, and keeps sight of the huge number of people stepping up to fix it.
-May Boeve
Yoga for Climate Action: Tapas
In the coming years, we will need to hold onto a complex hope that never forgets the damage being done, and keeps sight of the huge number of people stepping up to fix it.
-May Boeve
LeGuin for the Win
What comfort do we seek, what sacrifices can we make, and what do we sacrifice for?
LeGuin for the Win
What comfort do we seek, what sacrifices can we make, and what do we sacrifice for?
Yoga and the Art of Lower Back Maintenance
We do not have to transcend the ‘world of dust’ (saha) in order to go to some dust-free world called nirvana. Suffering and nirvana are of the same substance. If we throw away the world of dust, we will have no nirvana.”
–Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching
Yoga and the Art of Lower Back Maintenance
We do not have to transcend the ‘world of dust’ (saha) in order to go to some dust-free world called nirvana. Suffering and nirvana are of the same substance. If we throw away the world of dust, we will have no nirvana.”
–Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching
Yoga for Climate Action: Aparigraha
You have the right to your labor, but not to the fruits of your labor. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never become attached to not doing your duty. -Baghavad Gita 2.47
Yoga for Climate Action: Aparigraha
You have the right to your labor, but not to the fruits of your labor. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never become attached to not doing your duty. -Baghavad Gita 2.47
A List of Deadening Things, pt. 2
Looking at a screen
Too much responsibility
Being talked down to
Having nothing expected of you
A List of Deadening Things, pt. 2
Looking at a screen
Too much responsibility
Being talked down to
Having nothing expected of you
The Family Practice: on loss and grooves
Words dried up when my father died. In the new year I’m finding new words, but this paragraph I wrote in June was like a lump in my throat, demanding to come first:
The Family Practice: on loss and grooves
Words dried up when my father died. In the new year I’m finding new words, but this paragraph I wrote in June was like a lump in my throat, demanding to come first:
Spring and Fall
This poem used to seem very different to me than it does now. I had always read in it that fear of our own death is the root of all feelings of loss.
Spring and Fall
This poem used to seem very different to me than it does now. I had always read in it that fear of our own death is the root of all feelings of loss.
A Duty of Gratitude
Vincent Van Gogh, in one of over 900 letters to his brother Theo.
Cornel West and BKS Iyengar: joy, suffering, and moral constipation
“In order to achieve the integrity and wholeness we desire, there must be communication from the inner to the outer and the outer to the inner as each sheath blends with the next. “
Cornel West and BKS Iyengar: joy, suffering, and moral constipation
“In order to achieve the integrity and wholeness we desire, there must be communication from the inner to the outer and the outer to the inner as each sheath blends with the next. “
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