Readings #2

from "Viveka's Tale"

"Mother taught him to see God in all beings, and to see the soul in the phenomenal world, even in the tiger who attacked him. Viveka learned to open his heart to himself and to all of life, practicing reverence for the many beings and dedicating himself to the awakening of all beings."

Readings #1

"You have come to live in the guru's house, now...this is a very auspicious time, you know..." Amrit talked about the preciousness of taking a period of time to live quietly, deliberately, away from the restlessness of our culture. "There must be movement back and forth, from the mountaintop to the marketplace," he said. "But just now is a moment for the mountaintop..."

i would like to

in my life, accomplish some of these things:

1. cultivate jazz appreciation/knowledge
2. own/operate an olive grove
3. spend time at an ashram
4. teach yoga
5. walk alone in several foreign countries
6. wink at the dalai lama
7. have and design an apartment purely to my taste
8. write a book (children's? auto-biography? poetry? short fictions?)

good luck.

Manifesto

There will be no correct clothes

There will be no proper payment

There will be no right answers

No glorified teachers

No ego no script no pedestals

No you’re not good enough or rich enough

This yoga is for everyone

This sweating and breathing and becoming

This knowing glowing feeling Is for the big small weak and strong

Able and crazy

Brothers sisters grandmothers

The mighty and meek

Bones that creak

Those who seek

This power is for everyone

Yoga to the People

All bodies rise

Classtime

Dirty street.
Bright yellow door with signpost: Yoga above.
Pass through the door and climb into clouds of lavender.

Remove my shoes and unfurl my pink flying carpet.
Settle into the gentle puff of breeze and breath.

Class has started: Attention, bow to your purpose.
Embrace the sweat and ocean waves of your neighbors.

Lift, twist, internalize and expel the prana within.
Balance, pose, focus, push to the limit.

Seep down and in and quietly relax
to be born again, on the little pink mat.

Class is ending: Attention, bow to your purpose
and to the teacher within.

Om shanti shanti, Namaste.