one of my yoga instuctors posits this fact: the physical practice of yoga, called hatha, is merely the first of many stages en route to the ultimate goal of...um...nirvana or self actualization or zen or heaven or nothingness or or or or or.....sorry, i tend to get my endgames mixed up sometimes. but you get the point.
well, if you didn't, get the point that is, th point, as it were, i'm trying to make is this: it requires years of hatha yoga to successfully move to the next stage of meditation which will then eventually lead on to the [insert metaphysical goal here]. we as americans or westerners (for my canadian friends) are so wound up in immediate gratification and the nowness of ourselves that this concept is almost impossible to comprehend. even my american yoga teachers, well and long practiced, know very little of the mystic and eventual goals of yoga.
i find this immensely troubling and impossibly daunting. my life is so cram packed with other worthless tripe its sometimes hard for me to tell my ass from a hole in the ground. modern life has separated us so very much from the core of ourselves...we don't even know its there anymore or ever existed. all we have are strip malls, oil crises, bennifer, whirlwind pop culture and some fucking tv show called survivor.
ah, fuck it. better minds and pens have tackled this murky and ever elusive subject and been found wanting.
just go read fight club and contact me later when you want to participate in the revolution.
-pb
book: angels and demons
music: portishead
well, if you didn't, get the point that is, th point, as it were, i'm trying to make is this: it requires years of hatha yoga to successfully move to the next stage of meditation which will then eventually lead on to the [insert metaphysical goal here]. we as americans or westerners (for my canadian friends) are so wound up in immediate gratification and the nowness of ourselves that this concept is almost impossible to comprehend. even my american yoga teachers, well and long practiced, know very little of the mystic and eventual goals of yoga.
i find this immensely troubling and impossibly daunting. my life is so cram packed with other worthless tripe its sometimes hard for me to tell my ass from a hole in the ground. modern life has separated us so very much from the core of ourselves...we don't even know its there anymore or ever existed. all we have are strip malls, oil crises, bennifer, whirlwind pop culture and some fucking tv show called survivor.
ah, fuck it. better minds and pens have tackled this murky and ever elusive subject and been found wanting.
just go read fight club and contact me later when you want to participate in the revolution.
-pb
book: angels and demons
music: portishead
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I have long envied the Eastern meditative philospophies and way of life, but have never taken the time (the irony!) to really incorporate it into my own life. I do yoga for the physical and limited (at my level) spiritual benefits, but not regularly enough.
What do you think of Angels and Demons? I read it last month... I'll withhold my comments/iopinions until you're done!
Sounds like you are feeling better, I hope you had a splendid time with your recent special visitor!
--l*P
If your point was to illustrate that "pop culture" has been, and continues to be, the mental/intellectual bane of our modern existence then I whole heartedly agree with you.