Both Hinduism and Buddhism take a longer perspective upon mortality by viewing death not as the final act, but as a necessary step along the way. Beyond heaven and hell, salvation and damnation, this seems one of the more useful contributions from religion: the reassurance that to move on, all things must pass.
The previous instalment in this series explored the fifth limb of yoga: introspection (pratyahara), that post compared our mental experience to a stream of loosely connected and often repetitive thoughts. Dharana, the sixth limb, then considers how to deal with that torrent and focus awareness elsewhere.
The Rainbow Festival can galvanise one’s faith in humanity and inspire different perspectives. With tickets limited to around three hundred, it’s also small enough to foster relationships and a sense of community.
Toward the end of the second “Lockdown”, the prospect of a month long, half price, first class, European rail pass seemed too good to miss. But for the best part of eighteen months that InterRail flash sale booty awaited activation.
You want to lose body fat. Your body fat’s maybe at 15%, you want to get it down to 12 0r 10% and the way you do that is by burning more calories than you eat.
Arnold Scwarznegger
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“I think AI will be capable of making you fall in love with it very well.”
Elon Musk
he’s made a few of these at Burning Man, this one stands out.
Of course there’s a graph.
It can often be hard to tell if the glass is half-full or half-empty and perhaps what doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger, either way it always helps to find a cloud’s silver lining.
Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the Self.
Bhagavad Gita
Creativity can be a struggle but when it pays off…
Coming from a western tradition, yoga’s fourth limb can be unfamiliar as it turns toward eastern mysticism. So to understand the significance of breathing, especially in Hatha yoga, it helpfs to know something about yoga’s perspective on the cosmos and the human condition.
With the first two limbs of yoga addressing the moral ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’, the third is concerned with what we in the West usually associate with yoga, namely the bodily postures or asanas.
He inhaled slightly, brought his attention back to the head in the centre of the sight’s reticle, and squeezed the trigger. The gun barked, and kicked into his embrace, though not enough to take the couple from view.
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