Reading another book by Childs... HOUSE of RAIN... and am better organized about the so-called ancestral puebloans/ anasazi... i am going to recruit a hiker/partner to trace the meridians discussed throught this important work.
— An on-going hiker's meditation and journal—
Friday, July 24, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
July 23,2009 Cline Library, NAU, Flagstaff, AZ
Chubasco weather has been beginning its buid-up of atmospheric energies. yesterday, the intense storms of about 5 PM, MST brought brief torrential downpours, lightning strikes and thunder.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
July 21, 2009, Continued yoga journal--So. Rim, GRCA AZ
July 21, 2009, So. Rim
09:59:49 hours, MST, GRCA, AZ
“…The asana simultaneously teach us to stay with the matter at hand, while deconstructing the personality flaws that induced us to hide out in our imaginations in the first place….” (Rolf Gates)
My opinion regarding this sentiment follows the lines of …lose confidence and “act-as-if”….
Living in one’s imagination or living the way one “thinks’’ one “should”, or living “as-if” in public is the sure-fire method- to lose the value of living in the Moment.
Seems like the addicted lifestyle demands its adherents live life “as-if” and as one “should” keep up appearances to “fit-in”. As in living in one's imagination!
Are you fitting in? Have you gotten the message yet that the sub-division crowd and the big people and the big cars of America are all about keeping up pretenses? Are you living in your imagination?
We invest years in a moment, and then that moment passes and we must be willing to let it go, so as to be able to embrace the next moment. This is the adult way. This leaves no loop-hole to become ensnared by emotionally.
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“In life we must learn not only how to live, but how to die well.”
Seneca
“This quote was my first introduction to the world of adult life. I was twenty-six when I read it, and although I had graduated from high school and college, had left the army and friends I’d made during difficult years, I had not yet grasped the cycle of life,
What Seneca taught me was that an adult lives many lives. We invest years in a moment, and then that moment passes and we must be willing to let it go, so as to be able to embrace the next moment. A study on longevity found that the common thread among those who live long is their ability to endure loss. This is the lesson of shavasana.We embrace a moment with all we have, and when the moment is over we step back and let go.”
Meditations from the Mat, Rolf Gates and Katrina Kenison
09:59:49 hours, MST, GRCA, AZ
“…The asana simultaneously teach us to stay with the matter at hand, while deconstructing the personality flaws that induced us to hide out in our imaginations in the first place….” (Rolf Gates)
My opinion regarding this sentiment follows the lines of …lose confidence and “act-as-if”….
Living in one’s imagination or living the way one “thinks’’ one “should”, or living “as-if” in public is the sure-fire method- to lose the value of living in the Moment.
Seems like the addicted lifestyle demands its adherents live life “as-if” and as one “should” keep up appearances to “fit-in”. As in living in one's imagination!
Are you fitting in? Have you gotten the message yet that the sub-division crowd and the big people and the big cars of America are all about keeping up pretenses? Are you living in your imagination?
We invest years in a moment, and then that moment passes and we must be willing to let it go, so as to be able to embrace the next moment. This is the adult way. This leaves no loop-hole to become ensnared by emotionally.
***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
“In life we must learn not only how to live, but how to die well.”
Seneca
“This quote was my first introduction to the world of adult life. I was twenty-six when I read it, and although I had graduated from high school and college, had left the army and friends I’d made during difficult years, I had not yet grasped the cycle of life,
death and rebirth that happens within a single lifetime.
What Seneca taught me was that an adult lives many lives. We invest years in a moment, and then that moment passes and we must be willing to let it go, so as to be able to embrace the next moment. A study on longevity found that the common thread among those who live long is their ability to endure loss. This is the lesson of shavasana.We embrace a moment with all we have, and when the moment is over we step back and let go.”
Meditations from the Mat, Rolf Gates and Katrina Kenison
Sunday, July 19, 2009
letting go of investments in the moment
July 19, 2009 Cline Library, NAU15:05:00 PDT, Flagstaff, AZ
…continued yoga journal;
We invest years in a moment and circumstances have a life all their own. A birthing, a lifeline or living, and then a death. All this occurs in a lifetime WHILE we are ALIVE.
Long ago I left friends from a complicated time as well as neighbors and some folks on some of the jobs where we met. The on-going ness of familial ties has a lifeline or living of its own, as well.
I have let go in this lifetime of wanting things different than they are and have adjusted with God’s help and some human aid to allowing things in my family to be just as they are.
What is different is that now I am ok with the difficulty that my family has with closeness and intimacy.
Instead of wanting them to change and pick up my offers to join-in with me, I am now ok with letting go of wanting them to be different. Letting go of complications has been the life long personal/Spiritual lesson learned well.
Long ago I left friends from a complicated time. Now I feel like I have let go of complicated family members from a difficult time. I tried being of useful service for some 20-25 years to no avail, now is the time to let go of them and that moment that I invested much time with.
A new moment is arriving. Remember, it is neither the journey nor the destination that matters most, but being OPEN to find what is in the next Moment seems to me to ring vital and has more import.
Trying to get people, family or folks at large to like you when they do not like you is a wasted effort and letting go of trying to do this is what the letting go is all about. After-all…why not spend time with folks that ALREADY do like you? Go figure on a spiritual lesson learned well.
Spent the past ten nights living in the tent out on the forest service-line on the Arizona Trail. Days have been spent walking the BA and Kaibab Trails… to date 82 miles.
Living out-of-doors and walls leaves nothing to be desired.
I enjoy not living INSIDE. The lone male elk has been calling, bugling and bellowing under cover of the stars. A green hummingbird checked me out yesterday at day break. I like being around in the outside; in the great Ponderosa forest of the Mogollon Rim in No. AZ and do not lament for an instant the amenities afforded in middle-class America.
Am on a break today and am happier for it. See? It is the moment that Janis Joplin talked about in the 60’s, the moment that Naparsteck referred to concerning Childs’ work and of course the work Gate’s has been up to, not forget Bill Wilson too.Fretting about the other 364 days leaves us alone in our misery and dis-conjoined from this moment.
Thank you my friends for reading my soliloquy today.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
July 5,2009
Continued yoga journal…
Craig Childs helps us understand that it is neither the journey nor the destination that is most important but rather what it is you are willing to find. Those most open, like Childs, find their souls.”
Martin Naparsteck, Salt Lake Tribune
Martin Naparsteck, Salt Lake Tribune
From Rolf Gates and Katrina Kenison’s Meditations from the Mat:
“What we need to do is to recognize Inner Nature and work with Things As They Are. When we don’t, we get into trouble.”
Benjamin Hoff
“Desire is the wish for things to be not as they are. What is wrong with that? In a culture that reveres progress, working with things as they are sounds depressingly like fatalism. Did Martin Luther King Jr. work with things as they are? Did Helen Keller work with things as they are? Did Rocky? [the movie] Well, yes, they did, actually. Dwelling in the real, individuals who accomplish great deeds demonstrate what is possible, demonstrate how things are. There is nothing fatalistic about working with things as they are. Fatalism begins when we leave the present, when we forsake the real in favor of our imaginations. Within the real lie the seeds of all our dreams. As we accept and connect with the postures that are hard for us, we find the understanding that leads to mastery. That is working with things as they are.”Gently I go forth…
Do you believe as I have over many years now that ‘fatalism’ leads one into a sense of unconscious acting-up or playing –out a scene with an ingrained automatic behavior pattern looking pretty much like desperateness?
Fa·tal·ism n.
1. The doctrine that all events are predetermined by fate and are therefore unalterable.
2. Acceptance of the belief that all events are predetermined and inevitable.
Sometimes I become for sake of this discussion, distressed, distracted and anxious with a sprinkle over the whole she-bang― a degree of upset ness― with things seemingly not going-to-go the way I hallucinated or had a vision that circumstances should or worse yet, imagined they would.
This living in the future serves to re-enforce that things as they are not fair at least.
and at most―my imagination tells me, rather the ego inside the brain… that magical meatball up there, that because things are not fair, that THEY ARE WRONG and I deserve A BREAK.
This is laughable when engaged in working with things as they appear and practice being Here Now. As Ram Dass titled his book after his stroke years ago, I am Still Here.
The American-Consumer-Culture inculcates this into those acculturated into this society. It is something that I am trying to practice…this being not to react to the so-called consumer-demands that seems so natural but diametrically opposed to working with things as they are especially in the ‘market-place’. For me this seems to occur most often in the consumer venues where corporations rarely bend their profit motives to haggle or give the so-called “break.”
I welcome your comments and opinions regarding your practice and progress on this point considering Naparsteck’s quotation and the meditation reading above.
Inculcate tr.v.
1. To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
2. To teach (others) by frequent instruction or repetition; indoctrinate.
How can I break the pattern of fitting into this culture while continuing to live here?
Do you suppose there is more haggling over in Somalia or Yemen?
What is that culture about? Thank you for the chance to continue my yoga journal with you looking over my shoulder!
“What we need to do is to recognize Inner Nature and work with Things As They Are. When we don’t, we get into trouble.”
Benjamin Hoff
“Desire is the wish for things to be not as they are. What is wrong with that? In a culture that reveres progress, working with things as they are sounds depressingly like fatalism. Did Martin Luther King Jr. work with things as they are? Did Helen Keller work with things as they are? Did Rocky? [the movie] Well, yes, they did, actually. Dwelling in the real, individuals who accomplish great deeds demonstrate what is possible, demonstrate how things are. There is nothing fatalistic about working with things as they are. Fatalism begins when we leave the present, when we forsake the real in favor of our imaginations. Within the real lie the seeds of all our dreams. As we accept and connect with the postures that are hard for us, we find the understanding that leads to mastery. That is working with things as they are.”Gently I go forth…
Do you believe as I have over many years now that ‘fatalism’ leads one into a sense of unconscious acting-up or playing –out a scene with an ingrained automatic behavior pattern looking pretty much like desperateness?
Fa·tal·ism n.
1. The doctrine that all events are predetermined by fate and are therefore unalterable.
2. Acceptance of the belief that all events are predetermined and inevitable.
Sometimes I become for sake of this discussion, distressed, distracted and anxious with a sprinkle over the whole she-bang― a degree of upset ness― with things seemingly not going-to-go the way I hallucinated or had a vision that circumstances should or worse yet, imagined they would.
This living in the future serves to re-enforce that things as they are not fair at least.
and at most―my imagination tells me, rather the ego inside the brain… that magical meatball up there, that because things are not fair, that THEY ARE WRONG and I deserve A BREAK.
This is laughable when engaged in working with things as they appear and practice being Here Now. As Ram Dass titled his book after his stroke years ago, I am Still Here.
The American-Consumer-Culture inculcates this into those acculturated into this society. It is something that I am trying to practice…this being not to react to the so-called consumer-demands that seems so natural but diametrically opposed to working with things as they are especially in the ‘market-place’. For me this seems to occur most often in the consumer venues where corporations rarely bend their profit motives to haggle or give the so-called “break.”
I welcome your comments and opinions regarding your practice and progress on this point considering Naparsteck’s quotation and the meditation reading above.
Inculcate tr.v.
1. To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
2. To teach (others) by frequent instruction or repetition; indoctrinate.
How can I break the pattern of fitting into this culture while continuing to live here?
Do you suppose there is more haggling over in Somalia or Yemen?
What is that culture about? Thank you for the chance to continue my yoga journal with you looking over my shoulder!
Friday, July 3, 2009
July 3, 2009 Grand County Library Moab, UT
July 3.2009
The warmest days of the season are yet to approach although this past week saw low 100's and just a sheet for covers at night.
The warmest days of the season are yet to approach although this past week saw low 100's and just a sheet for covers at night.
I like living OUTSIDE better than living tween walls of a bedroom in middle class housing.
The down side? Yes, testing the patience with the torturing gnats and little black flies .
Cleaned-up the camera inner workings with expert help from a pretty good meeting goer...Lynn Ross... he helped me out just when I needed it and I didn't have to ask. His abilities were a God-send!
Will post some teaser images for you to enjoy.
thank you, my friends.
The down side? Yes, testing the patience with the torturing gnats and little black flies .
Cleaned-up the camera inner workings with expert help from a pretty good meeting goer...Lynn Ross... he helped me out just when I needed it and I didn't have to ask. His abilities were a God-send!
Will post some teaser images for you to enjoy.
thank you, my friends.
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