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!
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