Equanimity · 4 January 2010
From the Bhagavad Gita:
Attachment and aversion by sense organs for respective objects are natural; let no one come under their sway; they are his foes….
Notions of heat and cold, of pain and pleasure, have a beginning and an end, are impermanent in nature…bear them patiently…be contented with whatever comes....
Hahahaha.
Another way of saying the same thing:
Practice and all is coming.
Hahahahaha. Yes. Loss gain praise blame pleasure pain love hate. All.
What did we think he meant? Durvasasana, fame, sex and cupcakes?
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Wait, he DIDN’T mean cupcakes?
Aw mannnnnnnn….
Posted by: Rebecca · Jan 4, 06:02 PM · #
:)
Posted by: laruga* · Jan 5, 04:22 AM · #
You can keep the fame. The other stuff sounds pretty good, though…
Posted by: karen · Jan 5, 04:33 AM · #
I think he might’ve been talking about Calvin Klein underwear?
Posted by: boodiba · Jan 5, 08:09 AM · #
Calvins and cupcakes would be enough.
Legend has it that when SKPJ first started wearing the Calvins regularly, it was during a hot season in Laksmipuram. And a bunch of the western guys started doing the same, practicing advanced series in tightie whities. I have yet to see photo documentation of this era…
Posted by: (0v0) · Jan 5, 10:29 AM · #
was the undie-fad just to be the chess-board opposite of the dark iyengar diapers?
practice and all is coming: is that like getting a tax break for having more children?
alison west says when it is very cold, imagine it is very hot. when you are walking hell-bent through busy new york, slow yourself by imagining you are walking backwards. in this way, the opposites dissolve into each other—
and we’re left in our underwear.
but as you said: ha ha ha ha! there’s even a school of yoga that claims that as their philosophy.
Posted by: Sara · Jan 5, 11:18 PM · #
Pratipaksha bhavanam.
I am burning up here. The humidity is stifling. The sun is blinding. And it’s so unbelievably LOUD!
Posted by: (0v0) · Jan 6, 10:41 AM · #
BTW, my NY resolution is to clean up my shitty internet language. Specifically, I’ve really let myself go in the emoticon department.
It’s proving difficult to write blog comments without :-) !
Posted by: (0v0) · Jan 6, 10:43 AM · #
don’t underestimate the necessity of curse words to drive a point home. they are like the antidote to rampant emoticons: the emotion stands in the grapheme, rather than in a dopey yellow blob.
is someone chastising you for your expletives, or is your super-ego just looking for a day job?
a huge, f-in hug to you and your efforts—-
Posted by: Sara · Jan 6, 11:41 PM · #
Heat and cold! Daido Loori! :
) ;) :-P =:-Ohttp://mro.org/zmm/teachings/daido/teisho16.php
Posted by: karen · Jan 7, 02:24 PM · #
That is a very fucking good discourse by John Daido Loori. Thank you.
This, following his discussion that just acting isn’t the same as realized engagement:
Compassion is totally different from goodness. It contains goodness but it is not motivated by the same forces that motivate goodness. Compassion is the direct manifestation of wisdom, the clear understanding that there is absolutely no distinction between self and other, no separation. Compassion arises out of intimacy, not out of pity.
Posted by: (0v0) · Jan 8, 01:10 PM · #
Also, the coldness aphorism:
Is it the bowl that rolls around the pearl,
Or is it the pearl that rolls around the bowl?
Is it the weather that is cold,
Or is it the person that is cold?...
Walking around freezing my ass off here, many cold koans have occurred to me. Where is cold? What part, specifially, is cold? And why does fat keep people warm? What is it that is warm? What is it that is cold? This is mind blowing. Moreso if you are freezing. And moreso yet if you are a little drunk…
Posted by: (0v0) · Jan 8, 01:13 PM · #