YogaforCynics

Autumn Rivulets 2 & 3 on Nov 4, 2009 in indifference standard plot world series unfinished life haiku autumn rivulets shingles moss ...keep finding myself in conversations like this:Complete stranger: Whadja think o’ [somebody who apparently plays baseball] in the seventh last night?Me: Uh...he was great...Complete stranger: Whaddaya mean great?! That douchebag mighta cost us t...

Autumn Rivulet #1 on Oct 30, 2009 in here and now cool autumn breeze Jon Kabat-Zinn meditating haiku autumn rivulets Autumn breathing Van Morrison enlightenment I’m in the here and now and I’m meditating, andstill I’m sufferin’, but that’s my problem...Van Morrison...as long as you’re breathing, there’s more right with you than wrong with you...Jon Kabat-Zinnfelt a cool autumnbreeze upon waking...

Notes from a Postmodern Yogi...Bear on Oct 27, 2009 in N Scott Momaday Bears Stephen Colbert Bear Mountain Lyle Lovett Tuolumne Meadows A A Milne Winnie the Pooh Appalachian Trail Andy Warhol yogi bear Four Pandas grunge look Tao of Pooh ...always been a big guy...bit on the hairy side...kinda slow and lumbering...with a sweet tooth...and a grouchy temper....have been referred to as that big lumberjack guy...but, far more often, as a bear...uso, in Spanish....apparently, if I were ga...

The Only Kind of Spirituality I Have Any Interest In... on Oct 20, 2009 in yoga getting trashed Buddha Dalai Lama spirituality namaste mindfulness really spiritual dude meditation ...so...as has been reflected here...I’ve been doing a lot of yoga...and a lot of meditation...and reading a lot about mindfulness...and have been writing about it...which might, in the eyes of some, make me a really spiritual dude......anyway, ton...

This Cool Thich Nhat Hanh Quote I Found on Oct 17, 2009 in Miles Davis demotivational poster motivational poster postmodern irony fart jokes Thich Nhat Hanh Sonny Fortune honestly negative mindfulness drunken wake drifting cloud ...found this cool Thich Nhat Hanh quote, and almost immediately decided it was gonna be in the next Yoga for Cynics post....since then, have spent a helluva lotta time trying to write stuff to go with it...which hasn’t been working out so well....

The Line Between Solitude and Loneliness Is Often Difficult to See on Oct 13, 2009 in yoga Liu Bolin camouflage art Chinese Bones Wendell Berry Joseph Conrad Robyn Hitchcock the line between us is so thin I might as well be you...Robyn HitchcockWe live as we dream, alone.Joseph Conrad...the line between solitude and loneliness is often difficult to see, and nearly impossible to map...in fact, it’s all too easy to spend...

It's About Time on Oct 11, 2009 in Charlie Watts upward slide Mark Twain Paint It Black legendary sitar riff time Theodoros Pelecanos Steven Wright teenage angst Rolling Stones Ouroboros Aftermath dark anxiety Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.Steven WrightLoyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will.Mark Twain... There are times I feel I'm new and different...like the past...