Oh my god, people are fucking crazy.... Breathe... Breathe... Breathe... (That's about it, for now)...../\.(Calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh) (Thanks to all the kind people at Blue Cliff Monastery)...
Yoga for Cynics
| Blog URL: | http://yogaforcynics.blogspot.com |
| Blog Tags: | Yoga, Writing, Meditation, Music, Poetry, Visual Arts, Eastern Philosophy, Living, Agnosticism |
| Country: | United States |
| State/Province: | Pennsylvania |
| Location: | Philadelphia |
Possibly having something to do with yoga, writing, cynicism, music, meditation, dogs, drugs, coffee...or maybe not. | |
Latest Blog Posts
Trail Difficult to Find Beyond this Point
on Aug 18, 2015 in: depression, hiking, meditation, yoga
I've never seen myself as a city mouse, used to think quite the opposite, in fact. My ideal was to get as far away from the noise, the pollution, the frenzied mass of raw humanity, as possible. Lengthy wilderness backpacking...
Be Where You Are, Philly Edition
on Oct 18, 2014
As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.Fake Buddha(actually from Jack Kornfield, Buddha’s Little Instruction Book)The past keeps knock knock knockin’ on my doorAnd I don’t want to hear...
Prayer is nothing but poetry that achieves the destruction of its reciter.*...Matt Remski thinks a helluva lot about mālā beads...hell, he thinks a helluva lot about a whole lotta stuff...but mālā beads more than most...,turns out he’s a recove...
Facebook, Junk Food, Suffering, Compassion, and Robin Williams
on Aug 25, 2014 in: Buddhism, depression, yoga
The hole I dig is bottomless but nothing else can set me free...Robert Pollard, I Am a ScientistIt is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love.Friedrich Nietzsche, Sprach Zarathustra ...a friend posted...
4th of July, Somewhere in Philly
on Jul 4, 2014
...I live a couple of miles from the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, where the Roots play the Wawa-sponsored biggest free concert in America (about 600 thousand people last time I went) in front of the Art Museum steps every 4th of July....the re...
Awakening: Compassion, Contentment, Etc.
on Jun 29, 2014
...saw a group of young guys...looked like college kids...a block or two down Sansom Street from where I live...standing on a corner taking pictures of themselves and laughing...a second look showed what was so funny....a homeless man lying...
