January 29, 2005
SPIRITUALLY DEAD; PHYSICALLY LIVING, STUDENTS HAIKU, and INPUT
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Dudjom Rinpoche was driving through France with his wife, admiring the countryside as they went along. They passed along cemetery that had been freshly painted and decorated with flowers. Dudjom Rinpoche�s wife said: �Rinpoche, look how everything in the West is so neat and clean. Even the places where they keep corpses are spotless. In the East not even the houses that people live in are anything like as clean as this.�
�Ah, yes,� he replied, �that�s true; this is such a civilized country. They have such marvelous houses for dead corpses. But haven�t you noticed? They have such wonderful houses for the living corpses too.�
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More Student Dharma Haiku
Computer and I (5)
Sit in here gathering dust (7)
At least I can rise (5)
Try it, you'll like it, (5)
I scoffed when wife challenged me, (7)
That damn bosu ball (5)
- Thanks a lot J
Doug Harrison
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Subject: Daily yoga
Steve,
Weather here in Georgia is ripe for winter riding. The last few local club rides have been in the rain at about 40 degrees and taken in some prime Georgia dirt roads. We do these rides, called Georgia Pave, on road bikes (a few ride cross bikes) so they are way fun.
Mostly I just wanted to rave wildly about Daily yoga. Man, I've been really stuck and stagnant with my strength training and just not feeling it like I used to. For many years I'd ST four -six days a week. Lately it's been 1-2 days a week and my strength levels are always consistent. Meditation has been a daily thing for a long time, cardio is always 5-10 hours a week and yoga once or twice a week. As I sat the other morning I started to blaze and I knew that starting the next day I'd rise an hour earlier, hit the neti pot and get in an hour of asana practice at least five days a week. After three weeks it's like the blaze that started while I sat has turned into a nice steady burn. Crap I'd been holding on to for years is in piles of ash around the house. My wife is stoked (probably because I just got her a new Precor elliptical trainer!) with the change and I'm feeling mighty fine.
Sometimes us thickheaded rednecks aren't real bright, but once we get going we like to rage. I can't believe that after years of morning sitting and several years using the neti ( a wise old man who taught me tree climbing and pruning recommended it in 1999) I just now dipped into yoga on a more regular basis. Keep up the good fight and sing strong.
Beannocht,
Steven Blondeau
The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and
polish the spirit."
-Morihei Ueshiba. Founder of Aikido
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