9/2 Art: Rising Sun by Arakawa Toyozo

Cultivating Compassion to Tame the Ego

First published on Daily Cup of Yoga By cultivating friendliness towards happiness and compassion towards misery, gladness towards virtue and indifference towards the wicked the mind becomes pure. ~ Yoga Sutra 1:33 Consider this: A yoga teacher gets a better time slot than you and her class is full when you arrive to teach the next class. […]

8/22 Destination: Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California, USA

The Freedom of Not Wanting Anything

“Life just takes care of life…and its doing that even now. But on the human plane, when there is intense expectation, intense planning, intense yearning, intense programming, intense conditioning, all of these energies are pulled together and something becomes very tense about it. In that moment of tension it’s like what’s going to happen? But […]