Comments on: Egg, Swallowing, Merit

By: patrick

patrick — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:37:06 +0000

So I’m reading this and I’m digging it and at the same time I’m seeing that this kind of meditation practice is far from my life, and I’m chewing on that,

and THEN I hit the Cop’s punchline and I was HOWLING, and perhaps unfortunately, that’s what I’m taking away from this post tonight.

I’ll be good and really groove on the meditation bit tomorrow, I promise. But tonight, it totally belongs to the Cop. By the way, I know EXACTLY what you mean by “vinyasa voice”, I even know people here who teach in it!

David Swenson, in a weekend workshop, urged us (as teachers) to be ourselves and NOT to teach in “yoga voice”: “Wellllcome……..to Yoh-gah!” and so forth. Hilarious, if you’ve not seen his impressions (his impressions of David Williams, and Richard Freeman, are also priceless).

By: donutszenmom

donutszenmom — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:33:03 +0000

If a zen teacher ask you about yourself and you say, “Don’t know,” they say, “Good!”

So good for you, for not knowing!

Hi Ursula! What about you? Have fun with your changed perspective.

By: (0v0)

(0v0) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:46:17 +0000

I don’t know.

“What about me??!”

I don’t have a good read on that at all right now. Which is pretty funny! As long as I can still write complete sentences and paragraphs, which is all that is required this afternoon.

(I thought you’d like that. Check out http://mipham.com/, something that hasn’t made my Saturday links since I’ve been trying to do something else with that, uh, feature.)

By: Ursula

Ursula — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:40:06 +0000

Mipham is great.

Yeah, the others………:) so much fun, so much hell.

To change perspective can be rather interesting. I will do it tomorrow. What about the others?

By: donutszenmom

donutszenmom — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:16:06 +0000

I LOVE it! I just tried to embed it into a post, so everyone would be sure to see it, but WordPress won’t let me.

Terrific.

What about you, Owl? How are you?

By: (0v0)

(0v0) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:03:12 +0000

Oooh, such resources here. The last three sentences of the last quotation I like a lot.

I feel like the gimme aspect of meditation practice was not even something I began to see until I’d been at it a little while. Becasue at first it WAS ineffable and transporting, felt like juicy transformation for this transformation junkie. But then you settle in and there’s less drama. Exactly! But also, meh. Then you get a sense of humor? Damn vinyasa flow.

Ashtanga works like that too, seems. After a while the gimme goes away.

I held off on linking this in the last post, but now I have to. Sakyong Mipham, the king or whatever you call it of the Vajrayana lineage (Trungpa’s son) is among other things a spoken word artist. This piece, What About Me?, is wickedly funny. He means it as a joke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDSAAlrqAHM