Category: Coming Through
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Yoga Practice Charts 2021
In some past Yoga check-ins, I tried using graphs to illustrate how my sense of well-being fluctuates. The graphs were created in retrospect and I invented data to try to express how I felt. In 2021 I initiated a journaling experiment to see what real data might look like. I use a spreadsheet to collect…
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Custodial Relation to a Sentient Landscape
This morning I wrote this in a Samkhya journal entry: The text itself is not a body of knowledge. It is a place-holder, a seed around which knowledge can crystallize. The knowledge is held in a kind of morphic field of all the teachers and students who have together engaged and explored the text and…
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סתיו כמו חורף
גל של קור עבר פה בימים האחרוניםהלילות קפואים, התנור בוער בבוקריבש בחוץ, האדמה קשההשמש גם היא ביקרה בימים האחרוניםכמעט כל יום יצאתי החוצה וישבתי לקרוא עטוף בקרניה אני פוגש שוב את החיוניות בתרגולזו איכות שמופיעה מעצמה כשהתרגול ממושך וכשהלב שקטלא חוויתי אותה מזה כשנתייםבשנה שעברה בזמן זה הרגשתי מתפורר מהקשר עם יוליההנשימה הייתה שבורה וגם…
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Mario Batkovic / Accordion
I’ve never really liked the accordion. In my consciousness, it was dominated by a metallic sound and an association with folk music which have never appealed to me. But THIS … I still can’t decide if he made the instrument disappear or presented it in all its glory. This feels like an accordion doing what…
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Yeshayahu Leibowitz: A Right to Land
Here is a rough translation because there are no subtitles in this short video (from its quality I place it in the 60’s or 70’s) an Israeli asks Leibowitz, an Israeli philosopher, a question: I am a farmer who owns lands. What do I tell my Arab neighbor who tells me, in good spirit, that…
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Seeing Samkhya
Today I launched a website about my exploration of the Samkhya Karika text. It is one of the ancient Indian philosophies and the metaphysical ground upon which Yoga rests. The text has 73 verses that outline 25 principles that constitute Samkhya. I am creating a generative summary for each verse along with a painting.
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Consequences
There is a special time, a special transition … when I complete the asana part of practice and transition to pranayama and sitting. Today, just as that time arrived the world outside exploded with the noise of barking dogs … many dogs … our dogs and others. A neighbor came driving down the road from…
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Kumiko Unfolding – Part 7: Small Lamp
After stumbling my way through a first lamp I realized that I wanted to continue exploring new patterns and that lamps can be a good canvas to hold the patterns as I make them while creating something beautiful and useful (I am not drawn to Kumiko patterns hanging on a wall as a decoration). I…
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Straining my back
We had just completed the first two days of work of renovation of the summer kitchen. It was the morning after and the excavator arrived for a few tasks we bundled together. I had already done a few tasks to clear the way for the excavator and felt a bit of discomfort in my lower…
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Understanding in Hebrew
For Dan and “The Understanding Group” 🙂 What follows is a flow of thoughts about “understanding” in the Hebrew language … my knowledge of language (both Hebrew and English) is more intuitive than formal … so some of this stuff may not be “exactly true”! Hebrew is built upon root words which typically have three…
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Kumiko Unfolding – Part 6: Andon Lamp as a Canvas
Satisfied with the experiment of the first asa-no-ha pattern I wanted to continue. I wanted to get more practice under my belt. But just making more asa-no-ha patterns didn’t feel appealing. I wanted to make something that would include the asa-no-ha pattern. Of all the Kumiko examples I’ve seen, Andon lamps were most appealing to…
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Kumiko Unfolding – Part 5: Asa-no-ha
Once I had workable kumiko strips I gladly turned to making an asa-no-ha pattern. I spoiled two sets of kumiko strips before I got the marking and cutting decently done. As I was doing this I felt that I had developed an attachment to the kumiko strips. They were difficult to create and felt like…
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We don’t stop the bad, it stops
“Even when some things are good, we cannot prompt ourselves to do them even by will. Some people try forcibly to restrain themselves from doing certain things. This will never work because the activity of forcing, constraining, and struggling tends to become a distraction. We become so involved in the negative action that we never…
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Deeper & Discerning Perception
This scientific article was not written for me to read, but the essense of it does resonate with me: there is value in learning to better discern between how things appear and what they are, to learn to perceive deeper, beyond surface phenomena to deeper underlying dynamics:
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Flowes in the Guns – Reloaded
A couple of days ago Iulia came back from the village postoffice with a letter for me … mail … the snail kind. I, who only receive SMS notifications from Iulia or from Orange remiding me to ask Iulia to recharge my phone with credit, received a writte letter that physically traveled half way around…
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Protected: Bee Wax Triturations in Mourning
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.