Musings Articles
On Truth and Trauma – with reference to the Yoga Sūtra
Atha yogānuśāsanam - and now ensues yoga. So begins the Yoga Sūtra. What does yoga ensue from? From the knowing that we do not know, from the acknowledging that we are partially (and significantly)...
Weddings and Funerals Are Not Enough: On Celebration and Gathering
Last weekend I had the joyful experience of attending my sister’s wedding. It was a beautiful day celebrating her partnership and family, and gathering many of her wider family and beloved friends...
Beyond the Bright Lights
In a recent interview on the Joe Rogan experience, Sadhguru pointed out that a main reason for our human problems is because we have got into deep grooves of searching for...
Responsibility and The Invitation
When we try to dominate another, we are at once denying, attacking and suppressing part of ourselves. Brother, sister, you too are Mother Earth.When a human being tries to dominate another, or tries...
On Puerarchy and Bully Boys
'I strive for an education that teaches us to think, and against an education that trains us to obey...' I saw this on the wall of a school building in Puerto Escondido, Mexico earlier this year. I...
On Injury and Health, Life and Death
I injured my knee at the beginning of August. A month on, I was asked: ‘How is your knee?’ Well, it is not yet functioning to allow full range of motion. Plyometric training not yet on the menu....
Jesus Christmas 2020
In preparing for a recent satsang class on Jesus, I came out of meditation the morning of 12th December 2020 and wrote Jesus at the top of the page, this is what followed, you can listen to a...
On The History of Yoga Āsana
A few years ago was published a book advancing a very narrow and very particular thesis on the ‘origins’ of physical yoga practice and modern āsana. In this book, the author suggests that the...
Econo-Bee
On how ecology - the understanding of the ecos: the environment, the resources - is the foundation for economy - good management of the ecos. On learning from other species, especially bees, and...
Prāṇa and Prāṇāyāma – An Anecdote and Some Reflections
I heard an interesting story from one of my Sanskṛt teachers, let’s call him the Professor. This teacher is a resident of Mysore, a seat of traditional Sanskṛt learning, and also in recent times a...
Representing That Which is Beyond Representation
At school, I was taught many things that I have since come to consider as being highly inaccurate, misleading, or mistaken. One of these was the idea that Hinduism is a polytheistic religion,...
Stop! Look! And Listen!
One time when I was in India, the Indian teacher in whose class I was sitting remarked that yoga āsana, the practice of yoga posture and the various movements between them, is ‘kindergarten yoga’. I...