2014-09-03 14:51
Prayer is nothing but poetry that achieves the destruction of its reciter.*...Matt Remski thinks a helluva lot about mālā beads...hell, he thinks a helluva lot about a whole lotta… Read More
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2014-08-26 03:55
The hole I dig is bottomless but nothing else can set me free...Robert Pollard, I Am a ScientistIt is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love.Frie… Read More
2014-07-04 16:14
...I live a couple of miles from the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, where the Roots play the Wawa-sponsored biggest free concert in America (about 600 thousand people last time I went)… Read More
2014-06-30 17:25
...saw a group of young guys...looked like college kids...a block or two down Sansom Street from where I live...standing on a corner taking pictures of themselves and laughing...a… Read More
2014-05-13 20:18
You must leave now take what you need you think will last, but whatever you wish to keep you better grab it fast...Bob Dylan, It's All Over Now, Baby Blue...one last trip to the house where… Read More
2014-05-01 04:03
Sexy Sadie, what have you done?You made a fool of everyoneYou made a fool of everyoneJohn Lennon...so...now that the yoga cynic is a totally professional officially responsible cer… Read More
2014-04-18 18:15
...it's not that I don't care about missing the lecture on equanimity, but I'm okay with it...........(for Frank Jude Boccio....thanks for a great week at Kripalu!) Read More
2014-04-10 16:43
...driving Philly’s infamous corridor of angst, the Schuylkill Expressway, with the radio on, heard an old Elvis Costello song...I’m Not Angry....with one line that goe… Read More
2013-04-04 05:14
If we become too serious we will lose our way.Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind...John Lennon sang I don’t believe in yoga, and, as I believe I’ve said before, I do… Read More
2013-02-08 16:57
...seems like it happens again and again with the meditation thing...every time I think I’m getting somewhere...or, y’know getting nowhere since there’s nowhere you need to… Read More
2013-02-04 04:00
...January hit like a giant hunk of ice in the forehead...days of severe lassitude...not much work but that little bit took all day...endlessly seeking minor forms of stimulation, trying and… Read More
2013-01-19 15:57
...bleah........................... Read More
2013-01-16 17:17
So you had better do as you are told.You better listen to the radio...Elvis Costello ...so here's the deal...I think I got into writing because I've never been so good at spoken co… Read More
2012-12-25 23:33
The photo below is of the yoga mat I’ve been using for the past year or so...or, more specifically, the family Christmas tree, as seen through one of the larger holes in the mat I… Read More
2012-12-22 14:35
...I swear apocalypses are happening every couple months these days...whether based on the Book of Revelations, Mayan Prophecies, or somebody just having a bad day and spreading the news on… Read More
2012-12-07 15:58
...who knew that Dharma Mittra has his home base a mere block or two from the legendary Hotel Chelsea...home to great authors and musicians, alcoholics, junkies, great alcoholic and junkie a… Read More
2012-12-03 14:50
often, the state of the kitchen is the state of the mind, confused and unsure men, pliable men, are the thinkers. their kitchens are like their minds, cluttered with garbage, dirty ware, imp… Read More
2012-11-22 21:36
still sunlight in waves,bare toes in cold November sand, thinking, always Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.Don DeLillo...some time ago decided I was gonna focus on practicing yoga and not think about… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The line between exploring and experimenting and simple and shameless self-indulgence can be difficult to see...but easy to ignore.Ancient and Revered Yoga Cynic Sutra 111:895...if ther… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Oh my god, people are fucking crazy.... Breathe... Breathe... Breathe... (That's about it, for now)...../\.(Calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh) (Thanks to… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
...such a drag to want something sometimes, one thing leads to another I know, sang Chrissie Hynde...distilling the first two noble truths of the Buddha, along with the law of causation… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I've never seen myself as a city mouse, used to think quite the opposite, in fact. My ideal was to get as far away from the noise, the pollution, the frenzied mass of raw hum… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
2006-06-07 11:16
As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.Fake Buddha(actually from Jack Kornfield, Buddha’s Little Instruction Book)The past ke… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Prayer is nothing but poetry that achieves the destruction of its reciter.*...Matt Remski thinks a helluva lot about mālā beads...hell, he thinks a helluva lot about a whole lotta… Read More
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