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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 673914" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>Sometimes I am not ethical with myself. Yoga gets to be about saying "Yas, indeed I <em>do."</em> </p><p></p><p>So, I stop. I am at a stop point right now, because I was using it to show off to myself. For heaven's sake! <em>To myself!!!</em></p><p></p><p>So, I had to stop for a little while.</p><p></p><p>Tai Chi I am still okay with. The instructor is very good ~ very perceptive and good at piercing ego bubbles without destroying us.</p><p></p><p>The best way I know to replenish ourselves is to slow down. To do our work wholeheartedly, to sort of drink your tea; to drink it and savor it and ourselves in that moment as though our attention is the axis upon which the fate of the whole world and all of time depends. That is a misquote of Thich Nhat Hahn. Here is the real quote: </p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/13671-drink-your-tea-slowly-and-reverently-as-if-it-is" target="_blank">http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/13671-drink-your-tea-slowly-and-reverently-as-if-it-is</a></p><p></p><p>He was asked about anger, once. His response was that his choice of outlook is a practice. That is how to forgive ourselves, I think. We practice and practice becoming our best selves, trusting very much that we will, but never once forgetting that we are human, and not perfect, at all. </p><p></p><p>Practice.</p><p></p><p>That is our practice; and nothing is by rote, and that keeps us present and in the moment and aware that anything at all could happen next, even if we've done this very thing one hundred times.</p><p></p><p>I liked learning to see myself that way, very much.</p><p></p><p>It is hard to do.</p><p></p><p>***</p><p></p><p>If we drink our tea while watching the sun come up, that is an amazing experience. The axis of the world seems there, and birdsong and wind.</p><p></p><p>Those things I like, and being right up next to D H whiskery cheek.</p><p></p><p>You would think I would have gotten over that, by now.</p><p></p><p>:O)</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 673914, member: 17461"] Sometimes I am not ethical with myself. Yoga gets to be about saying "Yas, indeed I [I]do."[/I] So, I stop. I am at a stop point right now, because I was using it to show off to myself. For heaven's sake! [I]To myself!!![/I] So, I had to stop for a little while. Tai Chi I am still okay with. The instructor is very good ~ very perceptive and good at piercing ego bubbles without destroying us. The best way I know to replenish ourselves is to slow down. To do our work wholeheartedly, to sort of drink your tea; to drink it and savor it and ourselves in that moment as though our attention is the axis upon which the fate of the whole world and all of time depends. That is a misquote of Thich Nhat Hahn. Here is the real quote: [URL]http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/13671-drink-your-tea-slowly-and-reverently-as-if-it-is[/URL] He was asked about anger, once. His response was that his choice of outlook is a practice. That is how to forgive ourselves, I think. We practice and practice becoming our best selves, trusting very much that we will, but never once forgetting that we are human, and not perfect, at all. Practice. That is our practice; and nothing is by rote, and that keeps us present and in the moment and aware that anything at all could happen next, even if we've done this very thing one hundred times. I liked learning to see myself that way, very much. It is hard to do. *** If we drink our tea while watching the sun come up, that is an amazing experience. The axis of the world seems there, and birdsong and wind. Those things I like, and being right up next to D H whiskery cheek. You would think I would have gotten over that, by now. :O) Cedar [/QUOTE]
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