Tuesday, August 20, 2013

the therapeutic quality of advanced asana, or, how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

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About a month ago, during my Sunday morning practice, as I lifted my feet off the ground into Badha Hasta Sirsasana D my left shoulder made...
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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Quarterbacks and Golfers: some thoughts on moving and sitting meditation

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 My relationship with sitting meditation practice now is quite similar to what my relationship with asana practice used to be.  That is to ...
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Monday, July 1, 2013

don't confuse the optimal with the possible, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good

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It's been a while, I know.  My bad.  I've had a something of a rough month in the mental health arena again, and I just haven't...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

heat, or, too much sacrifice makes a stone of the heart

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Last week my acupuncturist told me I have an excess of heat in my body.  Well there's a fucking news flash.  I'm sure many an acupu...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

a new venture

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For some time now my mother, whom I adore and venerate, has been busting my balls to come up with some way of making extra money.  "Yo...
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Friday, April 26, 2013

instruments only

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For about three or four hours this afternoon I was quite sure that my wife didn't love me anymore.  She didn't say anything explici...
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Saturday, April 6, 2013

Chapter 23: In which an experiment gets off to a rocky start

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For all you smarty-pants literary type readers out there, the title of this post is in fact a nod to Thomas Pynchon's cryptic Beat mast...
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