tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post5382966964936583588..comments2024-03-21T00:30:14.738-07:00Comments on Yoga in the Dragon's Den: God, Nothingness, and ChessNobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00655577410721103577noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-12405677057810943172014-06-09T05:04:08.300-07:002014-06-09T05:04:08.300-07:00The chess game was an important moment. Perhaps on...The chess game was an important moment. Perhaps one day you shall both become great saints.yetinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-46461711645447470282014-05-01T06:55:53.548-07:002014-05-01T06:55:53.548-07:00Thank you for a great post! It really struck a cor...Thank you for a great post! It really struck a cord in me. I've been recently going through difficulties keeping up my ashtanga practice and I find this self-creation/self-destruction idea to describe my current situation perfectly. <br />I should probably take up Being and Nothingness. I studied cultural theory in college and had a fair share of philosophy but somehow never ended up in an Existentialism class. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-72102617664106960932014-04-16T11:32:50.759-07:002014-04-16T11:32:50.759-07:00Do you ever wonder if any of your students or coll...Do you ever wonder if any of your students or colleagues know about or ever read your blog? Nice to read about what happens to you in Idaho again.sereneflavorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01918585302744520840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-60851312225892032642014-04-13T02:02:17.153-07:002014-04-13T02:02:17.153-07:00Thanks for the nice post. Are you ready for a majo...Thanks for the nice post. Are you ready for a major <a href="http://www.pranashama.com/" rel="nofollow"> 30 Day Yoga Challenge & Detox Diet Transformation System </a>?It takes 21-30 days to rewire your neural synapse in your brain to create a new habit. This system is designed to help you create positive health habits that will dramatically <br />improve the quality of your life on all levels. Whatever you may be dealing with can be healed,transformed and you can break through to the next level. Begin by following this comprehensive system. Thanks all.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04393194186838593250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-16355468723864318472014-04-08T08:21:04.753-07:002014-04-08T08:21:04.753-07:00dear Nobel
what is surprising is that Sartre'...dear Nobel<br /><br />what is surprising is that Sartre's viewpoints seem aligned with Buddhism, at least the nothingness part. Buddhism is practical because it serves everyone, regardless of their views on theism. i'm happy to be theistic but have met Buddhist who weren't. one i met was an atheistic spiritual teacher. somehow i could not accept spiritual direction from an atheist (seems contradictory doesn't it?). aligned with what you are saying, i think in Buddhism we can conceive that we are all Buddhas, and there were many Buddhas before Buddha.<br /><br />life is quite existentialist and in line with Sartre's views, but when i studied philosophy i never cared much for it, as at that time i was in my deep first fervor experiences of spirituality. but look out of a plane while flying. the feeling is existentialist, as you are detached from the world you live in.<br /><br />cheers, AArturohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10971352220152467379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-9912564169839962622014-04-07T16:15:46.447-07:002014-04-07T16:15:46.447-07:00Always such a treat to hear from you, ovo. I'm...Always such a treat to hear from you, ovo. I'm generally not an advocate of reading commentaries either. But B&N may be a notable exception. I actually reread Barnes's introduction lately, and I must say that it really helped me to situate a lot of the things that he was saying. <br /><br />The very first semester I read Sartre and Heidegger, I had a very interesting night when I had trouble going to sleep, and felt this hole in my heart, not head :-) But I suppose it works differently for different people :-) Nobelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00655577410721103577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-41056557580075818252014-04-07T13:34:48.951-07:002014-04-07T13:34:48.951-07:00Lovely and edifying to read this, Nobel. I remembe...Lovely and edifying to read this, Nobel. I remember being 19 and reading B&N for the first time on a Saturday after work in a ravine below the public library. It was one of the first spring days my first year in Oregon. I remember feeling very thrown into the world-- so alienated by that. And so elated. We were not allowed to read commentary in my philosophy program (only the great works, no commentary... interesting to think how that may predict my rejection of published commentaries on ashtanga when I found the practice 5 years later). But I cheated that day and read Hazel Barnes' introduction to the edition I was reading. I still remember it. Brilliant. I walked back to the dorm that evening with a kind of hole in my head. In a good way. Same as your students now.<br /><br />Do keep writing, Nobel. When ashtanga blogs turn from asana commentary to life practice, that is where the practice itself shines. No need to talk about it at all.(0v0)http://www.insideowl.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-7328303013496419172014-04-07T05:43:30.027-07:002014-04-07T05:43:30.027-07:00carrying on from yesterday.....when I stopped bein...carrying on from yesterday.....when I stopped being so into yoga, and took up crossfit, a lot of my work associates confessed to me that they experience most yoga people as being stuck up and closed minded. Many actually rolled their eyes when talking about yoga people. I have to admit I was kind of shocked at the depth of their disdain and wondered if this was how I came across at the height of my yoga enthusiasm. Now that I'm into crossfit I wonder the same thing about my crossfit enthusiasm. At the moment my younger son is the harshest critic, but my retort is that we're all just doing it for FUN, FUN, FUN. At least I am :) It's hard to argue with that. desperate yogihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17798825003449222682noreply@blogger.com