SOME MUCH TO TALK ABOUT
LONG TIME GONE
I have been gone for a while traveling to NY, helping facilitate a yoga retreat in Sedona . I am back now and want to fill you all in on a number of things.
AMAZING TWO YOUNG MEN
Before I left for NY I met two truly amazing young men, ages 28 and 29. They were brothers and had moved to Sedona from Florida. These were two extremely conscious young men. They asked insightful questions about dealing with death and their thoughts were of family they might someday lose. I have to say, they gave me such hope with their willingness to inquire into the unknown. If they are the generation we elders leave behind, then all will be just fine.
IF YOU TALK THE TALK YOU DO NEED TO WALK THE WALK
For over 18 years I studied Tai Chi and Qui Kung. They are both powerful things to learn. Then I moved on to yoga and studied with some pretty amazing teachers. I did not become anyone’s disciple because that is not in me. However, as I opened up to metaphysics and became more interested in life, death and grief, I discovered that I craved teachers who had high degrees of integrity in their teaching and maybe even their lives.
WHO ARE YOU?
Not only was I finding myself, but I found that many of my teachers were people I put on a pedestal and was very disturbed and disappointed when they fell from grace. What I really have learned is that we human beings are flawed, each of us in different ways depending upon what we bring to our current life. They did the best they could with that they had and so do I try to do that. There always was a point during each of the studies I had with my teachers that I began to detach. I found them flawed in ways I needed to depart from. Ultimately, I was examining myself, finding myself flawed and detaching from them, looking for what I hoped would be more compatible with what I wanted in a teacher. The realization of my own impermanence and my significant flaws that I deal with in this life time were only being mirrored for me in each teacher. I no longer do that to my teachers, nor do I do it to myself. I am still flawed and I still examine who I am. I am a better person because of the teachers I had and their ability to be a mirror for me.