Monday, October 06, 2003


a moment of introspection

if i had a patio and a baseball bat, would i do the same myself?

and i hate to discourage them, but coffee is far, far from black gold. . .i doubt that on the quality level, when exposed to international competition, it will remain at US$29 a pound.

oh farmers of taiwan -- your fellow citizens are adopting the global cafe lifestyle, but i fear you will not profit from it!

also, iyengar yoga, ashtanga yoga -- both appear to be working in arkansas!

finally, a great link from the just-plain-huggable chipper harris of coffee kids. while it is specifically in reference to krishna das' latest album, i suppose the comments would apply to all american kirtan. (well maybe not manorama; her sanskrit accent and pronounciation are world-renowned.)

i'm surprised that georg feuerstein disapproves, frankly. i thought the whole point of sanskrit was that as the "universal language," the very sound of it was said to be transformational.

the classic texts all make the startling claim that just hearing the syllables causes your brain to re-wire itself. so it wouldn't matter if you didn't know ganesha from yoga student 50 cent; the words'll do the rest.

some texts also remark that the sounds of the sanskrit alphabet are the foundation of what we would currently call space-time, in that the physical vibrations of the letters somehow underlie the structure of the universe, which i think is what we call string theory nowadays, if you be that-a-way inclined.

as for the hindu deity part of it: each practitioner is supposed to find the name and form that is most appropriate to them, all the yoga teachers say. sorry, i just don't get georg's problem here. . .

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