Obviously, aside from the last post, it has been quite awhile since I blogged. Adult life (almost) affords less time to such frivolous activities (haha). Much has happened! It would take be seven chapters to describe the events of an entire two years so instead I will skip to the most important parts:
Dec 21st 2012 (end of the world) -or as I know it - beginning of true love! The threads of the sweater, Ravi and I, have finally come together to create something magnificent.
You know what they say, "you just know"? and that is the worst piece of advice any single person, or person who doesn't know can receive. BUT, it's true. I have finally found that "you just know" feeling. And we are happy being nerds together :-)
Fast forward: a bunch of awesome stuff happens.
June 2014: We went to Brazil and watched 4 World Cup games! Adventure of a life time with the love of my life Ravi! - and his father. Wouldn't I like to spend a lot of time typing out the details? Perhaps a different day. That's a lot of details for my fragile patience.
Anyways, here I am at my internship, working in the IT department (I am now in my second year of completing an IT diploma in software development - yeah. A lot has happened!). I decided to re-read many of my blog entries going back several years. I have made leaps and bounds of progress both professionally and personally!!
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Yoga
Boy, am I ever excited to start yoga! "Real yoga" - at a Hindu temple. My nerves are up as a I wonder if it will be different than the hot yoga I'm used to. So decided to research the difference between "standard yoga" and Hindu yoga thinking I might find a simple explanation like "Hindu yoga is more intimately entwined with the spiritual practices of Hinduism, while 'standard' focuses on the physical positions and relaxation, with no specific religious references." Instead, I came across articles like this one:
While I do respect the concern about the commercialization of religious/spiritual beliefs, or even any beliefs that are not fully understood by the "taker" (this is an entire book on it's own), I was also appalled by how quickly such a question could turn into heated debate or become focused on bashing other religions. Disgusting (Note: avoid the comments section of most articles). The content of some of the posts actually outweighed the question at all - clearly those commenters practicing yoga, either "truly" or as Western "buyers" have missed some foundational lessons of yoga, or at least the lessons that I have understood from the practice - calmness, tolerance, acceptance, and discipline.Take a deep breath and reflect before you start writing negative comments in an article about yoga - or maybe - go do some yoga!
Anyways, this is my response to the article and the comments:
Yoga without spirituality is like kneeling without praying. Both are useful sometimes.
I thought it was witty...
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