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Without music, life would be a mistake. — Nietzsche

Reality is merely an illusion,

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one” Alberti Einstein (1879-1955)

Flowers fall when we cling to them,

“Flowers fall when we cling to them, and weeds only grow when we dislike them”. Dogen,   Zen Master

There never was a struggle or a battle which required greater valor than when a person forgets or denies oneself. Meister Echkart

The things we really need ….

The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation …

Waiting for one voice?

To wait for one voice to bring it all together is as pointless as waiting for no one. Bring all things together under the Equality of Heaven, allow their process of change to go on unimpeded, and learn to grow old. What do I mean by bringing everything together under …

With the sun gone, it is as if the sky is asleep. So it is with the movement of any great light That which it makes brilliant by its rising Is closed away into darkness when it falls. Kalidasa, Kumarasambhava 8.43

A poem by William Blake Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine; Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine. It is right it should be so; Man was made for joy and woe; Through the world we safely go.

The Practice of Letting Go

For some time I have thought that yoga demands an ongoing willingness to let go. We train physically by practicing asanas to loosen our bodies to unglue stuck hamstrings, loosen overly bound tendons and and unmoor organs that have become fixed.  Not only do we experience stickiness in our physical …