Aug 20 2008
The Moon
The waning moon over Maui is shining bright tonight. A tropical breeze blows gently and misty clouds are dancing in the sky. After leaving this evenings kirtan, devotional singing, event I caught a glimpse of the moon framed by the rocking frawns of the resident palm trees. Doing a yoga of their own, balancing and breathing, I stopped in my tracks and asked my friend, “how blessed are we?”. In all honesty I really had to ask. Because sometimes the mind can forget to connect the miraculousness of daily nature. Through our regular yoga practice we begin to become more sensitized to our environment and then remember we too are a part of nature. Yoga draws us back to a place of living from our own true nature. In some odd, magical and scientific way all the twisting, turning and pretzel like manuveurs we do, land us back onto the powerful strip of knowing which exsists beyond all time and embodies all beings into Oneness. Who would have thought a sequence of postures could excavate our ego’s so pointedly. Leaving behind the world of should’s, the drive for external validation, and the misplaced value system of a materially driven society to birth a new world, a new paradigm where we understand our purpose in life is to shine like the beams of a moon. As naturally as this light falls to the earth is as naturally as we are designed to move through the world in our daily life. What a thought you were born to be as the beam of light is to the moon? Hmmm, things to ponder on this moonlit Maui yogi night.