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This morning I was cranky and PMS-y and didn’t want to get out of bed. But my roommate thankfully knew what was best for me and all but pushed me out of the house to go to yoga. I drove my lethargic bag o’ bones there, all the while dreading the feeling of not-good-enough-ness that would surely descend upon me when I failed to meet my own yogic standards. But I got lucky today. I was blessed with a yoga teacher who delivered exactly what I was too constricted to realize I needed. She...
A week ago, I moved with my daughter from my house in South Austin to an apartment in North Austin. I didn’t have any help, so I had to organize and execute the entire move myself. This task required that I maintain focus, clarity of mind, and significant physical energy for two solid weeks, so that I could address all the necessary logistical details and the enormous amount of packing, throwing out, organizing, and unpacking needed. As someone living with MS for fifteen years and all too aware of the tenuous nature of my...
When my mom died, I watched the entire series of Grey’s Anatomy. In the spring, when I had a bout of double vision and depression, I watched the entire series of Lost. Last month, it was Ugly Betty, start to finish. Oh yeah, and 30 Rock. Television is my drug. Television is how my ego – or, according to Buddhist philosophy, the lord of form, has got me in its grip. Here’s what Tibetan meditation master Chogyam Trungpa says about the lord of form in Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism: “The lord of form refers...
“When the ego was made, God placed in the mind the Call to joy. This Call is so strong that the ego always dissolves at its sound. That is why you must choose to hear one of two voices within you. One you made yourself, and that one is not of God. But the other is given you by God, Who asks you only to listen to it.” – A Course in Miracles This morning when I woke up, my head hurt and I immediately felt frustrated. Then I played for a while with...
