Refuses To Go Like A Sheep Part III

AT LAST! Mika Brzezinski also refuses to go like sheep!
When his newscaster sees that the lineup for the news is Paris Hilton AGAIN she tries to burn and eventually shreds the story.
Yes, change starts with one person saying: NO MORE.
Even if you know your actions will have no actual affect, the intention will change the course of things, either psychologically, energetically or karmaically.

Refuses To Go Like A Sheep Part II

We, Like Sheep

Pada Yoga

My teacher Guta quotes her teacher that says “Yoga is for the Mind.” Jamey who is my teacher when I visit home proves that there is more to yoga then just the mind…

Refuses To Go Like A Sheep

Thank-god some sheep just take things into their own hands, or should I say their own hooves.

The first limb of the Eight Limb/Ashtanga Yoga that Patanjali gives us in the Yoga Sutra in “Yama,” the Universal Discipline, or Code of Ethics.
The first Yama is Ahimsa, or Non- Harmfulness. Kind of a no brainier.
Many Yogis therefore are vegetarian. I have been vegetarian since the age of 12, but I can relate to the difficulty of forgoing food that you are custom to eating. I have a problem forging food in general as I have made it a custom to eat, period. In any case, even if you find being vegetarian too hard for you, try and eat organic or kosher meat and dairy produce, there is a better chance that the animals you are consuming have been better treated and the bad karma you are in-taking is smaller (this is not what I was meaning to write about, I have become so serious lately!)

This sheep, ran away from the butcher and roamed the streets of the Bronx, good for her!
This sheep did the same; kind of... Two brave sheep!

Good Morning, Jafa

Since my trip to Israel I have been meaning to write about my younger sister נעה/Noa and her army service. And also how much I love her and how goofy she is. And pretty too! She is often described as fey.
Noa started her service as a program producer in the IDF radio station גל"צ/GLZ. One would expect it to be serious and old fashioned, but mostly because it is driven by young hip 18 year old soldiers it is probably the most poplar radio station in Israel. You can listen to the station and even watch the broadcasting online.
During my last visit home, Noa took me on a tour of the station; it was very “Good Morning, Vietnam.”
Since then, Noa has decided that doing one of the most desired jobs in the army is not good enough; she requested to be transferred to Officer Training. Those ambitious desires are not from my side of the family.
Here are some photos from my parents’ visit to her army base with her boyfriend נדב/Nadav. I am filled with pride as I see them. She has really great taste in men. That is from my side of my family, for sure!

You can call a woman a woman

Buddha said:
"You can call the book a book, and you can think about the book as a book, because it never could have been a book."
I say:
"You can call a woman a woman, and you can think about the woman as a woman, because it never could have been a woman."
Confusing…

I am that I am that I am that I am I am that I am that I am that I am I am that I am I am that....

सोऽहं-Soham is a very powerful mantra, the simple English translation is “I am that” Or “I am that I am”
Because it follows the breath, Sooooo... the sound of inhalation, and Hummmm... the sound of exhalation, it is a natural and universal mantra.

Patanjali teaches us in Yoga Sutra II -3. Avidyasmita-raga-dvesabhinivesah klesah, that the second Kleasah/root affliction/cause of pain is Asmita, the identification of the ego with our soul, or “I am-ness.”

It is important (and therefore confusing) to differentiate between these two concepts, “I am that I am” or “I am that” which is an important and a growing concepts of non-clinginess or dispassion from our ego, verses, Asmita: “I am THIS and that is ALL I AM”

Do I attract you?
Do I repulse you with my queasy smile?
Am I too dirty?
Am I too flirty?
Do I like what you like?...

I could be wholesome
I could be loathsome
I guess I'm a little bit shy
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me without making me try?...

Say what you want to satisfy yourself
But you only want what everybody else says you should want…

Gotta be everything more
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me?
Walk out the door!

Grace Kelly, Mika