11/09/2024
Just me tonight, trying (& kind of failing during this picture?) to just Be Here Now with this collection of simple things - appreciate every single bite of this plum I just walked to the local grocer to purchase; specifically to pair with this fresh carrot juice (at the request of my tastebuds); sipping slower than a slow thing, as if it's my last-ever sip of anything, while watching the dance created by the flicker of potentially my last flame witnessed. Just a bunch of pretty "little deaths" or endings waiting to happen... adding up to the many I encountered/took part in today (did you realise you are always doing something for the first and last time ever? (maybe the things are familiar, but never were they done or experienced the exact same way as before)). Bruh.... Yeah... Let's face it - if ever we are talking about/contemplating (and the things we do to fill it), we're also talking about/contemplating .
A yoga student warned me that a friend passed away this week and so she was hoping for a gratitude-filled session tonight reflecting on that and, thus, also celebrating the life the rest of us DO still have. Honestly, ALL yoga sorta follows these themes (and even contemplates Death; the last big lie-down we call Savasana is Sanskrit for "Co**se Pose" and so if you want to get deep and poetic about it with me, every yoga class is a life cycle and we die and rise again at the end of each and every single session. I wrote a heady personal essay that I even read in public on this very thing, AKA dying on my yoga mat and lovin it, and how lying on the floor keeps me close to the dead people I miss, etc etc... It was a lot, but/and it was well received).
Indeed, the Yoga Guide in me literally told said student "say no more", and returned to watching 'Charmed'... but then the Capricorn in me ended up doing a quick e-dive into Buddhist practices surrounding death, specifically their Maranasati (mindfulness of death) meditations and these here 9 Contemplations on Death from the 11th century Buddhist scholar, Atisha Dipamkara Shrijnana. Darn Caps (thank god for )
Anyway.
Link in bio for a new class playlist ft. this here heady number too🙏