Went to the Bikram seminar - the Bikram was here to talk and teach. He was not exactly as I hoped - very caught in the money and power...not really the essence of what yoga means. Drives a bently, mansion in beverly hills, promotes little eating and no drinking of water, spoke about himself like he was a god, could read the time cause there were too many diamonds on his watch...BLAH, anyway I still believe in the practice just dont care for him.
I am reading a good book now - The Power of Now. It really makes one think how we focus so much time/effort on what has happen... or will happen: stuck in the past or present not the now:
"the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation"
"the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation or fulfilment"
Its such a relief or rather exciting when these things just cause a light bulb of realization. What the book calls Enlightenment... we waste so much time caught in this wicked web - letting emotions control life. I am working on not letting jealously, hate, angry...all that stuff control me. It is not easy but important to live by and understand.
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