I attended a Sally Kempton workshop in Berkeley last Sunday and she ended it with the funniest line.
The workshop was based on the Gita, one of my favorite Yoga texts. Heck, I named my cat Arjuna. None of the information was new but she presented it in a new way to me. She used four challenges presented to Arjuna as the basis of the course.
It was interesting, but I love her book on meditation and thought the talk was going to be based on that subject plus the air in the studio was so stuffy and everyone seemed so serious. My Guru is funny and gets us to laugh a bit but the people here were not laughing at Sallys jokes.
Then she hit us with what I call a wake up. If your a presenter and you feel everyone is drifting or becoming comatose a good tool is to change the tone. So out it came from this sweet mediator:
"The world is Fucked up so just do the best you can".
I'm going to have to steal that line.
Doing the best I can is my personal mantra. I have a critic mind. People tease me for always changing my environs, What they don't know is its because my mind is consistently telling me how things, including myself and others can be better. It's very frustrating. Meditation had helped a little. Now when it points out this about Me I counter with "The world is Fd and I'm doing the best I can".
See you on the mat,
Troy
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