"A life not fully tested is a sad one of wasted potential. It remains a life that does not venture out to risk failure, but instead constructs a cocoon of habits around itself made up of comfortable clichés and abstractions. The room is stuffy and claustrophobic. The weird, flickering spasms of T.V. light fill the room at night to ward off death for another sleepless night.
Zen training turns off the T.V. set, opens the windows to let in some fresh air, and rips up our comfortable newspaper clippings that we have been saving. It sits us down in an empty room with nothing to hold onto. Here we begin to learn how to trust what is fundamental and elemental. Like a great red wood tree in an old growth forest, we become unshakable. Our attention does not wander or stray. We remain. We stay. We breathe. This is how we learn to trust our experience as it is." - Sensei Robert Joshin Althouse
Subsitute the word "yoga" for the word "zen" in the above quote and you kinda get where I'm going with this whole yoga thing. My thanks to Zen Filter for bringing this wonderful quote to my attention. Namaste!
As for the photo... Buddha is a Polar Bear too!
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