At my place of yoga, my Buddhist instructors talk a lot about the ego and how it convinces us to do unwise things, like try to force my bodies into full lotus position. I listen but keep trying to crank up my leg to get it in there anyway.
A New Earth Oprah’s seminar with Echkart Tolle based on this book of the same name, started a few weeks ago. When I hurriedly read the first chapter I really wasn’t that impressed. I found it difficult to read. I just haven’t been interested SHBs a lot lately. I’ve been thinking that maybe, just maybe, once I realized that they all say the same things, the appeal of new SHBs wore off. I don’t think I’ve actually read any of the SHBs I’ve purchased since I realized the same 6 or 7 principals kept popping up over and over again.
That first “Web Event” session did not go well. Many of you probably experienced the stream freezing Honestly I hadn’t been that interested. In fact, last Monday I forgot about it completely and hadn’t even attempted to read the book again. Just for kicks I downloaded Chapter 2 podcast from iTunes. It was fantastic!! The chapter and the session were all about the Ego and how it manipulates us into obsessing about the past and the future instead of the present moment. I listened to the whole thing and was both inspired and ‘enlightened’ to use the term of the hour.
This is the SHA’s event of the year. No. The decade! And it happens again tonight! I hope the stream is good.
