Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health<\/a>. This will be a five day workshop focused on surfing the waves that life gives us. There’s been a lot of uncertainty in the world lately, and people are hungry for ways to bring equanimity to the tumult, absurdity, and anxiety the news delivered early every day.<\/p>\nWe taken different paths towards awakening and we will share with you, dear reader, what we\u2019ve learned along the way. From meditations on water to solutions for FOMO, you\u2019ll have an opportunity to delve into them in the safe, beautiful, and soulful environs of Kripalu.<\/p>\n
What we\u2019ve learned over the years is that we are all<\/i> saltwater Buddhas, even those of us that don\u2019t surf. Our blood is essentially saltwater and we all have the potential to awaken to something much more profound, peaceful, and happy than the lives we may have been living in this uncertain world where change is rapid, hatred is palpable, and there\u2019s no time to get it all done.<\/p>\n
Bringing the Buddha\u2019s teachings\u2014in particular, mindfulness\u2014into your life can teach you to ride whatever wave life throws at you. I wrote these lines about the Saltwater Buddha that is in all of us. It starts with me contemplating the Green Mountains and Lake Champlain and imaging \u00a0the ocean and the vastness of the world:<\/p>\n
Over time, I forget the wide expanse of this inland sea.
\nThese old mountains shrink in memory to quaint images
\nand then surprise me with their worn yet formidable heights
\nstirring me out of the complacency of dog-eared stories
\nif only for an instant before I am swallowed again.<\/p>\n
200 miles to the east and 3000 to the west the oceans live.
\nI can only recall their lurching green expanses from memory
\ntheir incessant movement that is actually not movement at all
\nI try to make sense of their rhythms pounding out the story of time
\nI try to get my head around their confident embrace of infinity.<\/p>\n
I am exiled from the vast open presence until I see the mountains
\nbreathing into sky and the water disappearing at the edge of the world
\nI am a stranger to this world until I imagine the earth\u2019s forbidding core
\nand the 50 million miles of wiring in my brain stretching halfway to the sun
\nI am refugee wandering surfaces until I realize the atom\u2019s endless space.<\/p>\n
I dissolve myself into the dark waters of the sea, merging
\nas if I am not just part of that landscape but its breathing tissue
\nand dying to the possibility, I yield to the beating heart of the night
\nriding the waves as if I am a surfer sitting with legs crossed
\nbreathing one thought, one action, one gesture of time.<\/p>\n
I am a saltwater Buddha, woven into the fabric of stars, dust, and space
\nsmiling under the hot sun I sweat salt back to the breathing sea that
\nbeckons me to relinquish stories, to ride its ripples of unity and multiplicity.
\na conversation where words vanish into darkness and light and I
\nfind the still point that lives between each wave to arrive home.<\/p>\n
We welcome you to the journey and look forward to you joining us soon. If you miss this workshop, look for us at the new 1440 Multiverse in Santa Cruz next January. For more information and registration >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A surfer and a shrink, sounds like the start of a joke \u2026 walk into a bar \u2026 . What do they talk about? Turns out the surfer dude is an expert on fear, has even written a book about it and the shrink is a crack snowboarder. They\u2019ve got a lot to talk about.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,7,8,9,14,11],"tags":[321,60,53,456,705,1085,1148,1083],"class_list":["post-4544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-shelf","category-buddha-101","category-metaphors-for-mindfulness","category-mindful-living","category-mindfulnesss","category-recommended","category-teachers-and-talks","tag-arnie-kozak","tag-buddhism","tag-dharma","tag-jaimal-yogis","tag-kripalu-center-for-yoga-and-health","tag-kripalu-retreat","tag-kripalu-workshop","tag-mindfulness-workshop"],"yoast_head":"\n
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A surfer and a shrink, sounds like the start of a joke \u2026 walk into a bar \u2026 . What do they talk about? Turns out the surfer dude is an expert on fear, has even written a book about it and the shrink is a crack snowboarder. They\u2019ve got a lot to talk about. In fact, they are going to teach a workshop about it. Kripalu, here we come.<\/p>\n