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Where Ram Das First Met Neem Karoli Baba (or So I Was Told)
Having been brought to yoga by the Beats and the Beatles and having discovered Be Here Now not long after it was published (Quaker youth camp in New York in the 1970s—of course we did), this was a bit of history. Tomorrow I go back into the office. I am grateful for my slow reentry.
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Found Exhortation
At first glance, th e exhortation to love all and serve all (Ram Das has said Neem Karoli Baba gave him advice like that) may seem unreasonable and perhaps impossible. But the exhortation to love doesn’t require liking all or associating with all or tolerating the behavior of all. And serving all does not mean…
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A Happy Coincidence (and the new Willow Street Yoga book club)
As regular readers may have noticed, last Sunday I was inspired to blog about Arjuna’s dilemma on the battlefield in connection with local events. Later that day, I was reminded that this coming Sunday, January 16th, will be the first meeting of the new book club at Willow Street Yoga Center (Takoma Park studio). The…