tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384782695584867387.post811048253493719422..comments2023-06-22T08:49:02.798-07:00Comments on Yogic Muse: Margas... Different from Margaritas!Brooks Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789430862542763946noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384782695584867387.post-3978616409913254152009-12-13T08:27:32.294-08:002009-12-13T08:27:32.294-08:00wonderful...wonderful...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384782695584867387.post-52219580684560269622009-12-12T18:41:48.704-08:002009-12-12T18:41:48.704-08:00Beautifully written, Brooks. You've got it ju...Beautifully written, Brooks. You've got it just right--no one is purely one type or the other. We may have a preferred or dominant style, but we are all a mix of things, just a you say.<br /><br />To me, this is one of the most remarkable things about the ancient Yoga texts. These four general categories of Yoga were all spelled out quite explicitly in the Bhagavad Gita, and they match pretty closely modern psychology's four main "personality types"!<br /><br />If anyone is interested in reading more, I wrote a blog about this very same topic that echoes all your points:<br /><br />"Different Yoga Strokes for Different Yoga Folks"<br />http://wp.me/PlUox-eB<br /><br />Great stuff, isn't it. Every time I read a little more of your account of "Light on Yoga" it goes up higher on my reading priority list.<br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />Bob Weisenberg<br />YogaDemystified.comBob Weisenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01442738029941563325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384782695584867387.post-84732449911322814552009-12-12T15:29:17.462-08:002009-12-12T15:29:17.462-08:00So...what if drinking margaritas is my marga? (Act...So...what if drinking margaritas is my marga? (Actually, now I'm feeling a bit of deja vu, since I just left a comment on the topic of margaritas and yoga on Roseanne's blog, earlier...then, maybe you read that post, too, and it influenced this post...it's the butterfly effect!...or something...like, maybe the margarita I just drank with dinner...which might not have been ordered had it not been for the influence of Roseanne's post...oh, but what a tangled web we weave). <br /><br />Anyway, yeah, I find the notion of each person taking a unitary path kind of difficult, myself, since it seems like different parts of who I am would seem to be on different paths, then. When I was in grad. school, I had a professor who made a big deal about what it means to be an "intellectual"--a term which of course applied to all of us, as academics...which I had some problems with. I mean, obviously, if you look at the way I drop pretentious references to poets, philosophers, Zen masters, and the more literate rock stars all over my blog posts, it might seem strange for me to reject the label...but there's more to me than intellect...which, of course, is true of everyone, but my big problem is the idea that I, as an "intellectual," should automatically privilege the intellect above all else, and in fact give as little serious regard to those other sides as possible. There's a William Butler Yeats poem (which, of course, I can site precisely because I'm an intellectual...) that pretty much sums it up:<br />Bald heads forgetful of their sins, <br />Old, learned, respectable bald heads <br />Edit and annotate the lines That young men, tossing on their beds,<br /> Rhymed out in love's despair <br />To flatter beauty's ignorant ear...<br />And, with that, this rambling comment probably having exceeding the length of your post, I bid you namaste 'til next time, Brooks...YogaforBadlyRepressedIntellectualshttp://yogaforcynics.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com