{"id":70038,"date":"2019-11-09T22:11:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T02:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2019\/11\/09\/saturday-night-yin\/"},"modified":"2019-11-09T22:11:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T02:11:35","slug":"saturday-night-yin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2019\/11\/09\/saturday-night-yin\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night – yin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diane and I spent a really relaxing and interesting day at a yin yoga and poetry workshop here in manchester vt. Its only a 3 min walk from our fromt door .. which was a good thing since it was 17 degrees F this morning<\/p>\n

The workshop is being led by Diane’s old friend bif and his co-leads eric and kristen. Eric is a womderul musician and added drum, flute and guitar as sound tracks for our day<\/p>\n

We had expected it to be mostly yoga with the occasional poem.. but it was the opposite. Each person was supposed to have brought a poem to recite from memory. Neither diane or I had the time to memorize.. but we had some we liked .. diane brought the guesthouse by Rumi.. I brought “I worried” by mary oliver.. but I switched to “always we hope” by lao tzu ..<\/p>\n

The Guest House<\/strong><\/div>\n
\nThis being human is a guest house.
\nEvery morning a new arrival.
\nA joy, a depression, a meanness,
\nsome momentary awareness comes
\nas an unexpected visitor.
\nWelcome and entertain them all!
\nEven if they are a crowd of sorrows,
\nwho violently sweep your house
\nempty of its furniture,
\nstill, treat each guest honorably.
\nHe may be clearing you out
\nfor some new delight.
\nThe dark thought, the shame, the malice.
\nmeet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
\nBe grateful for whatever comes.
\nbecause each has been sent
\nas a guide from beyond.<\/div>\n
\n\u2014 Jellaludin Rumi,<\/div>\n

Always We Hope \u2014 Lao Tzu<\/em><\/p>\n

Always we hope
\nsomeone else has the answer,
\nsome other place will be better,
\nsome other time,
\nit will turn out.<\/p>\n

This is it.<\/p>\n

No one else has the answer,
\nno other place will be better,
\nand it has already turned out.<\/p>\n

At the center of your being,
\nyou have the answer:
\nyou know who you are and
\nyou know what you want.<\/p>\n

There is no need to run outside
\nfor better seeing,
\nnor to peer from a window.
\nRather abide at the center of your being:
\nfor the more you leave it,
\nthe less you learn.<\/p>\n

Search your heart and see
\nthe way to do is to be.<\/p>\n

Abide at the center of your being.<\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

There are about \ufffc 20 students here including us.. super nice folks<\/p><\/div>\n

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This afternoon we all worked together to construct a class for tomorrow.. we worked to pair our chosen poems with the yin poses bif had selected.. that took a good long time..<\/p>\n

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We broke for a couple of hous this evening for dinner at a nearby burmese restaurant owned by a friend of bifs.. it was really good..<\/p>\n

While we were her.. a project id helped on was going on at generator. My friend lena led a group of families through a project to make heart shape memorial stones remember opioid victims. My friend pike and I made the stamps used to put the url http:\/\/allourhearts.com on the back.. the families then wrote The loved ones name on the front , I just heard from lena that it worked well !<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I was so happy to hear that it worked out so well !<\/p>\n

Nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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