I said yesterday in the blog that I was going to slow down. I didn't slow down, I collapsed. (And I'm feeling okay about it.)
In ayurveda, there are the three doshas: sattva, rajas and tamas. This is an overgeneralization, but basically, sattva is pure and clean, rajas is hectic and frantic and tamas is collapsed and decaying.
In my life, I am beginning to see how I move from rajas to tamas and back again. There are these wonderful moments of sattva that sometimes happen in between. I think the older I get and the more I practice, the sattva moments happen more often and last a little longer. But it's all cyclical. It's normal, natural. I've been in a long period of a lot of frantic activity. Of course I collapse.
The goal is sattva: quiet and alert and calm. That means slowing down. I've just overshot the mark a bit. I'm working on it.
Now back to Dexter.
Yoga is all about being unattached to results. We do our duty, that’s it. If we’re truly connected, then we are at peace no matter what happens, no matter how many people come to our class, or whether our business fails or succeeds... Then why am I always such a mess?
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