We’ve all had the experience of sitting hoping to get to “that place” of cozy feelings and the opposite happens. Thoughts and images of a recent incident haunt.  To put the incident to rest, we need to either understand it or get to a place of compassion and acceptance.

Wise ones figured this out long ago; thousands of years ago. They realized that to feel cozy it really helps to have some knowledge of how the mind works and how the universe is set up. And also it makes it so much easier to still the mind if we have a garland of virtues around our neck. Counting up to ten or down to one just isn’t enough sometimes.

How fortunate we are that at this time and place to be blessed with teachings from those wise ones gone before! How lovely it is that the many different points of views, principles, and practices all around he world, have a common thread of loving kindness.

It will be thanksgiving in my corner of the world very soon. I am thankful for the gift of yoga from the wise ones of old. In classical yoga the first of ten principles is ahimsa, non violence. The second is satya, truth. Another voice of the past reminds us: think on these things.

In gratitude and appreciation; giving thanks for modern ways and ancient traditions.