Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Rhythm and Variations

I'm officially staying put in the little white house. This is a good news/bad news scenario. Good news: no more packing & hauling my stuff to a new place + it's quiet all night + I get to eat Lakshmiti's AWESOME food. Bad news: although it is quiet at night, we are very close to the temple & they start playing prayer music on a loudspeaker at 5am + if we moved, it would have been to Lakshmiti's house, which is super nice & right on the beach.

It is like that here, settling but not quite settled, finding a flow & then changing it a little.

I have been reading Swami Vivikenananda, he talks about how we are constantly shedding our current truth for a higher truth, and that it doesn't lessen the value of the previous truth to evolve to a new higher one.

Kalari practice is a good mirror of this idea. You'll do something a certain way for a long time and everyone will say 'yes, good' . Then a while later, they'll make a correction to something you never knew was incorrect. They wait until you have a context for the new paradigm. As a westerner, I am always wanting to know NOW, set roots down, settle into the rhythm & feel secure in the perceived awareness of the next step. Kalari, and the wisdom of the teachers here, is teaching me that the best thing you can do is the thing right in front of you- stay present, willing to make a mistake, willing to correct one without attachment to the past, but mainly keep on truckin'.

I'm gonna keep on truckin'

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