TEASER/EXCERPT: “The Serendipity Practice” January 28, 2025
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Many blessings to everyone, and especially those observing Maha Kumbh Mela. Peace and safe passage to everyone getting ready for a New Year and/or an auspicious date.
May we all be safe and protected / May we all be peaceful and happy / May we all be healthy and strong! May we all appreciate the “accidental goodness” in our lives.
“In all these cases, it is only the relation to time which alters — the process of divination beyond the limits of possible direct knowledge remains the same.“
— quoted from the essay “On the Method of Zadig: Retrospective Prophecy as a Function of Science” (1880) in Collected Essays, Volume 4. Science and Hebrew Tradition by T. H. Huxley
Today in 1754, Horace Walpole, the Right Honorable Earl of Orford, shared the word and meaning of serendipity.
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The Serendipity Practice (the “missing” and “long-lost” Sunday post for 1/28)
Yoga Sūtra 3.16: pariṇāmatrayasaṃyamādatãtānāgatajñānam
— “By samyama [focus-concentration-meditation] on the three-fold changes in form, time, and characteristics, there comes knowledge of the past and future.”
Please join me today (Tuesday, January 28th) at 12:00 PM or 7:15 PM for a yoga practice on Zoom. You can use the link from the “Class Schedules” calendar if you run into any problems checking into the class. You can request an audio recording of this practice via a comment below or by emailing myra (at) ajoyfulpractice.com.
Tuesday’s playlist is available on YouTube and Spotify. [Look for “01282024 Serendipity”]
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