Great article. Here is one about my first meeting with Waylon, after already working with him virtually for over two years, but never meeting: http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/07/we-are-not...

Bob

Beautifully put, Waylon. I've retired from elephant, after four wonderful years of passionate work. But I'll always remember it as one of the most fulfilling things I've done in my life. Keep truckin'.

Bob

I have to admit, I was bored to death by this movie everyone else thought was so good. But, as you wrote, that might say more about me than the movie, and that's just, like, my opinion man.

Saw Jeff and the guru interviewed on Charlie Rose. That bored me to death, too, which is very rare for me and any Charlie Rose show. What's, like, wrong with me, man?

(Did find your non-review here entertaining, though.)

Bob

Wow, Mid. Your review is deep and poetic like the book itself. Matthew has long been one of my very favorite writers and thinkers. I love seeing a review that that gives me even more insights into his work. Thanks for this.

Bob
http://bobweisenberg.wordpress.com/

Featured this morning on main elephant facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/elephantjournal?ref=ts&a...

Very interesting book and review. Thanks to both Vic and Thad.

Bob

Great article, Jay. You have very sensitively dealt with what I think is the central point of all meditation--radical self acceptance, but carefully qualified just as you qualified it. Ironically it actually is MORE likely to lead to action, not less. It's not wet-noodledom at all.

I love the wave analogy to have made at wave the cover photo for my Yoga Dymystified ebook, which includes this poem:

Like Waves or Ocean? http://bit.ly/6HcvNy

It’s true
We are like waves in the ocean
We are more truly the ocean than the wave.

But what if there were a wave that lasted 70 years
And was conscious and could interact with other waves
And could sing and dance and create new waves
Before ultimately merging back into the infinite ocean?

We would be in awe of those waves
We would flock to see those waves
We would rejoice in their very existence
And our ability to perceive them
Until they eventually returned
To their true eternal ocean selves.

*****

Thanks for another great article.

Bob
http://bobweisenberg.wordpress.com/

Glad you enjoyed the music, Sarit. This was a really good interview. Thanks to both you and Carol.

Bob

Oh, I love this interview! Don't miss all the photographs on Sarit's website, too.

Thanks, Carol. I really enjoyed this, especially the yoga/music connection.

(Sarit, I think you might enjoy the photos and artwork for my two flamenco albums: Live a Don Quijote http://bit.ly/W1GF0t and American Gypsy http://bit.ly/Wo4iNr. If I do another album, I'll definitely look you up.)

Bob W.

P.S. I find the most satisfying reconciliation of intellect and feeling in the great (and mostly wordless) works of classical music, which is why I'm spending a lot of time these days catching up with all the works I've never heard by Bach, Hayden, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, and Brahms, etc., as in http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/05/10-things-....

Also reading composers' biographies, which reveal that they were also deeply enmeshed in intellect vs. feeling. I just read, for example, that Tchaikovsky was a confirmed musical intellectualist until he heard Bizet's "Carmen" in Paris, which set him on a much more emotional romantic compositional course.

And did you know that Beethoven had quotes from the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita under the glass on the desk in his studio? (See http://bit.ly/RkN43L)

Bob

Love this review, Jay. And I loved Carol's book, too. Don't miss the opportunity to meet Carol if you every have the chance. She's one of my favorite people. And you two are definitely on the same yoga and intellectual wavelength.

No need to apologize for your footnote #3 (***). Made perfect sense to me, and I agree, as I do with most things you write. No PhD, I, but I did go through the same intellect vs. feeling dichotomy you describe above, and which is the stuff of Carol's book, although for me it's having the mind of someone who is both a CPA and a flamenco guitarist. You get the idea.

Small wonder that the key formative book of my 20s was "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", which laboriously reconciles the two.

Bob