Blue Balloons Revisited


Blue balloons, red balloons and yellow ones too, 

We are all beautiful balloons regardless of our hue.
And when more fill up with air and then they start to be,
We don’t say, “we need more airs, maybe two or three”,
There is only one air! And its always there; everywhere,
And every little balloon, all over the world, gets its share.
There’s more going on between balloons than you can see,
Because our thin skin isn’t as solid as we think it might be.

tantric-mechanic (1)

Sthira-The focus of consciousness-energy, solidity (masculine)
Sukha-The pure receiving receptacle, space (feminine)
I wish to work on myself to be a better man. Yet I am so totally influenced by outer influences that I am better described as a machine than a man. So if I am to work on myself, as a mechanical body, perhaps I should start as a mechanic.

tantric-mechanic part(2)


Secondly, it's about creating Sthira and Sukha, conscious stability and conscious plasticity. If I can do this stuff, anyone can. I was practicing yoga theory as a teenager by shot-gunning beer cans. We drunkards could manipulate the flow of whatever ya'll got in your can by the access of a hole in the top and an equal hole in the bottom. Let go of both and, whoosh! Our top hole is the glorious glottis