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Showing posts with label 10 things food industry doesn't want you to know. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 10 things food industry doesn't want you to know. Show all posts
Colleen Hanabusa, right, congratulatesTulsi Gabbard after both women won their Hawaii Congressional district seats, Japanese Cultural Center,Honolulu (AP/Marco Garcia).
There were a lot of firsts in faith during the 2012 election season according to The Washington Post and some firsts in Congress. Among them are the election of a Buddhist to the Senate and a Hindu to the House, which will help make those chambers more accurately reflect the increasingly diverse religious landscape of the United States.
Democrat Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii was elected, succeeding RepresentativeMazie K. Hirono, who ran for the US Senate.An Iraq War veteran, Gabbard was born in American Samoa to a Hindu mother and a Catholic father and had served on the Honolulu City Council and in the state Legislature. Whereas California used to lead the way with firsts, now [the MIC is using] Hawaii has taken that distinction farther west.
Hirono, who is Japanese and Buddhist, was also elected on Tuesday. In 2006, she and Georgia DemocratHank Johnson, who is African-American, were the first Buddhists elected to Congress.
In 2010, Buddhist Colleen Hanabusa, a Democrat from Hawaii, was elected. She will become the first Buddhist senator when the new Congress convenes in January, Religion News Service reported yesterday.
On the tragic side, Monsanto Corporation won its preposterous bid (Proposition 37) to continue keeping secret when its genetically-manipulated human-experiment grains and organisms are sold as food to the general population of California (and the rest of the world. Food insecure Russians no longer accept their corn, prompting the European Union to take another look at their policy).
And an anti-sex trafficking bill (Proposition 35) on steroids passed, perverting one of the most important causes of all to further the police state. And former Republican presidential candidate hopeful Michelle "Crazy Eyes" Bachmann and Romney running mate Paul Ryan (shown above) were re-elected, even as they failed in their other bids.
Paradox: Try less, go further. Don't force it. Use the Force, he-man! (technabob.com)
Why not?
Fun with flexibility (photo-librarian.com)
Men can't do yoga, at least not American men. There are various reasons for this, two of which are most salient. It's too easy, and it's too hard.
Given a Hot Yoga class (or what the Choudhury Corporation tries to appropriate under the exclusive "Bikram" brand name), we rise to the challenge. Now there's something to sink our teeth into! We come to stare at yoga-butts, to see what all the fuss is about, and we end up with mild cases of heat exhaustion. And we wonder how all these women are able to keep going without collapsing.
Baggy yoga pants (aliexpress.com)
We muscle through it, laugh at the off-color commentary (characteristic of so many Bikram franchises), and treat ourselves to rajasic- and tamasic- poisons afterward. We have to do something to undo the cleansing reaction from all that sweating. But given the task of a slow-paced Hatha (Sun-Moon) Yoga class (characteristic of Iyengar), we wither. We're helpless. There's nothing to do!
Give us something to do, something to climb, something to conquer! We can't just stand here listening to some woo-woo gal blithering on and on about proper form. Well, we can't until patience builds, maybe some reserve, and when we finally stop staring/drooling at all the women standing around us in colorful tights and tutus from Lululemon, OMgirl, and Victoria's Secret.
Here's The Secret, Guys
There is an ancient Asian philosophy that goes by the Sanskrit name of sthirasukha. It roughly translates as "hard-easy," "hard-softness," "effort-ease," or "strive-rest." Maybe "force-flex" or "yin-yang" would be catchier. Whatever. Once you understand it, you can come up with your own translation.
The way of the Tao is the path of least resistance. "The Force" is the magical mystery of the universe, the movement of prana (not to be confused with prAna, which only makes for good fashion sense).
Nerds rejoice. Star Wars to the rescue!
To get where you're going you have to resist inertia a little then rest into it. For instance, one makes an effort to breathe then lets go. One makes an effort to stand then stands. One makes an effort to get into a pose then simply rests in it. It's not really rest -- because that would be collapsing -- but rather resting into it, steadying, undoing the tension, releasing excess energy or stress, letting go. It's all about balanced-effort. We all do well to have open minds...but not so open that our brains fall out. Don't jump unless you have a parachute: Don't try the extreme pose if you haven't built up to it by slow and steady training. That is the quickest route to failure, disappointment, and stopping.
Notice anything? This yoga stuff is more than something practiced in a studio with fancy flooring and ambient music. It's a lesson in how to live: Go easy. Go strong. Relax. Build real or core strength. It derives from ease not force. Supple flexibility is stronger than brittle stiffness.
Softness only seems like weakness -- until we see what yoga women (yoginis) are capable of. And look at the Indian yogis, who are preternaturally strong yet even more flexible than American women. Who cares if we can demolish everybody in the other platoon, hood, squad, barrio, team, or country? If we can't bend, our machismo is only poison to the world.Stretch the heart.
On the tragic side, Monsanto Corporation won its preposterous bid (Proposition 37) to continue keeping secret when its genetically-manipulated human-experiment grains and organisms are sold as food to the general population of California (and the rest of the world. Food insecure Russians no longer accept their corn, prompting the European Union to take another look at their policy).
