vegetarianism is so easy!!!

[Guest guest]

pinky takes a few weeks off the board to travel

for business and has to come home to find the same

old group pouting about vewgetarianism. I am shocked

and outraged that you can keep cheating yourselves

with the same lame excuses. Dear generous Guy D. said

it best - either you are interested in salvation or

you're not. A few here are kindly casting yoga pearls

while the rest just splatter them with mud.<br>Folks -

its clear most of you are not interested in yoga so

why pretend? It seems a huge big charade to keep up.

Why not log onto Bar-B-Q message boards and extol the

virtues of factory farming and affordable governemnt

subsidized beef.<br>Vegetarianism is the easiest step to

take and it will make all the rest follow. Do you

think we are making this up just to offend your wee

egos? No we are trying to share helpful yoga insights

so you can be happier,freer and so you can glimpse

and soon know God.<br>Saint Francis wasn't veg!?! But

he fasted for weeks at a time. Would you prefer that

approach?<br>You can't each change the rules and traditions

because you feel too complacent or downtrodden to change.

Being on the defensive won't help.<br>Wave an

anti-death penalty banner till you arm is blue but if your'e

not veg yet you're daily yoga practise has not

begun.<br>If you are interested in Tibetan Buddhism (because

you want to eat meat like His Holiness the Dalai

Lama) then seek teaching in that school - it is fraught

with even more disciplines and intense learning and

structure than Ashtanga yoga. If you wish to practice

Ashtanga Yoga then part of this is vegetarianism. You

prefer to leave out that step because you don't "feel"

like it! Fine - but that ain't Ashtanga Yoga. <br>So

now you've found lots of on-line friends who support

your yoga wishy-washy ways. But don't fool yourselves

- you may feel popular but you're not practicising

Ashtanga Yoga. Do you really want to learn? Then take the

advice here that comes from long time daily practiioners

who respect and love Sri K. Pattabhi Jois.<br>- m.p.