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Article on D. Life is pretty interesting. As on

the video he did with Willem Da Foe, he strikes me as

a rather humble, down to earth kind of guy who

happens to cross dress on occasion and no doubt enjoys

other flavors of flamboyance. So be it. Most

interesting is his admission he prays to an 8x11 of guruji;

but then, is any ishta devata more reasonable than

another?

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Hey hey Sgee<br><br>Sorry youve managed to cover

some bits of ignorance in me with your post. YJ

presumably yoga journal - is it a US mag? Willem Dafoe - as

in Platoon , Light Sleeper and that diabolical film

with Madonna (umm Body of Evidence: once saw it in a

Moroccan cinema with extra 'spice' edited in in teh form

of mid seventies German pumping porn: cheescloth;

facial hair and gynaecology all mixed up in one fearful

package - boy put me off sex for hours). Ahh Light

Sleeper - fantastic film (and so New York). Paul Schrader

often seems to have a sort of spiritual / existential

crisis in his movies. Anyway, theres an interview with

that WD? Love to read it, he's a brillaint actor (yuk,

that scene in ohh. . . whats that film with Nic Cage

and . . . kinda of Wizard of Oz on acid with Elvis

standing watch. . . ummm . . .anyway he's brilliant) who

just got more brilliant.<br><br>Sorry Sgee, what does

'ishta devata' mean pls? Sounds like I really need to

know and, once enlightened will drop it in

conversation ad nauseaum. . . <br><br>Ta tA tat sat

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Concerning flamboyance, don't you think it is

true that someone strongly attracted to spiritualism

is not going to fit the profile of the "normal" and

"average." Not that I've had the good fortune to encounter

really holy beings - but I have read that saints -- real

saints -- are often very eccentric people. In

conclusion, I have taken classes w/ D.Life and he's got to be

one of the best American yoga teachers. And that

video you're referring to is excellent.

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"ishta devata" means one's chosen deity, or the

form of one's chosen diety. In the YJ interview, Life

says he prays to a photo of KPJ.<br><br>Actually

though, i was being a bit facetious here. I didn't really

mean to indicate that Life considers Guruji to be God

Incarnate. No doubt he sees his Guru as a gateway to

contemplation of the Infinite.<br><br>BKS Iyengar said that in

his younger days, he'd prostrate to a photo of

Krishnamacharya 108 time a day.

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>From what little I know about him, I think D.

Life is cool, even unto his teaching of other forms of

yoga besides astanga. But, my social conditioning,

coming as it does from a generation where nobody got

tats or piercings or god forbid genderbending garb,

sees the D man as a flamboyant character.

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>But, my social conditioning....<br><br>You

must be a little off the beaten track. In most urban

centers on both sides of the Atlantic, body ornamentation

is a pretty normal thing to see. For some reason on

this forum when David Life is mentioned all anybody

can talk about is his “personal style”. I took a

3-day seminar with D.L. and that was the least of my

impressions of him.

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