Letter To My Guru

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Glad you could get through my dense description of that first paper. As my students will attest, I can be a bit opaque. The journal post from the second student is a lot more straightforward and readable though. So you see, I've managed not to ruin these poor kids entirely. I'll share just one more journal entry with you.

I think a comparison might be made between what Yoga Nidra and Virginia Woolf. Yoga Nidra brings an incredible sense of calmness, clarity, and quietness and you become the "vessel of this perplexed liquid, this cloudy, yeasty, precious stuff, the soul. The soul is not restrained by barriers" (Woolf "The Common Reader"). Meaning in life, the way I understand it, cannot be reached through philosophical reasoning but rather through the imagination. In Woolf's writing she explores the idea of the real world behind the visible world. While participating in this type of Yoga, I think that is exactly what the mind is able to do.

As you can probably tell, I want my students not to see school as an inherent good, but rather to use it as a means toward the experience of something far better than just facts and grades and a very expensive piece of paper. Thanks again for joining me in that intention. You did these kids a great service, one they'll remember a very long time.

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