Recently, in a certain yoga class that entices a certain divine lock of curled hair at the base of one's spine, I entered an asana where my hands were wide face open stretched, thumbs pushing towards the temples, and the pulse on the palms tingle thump. Its the posture of fearlessness. The body is wide open, vulnerable, and confronting death with a bring it on you f-ing pest love. Love as confrontation. Love as strength. Love as fearlessness.
Than again I paid money to be here, and the atmosphere is about as space-cult as it can get, but it's True. It's devoted to and therefore worth my time.
So with my hands spread wide I couldn't help but remember my first impression of salat hands spread wide. I'm standing here. I bring nothing. I have nothing. But you can bet your ass I'm not frightened. If I'm still standing than we're still talking and if we're still talking than we're stil world intrepeting.
Rarely do I get to hear others' experiences of the postures of salat. If you'd like to speak on them, I think it might be interesting. A nod to Willow's hyperpraxis. The reinterpretation of the world. Shaykh Nur's (Lex Hixon's) book ATOM FROM THE SUN OF KNOWLEDGE gets into this pretty heavily.
I was going to thank you for pointing to Willow's hyperpraxis article, I missed that somehow. But the page is not found!
I have only seen pictures of salat & not tried it myself. I hear it supposedly exercises every muscle in your body or something; that plus the reminder that the One is greater, seems like a good practice to me.
hakim baker
kafr fakhr
Hey Hakim, I think if you go to identitytheory.com and hunt around you'll find a link. I'll check and see if the static one is working.
Word up B.
http://www.identitytheory.com/nonfiction/wilson_econext.php
That should work.
Try this link for Willow's article. I fixed the link in B's post as well.
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