Bikram Yoga Decatur

With all our emphasis on non-thinking during class it's funny how often I have very interesting ideas come to me while practicing. I'll be staring at my reflection in the mirror, trying to be detached and simply observe and then I'll have a whole train of thoughts come full steam into my consciousness. One time it was about the very nature of self-observation (well, many times it's that but this post is addressing one such time).

I was thinking about not thinking and simply observing and wondering if they were the same thing or if there was a difference. The words, "I am observing myself," came and then, "I am observing myself observe myself."

In only a few seconds I was observing myself in the room, in the room in Decatur, in Decatur on the planet, on the planet flying through space, on the planet in the Milky Way until I started to feel like I was observing the entire universe from a place in the center of it, albeit a hot, sweaty place. Finally, it occurred to me, that I might simply be the means by which the universe was observing itself. That the evolution of all of humankind and all life on this good green earth is simply that -- the universe becoming self-aware through us.

And all in less than 60 seconds while I was standing on one leg, sweating like a waterfall.