Friday, December 14, 2007

Sting

I was a huge Sting fan, when I was a teenager. My very first concert ever was a Sting concert (Nothing like the Sun)

He is a good example how yoga keeps you healthy and in shape in your fifties. He even does Yoga before his concerts (just like me sometimes before parties!), as I just found out in this interview of Sting with the YogaJournal.

Intelligence and Mind

Yoga makes a distinction between intelligence and mind. The specific quality of the mind is cleverness...yoga states clearly that it is not a fact of being less clever than your neighbour that makes you stupid. Stupidity is the absence of intelligence. Stupidity can be behaving in a certain way or not learning from your mistakes...Let me give you an example: Scientifically advanced nations invent many complex and terrible weapons. To do this they must be clever. Then they sell those weapons indiscriminately around the world, and the arms end up in the hands of their enemies. Is this clever or stupid?...

B.K.S Iyengar, Light on Life