Nadaist principles: revision

I'm once again breaking my nadaist principles. I've joined a yoga course and I'm already at the 10th lesson.

In my defense, there's a couple of things that I can say.

First of all, I'm a very bad yoga practitioner. Whomever knows me long enough, or has played basketball or football with me, is perfectly aware that I can be more or less clumsy or effective, but anyhow my hips are like the trunk of a tree, and flexibility is not my asset. There's around 50% of the yoga positions that I cannot make, and for the ones I'm able to get closed, I suffer quite some pain. Thus it is not that I'm learning a lot.

But, most importantly, it does not matter. The point of going to the yoga class is exactly that: going to the yoga class. There is no long term or even short term objective. You go there and do your practice as good as you can and try to focus on your body and on your mind, and you have to let go at the same time. I'd say it is a sort of nadaist activity.

I'm in a very cheap but nice guesthouse by the Ganga. It's very quiet and it has a beautiful garden. I spend most of the day after my class there, I write, read, and listen to music, I go for a swim to the river even if the water is very cold. When I'm hungry I knock the door of my neighbour and we go together to the restaurant. It's a wonderful life, and even if I'm still working in the novel most of you know about, (another breach of the nadaist principles), I'm trying to do it in the yoga way, in the nadaist way if I may say, focusing on the page I'm at, even on the sentence and the word I'm at. And when I'm finished I could either throw it to the trash or try to publish it, it does not matter.

It may look as if I'm trying to find a way to excuse myself. But honesty, even if I'm kind of busy, I feel as closed as ever to be doing nothing, and it feels really really very good!.