Why I practice Christian Laughing Yoga

I believe that Yoga is Christian, because all truth is God's truth, and I believe that God can speak to all cultures so I believe that Yoga, in its mind emptying and use of poses or positions can enhance my daily worship experience. I believe that I become a part of the hereandnow, and engage God in the forevermore when my mind is empty. God can speak to me so that I can contextualize whatever the Bible says into the here and now so that I can engage it better for my own life.

Here is a great example. As I was in the lotus position, and my mind was empty, the red words of the great teacher came to me:"it is easier to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven" I began to contextualize this, because I am rich compared to the rest of the world because I have free-range meat, organically grown vegetables and fruit, and steroid-free meat, milk, and butter. I get fresh tap water from my faucet. So I began to weep, because I realized that the kingdom was not for me, unless I give it all away. So I went down the street, because I live in the warehouse district and gave my food to some guys that look like they needed it. They threw it at me, screaming that they didn't want my food, they wanted drugs and alcohol. I went away feeling better, because I was no longer rich, and I had been persecuted Just as the guy who spoke the red words. I also went away hungry and bruised, because I had given away my food and those guys beat me up. But, I engaged in the laughter of God, and felt his joy when I got back to my basement ashram.

So that is why I practice Laughing Christian Yoga. Makes sense, doesn't it?

During my yoga session

I was doing yoga in my downstairs ashram today, with my mind empty and in contemplative prayer, when I felt the holy presence tell me to study the red words in John 3 where a nobody in particular was talking to the great teacher who people in my culture believe spoke the red words, and the great teacher told the nobody in particular that he must be born again. This really disturbed my sensibilities, so I emptied my mind to deconstruct this passage

You- I believe the great teacher was speaking to this man in particular, for he was old and in the old ways. He was telling him to emerge from those old ways and find his way into the kingdom of no particular location.

must- this word means something other than a demand that says that he must choose one or the other option

be- we all are, and can 'be'. We are called to just be.

born-we must emerge in this new birth that is by water and by spirit that will birth us into a new view of reality and help us to find ourselves removed from a Platonic dichotomy of opinion.

again- each day we must be reborn into the reality of the wheveritis and hereafter so we can engage the forevermore.

The speaker of the red words is wise. I am going downstairs to contemplate some more. Share your views, whatever they are can be right. The beauty of the hereandnow is that we all can be right in the moment.