David Given Schwarm

Married, Father, United

Author: David Schwarm

  • Svatmarama Yogi

    You will know your yoga is working when you hear the singing within you.

  • Ken Rinpoche Geshe Lobsang Tharchin (1921-)

    Your thoughts ride upon the inner winds like a rider upon a horse.

  • Master Patanjali (third century)

    Come to understand that great core within you, like the very axis around which the stars turn.

  • Changkya, who samw in the diamond sea (1717-1786)

    You cannot enter the door of yoga without kindness nad compassion for others.

  • Conway’s law

    Systems reflect the organizations that built them.

  • Sieve

    A coarse sieve catches little.
    A fine mesh catches more.
    If you want the subtle, be refined,
    But prepare to deal with the coarse.

    The irony of spiritual living is that you become more sensitive and more subtle. Therefore, you become intolerant of the coarse. There is not much choice in this. If you want to catch the subtle things in life, then you must become refined yourself. But the coarser things will then accumulate all the more quickly. A coarse sieve in a rushing stream will hold back only debris and large rocks. A fine mesh will catch smaller things, but it will also retain the large.
    Some people attempt to cope with this by becoming multilayered. They set up a seriies of screens to their personalities, from the coarse to the subtle so that they can deal with all that life has to offer. This is quite ladable from an ordinary point of view, but from the point of view of Tao, it is a great deal of bother.
    What do we do? If we remain coarse, then only the coarse comes to us. If we become subtle, then we gain the refined but are plagued with the coarse as well. If we become mulitlayered, then we create a complexity that isolates us from Tao.
    The solution lies in floating on the current of Tao, uniting with it. That way we no longer seek to hold or to reject.

  • China Town

    I am basically eating at china town once a week now – and it is good. I have been focusing on either the Tofu special or vegetable mushu. the tofu special is in a brown sauce and is way to much to eat for one person. the mushu is absolutley the best in orange county – perfect amount of plum sauce and everything. it is supper good.

  • New Pope

    Jack wrote a letter to the pope yesterday. He asked him which hand he used, what his favorite star wars character is, and which is his favorite star wars movie (and which one he likes even more then that!).

  • Sin City

    I saw this based on Louis’s recommendation – that and the fact that I almost always like comic book movies. The dialog ruled, the feel of the film was awesome, but the violence really disturbed me – something that does not happen in movies that often these days.

    Some of the mad cap crazy stuff was good, but the brutally realistic stuff struck me as just way to much.

  • Angels vs Mariners

    Jack, Kate and I went to the Angels game yesterday & it ruled. The Angels lost, but it did not matter since we did not see much of the game – we did have icee’s, corn on the cob, popcorn, cracker jacks, bought rally monkeys & t-shirts and just had a great time.

    We even got miracle tickets.

    Jack did the run as fast as Erstad game & I got some great photos. Kate was fairly sick (I remember how sick Jack was at the Sox game last year), but really seemed to have a good time – she was very sad to leave…

    I hope that we can go to more of these in the future…