{"id":7885,"date":"2020-04-19T15:33:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T19:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/?p=7885"},"modified":"2020-04-19T15:34:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T19:34:29","slug":"note-on-contentment-note-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/19\/note-on-contentment-note-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Note on Contentment; Note on Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve held for what months or longer this excerpt from Ram Dass, posted at <a href=\"https:\/\/revolked2.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/via-ram-dass-words-of-wisdom-august-14.html\"><em>Revoked<\/em><\/a> some time before they shed space suit for some alternative astral way of being around. On contentment as method:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In yoga, one of the methods is called &#8216;contentment&#8217;. That\u2019s not a goal, that\u2019s a method.<br><br>I can be content this moment, and the next moment I\u2019m moving toward something else. When I am here I am content, when I am here I am content, when I am here I am content. So even though you are going to change something the next minute, that doesn\u2019t mean you change it out of discontent. It changes because it changes.<br><br>That is the basis that you do everything in yoga.<\/p><cite>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/revolked2.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/via-ram-dass-words-of-wisdom-august-14.html\">Words of Wisdom<\/a>,&#8221; Ram Dass, <em>Revoked<\/em>, August 14, 2019<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contentment as method. Contentment as above-path, quagmire hovercraft; in yoga, yes, I can find this. The good enoughness of a pose right now. The satisfieciency of this, here-now, floor and mat, gravity and breath. With contentment as method, for work (research, teaching, administrating), for non-work and all that it entails, there is in this relief from straining and striving. Go sit on a shelf, goals. Agency is fatiguing and sometimes needs quieted. Contentment says enough, have an exhale and a pause, surrender to the entropy, have a break from so much reaching. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am teaching a research design class this semester. And too, of course, we&#8217;ve been visited by a pandemic, which has meant IRB suspensions, workaround-thinking, making do, resignation to changes that are out of our hands. We shift online. We Zoom. We grant flexibilities such that everyone can to the extent possible adapt and adjust. Lives are different from waking until sleeping again. Yoga intersperses, walking yoga, reading yoga, cooking yoga, Netflixing yoga, and relationship (the most difficult of yogas). And, too, research goes on&#8211;wondering and inquiry that sometimes involves others and sometimes involves only writing, processing, sorting things out. I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about the friction (that edge, almost touching) between career and contentment, between inquiry and contentment, between rhetoric (as compositional, making, striving for change) and contentment. About motive(s).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contentment as method (in yoga) risks hinting at passivity. In one way of approaching this (perhaps too difficult, perhaps needlessly difficult) pose, motive lapses, disperses. Contentment <em>seems<\/em> to abandon motive, doesn&#8217;t it? I&#8217;m not interested in sketching an argument with Ram Dass; no jousting at evacuated space suits. <em>Where&#8217;d they go?<\/em> But I am wondering about that something-more, the fire whose heat is felt in yoga as in motive as in inquiry. Contentment, too, draws on some kind of spark that is not exclusively passive. I have enough, yes, and I am enough, yes. This here-now is enough, yes. And then some&#8211;always a paradox. Even so, wonder and inquire, reach and breathe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contentment as method, it&#8217;s qualitatively helpful. But fire as method, too, grasps at something important about how that change happens. Not another definition of agency (we are reading about agentic shift this week, fittingly). Not necessarily fire as raging with destructive force. But a striker strip, a spark, heat and flame and combustion, immolation as method. Fire as method. What does your research turn to ash? What does your research raise up from the embers? Fire as above-path, quagmire hovercraft; in yoga, yes, I can find this. And sometimes in research. 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