Yoga! Day 6!

So a grafiti artist-turned-established-painter came in to talk to us and share his artwork with us today. It was an interesting experience. I really REALLY believe that everyone has something to offer us, that we can learn something from every single human beings and the struggles and joys that they experience. However, it is also important to balance learning from others, absorbing what they offer us, with letting go the lessons that they offer us that don't resonate with us.

I really REALLY think that Greg can have anyone in the world sit on the bench in the front of the room and be our guest speaker and we'd take something valuable away from the experience. De La Vega was extremely different from all of our previous guest speakers. He wasn't warm, he wasn't friendly, and he really didn't seem that caring, yet he was 100% DE LA VEGA and he wouldn't sacrifice himself, his identity, his beliefs for anyone. His strength of character was what made him so beautiful. He paints from his heart, what he believes in, even if it comes off as offensive or unorthodox.

I was reading about ethical systems the other day. I came across 4 big ones; duty ethics, utilitarian ethics, care ethics, and...one more whose name currently escapes me. It made me wonder if one ethical system was better than any other or if two or three or even call could coexist in one person. Can you allow care ethics to be the driving force behind your actions whil still retaining your identity and being true to yourself? Or is it your duty to stand by your convictions no matter what? De La Vega seemed to allow his life to be governed by duty ethics and that's beautiful. He was charming because he spoke his heart and mind and didn't seem to get offended by questions thaat might have seemed offending to some.

De La Vega is probably someone i'd enjoy hanging out with, but no someone I'd typically spend significant amounts of time with. his presence was beautiful and wonderful and I found it refreshing to know that I could weed through what I wnated to take with me and what I wanted to leave behind about the lessons that he offered to us. Such is life; taking the good with the bad, discerning the good from the bad, maybe living with both, not judging the bad, just letting it GO!

In Love,
Leila