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Karlie

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About Me

I am a student as well as a teacher. This hits on a great theme in my life- dichotomy and duality, polarity- for which I become more grateful each day; the dance between the two is the fun and the play of life! I am trying so hard right now not to slip off into karlie-land, you know, just the straight stuff on "MySpace"! So, onward . . . I love life and am constantly amazed by the miraculous and tumultuous nature of the universe. I am uncompromisingly idealistic, believing with each cell of my being in the ultimate freedom of all, right now. I love philosophy, study of religion, and physical nature. I am learning Sanskrit, the breath of the divine (sigh) and enjoy trail running. I study and teach philosophy and yoga and will be teaching both in India this summer for a month (sigh, again). Aah, life is good. THANK YOU!!

My Interests

Play (lila) is everything and that everything is also love (bhakti), Sanskrti language and grammar, Anusara yoga practice, the history of western philosophy, the craziness resulting from studying Buddhist madhyamaka philosophy, running until my head is floating like a balloon, outdoor adventures especially whitewater rafting, good friends are like nothing else, life, life, life!

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Music:

Music, it is everywhere, especially in the tune of the songbirds along the trails near my house

Movies:

Passion of Joan of Arc (silent), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Amadeus, Winter Light, Seventh Seal, East of Eden, Jai Mataji, Monsoon Wedding, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Glass Menagerie . . . maybe someday I'll have time to watch more movies.

Books:

Plotinus on Beauty (so, so good!), Foucault's Discipline and Punish (wow, everyone should read this), Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, Lucretious on the Nature of the Universe, Palahaniuk's Lullaby, Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov (nihilism ?), Lama Yeshe's Tantra: Transformation of Desires, Plato's Re[public XII, Georgious, and especially Ion, Sinclaire's The Jungle, Yogananda's Memoirs of a Yogi, Hilton's Lost Horizon, the Dictionary and Thesarus, In the Wilderness, Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Leibniz's Monadology, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, Schopenhauer's essays and the World as Will and Represenataion, Sartre's Transcendence of the Ego and Being and Nothingness, Heidegger's Being and Time, Amelia Bedilia, Heart Sutra, Pure Land Sutra, Vimalakirti Sutra, Flower Ornament Sutra, Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Gibran's The Prophet, Spinoza's Ethics, Marx Ethics (although they kinds freak me out!), Gnostic Bible, Microwave Cookbook, Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being, Camus' The Stranger, Camus' Myth of Sisyphus, Augustine's Confessions (aah, the pears!!), Aristotle's De Anima, Plato's Timaeus, Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra and Anti-Christ, Norretranders' User Illusion, The Little Prince, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Confucious Analects, Mahabarata (esp Bhagavad Gita), Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, Kant's Prologomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Berkeley's Three Dialogoues Between Hylas and Philanous, Kant's Observations Concerning the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime, Little House on the Prarie series, Sartre's Existentialism and Human Emotions (it just is a great overview), Tibetan Renaissance by Davidson (the author wears a cowboy hat!!), Prisoners of Shangri-La by Lopez (so good, what a great method), Socrates Pleasure and Virtue by Rudebusch (my dear teacher), Devereaux's Dynamic Yoga (best practical yoga book I have found),

Heroes:

Everyone with light in their eye.

My Blog

My Other Blog . . .

Check out my other blog at http://karlieck.blogspot.com/ for updates on my travels and various other adventures.
Posted by Karlie on Wed, 21 May 2008 09:33:00 PST

India, part deux

I have the good fortune to be traveling back to India this upcoming summer '08. Once again, joining the Himalayan Health Exchange helping remote villagers receive much needed medical treatment and tea...
Posted by Karlie on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:27:00 PST

Porcupine Smith Radio Guest Spot with Karlie on East-West Philosophy, Yoga, India, and Poetry

To listen to a very fun and interesting interview/guest spot of mine on the Porcupine Smith show, follow the link: http://www.kjack.org/tiki-index.php?page=Porcupine%20Smith%2 0Show and select "India, ...
Posted by Karlie on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:22:00 PST

Madhyamaka, Idaho style

If the teachings of the Buddha are like a raft taking sentient beings across the pernicious river of samsara, then perhaps Buddha's teaching of the Middle Way (Madhyamaka) between the extremes of nihi...
Posted by Karlie on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:47:00 PST

India

Today I found out that I will be in India for three weeks this summer teaching yoga!! AMAZING!! This is a lifelong dream that is finally coming true. This adventure shows me the power of intention in ...
Posted by Karlie on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:27:00 PST

Published

The day has finally arrived . . . I am officially a published philosopher! Two of my essays, Emptiness and the BuddhaDharma as well as Logical Possibilities of Original Sin, are being published this...
Posted by Karlie on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:06:00 PST

Sadhana Yoga

A new life adventure is begining . . .Throughout the last four years yoga practice has become increasingly central in my life as a vehicle for improving my physical, spiritual, and emotional existence...
Posted by Karlie on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:13:00 PST