What is the goal of your practice? What is your game plan to get there?

[innerspace_cadet]

I once read Georg Feuerstein's "The Deeper Dimension of Yoga" and in it was a paragraph that intrigued me to no end. He said--I'm paraphrasing--the average American would be undone if he lost his job, and had his wife leave him and his best friends turn their backs on him, but to an advanced yogi, these catastrophic events would barely cause a ripple in his mind.

 

I decided then and there that equanimity would be my quest. I'm writing this as a person who gets upset

if someone so much as looks at me the wrong way, or thinks that someone doesn't like me.

 

I don't have a game plan yet. Plan A is to practice Buddhism. Plan B is to practice Taoism. Plan C is to practice both. I haven't decided on which of the three to go with.