Square Sun Square Moon: A Collection of Sweet Sour Essays [Paperback]

Paul Reps (Author)

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• Paperback: 94 pages
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing; First Edition edition (June 5, 1967)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 080480544X
• ISBN-13: 978-0804805445
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,380,852 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Taming the Sun, March 28, 2007

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This review is from: Square sun, square moon: A collection of sweet sour essays

Inez Baranay was born of Hungarian gypsies in Naples and brought up in Australia. The gypsies left India a thousand years ago and have forgotten everything, their language and their origin. But you can see everything in their music and their dance. It is all there.

Inez is a writer. She is a yogini. She has lived with primitive tribes in New Guinea. She has traveled the world telling her stories and her story here, in sun square moon, her natal horoscope, is about her art and her yoga, it is about awareness, about creativity, and about her journey through those worlds.

It's a story with a disarming honesty. She does not even avoid sex, dreams, drugs, retail therapy and money. Sex power money is the potent mantra of the age even for the health food goody goody yogis. She has indulged. But the theme of the book is practice, body and self.

She is not brain dead. She scotches the rumour that yoga produces an empty head and a flaccid sex life. She brings her awareness from yoga to writing and takes it the other way as well. Ultimately there are no differences. Only fools could insist there were. Writing has been with us for 300 years; yoga for 3000. But her book is not quite about writing as such, it is about art, the art of insight, and that has been around longer.

"We are what our bodies are" - but then there are points of view. She documents these and lays out the fascism of a fixed point of view. She has not spoken of demons. She abandoned them on the way from India a thousand years ago.

And here she is with her moon squared to a relentless sun. This is one of the few books on yoga that is not trivia.