Max Strom recently wrote a book about our relationship with technology and how it is damaging our own internal devices as we become hooked on the meaningless, virtual and pretty fruitless worlds online. Scientists are currently inventing robots which can make eye contact and express different emotions but we, on the other hand, have given up on this somewhat demode way of communicating and are instead relying on the tips of our overactive fingers as we text more meaningless and more fruitless words to someone on the other end.
Yesterday, I bumped into someone who was charging at me full speed with his phone in his right hand and his head stooped low, effectively blind to the world around him. His lack of awareness extended so far that he didn't even apologise. Deep communication is at the heart of true yoga, so where is it?
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