108 Yoga Study Path Pointers – 29 – Is the direction of our practice…
Is the direction of our practice
more concerned with self-interest or is
it more concerned with an interest in the Self?
Is the direction of our practice
more concerned with self-interest or is
it more concerned with an interest in the Self?
Yoga Practice turns and prepares the soil.
Yoga Study offers a range of seeds for planting.
We may need advice on how to integrate the two.
This integration of soil and seed unfolds into Sādhana.
The tendency is to measure a persons ‘progress’ by a
perceived comparison to some mythical finishing point,
rather than accepting that we cannot really appreciate
the reality of what was their actual starting point,
nor can we truly evaluate the effort they are putting
into developing and refining their personal Sādhana.
It’s not until I understand how to
cultivate a space within my self
can I begin to experience that
which is the essence of the Self.
It feels as if ‘Modern Postural Yoga’
is increasingly concerned with the
Movement of the Silhouette rather
than the Stillness of the Source.
The irony of seeking well being,
is that our being is always well.
“na iti na iti – not this, not this”
Defining our relationship with awareness,
is an inquiry into re-defining our relationship with matter.
– Bṛhad Āraṇyaka Upaniṣat II.3.6
Initially our Yoga Journey is towards our relationship with living.
Ultimately our Yoga Journey is towards our relationship with dying.
“What’s important is not to find the solution itself,
but to identify the mystery,
and to continuously touch it and draw strength from it.”
– Paul Harvey Interview Israel 2006
Yoga offers me an intelligent way to come out of my mistakes.
The greatest gift in old age is the ability to be in the present.
The greatest forfeit in old age is the tendency to be in the past or the future.
Until the Dancer (Citta) deeply realises that
the Observer (Cit) of the Spectacle (Viṣaya)
is not interested in the drives (Avidyā) which animate the dance,
the Dancer continues to Dance.
Sāṃkhya Kārikā of Īśvara Kṛṣṇa Āryā Fifty Nine
Āsana and Prāṇāyāma are more than
just Muscular and Skeletal. They deal
with the force behind the movement.
The intelligence which can be as if
blinded by Duḥkha and Avidyā.
Sāṃkhya is about living more within that which doesn’t change,
rather than living more within that which does change.