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jthabuddha
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 Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 9:38:10 PM
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why are you practicing yoga?
as long as you do anything you are millions of miles from home.
run and catch it
it is like chasing a beam of light--impossible
run away from it
it will follow you everywhere
what is yoga? |
Edited by - AYPforum on Jan 15 2008 10:30:05 AM |
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jthabuddha
22 Posts |
Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 10:56:09 PM
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| answer quick! |
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AYPforum
351 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 10:30:05 AM
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| Moderator note: Topic moved for better placement |
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jthabuddha
22 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 12:46:13 PM
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| where are all the yogis? |
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Scott
USA
969 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 1:54:46 PM
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| They are at home. |
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jthabuddha
22 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 2:35:51 PM
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just as a well fed man doesnt search for food
yogis who are at home dont practice yoga
yogis who dont practice yoga arent yogis
those who practice yoga are bobbing in the sea of illusion
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david_obsidian
USA
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Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 5:18:26 PM
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Jthabuddha, Yogani's lesson on doing nothing is worth looking at:
http://www.aypsite.org/84.html
It's very, very easy to dismiss yoga practice -- much harder to manifest its fruits, maybe even harder still to be successful in teaching people to manifest its fruits.
Yoga is a toolbox. Properly used, these tools can be enormously helpful for delivering the fruits of yoga. And while tools have a good record for producing enlightenment (though not a spectacularly good one) the record of dismissal of tools on the other hand is spectacularly bad. Krishnamurti, a man who started his teaching role with an enormous audience pre-made for him, admitted near the end of his life that he hardly helped anyone. Tragically, his net influence may even have been negative, since he steered many people away from spiritual tools.
run and catch it
it is like chasing a beam of light--impossible
run away from it
it will follow you everywhere
That's not to say that poems/aphorisms like that don't have some value. But you should understand that whatever value they have is entirely reconcilable with a yoga practice. In fact, insofar as they seem to preclude yoga practice, there is some misunderstanding, either of the best meaning of the aphorism, or of yoga practice. The best thing for a yogi to do is 'stop chasing it' as you say -- and do his/her yoga practice.
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jthabuddha
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Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 5:40:14 PM
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dont do your practices. do them!
in other words: let it happen
let it happen and dont you move a muscle
as long as 'you' do anything you're screwed
it is only in your complete surrender
thatsomething can be accomplished |
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Alvin Chan
Hong Kong
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Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 10:23:46 PM
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Don't type your aphorisms. Do them!
In other words: let it unfold
Let it unfolds and don't you move a finger
as long as "you" type any "doing-nothing aphorism" you're lying
It is only in stop trying to accomplish
That you can completely surrender |
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Black Rebel Radio
USA
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Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 10:47:04 PM
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| I surrender! |
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jthabuddha
22 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 11:06:02 PM
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