This is an amazing teaching Christina shares on her blog today. In fact, in the last week her blog has been chock full of profound insights on the yogic path. Click on the post title above to check it out... enjoy!
Tamara
Monday, November 23, 2009
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Wow,
ReplyDeleteBeatiful expression of the task as practitioners/teachers to stay on the path. Then to allow the radiance built by the practice to attract those who seek.
I want to post a quote that really grabbed me.
"Manorama said, 'Yoga is always the unifying force. It should not be what is making it harder for you to love someone. If that is happening do not blame yoga, because that is not what yoga does. Yoga unifies.'"
Ah! perfection!
Thanks, Tamara, for pointing this out to us.
-Brittany
How true.
ReplyDeleteChristina's blog has been extremely insightful, especially during this immersion. It kind of resonates the energy we establish every time we do an intensive or a deep work of any kind. It is powerful what collectivity can facilitate.
Brittany, That exact section of the post grabbed me as well...and I looked deeper inside and let it do some work. Its easy to almost develop an eye only for the gourmet experiences, people, and relationships...but it has a tendency to make us lose sight of the weighty truth of simplicity. I always check in with the word "YOGA", as it reveals a quality that is more splendid than any bout of disintegrative dualistic illusionary thinking.
There were so many great things expressed in this post, it really did a good job rounding up some of the loose ends, and pointing out more aspects of our conditioning, which I'm realizing, as deviant as we may think we are being from conditioning, it runs DEEP. It's no wonder why unconditionality seems so difficult to maintain at times. It really benefits us to be unconditional with our yoga, because in essence, that is truly what its supposed to be bringing us closer to. I find myself making conditions, not just employing subconscious ones...which is a whole different bucket to sift through. "If, then's" are more dominating than we realize, but really its all as it is, right now...I'm guilty as charged with those silly ideas. I suppose the dual world we live in, is one we need to perscribe to for the sake of relatability though, becuase I think the absolute scares the poo out of many many many of the people, institutions, relationships, and other realative things. But another thing mentioned in CS's blog was the idea of holding more than one viewpoint as equally valid...so with that, I suppose we should make a non-dualistic realtionship with our dual world, and lest we forget to maintain an equal relationship with the Absolute.For me, its hard to believe that these are equally valid, I'm such a critic and a skeptic of the qualitites and outcomes of the realtive world...yet it reminds me of my footwork on the path, because sometimes, I find it extremely difficult to ground some of the high frequency energy that is spiraling around in the work we do in the name of YOGA.
Very provocative reading. Thanks Tamara for the post!
-Shyla