"You should not be practicing to have a 'good' practice, but instead to keep steadiness within yourself. Practice happily regardless of whether it is 'good' or not. Sometimes some postures will not be possible, but when you accept the good and the bad and everything becomes equal for you, that is yoga."
- R. Sharath Jois
Burnt To Ash
"All Inquiry is meant for one purpose; to take you experientially into the unknown as efficiently as possible. Once you get there, simply be still because inquiry has delivered you to its destination. The rest is up to Grace. Do not hold onto any knowledge that comes your way. Even the greatest revelations much not be clung to, or you will end up with a head full of memories and a heart empty of substance. The truth is ever new, existing only in the now. The highest truth is beyond knowledge and experience. It is beyond time and space, and beyond beingness, consciousness, and oneness. Just remember that all direct path techniques are meant simply to undermine, to cut away, the one who is performing them. No matter what spiritual path you've walked or what teachings you've followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes the itself. The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. The, and only then, is the Ultimate realized. True Enlightenment destroys enlightenment. As long as you can refer back to yourself and say, 'I'm enlightened', you not. Enlightenment is authentic only when there is no one left to be enlightened. Even to say 'I am nobody', is one too many. There's a point when you intuitively realize that to be Free you have to give up your attachment to Freedom. You have to quit asking yourself: Is it still there? Am I okay? You have to decide to never look over your shoulder again to see if you're free or if others know you're free. You just have to let yourself burn there - no matter what. This isn't something I can help you with. I can tell you what you need to do, but you have to do it. In the beginning, teachers can help a lot. But the deeper you go, all they can do is point, and clarify, and tell you what you need to do. Only you can take this step. Nobody can push you in to this place."
"Whatever satisfaction come from getting what the false-self wants, is always brief." (Father Thomas Keating) The days and weeks s...
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"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."
"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is."
(Yoda)
What a relaxing Easter weekend!
Last Friday was the evening of our liver/gallbladder cleanse, which blends into the next morning. Third time is a charm! I managed to get through with absolutely no nausea. I think my 2nd time was when I peaked. I was the most nauseous then, and a numerous amount of stones passed. This time I didn't have nearly as many release.
Since then, my digestion has revved up immensely, which had been my concern over the past year. Connecting to my food on a profound level, while clearing and managing parts of my system, has had an enormous affect on my well-being. I'm happy to have addressed these issues proactively before they became more of a problem, only having the choice to react. The good thing is, along the way I've learned invaluable information.
The most interesting part about this journey is, with the clearing, when I see the changes that have taken place, it feels as if I'm truly seeing myself, for the first time, in a long time. I'm not sure if I'm making any sense. I guess what I'm driving at is I'm finally seeing the authenticity of who I am, healthy, vibrant, whole. Now, when I talk about changes, I'm not referring to fitting into some type of ideal fed by the external media or even into what a "yogini" is supposed to look like (whatever that is). I'm talking about looking, seeing me, unadulterated, and I like it. Pretty simple. It all goes hand in hand. When connecting on the inside, we become lit from with in.
Below I'd like to share the following video clips by Certified Ashtanga yoga teacher, David Garrigues. I've just recently been introduced to his blog, which has a wealth of information in regards to the practice of Ashtanga yoga. Well written, and insightful, it's not to be missed.
In the following clips he talks in regards to the practice of yoga and the importance of diet.
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