PEACE LOVE YOGA: Bandha Break Down

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."

- Adyashanti

No Expectations

A spirit that lives in this world

and does not wear the shirt of love,

such an existence is a deep disgrace.

Be foolishly in love,

because love is all there is.

There is no way into presence

except through a love exchange.

If someone asks, But what is love?

answer, Dissolving the will.

True freedom comes to those

who have escaped the questions

of freewill and fate.

Love is an emperor.

The two worlds play across him.

He barely notices their tumbling game.

Love and lover live in eternity.

Other desires are substitutes

for that way of being.

How long do you lay embracing a corpse?

Love rather the soul, which cannot be held.

Anything born in spring dies in the fall,

but love is not seasonal.

With wine pressed from grapes,

expect a hangover.

But this love path has no expectations.

You are uneasy riding the body?

Dismount. Travel lighter.

Wings will be given.

Be clear like a mirror

reflecting nothing.

Be clean of pictures and the worry

that comes with images.

Gaze into what is not ashamed

or afraid of any truth.

Contain all human faces in your own

without any judgement of them.

Be pure emptiness.

What is inside that? you ask.

Silence is all I can say.

Lovers have some secrets

that they keep.

(Rumi)

7.4.08

The heavy is the root of the light.
The unmoved is the source of all movement.

Thus the Master travels all day
without leaving home.

However splendid the views,
she stays serenely in herself.

Why should the lord of the country
flit about like a fool?

If you let yourself be blown to and fro,
you loose touch with your root.

If you let restlessness move you,
you lose touch with who you are.

~Lao-Tzu, Tao-te-Ching

When my alarm clock went off at 4:50 am this morning...I had to question myself for a moment...why do I do this again? Ohhhh...and then I quickly remember after getting out of my early morning haze...yes, I'm stretching my body for God...hahaha...I stole that phrase from a friend of mine...I hope God appreciates it...hee, hee...only kidding...

My mind was calmer this morning...the beauty of getting up before dawn. Yesterday, when practicing later in the day...I found such a startling difference with the activity of the mind vs. the early morning.

Anyway, I also learned that one just can't take anything for granted. When I made it to laghu vajrasana...shockingly I couldn't get up...I had to do it again...same thing...I was like Bandhas!...testing, testing...1, 2, 3...Bandhas...testing...Nothing!! Ha! I couldn't believe it...so I took it with a bit of grace, shrugged it off, and moved on...I guess it wasn't my day for good old laghu...very strange...I've never had a problem with it...what gives? Let's see what happens tomorrow, until then, I'm not gonna worry about it. Well, I'm just not gonna worry about it at all...to be honest. These postures are tools...not self-esteem breakers...actually the whole thing was kind of funny...seriously, however, it was a good little wake up call...at that time I wasn't totally present with what I was doing...and it was a good little nudge to wake me up a bit. And, I really needed it...

After asana practice, I've added a pranayama practice, ending with meditation, after the drive home. I've been wanting to add these practices in...and now is no better time than any to start. My meditation practices have always been sporadic...I'll be gong-ho for a while and then it falls off...then I'll pick it up again. Its a welcome addition to the asana...every time I meditate, I'm always like...why don't I do this more often? Its nice.

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