PEACE LOVE YOGA: Jumping into Pincha Mayurasana

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)

6.5.08

Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
is his own personality: he's free.

~Rumi, Furuzanfar #116, Rubaiyat

I've always entered Pincha Mayurasana kicking one leg at a time...seemed to suit me just fine, but after observing others jumping in with both legs I thought I would give it a go. First, trying near a wall...just in case I go tumbling over. Gotta have the safety net for confidence's sake. ;)

Well, in the beginning, it seemed nearly impossible because of the positioning of the arms...but I found it easier than it looks...attempted jumping up with bent legs, and that went really well...after several rounds I went for the straight leg jump in. Low and behold...I did it...couldn't believe it...thought it was gonna take more effort on my part, but no...surprisingly it connected. Now...if only Karandavasana were that easy...hmmmm.

Because of the imbalances in my body I feel the need to enter postures in a symmetrical fashion as much as possible to counteract them. I have the habitual pattern of entering handstand and pincha with the same leg. Or, for jump backs...I always cross the left leg over the right. Also, with my left arm being more stable because of the rod and screws in it vs. my right, where it's hyper-mobile, I have to be cognizant of finding a balanced approach to everything...I guess its good...gotta bring it back to deepening awareness.

Even though there is a forward progression to the Ashtanga system there are always places to go deeper...places to refine...even in the most basic of postures. Geesh...even standing in samasthitih!

Anyway...I remember a wise teacher once told me..."Its not how far you go...its how deep that's important"

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