Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,
This week in class we are considering the topic “Cultivating Simplicity.”
Sheer poverty never made anyone more peaceful; extreme but voluntary austerity is often the flip side of extravagance. The mark of successful detachment from possessions is not how few of them we have around us, but how little space they occupy in our minds.
- Maggie Kramm
The reflection from the quote is to understand for yourself what it means to be detached from your possessions. List the things that you think you can not live without. Choose one of these things to totally let go of for a week. Observe how your mind works while you let go.
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994
www.rushingwateryoga.com
info@rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Renunciation Beyond Control
Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,
This week in class we are considering the topic “Renunciation Beyond Control.”
It is necessary that we renounce everything. Yet the nature of this renunciation has usually been misunderstood and its sense of freedom lost. Renunciation does not mean giving up something, like giving up material things in order to gain something spiritual. Renunciation means not taking things up in the first place, not trying to manipulate things or force our preconceptions on life. What we must give up is our personal will to control life. To do this we must be open, receptive, and responsive to things as they are. We must be in harmony with the movement of life that clings to nothing. Renunciation is not an intended action of giving something up, but the freeing of the mind from ulterior motives. There is nothing we have to give up other than our own anxiety to control things.
- David Frawley
The reflection from the reading is to recognize what is getting in your way on your path towards renunciation. Consider how renunciation can lead to freedom and what freedom really means. Finally ask yourself what your experience has to teach you about your attempts to control things.
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994
www.rushingwateryoga.com
info@rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003
This week in class we are considering the topic “Renunciation Beyond Control.”
It is necessary that we renounce everything. Yet the nature of this renunciation has usually been misunderstood and its sense of freedom lost. Renunciation does not mean giving up something, like giving up material things in order to gain something spiritual. Renunciation means not taking things up in the first place, not trying to manipulate things or force our preconceptions on life. What we must give up is our personal will to control life. To do this we must be open, receptive, and responsive to things as they are. We must be in harmony with the movement of life that clings to nothing. Renunciation is not an intended action of giving something up, but the freeing of the mind from ulterior motives. There is nothing we have to give up other than our own anxiety to control things.
- David Frawley
The reflection from the reading is to recognize what is getting in your way on your path towards renunciation. Consider how renunciation can lead to freedom and what freedom really means. Finally ask yourself what your experience has to teach you about your attempts to control things.
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994
www.rushingwateryoga.com
info@rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003
Sunday, March 8, 2009
True Wealth
Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,
This week in class we are considering the topic “True Wealth.”
The spiritual work is your only wealth, the only thing that can truly be said to belong to you. All the rest can be taken from you; only your work will be yours forever.
- Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
The reflection from the quote is to ask yourself the question, “Where does my contentment come from and where does my anxiety and tension come from”? Based on your own answer work to be non-attached to the situations or circumstances that create anxiety and tension and observe the impact on your life.
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994
www.rushingwateryoga.com
info@rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003
This week in class we are considering the topic “True Wealth.”
The spiritual work is your only wealth, the only thing that can truly be said to belong to you. All the rest can be taken from you; only your work will be yours forever.
- Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
The reflection from the quote is to ask yourself the question, “Where does my contentment come from and where does my anxiety and tension come from”? Based on your own answer work to be non-attached to the situations or circumstances that create anxiety and tension and observe the impact on your life.
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994
www.rushingwateryoga.com
info@rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Happiness for Everyone
Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,
This week in class we are considering the topic "Happiness for Everyone."
We are all human beings living on earth among countless other human beings, our happiness is intimately connected to that of others. It is hard to imagine personal happiness detached or separate from the happiness of others. For it is certain that if we aspire to happiness, we must be deeply concerned about the happiness of all humankind.
- The Dalai Lama
The reflection from the quote is to put the happiness of those around you first. Observe how this impacts your own well-being. Then work to develop a “practice” of happiness making sure that it is not dependent on what others do or do not do. Then ask yourself the question, “Where does my happiness come from”?
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994
www.rushingwateryoga.com
info@rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003
This week in class we are considering the topic "Happiness for Everyone."
We are all human beings living on earth among countless other human beings, our happiness is intimately connected to that of others. It is hard to imagine personal happiness detached or separate from the happiness of others. For it is certain that if we aspire to happiness, we must be deeply concerned about the happiness of all humankind.
- The Dalai Lama
The reflection from the quote is to put the happiness of those around you first. Observe how this impacts your own well-being. Then work to develop a “practice” of happiness making sure that it is not dependent on what others do or do not do. Then ask yourself the question, “Where does my happiness come from”?
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994
www.rushingwateryoga.com
info@rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003
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