True Love

Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,

This week in class we are considering the topic “True Love.”

We expect our wives or husbands or children to make us happy by behaving the way our ego desires. We all want others to make us feel important, wise and attractive. So we spend twenty to fifty years living together – expecting and demanding many things from each other – but this has nothing to do with experiencing our love and walking on the real spiritual path.

When we truly love someone, we love the Light within that person. The process of enlightenment is the path of learning to appreciate the Light both within ourselves and those we love, and seeking to allow the full expression of our Self as well as the Self of others.

- Swami Rama

The homework is to determine what Yoga practices you can use to start to appreciate your own innate goodness. Work on developing your own inner Light and then use the same practices to appreciate others innate goodness. Observe the external changes that are associated with the combination of the two practices. Notice if the result is the movement of this innate goodness outward into the world.

Blessings,

paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
The BKS Iyengar Yoga School of Southwest Washington
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994

www.rushingwateryoga.com
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Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003