Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,
This week in class we are considering the topic “Love and Nonattachment.”
With love there is no painful reaction; love brings only a reaction of bliss. If it does not, it is not love; it is a mistaking of something else for love. When you have succeeded in loving your husband, your wife, your children, the world, the whole universe in such a manner that there is no reaction of pain or jealousy, no selfish feeling, then you are in a fit state to be unattached…
To attain this nonattachment is almost a life-work; but as soon as we have reached this point we have attained the goal of love and become free.
- Swami Vivekananda
The homework is to notice it the next time you experience pain, jealousy, or a selfish feeling. What should our response be when this comes up? If attaining nonattachment can take a lifetime of work, what is that work? How can our Yoga practice inform this process?
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
info@rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment