Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,
This week in class we are considering the topic “Prayer and Meditation.”
Prayer and meditation necessarily proceed from our ordinary experience of being a subject confronting an objective world. In fact, we can tell their effectiveness by the degree to which they bridge the split between mind and matter, inside and outside. Successful meditation and prayer lead to the state of ecstatic unification in which subject and object stand revealed as the same eternal Being. This ecstatic self-transcendence must be realized not only in special moments of isolated contemplation but also in every moment of active life.
- Georg Feuerstein
The homework is to remind yourself that Yoga is meditation in movement and that it is a preparation for a prayer and/or a meditation practice. In all of these practices the ultimate goal is to live the practice fully in daily life. Our work is to take the Yogic experience into our lives off of the mat.
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
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Hi: While doing a search for information on Swami Bua, I came across your quote from him on youth. It is with great sadness that I share with you Swami Bua has left his body yesterday while visiting India with his family. We will be doing a service for him at the Ganesh temple in Flushing NY. Thank you so much for the post, so profound.
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