Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,
This week in class we are considering the topic “Meditation and Freedom.”
Thought is not the way to the new. Only meditation opens the door to that which is everlasting new. Meditation is not a trick of thought. It is the seeing of the futility of thought and the ways of the intellect. Intellect and thought are necessary in the operation of anything mechanical, but the intellect is a fragmentary perception of the whole. Intellect can operate only in the field of the known and that is why life becomes a monotonous routine from which we try to escape through revolts and revolutions - merely to fall back once again into another field of the known. This change is no change at all as it is the product of thought which is always old. Meditation is the flight from the known. There is only one freedom; it is, from the known. And beauty and love lie in this freedom.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The homework is to observe your thoughts throughout the day. Start to notice how the intellect operates through this observation. Try to be a witness to this process. The practice of witnessing can be the start of a contemplative practice like prayer or meditation.
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