Greetings Yogis and
Yoginis,
This week in class
we will be exploring detachment.
Attachment is the
great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is
detached.
– Simone
Weil
One of the
profoundest laws of spiritual psychology is: you see what you are, and you are
what you see. The observer cannot help conditioning what he or she observes.
Those who cannot
love see a world where love has little place. Those who live to enlarge their
love, by contrast, see a world of hope: a world of men and women who, despite their
failings, are capable of love in the core of goodness in their hearts.
To see life from
this lofty vantage, we need detachment, not from others but from ourselves.
Words to Live By:
Inspiration for Every Day – Eknath Easwaran
The homework is
to understand for yourself what it means to be detached from yourself and how
your Yoga practices can help you in this process. This
concept is found in Yoga Sutra 1:12: “Abhyasa Vairagyabhyam Tannirodhah - Practice
and detachment are the means to still the movements of consciousness.” Study this sutra and see how the concepts of Abhyasa : effort, willpower, practice and Vairagya : letting go,
acceptance, detachment are explained.
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
info@rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal,
and Vancouver Washington
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