Greetings Sadhakas,
This week in class
we are considering Oneness.
Love, and do what
you like.
- Saint Augustine
Learning to love in
the way Saint Augustine is talking about is the most demanding, the most
delightful, and the most daring of disciplines. It does not mean loving only
two or three members of your family. It does not mean loving only those who
share your views, read the same newspapers, or play the same sports. Love, as
Jesus puts it, means blessing those that curse you, doing good to those that
harm you.
Most of us do not
begin by blessing those that curse us. That is graduate school. We start with
first grade - being kind to people in our family when they get resentful. Eventually
comes high school, where we learn to move closer to those who are trying to
shut themselves off from us. College means returning good will for ill will. Finally,
we enter graduate school. There we learn to give our love to all - to people of
different races, countries, and religions, different outlooks and strata of
society, without any sense of distinction or difference.
Words to Live By:
Inspiration for Every Day – Eknath Easwaran
The homework is
to consider that the practices of Yoga are centered around the idea of oneness.
Oneness in the pose, oneness with our environment, oneness with
each other, oneness with God. Learn for yourself how practicing the eight
limbs of Yoga moves you towards a state of detachment and how that places you
in a position to experience oneness.
What would this experience of oneness be like?
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
360.834.5994
www.rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington
