What amazes me is how people think that a complete stranger can know more about them than they know about themselves. If this is the case then you may need to find a guru or a therapist that will help you, how do you do that, there are so many flavours?
If you find yourself confronted with 'cosmic consciousness' you would never mistake it for a 'smart arse' would you, that could never happen could it. As you increase your ability to bring in more light or 'prana' you will chase out the shadows, as the shadow emerges you may feel as if it's all going wrong. But quite the opposite is happening to you. If you can stay awake when the 'stuff' comes up you will see it for what it is, an illusion, and an out-dated illusion at that!
A smart arse only has one concern to keep you hooked to him/her. Beware of the smart arse, he/she wants your 'dosh' and nothing else. But how can you tell?
It's all very well if you want to do yoga to relax. If that is the case then that's fine you know where are coming from. But you may as well keep it simple and do pilate's or something because Yoga is not for this purpose and unless you at least know what the point is you may actually start to get somewhere.
'I was self-realised but I just didn't realise it!' Anon.
The teacher is the teacher and the student is the student. The student goes to a teacher because he/she wants to find something out about a particular subject. What are you learning? What do you want to learn? Do you need allot of 'old flannel' or do you want to know what to do?
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT TO DO?
Some people like to be entertained and it's quite entertaining going to a random yoga class just to see what might get dished up for you. It's fair enough and it's also true that there are some disagreements in even the most authoritative books in yoga. But when a teacher doesn't know 'diddly squat' about anything at all let alone yoga, what is the world coming to?
There was a saying around a few years back which said, 'Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?' This was essentially saying, 'do you want to be a smart arse or do you want to enjoy your life as it presents itself to you?' Of course the answer is 'both', I want to be right and I want to be happy'. Is that the correct answer?
'Sometimes I really don't know what to say specifically so I just waffle on and most of the time it seems to work' Captain Fantastic.
This 'smart arse' character is of course our old friend the 'ego maniac'. What lies beyond this character? What could cosmic consciousness feel like and would we know it if we got it? I think not, I think these things may be happening to us all the time, but we keep listening to the one who knows it all and he/she keeps steering us up the wrong path.
Apparently we have a higher self, or inner guru, an element of our own psyche perhaps, that is the wise person inside of us, the part that will always lead us into our best position. How would we know that if we got it?
Focusing in the space between the eyes and breathing deeply into the spine. Inhale, 'puraka' and exhale, 'rechaka', the energy moves up and down, 'prana vayu' moves up and 'apana vayu' moves down. We keep going with this process for 15 minutes. We start to notice our mind distracting us away from the breaths movement . Then we bring our attention back again to the movement of up and down. We suspend the breath cycle for half a minute, kumbhaka and we see if we can stop thinking. Once you have stopped thinkin you have made the ego maniac go away for a while. But he will come back again and sometimes with with a vengeance. What is he saying? Is this the 'smart arse' or is this the 'inner guru', how will you know?
You will know only through trial and error. Repeating this process over and over agin until you can trust your deeper self, your inner guru etc. You will soon start to see the smart arse for what he/she is, a manipulator extraordinaire.
Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?
'Oh do shut up Brian' Hilary Fernley.
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