Monday, May 27, 2013

Yoga as technique, not cult.

Yoga - and the system of Yoga, was never meant to be captured and made into a 'thing' that belongs to someone.

Yoga is a system of techniques, that may help you to to see through the illusions/delusions of your own mind.

It seems so much easier sometimes, to have a drink and relax, to smoke a cigarette, and tell yourself you are free.

How free are you?

And what is freedom anyway?

'Within the mind there are no limits'. So says John Lilly, in his famous book, 'The Centre of the Cyclone.'

The mind 'is' a limit.

Pranayama - can help you move beyond what you 'think' are your limits.

Do you even do Yoga?

Would it ever occur to you to get up in the morning and do, Five, Ten, or Twenty, rounds of Kapalbhatti - just to see what happens?

Would it occur to you to get up and do, Fifty rounds of Sun Salutation, just to see what happens?

Ten, Twenty, or thirty rounds of alternate nostril breathing?

What have you got to lose?

Your mind? :)

I suppose you may think it's easy for me to say all this. Why? Because I made an effort to get here?

Sometimes it seems so easy, and why not enjoy it, why shouldn't it be?

Enjoy.

Before you know it, it may be seriously hard again.

Breathe and relax. Stretch out, and relax. Sit still, and look within

Do what you want, and see where it takes you. If it takes you into a shit place, at least you will have learned something.

Procrastination means, putting off till tomorrow the life that you could be having today

Peace.

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