As we delve in deeper to yoga through our practice and study, we find that surrender runs like a golden thread through its practice techniques and philosophy on many levels.
On the road to surrender, one needs to develop ethics (yama), refinement (niyama), posture (asana), pranayama (intimacty with the breath), pratyahara (sense withdrawal or ‘centering’), […]
by Bob Marley
In this life, in this life, in this life,
In this, oh sweet life:
We’re (we’re coming in from the cold);
We’re coming in (coming in), coming in (coming in),
Coming in (coming in), coming in (coming in),
Coming in from the cold.
It’s you - it’s you - it’s you I’m talkin’ to -
Well, you (it’s you) - […]
From The Upanishads
From Delight we came into existence.
In Delight we grow.
At the end of our journey’s close,
Into Delight we retire.
delight, the upanishads
by Walt Whitman
A leaf for hand in hand!
You natural persons old and young!
You on the Mississippi, and on all the branches and bayous of the
Mississippi!
You friendly boatmen and mechanics! You roughs!
You twain! And all processions moving along the streets!
I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to
walk hand in […]
by Sri Chinmoy
No mind, no form, I only exist;
Now ceased all will and thought;
The final end of Nature’s dance,
I am it whom I have sought.
A realm of Bliss bare, ultimate;
Beyond both knower and known;
A rest immense I enjoy at last;
I face the One alone.
sri chinmoy, the absolute
by Sri Aurobindo
Only the illimitable Permanent
Is here. A Peace stupendous, featureless, still.
Replaces all - what once was I, in It
A silent unnamed emptiness content
Either to fade in the Unknowable
Or thrill with the luminous seas of the Infinite.
nirvana, sri aurobindo
by the Venerable Ajahn Chah
‘If we don’t have land to till and a home to live in, we are without an external refuge, and our lives are filled with difficulty and distress. Beyond that, there is the inner lack of not having sila[1] and Dharma[2] in our lives, of not going to hear teachings […]
Hakuin’s early extreme exertions affected his health, and at one point in his young life he fell ill for almost two years, experiencing what would now probably be classified as a nervous breakdown by Western medicine, though the symptoms were similar to Kundalini.
He called it Zen sickness, and sought the advice of a Taoist […]
by Venerable Ajhan Summedho
My instincts say, ‘Kill the mosquitoes! They’re a nuisance, they give you malaria. . . . Kill those blasted midges; get rid of them as quickly as possible!’ But then the human side says that they have as much right to be here as I do. Who am I to […]
by Venerable Ajahn Summedho
Meditation isn’t an escape from the instinctual world, but an opening up to it; it’s a way of understanding the world, apart from the reactions of indulgence or suppression.
ajhan summedho
Beka Card concludes her diary from retreat in India…
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
Soft support. Deep Friendship
Sarnath, near the holy city of Varanasi, is the place where Buddha gave his first teachings in the famous deer park. For many, many years it has been a place of pilgrimmage for Buddhists and there […]
When we follow teachers’ instructions, or recall a focus point from a book, we need to add some limitation, some framework or context, in which the instructions can be followed in a way which is conducive to yoga’s principle of gathering the senses in (Pratyahara).
When one is not blown around by worldly winds, and […]
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