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YOGA

or

How I met myself in the middle of the great cosmic bubble


In India the path has been known as "Yoga" for thousands of years. In view of such persistence we ask, Why yoga? Could it be that the "royal path" of yoga (Raja Yoga) teaches the student how to "be"; how to expand individual consciousness and become one with the ultimate reality? Yeah, sure, but what does that really mean?

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The word "yoga" itself means "yoke", with the special sense of mystic union between the individual self and the supreme universal joke. Yoga teaches that our identification with the sense-world of matter blinds us to the essential nature of the self (that little shameless smile on the four-year old next door, the disorienting baby that makes you forget what you were trying to do.).


Discern two realities.


One known as Purusha (cosmic consciousness - the "you" that is so much bigger than you think you are)

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And one known as Prakriti (matter - the you that you stare at in the mirror, the you that bumps its knee against the coffee table every time you watch Seinfeld.).


These may become distinguishable as you, the Yoga student, progress in the training (then again there are no real guarantees in this game, you may spend your whole life staring at your navel to no avail, imagine that!)


Yoga has many faces.


Hatha Yoga, which deals mainly with body and breath

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Bhakti Yoga, the yoga of devotion

Mantra Yoga, a yoga of sound

Jnana Yoga, the yoga of knowledge
Karma Yoga, the yoga of action
Kundalini Yoga for awakening the vital force of transformation

 
These different paths appeal to different types of people but ultimately reach the same far-off destination.

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Yoga is one reflection of a teaching that is everywhere. From Wall Street, to sales workshops, to music conservatories. Focused efforts toward an unknown goal. A "teacher" passing on the teaching to a student... direct transmission going back beyond the farthest reaches of human memory ("I am old...").

We only understand when the teaching meets our own experiences, when it becomes part of our own flesh. It's not enough to just read or talk about it ("it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing").

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Real experience gives one the taste of an awakened machine and provides a foundation for practical work on self. With the help of a teacher and disciplined effort the center of awareness may change, allowing the union of the essential self with the transformational apparatus of the human biological machine.


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This practice uses the awakened machine to grow a new vehicle of consciousness, one that may support us after our body expires, thus transcending space, time, and matter. This new consciousness Works, every day, in every thing, for the benefit of all Beings everywhere. This new being of ours, cultivated with discipline, love and understanding performs according to the laws of the universe, invisible to the eye of sleeping, earth-bound humanity.

Real Yoga training (which may not involve the lotus position, breathing techniques, or strange words in Sanskrit) makes clear what very few students of traditional teachers ever learn: Nothing we can do alone will result in any evolutionary gain whatsoever. All the powers one might attain in this life are insignificant, useless, and meaningless. They merely enhance one's everyday primate life and are useless once this primate is dead..

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We are warned that if we are not willing to sacrifice forever our chance for union with the Absolute in order to help the Absolute from this side of the veil, then we must run from the School, because that is its only goal.

CAVEAT EMPTOR

 

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