All these meditations are advanced designs, such as what are Yamaraja, Ma Niya, asana, pranayama and Platahara-that is an adduction state. This state is that no matter what you are doing, you will infiltrate some quiet qualities, even if you are walking in the noisy city center. These qualities of meditation will permeate your mind more and more.
What you have to do is pratyahara, which is completely opposite to the flow of the world. This step-by-step practice is the foundation of meditation.
After the flow happens, you can slowly touch Zen. Therefore, the first six of the eight branches of yoga are instructive-leading you into a quality of meditation.
How can you say that "practicing asana is exercise, and practicing Vipassana is meditation"? To know that asana and Vipassana come from two different genetic ways, you are arranging and combining different heritages and putting them together.
To me, these random combinations are meaningless. Yoga is a very complete system, including not only the philosophy and technology of yoga, but also some methods of how we look at the world.
Please explore. If you know the truth, you will find the fact that the inheritance of yoga system is much older than many religions in the world. There is no time limit for the inheritance of yoga system. On the way to yoga, many saints were finally freed.
What is the yogi doing now? They confuse different concepts of inheritance, so you become more and more like a "spiritual China".
The less you know about a tradition, the less you can understand it deeply. Please don't narrow the meaning of yoga with your simple understanding.
Yoga is not only an exercise on the mat, but also a secular tool to make you feel good-yoga is a complete system.
When you really walk on the path of yoga, don't randomly arrange and combine these ancient concepts with different inheritance, but study and understand them deeply-what are the origins of these ancient concepts? What's the theme? Where does the classic come from? So, just like the concept of yoga asana, what is it? Think and act.
As Purshan (son of Iyengar) said: Most people regard yoga as physical exercise on the mat, and yoga mat has become the endorsement of yoga.
What exactly does yoga mean? What is asana? Asana is the seat of meditation. Is to let your body get some purification and evolution, and prepare for the next meditation.
When you are doing yoga poses, you should be sensitive, conscious and meticulous. You should keep a deep understanding, take liberation as the ultimate goal and do it with an introspective attitude. Every asana can reach the state of meditation, which is different levels of asana.
You can't do asana (external) just for asana (external), and you can't do meditation (internal) just for meditation (internal).
Asana is the seat of meditation. Asana is not just asana, but yoga asana, which exists for a transcendental state.
You have to understand what the whole philosophy system of yoga is, and you can't just see some one-sided points and confuse your one-sided understanding and concept of what yoga is with other one-sided understandings that you are familiar with.
A western yogi once said-"I don't practice Iyengar yoga, I only practice the negative aspects of Yang yoga"-this is a confusion of concepts. Yoga originated in India, while Yin and Yang are concepts in China. This is the result of the misuse of ancient inheritance terms.
A true yogi should control his thoughts, all his nervousness and his senses, and enter the state of Samadhi, instead of saying how long I can stand upside down and support my whole body with my hands.
Nowadays, many people regard yoga as an extreme challenge. For example, how many minutes can I do this pose? The situation now is: everyone wants to enter this challenge, and then they can't stick to it, so as soon as we enter this pose, we start chanting in our minds: When can I get out of this pose? -So we only do spell yoga.
To really understand what yoga is. It's not that you go to India for gilding, and then you can open a place to teach this and that when you go back. This is why Master Iyengar built a very accurate and precise system. To test this system, you must first enter this system before you can become a teacher of Professor Iyengar.
A little gold is plated here and a little gold is plated there. It's a spiritual butterfly-pick it up and throw it away, pick it up and throw it away ... no one has learned much. You should know that the system of yoga itself is complete and does not need anything external. It is from the most superficial and external situation to the most internal exploration.
What are we doing now? Yamaraja and Ma Niya in front of them didn't do well, so they jumped into asana. These Yan Luowang and Ma Niya are beyond the reach of many people who claim to teach yoga now.
Non-violent movement,
The basic good character of human beings is the most basic prerequisite for practicing yoga.
I said for a long time, I hope you don't dig a little here and a little there. What I want to say is that yoga itself is a complete system about human body transformation and has nothing to do with the so-called marketing. You need to let go of those unimportant things and really immerse yourself in this topic.
Many people don't do yoga under the banner of yoga. For example, at a meeting, the participants all claimed to be masters, but look at their behaviors-those behaviors are not what a real yogi can do. They are all squeezing each other's suspicions and using political skills.
So ask yourself sincerely, if you want to start this yoga path, you really have to be brave with yourself. Have you really taken on this role? You should always examine and examine your role in self-transformation.
Some students said, why hasn't our yoga class started yet? This course started 20 minutes ago. If you don't understand these basic theoretical knowledge, you can't say that you are studying yoga.
For example, if you say that you have practiced yoga for more than ten years, I will give you two minutes to explain what yoga is. I can give you a platform to explain what yoga is in front of Master Iyengar. There is a big gap between your practice and your understanding. However, many people only purify the most external physical level, and their understanding of yoga, clear expression and cognition of yoga, and the relationship between practice and philosophy are all unclear and so vague.
Why do you do handstands so many times? It is to give you a state, let you experience this kind of ups and downs, and let you get tempered.
Only through exercise can you cope with the ups and downs in your life, and you can keep a balanced and peaceful heart no matter what happens. So the yoga pose is an exercise. Constantly temper a stable and satisfied life.
Understand your intentions when you study, or you will not know what you are doing. We are the existence of this duality, so we also have the characteristics of duality in posture, which are the occurrence of duality.
On the stage of yoga, you are both an actor and an audience. Everything is integrated into your body and your existence. So, watching all this happen like a witness is like watching a play.
Ah, it's broken. Maybe someone will invent a new one.
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Yoga-Broadway Yoga: Because everyone is eager to bring a new label and new benefits to yoga.
If you really look at it as a bystander, you will clearly see the changes, and this observation and sensitivity will continue to increase with practice, so patanjali said that we should do less but do it effectively.
You can't overuse your body to make them do this or that pose. Without the purification of awareness, all this is meaningless. If you don't know where to go up, where to go down, where to be wide, where to be narrow, where to be concave and where to be prominent, then what is the purpose of this effort?
There is an ancient song of the soul (Nirvana VI of Sankara
It sings: I am not a body, I am not a feeling.
Ode)
Officer, I don't have ... these external things. I am above everything else.
Omnamah Shiva- these five syllables. The great god Shiva has a trident, and we are all controlled by this trident. This trident is time: one of them is the past, and we are all burned by the fire of the past to regret our actions; The other is the future. We are all hurt by the fire of the future, because we are always worried about the future, worrying about what to do without work and money ... we have always been controlled and bound by these concerns.
Yoga is an introverted and even mysterious science. Real yoga practice is a very introverted and mysterious knowledge, but you should know that real yoga is quite accomplished but not obvious-it is not the makeup painted on your face.
The following is a story about a yogi. Shiva is a very introverted yogi, who thinks for everyone. Once, the devil and God wanted to create an immortal dew. They stirred the whole ocean with a snake to make dew, but they stirred and stirred and made beautiful things, but they didn't expect the venom on the snake's teeth to accidentally run into the ocean, so the whole ocean became highly toxic. Later, the devil and God found a very honest yogi and made him drink all the venom in the ocean. Shiva drank all the venom in the ocean into her body without saying anything, but her wife suddenly ran out and grabbed his neck, so he became a green throat.
Another story is about a female yogi. She is a princess, but because she worships God very much, she misses God all the time, and even when she walks on the road, she keeps praising God. Her behavior is too unlike the princess in others' eyes. The royal family thought such behavior was very bad, so her husband gave her a cup of poison. The pious princess accepted the poison, but she saw Kreisha dancing in this cup of poison, so she drank it. ...
The yogi has achieved a lot, but it is not obvious, only at some individual moments. Yoga is such a complete system, otherwise, you are doing Titanic yoga-let yourself keep falling and sinking, just like Titanic.
We should see all kinds of binary opposites and observe, record and express them like bystanders. I have never expressed what yoga is so clearly. If you don't like it, it's none of my business. Doesn't mean you like listening, so I'll talk more. If you don't want to hear it, I won't say it. A reporter asked me yesterday: Are you a disciple of Master Iyengar? If so, why worship the monkey god Ha Numan, a god like Shiva? I said: Everything helps me, they are my guru. You can't say which one I inherited, just identified that person, so it became SEKT-that would be dogmatic. For me, many things will teach me something, such as the sun, the moon and many stars.
About the connection between yoga students and sacredness. You can relate yourself to the illusory background created by God, which can be named in one way or another, tangible or intangible, but you have to connect with it. Just like when we relax and breathe after class every day, imagine that we are grateful and full of gratitude when we inhale. When we exhale, we surrender to the world of creation.
What is meditation? For me, meditation is: in a room, just like a yoga classroom, there is no wind and there is an oil lamp. This oil lamp has been burning and burning, but when you look out, it is always in a static, balanced and quiet state. It's not that this lamp is constant and new all the time, but it can still remain stable in every new occurrence. It is not like that song-candle in the wind, because the outside world changes, vacillating and drifting with the flow. Meditation is to keep us in this quiet state through all the ups and downs, but it is not static.