“Yoga [meditation] is the (intentional) stopping of the spontaneous activity of the mind stuff.” – Yogasutras 1.2<\/p>\n
“Throw open the gates, put self aside, bide in silence, and the radiance of the spirit shall come in and make its home.” – Kuan Tzu, P’ien 36<\/p>\n
“When you enlarge your mind and let go of it, To me it feels like every thought we have is blocking out our true nature. It’s also blocking out what would be a true life experience: both because the inner self can’t get out, and the outer life is blocked from showing forth its true nature and transcendence. “The Kingdom of God is spread upon the earth, yet men do not see it.” Thus every thought we have is distracting us from the ‘real show’ or ‘real adventure’ of our lives, which is our destiny. It’s like the Polynesian saying, “We spend our time fishing for minnows, all the while standing on a whale.” The “minnows” are thoughts, distractions, making us ignorant of the “whale” of our true nature, our true destiny, which is something much bigger than we ever imagined, and much more interesting than the sideshow of the mind trying to catch “little minnows.”<\/p>\n The sublimity of our essence is trying to make itself known both from within and from without. Thoughts are blocking that “knowingness.” \u00a0This is the reason for the practice of yoga, or what we call meditation. To re “yoke” this awareness which would initiate a marriage of the eternal with the imminent.<\/p>\n “There’s something that wants to make itself known, a presence.”<\/p>\n “No one has yet lifted my veil.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Yoga [meditation] is the (intentional) stopping of the spontaneous activity of the mind stuff.” – Yogasutras 1.2 “Throw open the gates, put self aside, bide in silence, and the radiance of the spirit shall come in and make its home.” … Continue reading
\nWhen you relax your [qi<\/a><\/i>\u00a0?] vital breath and expand it,
\nWhen your body is calm and unmoving:
\nAnd you can maintain the One and discard the myriad disturbances.
\nYou will see profit and not be enticed by it,
\nYou will see harm and not be frightened by it.
\nRelaxed and unwound, yet acutely sensitive,
\nIn solitude you delight in your own person.
\nThis is called “revolving the vital breath”:
\nYour thoughts and deeds seem heavenly.” Kuan Tzu (24, tr. Roth 1999:92)<\/p>\n