Note for Essay

Necessity of Unity

-we need vocabulary that can unify some fields that is divided unreasonably.

(body-mind, physical health-mental wellness or logical solidness, individual-relationships, quality of life-ecology-economy...)

Ex) When we evaluate our economic activities, we have only evaluation by quantity. (This is very unnatural because there is no such thing as monotone value in biology)

We need a new way to perceive and evaluate by criteria (ex: how we cooperate with mother earth)

-how we live with unavoidable suffering

-how we relate with other people with unavoidable conflict without war

-how we live in symbiosis with nature in unavoidable need to exploit and possess some parts of resource

These three are same one question must be thought in one context..

Unity will provide us...

-aesthetic moving

-modesty to nature including one's body

-consideration for who are different

Means for Unity

-we need a way to see the world directly

-"Yoga is "direct" participation in Reality itself"

what does this statement exactly mean?

Technology of Hatha Yoga

-the way we directly participate in Life as Life. (body moves for its breath),(A participates in A)

-the methodology complicated enough to fit the reality and one can easily practice (without complicated thinking)

ex) polarity of inhalation and exhalation provides us a way to overcome fundamental difficulties/paradox(double-bind) such as "ahimsa"(nonviolence) and "satya"(honesty), "aparigrah"(not to possess) and to keep living(to possess at least essential resource)...

-dynamic self-study(tapas-svadhyaya Y.S2-1)

and to accept that we are limited (isvarapranidana)

Steps for practice

savitarka samapatti → nirvitarka samapatti

-we can start practicing with biased preconception in verbal level

(if we absorb in it, the bias will dissolve)

Desikachar's translation (Y.S1-2)

"to go in your chosen direction" , then the mind's fluctuation is reduced

what is thought to be right?(Y.S1-7)

pratiyaksa(direct perception), anumana(inference), agama (words of reliable person)

-epistemology of each individual

then Y.S1-49

to overcome what is heard or inferred

Methodology not to state

- division of sadhana (what can be actually done) and Siddhi (what is given)

not to bring objection

-vinyasa krama (to follow the order)

a way to persist on what to do right now

Where Magic happens

-"sraddha" how do we trust/love someone?

where we cannot explain

-Education of Yoga

"Is there anything or anything, or just shall we gossip?"

"Is there any burning questions?"

a guide to make students go in their own direction (nirodha)

Construction and Deconstruction

abhayasa-vairagya (Y.S 1-12)

to unite/ to become chaotic (=to live in entropy)

-after constructing perspective, we soon go back to actual practice

not to be destroyed by one "good" habit...

How Life Receives and Releases

You don't need to let it go.
You don't need to accept it.

You don't need to struggle to release it by your mind.
Just, exhale.
If possible, I want the rest of your body to coordinate this process so that you can exhale more smoothly.
What you exactly wanted to let go is contained in this exhalation.
As you keep living, what you don't need will go out naturally.

You don't need to impose yourself on such a difficult task as to accept something you don't like or to become flexible.
And now, just inhale.
If possible, I want your whole body to move so that the inhalation can pervade to every corner of your body.
In what you breathe in, there is what you exactly wanted to take in.
If it is really important for you, the Life will receive it and raise it carefully.

The world is one and mixing.
It is impossible that what you want or what you want to let go are completely absent here.
Here is, the beauty that attracts you, the greatness that you will be envious of, the brutality that you want to escape from, and meanness that you don't want to look...
Everything is here, little by little.

When you gaze at what you hate and try to eat it, you will fail.
I suggest you to take it in as much as you need now with all other things in the world.
You may not need even to be aware of the fact that it is contained!

Life can receive or release only what it needs and as much as needed at this moment.
By doing this, we live perfectly.
Is there any necessity for us to put something on this wonderful intelligence?

Live, just as how life is.