Idealism and realism

[Guest guest]

Namaste Chitteranjanji,

Your point about Astanga yoga as a practice that

reflects a theoretical

base was well taken. Immersion, focus and absorption are a path away from the

natural bounce

back of a mind spinning its own web about the hapless object now reduced to a

pallid image.

 

"We jump from picture to picture and cannot follow

The living curve that is breathlessly the same."

 

Louis MacNeice

 

Let me say that even to be speaking of an 'object' is to have fallen into

prose. Who told us to

carve the world at such and such a joint? The power that we bring to the

world has its shape

wrought by evolution. The same power informs the object and the confluence of

the two is knowing

itself as that object and localising the knowledge.

 

Your ruminations on adhyasa will be interesting,

Best Wishes, Michael.