definition of yoga

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Yes, thank you Josh

 

so well said

 

Maria

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Asana and Pranayama are related to Patanjali's definiton of yoga as

the 'cessation of the waves of the mind' in that they develop

integration of the brain's two hemispheres into a single unified state

of experience- Yoga.

 

By using the various movements which are connected together by mindful

breath awareness we soon develop the knowledge of when the 'waves' of

our mind (thoughts, emotions) are leading us away from the present

moment which is the unified, non-dual, state of experience mentioned

above. So for example, you are trying to express trikonasana and

while you are in the pose your mind wanders into what you have to do

after class, or it phases back into a past memory, chances are very

strong that you will lose awareness of where your breath is in its

cycle, of how you are contacting the floor with your feet, of whether

you are holding your bandhas and drishti will lose its focus. Using

the poses and awareness of breath as a backdrop to observe the

tendency of the mind to create waves and project either forward into

the future or backwards into the past is the beauty of the system for

it slowly teaches the mind to slow down its habitual thinking and

remain connected to what is truly real- the present moment.

 

And becoming irrevocably entrenched in the present moment as your

experience creates the timeless, boundless, blissful, peaceful state

of being that when directly experienced puts to rest your other

question about life/death and why bother for both birth and death will

be known to be an illusion created solely by memory and attachment to

the false idea of being a person instead of the realization that you

are the pure field of consciousness that all form arises and subsides

into- the whole. Unborn. Undying.

 

Peace to you on your journey.

 

 

ashtangayoga , " osvinod " <vinod.linux wrote:

>

> Hi all,

> I read from pathanjali yoga sutra that the defenition of yoga

> as chithavrithi nirodha ( cessation of mind)

> when i joined yoga classes they are teaching me some body exersises

> and breathing exersises only ,

> i will get most of the benefits from my Gym itself,

> So what is the use of doing yoga?

> withou doing yoga i may live 60 years,and after doing yoga i may live

> 100 years,any way after that i am going to die?

> can anyone suggest how pathanjali's defenition is related to this

> exercises

> Regards

> Vinod

>

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Beautifully put. Thank you. Teresa

 

yogawithjosh <yogawithjosh wrote: Asana and Pranayama are

related to Patanjali's definiton of yoga as

the 'cessation of the waves of the mind' in that they develop

integration of the brain's two hemispheres into a single unified state

of experience- Yoga.

 

By using the various movements which are connected together by mindful

breath awareness we soon develop the knowledge of when the 'waves' of

our mind (thoughts, emotions) are leading us away from the present

moment which is the unified, non-dual, state of experience mentioned

above. So for example, you are trying to express trikonasana and

while you are in the pose your mind wanders into what you have to do

after class, or it phases back into a past memory, chances are very

strong that you will lose awareness of where your breath is in its

cycle, of how you are contacting the floor with your feet, of whether

you are holding your bandhas and drishti will lose its focus. Using

the poses and awareness of breath as a backdrop to observe the

tendency of the mind to create waves and project either forward into

the future or backwards into the past is the beauty of the system for

it slowly teaches the mind to slow down its habitual thinking and

remain connected to what is truly real- the present moment.

 

And becoming irrevocably entrenched in the present moment as your

experience creates the timeless, boundless, blissful, peaceful state

of being that when directly experienced puts to rest your other

question about life/death and why bother for both birth and death will

be known to be an illusion created solely by memory and attachment to

the false idea of being a person instead of the realization that you

are the pure field of consciousness that all form arises and subsides

into- the whole. Unborn. Undying.

 

Peace to you on your journey.

 

ashtangayoga , " osvinod " <vinod.linux wrote:

>

> Hi all,

> I read from pathanjali yoga sutra that the defenition of yoga

> as chithavrithi nirodha ( cessation of mind)

> when i joined yoga classes they are teaching me some body exersises

> and breathing exersises only ,

> i will get most of the benefits from my Gym itself,

> So what is the use of doing yoga?

> withou doing yoga i may live 60 years,and after doing yoga i may live

> 100 years,any way after that i am going to die?

> can anyone suggest how pathanjali's defenition is related to this

> exercises

> Regards

> Vinod

>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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