Friday, June 13, 2008

State of ease and rest, sutra 1.3

My mind is wondering, strolling happily ever ongoing towards whatever object pops up. Annoying. But it turns into a great material for my meditation on being here and now. Several different teachers, from very different areas in my life, have told me that meditation is the ever ongoing process of “getting back”, “return” so I guess I’m grateful for the possibility to practice this :-)
Monday’s class had another focus, we worked on flexibility, stretches and it gets so clear that, for me, it’s the same as working with my love for being human, for having limitations, what a difference to work with stretches and loving the limit instead of fighting it.
I also found that balance poses, for me, contains the essence of the 1.2 sutra, of being balance, outlived focus.
Sutra 1.3 tells me that; “With the attainment of focused mind, the inner being establishes itself in all its reality”. This relates to my experience of “I’m not my feelings, my opinions or my doing… I love how the word Drashtuh is translated to inner being, seeing entity and witness! So when I work with focus I get to experience my true nature, I’m the one observing Jenni having opinions, feelings… I do get this in my meditation and in my daily yoga practice; it’s a great restful, soft and easy place to be. I can get there by letting go, into stillness of a stationary asana or by real dynamic strength demanding work.
Maybe something provocative is good? To get to experience the opinions, so that we can experience our true nature besides these? I guess I will do both stationary and dynamic asanas.
Peace and love
Jenni :-)

3 comments:

AutoDT said...

Hello Jenni,

I thought I share this with you:

'We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.'

Tao Te Ching.

Namaste and peace to you.

Jenni said...

Yes I used to be so afraid of the "hole in the stomach" now emptyness is a possibility!
I tried to provoke my yogastudents but they seemed to love whatever I thru at them, dynamic as well as static asanas, maybe the most provoking thing was to be still, in a small sitting meditation, for some of them,,,

Jenni said...

Hi Thank you for finding me :-) I like that - Love to you