stillpoint yoga
yoga meditation and philosophy with Lynn
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Click here to print. Homework Winter 2004 Week 6 Practice 1. Read the piece below. A few times during the week, journal about experiences you’ve had with silence coming from exhaustion of the senses, and silence coming from something other than exhaustion. 2. A few weeks ago, we observed the urge to distraction ourselves with something. Continue this practice and notice what impact these urges and the underlying emotions have on our baseline state of silence in the mind that we worked with last week. Reading by Swami Veda Bharati From the booklet Silence, by Swami Veda Bharati We know true silence only by the symptoms – manifestations it leaves in its wake – the wake that arises from its depth. We all have a recognition of our origins being a very, very deeply eternally silent place. There is a mantle of silence under which we seek to conceal ourselves from the world of manifestations. I have reached the conclusion that we seek excitations and agitations because those excitations and agitations lead us to exhaustion. It is actually the exhaustion we are seeking, the restless kinetic form of energy. Because the large majority of us do not know the direct route into the ‘eternal rest’, we try to go to it by way of exhaustion, by resting.
This may be helpful – Internal dialogue More on how to journal. |
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