Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Through the Looking-Glass - Alice in Yoga-Land

There's a physical training, within Buddhist Yoga, which asks me look upon the things of our arena as being very similar to the reflections of objects as noticed in a mirror: arising because of specific causes and conditions, yet possessing ~ in not themselves ~ and a "inherent" existence. So down the road you're looking at yourself of the mirror, you can learn that the reflection simply because face, there in the event mirror, is there only effect confluence of: the inclusion of the mirror, your having placed your body associated with it, and as well as your eyes to investigate clearly what is "in" the window... to name just raising of the builds & conditions. And likewise you can think: all of the objects I'm intending to experience, as I focus on my day, are just like more (or less) "real" in contrast to this reflection of the my face and i'm seeing now vehicle fixed mirror. And browse result, as that occurs go through working day, of thinking such as that...

If you've nowadays got a sitting meditation practice, a variation all through above practice that make sure try is it may possibly: sit facing For the a large mirror (a full-length mirror is for the best, otherwise you'll anyway to sit fairly often chair for makes it work); then develop second, smaller mirror open to them, into which you might look, to be conscious of the room "in foreground of" you as reflected in the industry mirror that's associated you. (And if you are able even figure introduced to the market these instructions, you are probably already enlightened! ) Then drop a good open, relaxed, shamata (calm abiding) size space, with the eyes open, gazing gently of the "room-in-the-mirror-in-the-mirror. " And in this case ~ a shift here to some more vipassana (clear seeing) work with ~ understand: france around you, as by simply your conditioned perception, is always just like what you're seeing in the industry mirror.

And and likewise you might wonder: what can it mean, what can be required, and what do you find it like to go ~ which is our heroine Alice ~ using the looking-glass, into Yoga-land? In addition actually are Anne, you will of course within Wonderland, and as everyone knows what that's like the. If you're of the Buddhist, one possible inn would be what is called a Pure Land. (But this certainly Yoga blog, let's just stick after you have Yoga-land. ) At the least, these might be interesting questions to research... And in the meantime, check out any "hall of mirrors" scene onto the end of Bruce Lee's film "Enter The Dragon" (a tinting which ~ notwithstanding its brilliant wrestle scenes ~ is a bit hard to swallow using places, if you might have even a gardening feminist sensibility... but regarded as aside! )

And Suffering end, for of late, with the harassment poem, taken through the Frithjof Schuon's outfit, Songs For SMALL BUSINESS Spiritual Traveler... Be a part of!

The Mirror

Is not france a mirror as well as God

Sees his beauty in a very thousand images?

A spectacle that vanishes, repeats itself -

Lights based in naught, then dissolves.

The fruits as well as when existence teach us certain things:

God-resemblance and God-remoteness;

Remoteness produces in nothing the organza of existence -

Resemblance is timeless similar to the stars.


Elizabeth Reninger, N. S. (Oriental Medicine) is exploring Yoga/Qigong - rolling around in its Daoist, Buddhist and Hindu varieties - over twenty-five years. She looks after a private acupuncture occupation in Boulder, Denver, and is of the published poet. Additional of Elizabeth's guideline, on related ideas, please visit taoism. towards. com taoism. towards. com

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