The Great Way is not difficult;
It only avoids picking and choosing.
When love and hate are both absent,
Everything becomes clear and undisguised.
Make the smallest distinction, however,
And heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.
If you wish to see the truth,
Then hold no opinions for or against anything.
To set up what you like against what you dislike
Is a disease of the mind.
When the deep meaning of things is not understood,
The mind’s essential peace is disturbed to no avail.
The Way is perfect like vast space,
Where nothing is lacking and nothing is in excess.
Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or reject
That we do not see the true nature of things.
Live neither in the entanglements of outer things
Nor in inner feelings of emptiness.
Be serene in the oneness of things
And such erroneous views will disappear by themselves.
To deny the reality of things
Is to miss their reality;
To assert the emptiness of things
Is to miss their reality.
The more you talk and think about it,
The further astray you wander from the truth.
Stop talking and thinking
And there is nothing that you will not be able to know.
teachings by John Daido Loori
Finding my still point .
Bhujangasana II ( Sphinx) pose
... O goddess, difficult to find is a guru who lights up everything like the sun.
Kula Aranva Tantru
Uttanasana ( Forward Bend) Pose
This is a boon to people who get excited quickly, as it soothes the Brain cells. After finishing the asana, one feels calm and cool, the eyes start to glow, and the mind feels at peace.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Matsyasana ( Fish) pose
Health is WEALTH. Peace of mind is Happiness. Yoga shows the way.
Swami Vishnu Devananda
Virasana ( Hero) Pose I have neither Guru nor initiation; I have no discipline no duty to preform. Understand that I'm the formless sky; I'm the self- existent purity.
Avadhuta Gita
Simhasana ( Lion) Pose stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the self, the God of the universe. Say: " I am existence absolute, bliss absolute, knowledge absolute, I am He."
Swami Vivekananda
Happy Baby Pose
Sow love, reap peace.... sow meditation, reap wisdom.
Swami Sivananda
Ugrasana ( Fearful ) Pose
Stretch both legs joined and holding firmly the feet with the hands, place the head on the knees. This is called the Fearful Posture, which stimulates the fire of the LIFE BREATH.
Vrksasana ( Tree) Pose
All duties, wealth , enjoyment, liberation, All people and objects in the world as well; Everything, in the eyes of a yogi, Is like the [illusory] water in a desert mirage.
-Avadhuta gita
Virabhadrasana I ( Warrior I ) Stand erect, or you cave in the very self.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Balasana ( Child's Pose) As a tortoise contracts its limbs into the middle of the shell, so the yogi should withdraw the senses into himself. - Goraksha-Paddhati
Sirsana ( Headstand ) Pose with help from mommy :)
He who practices the headstand for three hours daily CONQUERS TIME. -
The Upanishad
Tadasana (Mountain) Pose
The first fruits of the practice of yoga are health, little waste matter, and a clear complexion; lightness of the body , a pleasant scent, and a sweet voice; and an absence of greedy desires.
The Upanishad
Paschimottanasana ( Forward Bend) Pose
Yoga is the restraint of the thought-waves of the mind.
Yoga Sutras
Utkatasana ( Chair Pose)
When you look into another's eyes, what you see is the Self, fearless and deathless. That is the Higher Spirit, Brahman, the Supreme.
-The Upanishad
Navasana( Boat Pose)
No matter that I have not expressed it yet, it is in me. All knowledge is in me, all power, and all freedom.
- Swami Vivekananda
Tadasana ( Tree Pose)
OM is spirit. Everything is OM. OM is the beginning of the ancient chants. The priests start with OM, the teachers start with OM. The student murmuring OM seeks the spirit and finds it in the end.
- The Upanishad
When the five senses and the mind are still, and reason itself rests in silence, then begins the path supreme. This calm steadiness of the senses is called Yoga.
- The Upanishad.
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