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The blossom of meditation
Meditation, classic and true, is a result like a blossom is to a plant. Many parts are necessary to be in place first in order for the blossom to open. Shamatha (tranquil abiding) is the ground of all meditation practice, … Continue reading
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Tagged Antahkarana, meditation, meditation practice, monad, shamatha, vipassana
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Light of the Soul, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, final session Sutras 23-34
The final week’s discussion brought forward some extremely clear, succinct, and pure understandings of Patanjali’s final sutras. In those he, once again, reminds the practitioner of the final hurdles or snags to realization: the very nature of Mind itself and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Bailey, chitta, enlightenment, gunas, liberation, modifications, Patanjali, Purusha, yoga, Yoga Sutras
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Light of the Soul, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras: book 4 sutras 18-27
We’re in the final two week’s of discussion of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. I think we all have enjoyed this deep excursion into the rishi, Patanjali’s, comprehensive teaching on life, the spiritual path, meditation, and Reality. The Eight Means to, or … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, consciousness, meditation, Patanjali, Purusha, yoga, Yoga Sutras
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Light of the Soul: Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: book 4, sutras 11-17
We begin with a recap of sutra 10 in Book 4 in relation to compassion. We traversed the consideration of consciousness and its states (gunas), including a useful exercise for the Path and self-observer, and completed with considerations on Reality … Continue reading
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Tagged Patanjali, practical spirituality, raja yoga, spiritual path, Yoga Sutras
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Light of the Soul, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras: Book 4 sutras 4-10
Our discussion started off right away with big considerations: what is I am consciousness and is there a We are consciousness? Each of the four “books” or chapters of Patanjali’s timeless teaching (sutras), the fourth and final leaves no wiggle … Continue reading
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Tagged karma, meditation, Patanjali, Yoga Sutras, yogi
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