James and I are in a deep exploration of books by all the sages that propose leaping into the goal of yoga rather than going through steps (like we do in Ashtanga Yoga (ashto=eight, anga=limbs)). These masters are those I call the "chapter one guys", the ones that are already enlightened, the ones that can see the picture in 3D as they get close to it and cannot believe you don't see it already, while I look at them in full frustration.
I tell you why I call them "chapter one guys", I do that because the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (the sort-of Bible of Yoga) attempts the same thing in chapter one. It tells us that:
Now that we are ready to hear the teachings, then yoga is the cessation of the projections of the mind. Once you do that you can see and identify with the Self, otherwise we are deluded.
Ramaswami tells us that in all texts written by sages the first four sentences are crucial, and they are. There it is. Now do you see? Do you see the Self? Can you totally identify and realize that we are nothing, non-important, that nothing ever happens?
I thought so.
That is why the Yoga Sutras have chapter two. For people like me. And here we are going through the limbs, climbing up slowly towards the goal of yoga instead of "just flying up" as these guys propose.
The chapter one guys, like Ramana Maharshi, Maharash, et all, propose instead that you just ask, at every free moment you have: "Who Am I?". They say this is enough.
One of the latest I have been reading is Ramesh Balsekar, who wrote an appropriately titled book: "Who Cares?" -
Check out this paragraph and see if it does something to you as it did to me:
Whether you want a million dollars or enlightenment and whether you get what you want are not in your control. If you think it is in your control, I suggest that you go after the million dollars instead of enlightenment because if you get the million dollars then there will be someone to enjoy that million dollars. But if you go after enlightenment there will be no "one" to enjoy enlightenment. -
Anything?
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| No matter how close or cross-eyed I get I just don't see it |
I tell you why I call them "chapter one guys", I do that because the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (the sort-of Bible of Yoga) attempts the same thing in chapter one. It tells us that:
Now that we are ready to hear the teachings, then yoga is the cessation of the projections of the mind. Once you do that you can see and identify with the Self, otherwise we are deluded.
Ramaswami tells us that in all texts written by sages the first four sentences are crucial, and they are. There it is. Now do you see? Do you see the Self? Can you totally identify and realize that we are nothing, non-important, that nothing ever happens?
I thought so.
That is why the Yoga Sutras have chapter two. For people like me. And here we are going through the limbs, climbing up slowly towards the goal of yoga instead of "just flying up" as these guys propose.
The chapter one guys, like Ramana Maharshi, Maharash, et all, propose instead that you just ask, at every free moment you have: "Who Am I?". They say this is enough.
One of the latest I have been reading is Ramesh Balsekar, who wrote an appropriately titled book: "Who Cares?" -
Check out this paragraph and see if it does something to you as it did to me:
Whether you want a million dollars or enlightenment and whether you get what you want are not in your control. If you think it is in your control, I suggest that you go after the million dollars instead of enlightenment because if you get the million dollars then there will be someone to enjoy that million dollars. But if you go after enlightenment there will be no "one" to enjoy enlightenment. -
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| Go for the Million! There will be "someone" to enjoy it |
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