Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
— Albert Camus
I understood that the attachment to myself and my image … was actually taking me away from my self, away from this wonderful opportunity to just sit, just breathe, just feel the warm animal of my body, just feel the soft, sultry heat of June. The density of my attachment was making it impossible for me to have a truly satisfying experience of life in my body just as it was in the moment. When under the sway of this obsession, my mind’s attention was always in the fantasized future, or the idealized or devalued past - never present to the reality of the moment.”
— Stephen Cope, Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
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#maytheforcebewithyou yoga challenge day 9
Levitation (today example) explained. If you want to believe in magic, don’t watch.
Introversion: Finding the Way Home
Most of us consider the physical body to be our true body and think of the subtle levels as more or less imaginary. But the yogic practice holds that, in fact, these less tangible levels are just as real as the physical body, and, indeed, we cannot connect with our true selves without a full identification with all of the sheaths simultaneously. This is emphatically not to say that the body must be denied. Rather, the gross body must be experienced in its holistic connection with the energy bodies, the mental bodies, and the bliss body.
1. Gross Body, sthula
(sheath of food) annamayakosha
2. Subtle Body, sukshma
(sheath of vital airs) pranamayakosha
(sheath of mind) manomayakosha
(sheath of causal intellect) vijnanamayakosha
3. Causal Body, karana
(sheath of pure bliss) anandamayakosha
Taken from Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
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