THE COURAGE TO SIT STILL
Teaching Notes for Bend Hot Yoga
Meditative = Aything we do to calm or regulate our nervous system
1. Abhyasa/ Practice - 1.14 sa tu dirgha kala nairantarya satkara asevito dirdha bhumih
Steady, without gaps, done correctly, over a long period of time
2. Vairagya/ Renunciation = Separating yourself from what colors (distorts) your vision of reality.
Simon Tugwell, O.P.
“The most typical evidence of grace being at work in us is not that we find ourselves aware of a duty but that we find ourselves aware of a desire.”
D.H. Lawrence
"Man has little needs and deeper needs. We fall into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness. Let us prepare now for the death of our present little life and reemergence in a bigger life in touch with the moving cosmos."
Teaching Notes for Bend Hot Yoga
- 2 Qualities Developed in Meditation– Stability and Insight
- Meditation vs. Meditative
Meditative = Aything we do to calm or regulate our nervous system
- Two Things Needed To Suceed: 1.12 abhyasa vairagya bhyam tan nirodhaha
1. Abhyasa/ Practice - 1.14 sa tu dirgha kala nairantarya satkara asevito dirdha bhumih
Steady, without gaps, done correctly, over a long period of time
2. Vairagya/ Renunciation = Separating yourself from what colors (distorts) your vision of reality.
Simon Tugwell, O.P.
“The most typical evidence of grace being at work in us is not that we find ourselves aware of a duty but that we find ourselves aware of a desire.”
D.H. Lawrence
"Man has little needs and deeper needs. We fall into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness. Let us prepare now for the death of our present little life and reemergence in a bigger life in touch with the moving cosmos."