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Summer 2008
one strategy of yoga gleaned from the perennial Bhagavad Gita is to engage life
in this three-staged process...
why?
empowerment.
remember, as Krisna said in chapter 2:
NO EFFORT IN THIS WORLD IS LOST OR WASTED.
A FRAGMENT OF SACRED DUTY SAVES YOU FROM GREAT FEAR.
for empowerment and for spiritual awakening, try this:
RECEIVE the reality you are in...what is actually happening...awareness...Truth...Reality...raw honesty.
CELEBRATE it. it's a gift. all of it is a blessing.
OPTIMIZE it. radically enact making something more or better of the gift.
for instance.
you're breathing. know that.
honor that great gift of pulsing life.
breathe well.
with this strategy, we can find the Divine IN experience...all along the way, not waiting for the goal-oriented Divine experience at the end of the rainbow AKA heaven, enlightenment, financial security.
HOW YOU RECEIVE, CELEBRATE AND RADICALLY OPTIMIZE your experience is
what you become.
all along the way.
and, your experience IS the Divine experience. now. then. in all times.
restated:
you recognize (mind) what is actually happening and what your
prodigious gifts actually are...
you celebrate (heart) with great authenticity and presence that
whatever you find is truly a blessing...
you perfect your own gifts (body/action) and everyone gets Grace.
your next question might be...how do you celebrate misery? pain?
grief? yukkiness?...
3 ways (think about it):
- maduriya - make it sweet like honey by sharing with your community. like bees, together they make the honey in the comb. make gifts. listen to others. share.
- saumya - deeply imbibe experiences to a point of saturation. penetrate the unpleasurable and it moves, it shifts, it bubbles instead of thuds. go in deeper to alchemically make it golden.
- saundarya - to recognize that the good and the bad, the hot and the cold, the sun and the clouds and the joy and the misery are part of a perfect, paradoxical, complex WHOLE. and it is beautiful.
try it. this is the engagement of yoga.
on the mat and off.
great love, nixa