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I like to go back to the roots. The original Patanjali Yoga. Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dhyana, Dharana, Samadhi. It has been a life long pract
by uptownfunk 9y ago
I like to go back to the roots. The original Patanjali Yoga. Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dhyana, Dharana, Samadhi. It has been a life long practice, but has worked quite well for me.
If you know Hindi the Patanjal Yoga Pradeep is the quintessential treatise on the subject, including a systematic reconciliation of the six systems of Indian Philosophy.
I've been studying the Pratyahara phase of yoga lately. The withdrawal of the senses inward away from external sensory stimuli. It is quite powerful, and opens you up to the ability to quite literally witness the formation of thoughts from subtle nothingness.
- tisdy 9y ago> opens you up to the ability to quite literally witness the formation of thoughts from subtle nothingness. I may not have been sufficiently charitable in reading this, but this appears to be either butchering the English language, or utter tripe.
- mikelyons 9y agoElaborate. Often ideas you are not ready for will seem like nonsense.
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- uptownfunk 9y agoIt is hard to explain so kindly forgive the butchering. But there was a point in my meditation where everything was perfectly still and calm, and suddenly, I don't quite know how to explain it, a thought formed in my mind. It is not a thought in the tautological sense, where one idea flowed to the next, but it arose from a state of nothingness. At the same time it couldn't be nothing, because how can something (a thought) come from nothing. It wasn't quite gross enough to be perceivable hence I termed it subtle nothingness..