Yoga as spirituality - its historical and philosophical foundation

I was never sure when I took a yoga class a few years ago. from

Asana from

 [posture] and breathing habits related to spirituality. Then I started reading from

Yoga from

 Patanjali [probably the most important authority on the history of yoga] opens up a new perspective.

Sancha from

 Sometimes considered to be the climax of yoga practice, in deep meditation, no longer think of self-perception as an individual looking for the outside world. On the contrary, there is only one kind of intangible perception - the sense of being - not related to the specific person. This state is sometimes described as happiness - from

Satchitananda from

 In Sanskrit.

a profound from

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 It is said that when we no longer observe the world as individuals, we strictly reflect what we see in our own thoughts, not when we are distorted. The distorted influence of one's own memory is one of the central dilemmas of life. Based on past experience, it is through this effect that we deal with another person, not with whom they are, but with the people we project on them. Most of us do this unconsciously, projecting unprocessed experiences with our past future experiences. This is definitely a Taoist philosopher like Zhang Zi, even Bruce Lee [martial artist, he is a true philosopher!] advises us not to do so. Only by giving up this self can we see the true face of the world and the people.

Patanjali uses tags from

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 For those memories that are reproduced from time to time. Very simple, from

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 It is a memory of our past - both the memory of "learning" [the things we have experienced] and the memories of our ancestors, which are passed through the biology of generations. Western philosopher John Locke suggests that it is these memories that provide the feeling that our "self" is continuous over time - that is, the people we yesterday and the people we are today are from

the same from

 people.

Many traditions attempt to mitigate the effects of these memories by helping us deal with the past. Psychoanalysis encourages us to share our memories with professionals. Science sects use what they call the process from

audit from

 . In some religions, from

Self-written book from

 For similar purposes, the popular 12-step recovery plan involves inventory. In any case, as long as it accepts and integrates with our past, it loses its distorting influence on our interaction with the world.

This is one of the secrets of fulfilling life, to see the world, not as an external observer, but as an inseparable part - with others, with nature, with the universe. This is how yoga practice through posture and breathing helps to relax - relax the tension stored in our body, which reflects the tension stored in consciousness - so that our thinking can finally put down its suppression effect, slow down and become Like a pond that perfectly reflects the sky. As Schopenhauer said, this is our true self, "the unmodified mirror of the world." We become the world - no longer artificially isolated from the world - so the infinite self and its infinite peace run through everything. This is peace - this is yoga.

Hey.

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