We often forget how to be just quiet. Sit still. We're running around talking, interesting to the point. As soon as we get settled, immediately we jump to do another thing. Our organs are not quiet and they seem to need constant movement, as well as the jumping mind speaks to speak and takes us forward in time to the future or back in time to the past and has no desire to be present here and now. The nature of the mind that he thinks is his job. The thoughts always keep us from the moment of the present. In the world of yoga terminology, they call it the monkey mind. We're putting the mind to a monkey who threw it into a hole full of snakes and scorpions, so he jumps out and throws his hands and feet in all directions. So does our mind, is constantly in a bumpy movement and does not leave us for a moment. Over the centuries and throughout the history of a quiet and meaningful search, we have received a great deal of information about such techniques and others in order to reach the long-awaited silence and the situation in which the vibrations of consciousness will be played. Nowadays, those who want to learn meditation – the market is flooded with different techniques, more efficient or less effective and all ensure peace and quiet, perhaps a little enlightenment on the way 🙂 . .. In the sea of techniques we can again get lost when we mistakenly confuse the technique we study with the essence. The truth is that no meditation technique can lead us to the quiet. Even if we become obedient and disciplined. As a rule, all the techniques offered for meditation are only tools to allow for a space in which meditation will occur. Meditation does occur but it is impossible to bring it to us. The only thing that depends on us, then, is to fulfill the best conditions in order to enable meditation to be "fulfilled". It means to create a pleasant place, quiet, clean as far as possible and settledown.
What are we looking for, anyway? What are we going to pick up ?
Ftengjell, Indian sage, who lived around 200 BCE: "Yoga is the calming of consciousness fluctuations." What happens then? "So the Observer is in the true nature." Here in the first two verses of the Yoga Sutras of Papanjali, we accept the essence of the yoga and meditation that is included in it. Ftengjell tells us that the person is more than a body, a means of intelligence, and the senses, since all these are limited in space and time. There is, then, another part of a person who is transcendental – and is the observer. In our existential existence, the "maker" and "observer" are held. The observer is beyond the mind and the senses and beyond knowledge and doing. The observer is hidden, hidden, beneath all layers and can be discovered when the "doing" part of our body, the senses, the mind...) calms down and is silent. Only in quiet condition can we come in contact with him.
Practicing yoga enables this understanding that the observer lives in the world, works with the body and mind that serves tools, but does not identify with them. Ftengjell says that the reason for embarrassment and suffering in this world is the fact that we confuse the observer with the visible. Between the Observer and the world of phenomena. Between eternal and transient. The cause of confusion is the most likely identification. And here he adds and says that our ability to loosen up will come out of the way that we can separate the two. As long as we are identified with the world of phenomena and are reducing ourselves to the body, senses and intelligence, we are blind and spiritually ignorant.
How can we get out of ignorance and bring our "do" to rest and the observer to sight? Ftengjell is the way to our first verse in the second chapter. He says: The three ingredients of yoga are: Tapas, Sudibe and Ishora Praneedis. Climb means fire. The meaning here is perhaps a burning desire for spiritual liberation and an exit from the ignorance of the pits, and perhaps also burning all the obstacles that interfere with the body and mind by practicing the yogi. Suhinaya is an exploration and study of the Self and the ancient writings. Maud from a teacher is also included in this category. Ishora Francis is a total devotion to God. This is a place where the western person may be a little him. From my experience in the teaching of sutras in my disciples, this point of devotion to God and the will of God always raises doubts and questions. There is indeed room for further reflection on this.
When we practice yoga, we can focus on the feelings of the body and their way of getting ourselves into a meditative state because we are definitely at the moment of the present. The sensations always bring us back to ourselves, while thoughts cause us to wander on other provinces. Therefore, it is possible to begin to understand the meditative state of consciousness through practicing yoga postures because the attention presented to the body at the time of the postures makes the practitioner necessarily present. Yoga and meditation are two sides of the same coin as the fire and the wall or the Milkyway.
In yoga postures there is a state of observation. Out of the stillness, the observer is in his own shape, in his true nature. It's meditation.
We're moving from the far-off to the unknown.
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