Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom

fundamental affliction, the matrix of error from which all other mis­ perceptions and errors flow. From our ignorant identificat ...

Intelligence: The Source of Discernment This is intelligence (buddhi). Yoga, once again, makes an important distinction between ...

tively. When I am being subjective, I say I hate my job. When I am being objective, I say I have the skills to get a better job. ...

lasting reality of the egoic self. They reacted to this as a sort of living suicide. Paradoxically they also respected it. Exper ...

tice or sleep longer in the morning. In Latin, intelligence means "to choose between." It does not mean simply to think. Have yo ...

of choice, but at the moment of decision we are still stuck. Is the harder path (getting out of bed) really an option? Thanks to ...

through the release and realization of our own potential. Freedom is the innermost desire of all our hearts. It is the only desi ...

identification. A link is established: a) external object, b) sense organ, c) mind. Mind (as it always does) relays this inform ...

that poses the more complex question, "Do we live to eat, or eat to live?" 9a) Intelligence continues to hold the floor. "Let me ...

embracing a positive, whereas the matter of the ice cream involved avoiding a negative. In either case, intelligence operates in ...

That is a challenge, an external challenge as it were, that causes a ripple on the surface. The secondary fluctuations or waves ...

through the lake and hits the irritability mound. So we get a distorted and secondary wave of bad-tempered thought bouncing up f ...

cannot break out of the old pattern of behavior, however much we long to. In the end, we may accept the situation and just say, ...

practically speaking, you can't go from bad samskara in one jump to freedom. You've got to go from bad samskara to good samskara ...

So you're acting in freedom. That gives you moderation and lightness, and you're dealing with the situation as it is. You're not ...

case, an impulse toward moving up and fear of the consequences of moving down. We must be careful, however, that the idea of pro ...

longer be ensnared in pains and pleasures. The ego is then understood to be no more than an actor's mask for the true Self. Few ...

It's very difficult to be aware of these secondary waves rising. We always think that we are reacting in a certain situation to ...

Cleanliness and contentment are bound together. As we shall see, they are the first two ethical injunctions of niyama concerning ...

off balance. Take the standing pose Ardha Chandrasana (half-moon asana), balancing on one leg, the other horizontal, arm extende ...