Wednesday, November 23, 2011

I found this blog post from someone in Mysore with notes on a recent conference:

http://suzanneelsafty.com/2011/11/19/conference-the-obstacles-to-yoga-6th-november-2011/

It describes the "obstacles to practice" and other few other topics from the talk.

This is perhaps a very interesting moment:

"Confusion (bhrantidarshana) - if there are too many choices. If someone comes up to you in Mysore and tells you to come to their shala – they will teach you other things, KPJAYI is just about asana but they will teach you pranayama and meditation as well, all for 10,000Rs per month. So the student decides to do 6 months at that shala because they will teach pranayama and meditation too and it’s cheaper than KPJAYI, then 6 months with another teacher, then 6 months somewhere else… they have a monkey mind, jumping from one thing to another, no focus. Then they become a yoga teacher and they put on their website that they have studied with all these different teachers and all these different styles of yoga…. Sharath says that they should also put that they are confused… yoga students should be truthful."

I sometimes feel within myself a fogginess.  Like I'm trying to remember something and the same irrelevant thing keeps blocking my view.

Another little gem:

http://satyayogastudio.com/Blog/Entries/2011/11/20_Seeing_God.html

Because he writes like no one is watching.

There is a difference between "struggle" and "work".
Struggle describes an effort with difficulty against something.
Work is exerting faculties to fulfill a purpose.



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