Change your goal and your actions will change. Your actions reflect your goal.
Searching For Identity….
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Searching for identity |
Being |
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Learning |
Being inert |
Q&A with Rohini….
1. How did you start pursuing spiritual practice? I’ve always pursued spiritual practice; it’s just that my practice, and my understanding of practice, have evolved. As a little girl, my focus wasn’t on religious ritual but on the experience of being with and understanding God. Through dance, through Tai Chi Chuan, and finally through Muktananda, I came to understand what …
Love and worship….
Love and worship. People so confuse the two. I love you, I worship you: very different. Many people are looking for someone who will worship them. That means they are looking for someone to objectify them. Love is not based on subject and object; worship is. In worship—and by worship I mean idealizing an object, not practicing sacred ritual—there is …
People think the mind….
People think the mind is the modification. “My mind is killing me”. No. The modifications of my mind are killing me.
Shrew….
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Shrew |
Loving / kind |
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Strong willed |
Doormat |
Using Rubber Duckies to explain Yoga Sutras I.32….
Rohini Ralby uses rubber duckies to explain the nature of the mind, drawing on Hariharananda’s excellent book Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali. For more videos and lessons, sign up for a free or paid subscription.
Confused….
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Confused |
Certain |
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Open minded |
Rigid |
Using emotions….
Using emotions as your discerning tool will lead you astray every time.
Characteristics of Mysticism….
From Mysticism, by Evelyn Underhill: 1. True mysticism is active and practical, not passive and theoretical. It is an organic life-process, a somthing which the whole self does; not something as to which its intellect holds an opinion. 2. Its aims are wholly transcendental and spiritual. It is in no way concerned with adding to, exploring, re-arranging, or improving anything …