A man once told Buddha, “I want happiness.” The Buddha replied, “First remove ‘I’, that’s identification, Ego. Then remove ‘want’, that’s desire. And now all you’re left with is happiness.
Yoga should be a tool to free the mind from ‘I want’ to rediscover that we’re happiness.
Otherwise, we are drowning in identification for all time.
If you are only getting into Yoga to look flexible, spending all your time at marvelling how beautiful it is, how it looks good, maybe you are stuck on the surface of Yoga.
That doesn’t mean, get out of the asana, don’t experience the posture as a form, don’t enjoy, don’t get wet. That means, connect yourself in the depths of the pose. When you go deeper, what you get is even much more powerful.
If you aren’t stuck on the asana, out of your identification of yourself with the posture, you’re going to get to essence, to the fullness
In the depths of the asana there is a pure joy, there is happiness.
photo credits: rayavisual art
