{"id":13367,"date":"2016-03-31T11:07:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T09:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.odakayoga.com\/en\/?p=13367"},"modified":"2017-12-05T13:20:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T11:20:33","slug":"raga-klesha-non-attachment-for-urban-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/blog\/raga-klesha-non-attachment-for-urban-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"Raga Klesha: Non-attachment for urban warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><strong>One of the qualities of the warrior is non-attachment<\/strong>. When we come to a place of mental clarity, we see that it is the action itself that is meaningful and powerful, not the result. Being the best we can be and giving our practice our full attention is the reward itself \u2013 regardless of whether we do a pose perfectly. We begin to value life in every moment rather than always waiting for the end results (and often getting disappointed when they aren\u2019t what we expect).<\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\">Non-attachment is freedom. When we don\u2019t have expectations, we are free to enjoy everything for exactly what it is. And we can accept ourselves just as we are, too. The Warrior does her best in every situation, and because she is unattached, she remains peaceful regardless of the results.<\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\">In the Bhagavad Gita, a great treatise on yoga, Krishna says to Arjuna, a powerful warrior, \u201c \u00a0your right is to action alone; never to its fruits at any time\u2026 Having abandoned attachment, Arjuna, and having become indifferent to success or failure \u2013 it is said that evenness of mind is yoga.\u201d Non-attachment allows us to maintain that evenness of mind, our inner steadiness. When we have that, the fluctuations of happiness and sadness, pride and disappointment disappear, and we feel our true nature that is unchanging.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the qualities of the warrior is non-attachment. When we come to a place of mental clarity, we see that it is the action itself that is meaningful and powerful, not the result. Being the best we can be and giving our practice our full attention is the reward itself \u2013 regardless of whether  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[90,67,46,217],"class_list":["post-13367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-city-life","tag-mind","tag-transformation","tag-urban-warrior"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13368,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13367\/revisions\/13368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}