{"id":16993,"date":"2018-03-29T11:34:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T09:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.odakayoga.com\/?p=16993"},"modified":"2018-03-29T11:42:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T09:42:39","slug":"freedom-from-i-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/blog\/freedom-from-i-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom from \u2018I want\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man once told <strong>Buddha<\/strong>, &#8220;I want happiness.&#8221; The Buddha replied, &#8220;<strong>First remove &#8216;I&#8217;<\/strong>, that&#8217;s identification, Ego. Then remove &#8216;want&#8217;, that&#8217;s desire. And now all you&#8217;re left with is <strong>happiness<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Yoga should be a tool to free the mind from\u00a0\u2018I want\u2019 to rediscover that we\u2019re happiness.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, we are drowning in identification for all time.<\/p>\n<p>If you are only getting into Yoga to look flexible,\u00a0spending all your time at marvelling how beautiful it is, how it looks good, maybe you are stuck on the surface of Yoga.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean, get out of the asana, don\u2019t experience the posture as a form, don\u2019t enjoy, don\u2019t get wet. That means, <strong>connect yourself in the depths of the pose<\/strong>. When you go deeper, what you get is even much more powerful.<\/p>\n<p>If you aren\u2019t stuck on the asana, out of your identification of\u00a0 yourself with the posture, you\u2019re going to get to essence, to the fullness<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the depths of the asana there is a pure joy, there is happiness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>photo credits: rayavisual art<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man once told Buddha, &#8220;I want happiness.&#8221; The Buddha replied, &#8220;First remove &#8216;I&#8217;, that&#8217;s identification, Ego. Then remove &#8216;want&#8217;, that&#8217;s desire. And now all you&#8217;re left with is happiness. Yoga should be a tool to free the mind from\u00a0\u2018I want\u2019 to rediscover that we\u2019re happiness. Otherwise, we are drowning in identification for all time.  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[560,263,514],"class_list":["post-16993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-living-now","tag-odaka-phylosophy","tag-off-the-mat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16993","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16995,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16993\/revisions\/16995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}