Tag: Spirituality
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What Is The Yoga Of Relaxation?
What is the yoga of relaxation? The answer comes in this beautiful and astonishingly hard-to-find book entitled Yoga: Art of Relaxation (1979) by Wolter Keers et al. A preliminary and only very partial answer follows: 1. The first suggestion the authors make is that we open to tensions. While the latter remains undefined, we could say…
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Why Don’t I Know The Self? It’s Due To Thought
Dear A, Ramana Maharshi’s Reply Sri Bhagavan admitted the truth of the disciple’s statement and pointed out why the Self, though obvious, is yet [apparently–AT] hidden. It is the wrong identity of the Self with the body, etc. D.: How did the wrong identity arise? M.: Due to thoughts. If these thoughts are put an end…
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How To Turbocharge Your Meditation Practice
Dear W., You asked about how to turbocharge your meditation practice. Well, you didn’t use the verb “turbocharge,” but that’s the gist of it. My answer falls into four parts: Motivation All of us need to find–deep, deep within–our reason for doing something and, indeed, for continuing to do something. At some point, most secular meditators will…
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The Energy Body And Open Awareness
To explore the “I am the body identity,” it’s best to take an experiential approach: Begin by dropping all the weight from individual body parts, thereby letting all heaviness sink into the earth. In this way, the body is completely discharged of density, solidity, and a sense of weightiness. Indeed, what is slowly being discharged…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 