YOGA – a path for life

It is a journey, it is a weird and wonderful journey. It is a challenging and uncomfortable, sometimes lonely, journey. It is about seeing the world through different lenses, about letting go, about acceptance and forgiveness.

It is about daring to be vulnerable and about choosing not to be angry, hurt or offended; to appreciate how peoples’ pain manifest in their interaction with you, never to take things personally. It is about understanding that and eye for an eye for, tit for tat, resolves nothing – that revenge and resentment, grudges and anger keep the wound infect, never to heal.

To have the wisdom to know what the right choices, behaviours, thoughts and actions are, and to hold on to that no matter what happens, regardless of what others do. To realise that grasping for, and holding onto material things, to identify with the external and being greedy for spiritual experiences, do not give you peace; to know that all you need can be found within you, is the only way to be truly free from suffering.

To accept that Dharma is your duty and Karma is real; that death is certain and the path you take in life, determines the path you receive in death, and if you live your life in truth, death is nothing to fear.

“The one who sees all beings in ones Self and ones Self in all beings, never suffers; because when one sees all creatures within ones true Self, then jealousy, grief and hatred vanish.”

The Upanishads