Posts about Yoga Philosophy.
It is said in the Tantric tradition that “The Source” contains all the potentiality possible. It is also said that the purpose of the manifestation is to make the great consciousness aware of itself. In other words, a self-reflective process. Consciousness is referred to here as prakasha (the great light) and the reflection process as…
Psychoanalysis talks about sublimating traumas. This means allowing our lives to take the direction of working with our traumas. We often choose jobs and engagements that are linked to our traumas. If this is done unconsciously, it is called repetition compulsion, and leads to actions that forces us to repeat our original trauma time and…
Kundalini is the process of bringing back the energy that is confined into forms back to its infinite, shapeless state of energy and potentiality, and then back into manifestation. According to the Tantric cosmology, this act of creation is constantly going on. Unlike the Big Bang theory, it is an ongoing now. The difference between…
What happens when contraction and expansion take place at the same time? Perhaps it is these circumstances that can create something truly new. A contraction to a nothing/ a small still point of concentrated energy, and then an explosion into a new creation. The Tantric tradition speaks of prakasha and vimarsha. Prakasha is the unmanifest…
Shunya is the yogic term for abyss. This condition is the part of a natural cycle that is between the completion of a cycle, and the beginning of a new one. This place has no characteristics. It lacks characteristics and can be experienced as a void, an infinite space or a dark depth. This is…
One student asked me after the last post, this appropriate question: So if you want to go through the process of Yoga, of facing truth more and more, how do you do it? Last time, we talked about Yoga as a truth-seeking tradition, and about unveiling layers of untruth and faulty knowledge. We also talked…
Tantra speaks of the actions of “the All”, which are also the individual’s 5 powers. These are: Srsti-creation Stihiti-stasis Samhara-dissolving Tirodhana-forgetting, veiling Anugraha-unveiling, remembrance These actions are the acts of consciousness. Consciousness can create a thought, hold on to a thought, let a thought dissolve, and can forget something by dropping the focus on it….
Last post we left the story with alluding to the continuation of the story with “the churning of the ocean of milk”. This is an allegory for the yogic process of stirring the consciousness, to make it reveal its content and its true nature. This process is in yoga done by the help of, for…
We are now in the feast of Diwali. This is a feast when the goddess Lakshmi is called upon as love, abundance, and light. This time when that darkness takes over more and more, lights are lit for hope of the return of light and goodness. There is a myth about how the inner darkness…
True healing can only be given by the one who has healed him/herself. This truth is found in all healing traditions, such as the shamanic or the yogic. Bird Phoenix can be seen as a symbol of this truth. The Phoenix is said to burn up and then be reborn from its ashes. In the…