25/04/2020
Her's a slice of one of my all-time favorite teachers take on Tantrik yoga.
From this point Yoga is not physical, there are no "right" poses or ways of being spiritual or not. Instead yoga can plain and simple be explained as the awareness of the miracle of life:
"The real key to the spiritual life is sometimes called "Beginner's Mind", but what that really means is, again and again setting aside your ideas about who you think you are and what you think practice is, and again and again encountering the depth and fullness of your experience, in all its subtle details, with fresh awareness.
Ta**ra teaches that anything can be a source of wonder and joy because absolutely everything communicates to us, wordlessly, some aspect of what it means to be alive. To encounter that fully, we need to set aside those conceptualizations and come at it fresh, almost with the eyes of a child, but with the recognition and meta-awareness that only an adult can have. And then we realize the fullness of the miracle of existence, which nothing can take away, not even impending death can rob us of that wonder, that majesty, that awe of the fact of existing at all.
There could have been nothing, and instead there's this universe, there's this body, and if you aren't brought to the edge of tears every day by what a fu***ng miracle this is, then you're not fully alive! And if you're not, long to be, embrace the longing to be fully alive, because then you will be. You pour that longing into your practice, and it works!"
- Christopher Wallis (Hareesh)
