Share of the Day -2

Donna Farhi is one of my favorite yoga teacher who leads me through her words of experience teaching/practicing yoga and being a yogi. Her book, Bringing Yoga to Life is on my shelf for a long time and for what happened to me and my friends recently, I took this book and contitnued my reading.



Coincidently, the following sentense on the page I started the day shoot right into my eyes of minds >>

Patanjali lists the five causes of suffering as :

*Avidyā / Ignorance of our eternal nature.

* Asmita / Seeing oneself as separate and divided from the rest of the world.

* Raga / Attraction and attachment to impermanent things

* Dvesha / Aversion to the unpleasant.

* Abhinivesha / Clinging to life because we fail to perceive the seamless continuity of consciousness, which cannot be broken by death.

And she continutly wrote that the ignorance is the root of the other 4 listed reasons. And that is exact what yoga could help us and the KEY I always reminds my students on mat "contnet to your breathing, your body, your mind, so that you learn yourselves better. See , hear, feel from your heart instead of your brain, so that you know better of the outter world."  Someitmes what we thought we know is just what the world controlled by other humen beings try to let us follow and be controlled. We are so indipendent and live togehter with other indipendent beings to make the enviroment under peace and calm.Only when we are able to follow our true hear,we could set ourselves free from suffering and the trap set by our emotions and egos.

Hopefully we could all able to face ourselves and see the otterworld with our heart, so that when suffering occured, we are able to  deal with it and live with it.

Have a wonderful day with smiles on your face and heart :)

Shanti Shanti Shanti Om~

        多娜法喜是我一直很崇拜的瑜珈老師，透過文字她將自己多年的教學/練習瑜珈，以及將瑜珈概念帶進日常生活中的經驗，深深感動並影響著我。她的這本"將瑜珈帶進日常生活中"躺在我的書架上好幾個月了，一直到最近因為一些發生在自己與朋友身上的事情，讓我又開始把這本書取下細讀。有趣的是，這天隨意翻開的那頁上頭的這幾行字深深打進我的心坎中：

        

       Patanjali列出了五項痛苦的來源：

* 無明...無法明白事情的真相與真實道理

* 自我...刻意將自己超脫世間一切的獨立個體

* 癡...被無常的事物所吸引，成癮後無法自拔

* 瞋...對於握在手中或無法掌握之事所引起的憤怒、仇恨等負面情緒

* 貪...貪戀著生活中因為無明所起的假象。

         在書中她接著又寫道，無明是其他四項原因的根本。這也就是為何我在瑜珈課上老是對學生強調：「連結你的呼吸、身體、思緒，好讓自己更認識自己。用心而不是用大腦去看、去聽、去感受，好看清我們外在的世界。」 常常我們以為我們熟知/熟悉的事物，其實是由其他操控著這個世界的上位者所設下，好讓整個社群維持一定程度的秩序，但那不一定是真實的，我們是獨立的個體，且與其他個體共同維持著整個大環境的和諧，用心看自己用心看周遭的事物，唯有當我們順著心的真正感受而活，我們才能將自己從痛苦中釋放、情緒與自我所設的陷阱中逃脫。

        願我們皆能培養出面對真我的勇氣、用心看世界的能力，當痛苦降臨時我們能夠處理它、與其共存。

        

       願你的臉上與心上皆充滿著微笑渡過這美好的一天。

 
Shanti Shanti Shanti Om~