14 July 2011

Yoga--- mystical power?

" So, does practising yoga gives you psychic power, like those masters staying in the Himalayas skilled with those mystical power?"

Nope, at least not for now. I can't turn atoms into gold chain, i can't elevate my butt off the ground, i can't pour a cup of drink just by staring at it. Not any power from the X-men.
But, yoga practices do allow me to become more sensitive, towards myself and others.

Each of us represent a little piece from a jig-saw puzzle. What many of us are doing is trying to re-shape this little piece, so that it can fit anywhere. We are not universal, we are part of the universe. There's just one empty space waiting for us to fit in, to complete the whole puzzle.

We are once or still living in denial. Its a sweet fantasy to stay in there. A believe that we want to take on, and trying so hard to not be ourselves. Finding some comforts in this little struggles. Because we fear. We fear of disappointment towards ourselves for not keeping up with the game.

Yoga practice does not give me any mystical vision. All it does, is by revealing to me everyday, every second, every breath about who i really am. Each step forward in practice is a step inwards, "oh... this is it."

Initially, there's always a strong refusal to admit our deed, who likes confrontation anyway?
But as we learn to relax into our truth moment by moment, breath by breath, posture by posture... the need to pretense starts to fall away. We gently sheds layers of illusions we present to the world.

Soon, we learn to be honest with ourselves--- that we can just be who are already are. 

Do i have the patience to wait till the mud settles and the water is clear? Sometimes when i got myself in a puddle of mud, i deny that there is such thing as clear water. When i am in the mud for too long, i got so used to it... and see mud water as clear.

Time will reveal all... to the point when i am struck by the need to sift through layers of illusion, blame, fear, and manipulation to get what i really need to say in a given situation.

No more hiding.

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