quarta-feira, 17 de fevereiro de 2016

A Portrait of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, by Stephen Wolinsky

Stephen Wolinsky: I was given the book "I am That", in 1976. I went to see Nisargadatta Maharaj in 1977 in a very flippant way. I didn’t even see him;  I went midday and then left. I went back in 1978 and that’s when I really connected with him. The main teaching of Maharaj is that there are three basic principles of Yoga, no matter what Yoga.
You’re not the mind, you’re not the body and you’re not the doer.
For Maharaj, spirituality was defined by one thing and one thing only and that was the realization of who you are. It didn’t matter as far a path or technique. Either you know who you are, or you don’t know who you are and his entire focus was to get you to know who you are.
The approach that he used was very confrontational. “Whatever you think you are, you’re not. Whatever you think or believe yourself to be, you’re not.”
It doesn’t matter if I’m happy, sad, loving, kind or compassionate, if I’m a great yogi, if I believe the world is one substance. This has nothing to do with who you are. These are thoughts, ideas; these are pointers at best to point you in the direction to find out who you are. There is a famous Zen saying: “The finger that points at the moon is not the moon.”
For most people, the path becomes their religion. They’re more attached to how they’re doing it, then what they’re actually doing it to get. Because how you do it doesn’t matter, really. The only thing that matters is: Are you going to find out who you are or not?
Maharaj, said “Forget me, forget Maharaj, even forget the teachings, and just stay in the consciousness, and your own unique path, whatever that may be, will emerge for you.” That is significant because it levels everything. The right thing for me is going to be different from you and from somebody else. If they stay in the consciousness, everybody is going to have their own “unique camp” that will emerge for them. I think unfortunately in spirituality, everything is one size fits all. Everyone gets the same mantra, tantra, yantra, the same thing to do as if it is all right for everybody. I think a lot of the problems that people have or pain that they face is because they take on somebody else’s system and try to fit into it rather than stay in the consciousness of their own self and their own system and see what emerges.
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OM Namah Shivaia - encontro Oriente e Ocidente



Meditação em Yoga: Em yoga Clássica, a yoga de Patanjali, ciência que demonstra a potencialidade possível ao homem, há oito passos a completar, envolvendo disciplinas tanto físicas qto. mentais. Na 1ª destas etapas, se acham disciplinas relativas à autoeducação, ou auto-controle, tais como: não violência (ahimsa), veracidade (satyagraha), continência (brahmacharya), etc. Na etapa seguinte, dita das 'observâncias', estão a prática de pureza, contentamento, esforço sobre si mesmo, estudo e consagração ao Ideal.

O 3° passo, ou 3ª pétala da Flor de Yoga, trata das posturas ou âsanas, ou seja, os modelos gestuais recomendados aos que aspiram algum domínio sobre seu corpo. A quarta etapa é dos 'pranayamas', isto é, as disciplinas necessárias ao controle da energia através da respiração. Pratyahara é a etapa em que se aprende a controlar os sentidos. Dhârana, a 6ª etapa, se ensina a concentração da atenção. O sétimo passo, denominado Dhyâna, se refere às tecnicas de introspecção ou de meditação, e o último degráu chama-se Samadhi, ou completa absorção no Ideal Espiritual.

Este é o caminho de Yoga, relevante símbolo atual do encontro entre Ocidente e Oriente.

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