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Divine Love b) Freeman Yoga Fundamentalism |
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Non-Judgmental Awareness
To be a yoga teacher requires that you to contact those parts of yourself you have denied, repressed and made wrong. You will have to face everything you don’t like about yourself. To be whole, you will have to face everything you have separated out. Being a teacher means it will be amplified because you are doing it in front of a group, a community. This will make judgments stronger. To drop judgment, you have to get out of your own way. It is the “I”, the self created persona that is making the judgment. The Mayans called it The Parasite. Observe your sensations first. Then Observe the feelings, the interface between sensations and mind. Honor your feelings. They need to be respected and listened to. They lead you back to being in relationship with all of you. Let go of the judgment that arises out of habit. There is nothing wrong with you. If anything can be said to be “wrong” it is the labels you have attached onto your judgment. The Key: When you catch yourself judging, this is precisely the moment you need love and acceptance. This is where you need your compassionate attention. Weakness and imperfections need love, unitive consciousness. They will heal through non judgmental awareness and acceptance. They get reinforced with criticism and with a judgmental mind that separates. Accept in others their weaknesses, their blind spots. It is the same process. No different. When you accept what you habitually find unacceptable, you become more comfortable with yourself. See things for they really are without making them wrong. These ideas are easy on paper, but it takes so long to transform the habit pattern of the mind. Judgments won’t go away. Their power diminishes as you become aware of their unconscious aspect and then you come into relationship with them. When you find yourself judging, don’t judge yourself for judging. |
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