The Inner Tradition of Yoga: A Guide to Yoga Philosophy for the Contemporary Practitioner

In the yoga śāstra it is said that god dwells in our heart in the form of light, but this light is covered by six poisons: kāma, krodha, moha, lobha, mātsarya, and mada. These are desire, anger, delusion, greed, envy and sloth.”3

it is equally important to remember that paying attention to what is here—the workings of the mind with its categories, judgments, and ideas about things—is the very path itself, the route and even the means.

experience a feeling as a feeling.

The sensations are acceptable as phenomenal experience, but the mind and emotions have preferences that arise alongside those sensations, creating a gap between what are actually arising as phenomena and what we are trying to do with those experiences. That gap is called duḥkha. The mind follows sensations in the body with preference, interpretatio

Our deepest longing, also our greatest fear, is to simply be, without creating a need to be.

teaching of Indra’s Net.

freedom from the suffering inherent in saṁsāra, a practice that begins in the body, breath, and mind, and forms the basic axiom of yoga.

Yoga asks us to stay with feelings without seeking to avoid them. This does not mean dwelling in or indulging feelings indefinitely—such an approach can turn into another form of storytelling. Rather, it means that we stay patiently and with an attitude of acceptance with whatever is occurring in the present moment as it arises, unfolds, and passes

the limb of āsana opens up to the other limbs.