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The miracle of yoga is what Patañjali calls viveka, the ability to distinguish the difference between self-centered thinking, along with the separation it creates, and the ongoing nondual experience of being in touch with life.
Michael Stone • The Inner Tradition of Yoga: A Guide to Yoga Philosophy for the Contemporary Practitioner
The teaching begins by calling us to develop a faculty called yoniso manasikara, careful attention. The Buddha asks us to stop drifting thoughtlessly through our lives and instead to pay careful attention to simple truths that are everywhere available to us, clamoring for the sustained consideration that they deserve.
“A command over our passions, and over the external senses of the body, and good acts, are declared by the Ved to be indispensable in the mind’s approximation to God.”
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
"Yoga is not on ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow." Swami Satyananda Saraswati
practise japa and meditation in the same manner. In place of the former thought, ‘I am a man or jīva’, aspirants now have a different notion, ‘I am brahman’, which is nothing but replacing one thought with another!