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This is so good
Thank you for the information.
posted by
Kolekshuns
on April 2, 2008 at 7:55 PM
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Re: Excellent post, you never, ever disappoint!
Thanks Callista! All my posts on Meditation will now be done!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on April 2, 2008 at 12:28 PM
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Excellent post, you never, ever disappoint!
posted by
callista22001
on April 2, 2008 at 11:40 AM
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Re: always something good here to read
Thanks Super Sonic! A stithyapragyaani is an endangered species!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on April 1, 2008 at 10:20 PM
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always something good here to read
posted by
Star5_
on April 1, 2008 at 10:14 PM
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patmanplus
Thanks! You should've stopped after the line about 'You don't know what I'm talking about'. Instead you go on to claim you know some things, question my knowledge, ask me about lineages etc etc. Hatha Yoga is one of the limbs of the Eight-fold path of Yoga or Ashtanga Yoga, which was proposed by the sage Patanjali. In modern times, Swami Sivananda Saraswati who set up the Divine Life Society, renewed world interest in TOTAL yoga...all 8 paths done at once! I learned from Swami Sivananda. Does that answer your 'lineage' question? I write my Original research here, with accreditations as necessary. I don't need 'sources' when I researched the effectiveness of methods in the field. I have been to Rishikesh and stayed in the Divine Life Society's Ashram. You see, I am not a copy cat, and despite your views on Hatha Yoga, you are no researcher! My readers use their intelligence to judge for themselves. That is as it should be. When I left India, I was told to teach. That's what I do. Nobody has to believe me. If you cannot mentally process info and judge right and wrong yourself, then no salvation is possible! Hatha Yoga does more than give health. It is reputed to realign the various koshas or sheaths...different bodies of man. The real Yoga is Raja Yoga, which you are reading here. Neglect one branch of Yoga and all branches dwindle! Beating the dark side with Hatha Yoga is a crucial victory! I said it because it is true! You're dealing with an original, here! Remember that!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on April 1, 2008 at 10:05 PM
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Re: Hello Soul Builder
Thanks wordjewels! Yoga touts WILL as the supreme tool. The perfecting of will is what all the cleaning etc is about. Intentions are only important inasmuch as we try to guage what they really are...part of the enlightening process. I have come across some info like this from the New Agers. They extract the human from the world, put him in the mind's vacuum, and emerge with grand prescriptions. Good and evil does exist. Rather than be dichotomies, there is a scale where good and evil are just the extremes, with the confused making up most of the rest. One cannot leave man's history or man's existential landscape out of the analysis, and hope to come out with any relevant or useful. Vacuum-type theories cannot solve anything. Shakti Gawain with her creative visualizations, sold a lot of books....but achieved only that!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on April 1, 2008 at 9:36 PM
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Majestic visions
Thanks! Feel free to test any technique! How else will you know!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on April 1, 2008 at 9:25 PM
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Re: excellent, just what i was looking for,
Thanks Callista! It works! You've got to be monitoring for changes and relapses and be prepared to take corrective action. That is how fightback takes place!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on April 1, 2008 at 9:24 PM
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Re: Soul Builder-this is an excellent post! Thank you for directing me to i
Thanks Chris! I am happy that you find common threads in your own experience! We both couldn't be wrong!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on April 1, 2008 at 9:22 PM
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Re: Excellent!
Thanks Wigopa! Hunt, I shall!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on April 1, 2008 at 9:20 PM
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Elyse
Thanks Elyse! I'm glad that you are helped!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on April 1, 2008 at 9:19 PM
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Thanks Sinom!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on April 1, 2008 at 9:18 PM
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Re: This is a great post and I'm just not gunna let any dark side BS me!!!!
Thanks Kabu! I luv the little critter with the non-stop mouth!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on April 1, 2008 at 9:17 PM
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i don't know what you're talking about
you are entertaining
is that good?
You never cite any sources
of your "information"
nor do you list any spiritual lineage
Are you a true teacher?
Why should anyone believe you?
Hatha Yoga is a prelimary form of Yoga
designed to keep one in good health
so as to be able to pursue
their chosen form of Yoga
(yoked with God)
It was never intended to be
a spiritual path in itself
but it has become such
as it has become 'Americanized"
It over-emphasizes the body
and is not a true spiritual teaching.
posted by
Sudanym_
on April 1, 2008 at 8:03 PM
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Hello Soul Builder
All fascinating info. A couple of comments to add. Simply to be careful of dicotomizing; right, wrong, good, evil. Negative judgement, resistance, battle or fear propels a dynamic with that which we oppose. The work of being conscious without engaging negatively... "What we resist persists." Secondly I have found that intention is the most potent spiritual tool. If our intention is to grow, heal, transform, spiritually develop in truth and wholeness, then whatever postural technique we apply follows that clear spiritual intention. Peace.
posted by
wordjewels
on April 1, 2008 at 9:35 AM
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Very interesting read.
posted by
majesticvisions
on April 1, 2008 at 6:09 AM
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excellent, just what i was looking for,
quickly read this before work, will read again tonight and start tonight. thanks
posted by
callista22001
on April 1, 2008 at 5:41 AM
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Soul Builder-this is an excellent post! Thank you for directing me to it!
I am now so very different from what I was-which is shown on my 'alternative' sight ie:A Beacon Of Light? Before those days-I truly was living in 'the dark side'-but since the therapy-I have learned to and found-my Soul side! I can relate to almost everything you have written about and will keep coming back to 'here' as often as I need to-to keep your words foremost in my mind! I 'use' this way of being eac evening-outside on the porch! I find it
invaluable-keeping me on a 'Peacefull' level and I can relate to other things you have written too! Wonderfull! I really must make time to visit your blog-far more often!Thank you Soul Builder-Chris.
posted by
Scramble
on April 1, 2008 at 4:10 AM
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truly a fountain of knowledge
thanks for sharing these tips on living
twomany
posted by
twomany
on April 1, 2008 at 2:58 AM
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Excellent!
Wow the dark side seems to find us at every turn!..I can tell this will be a constant battle! Nice write! Keep up the hunting.
posted by
Wigopa_
on March 31, 2008 at 9:36 PM
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Soul Builder, a wonderful blog here...and with expert suggestions on meditation, even telling all to not come too fast out of meditation time. It's true ~ truth here. Very good and I hope for you Love and Joy for all your commitment to helping us find more peace, more light, more good than bad and dark. I hope for you peace as well ~
~ Elyse
posted by
elysianfields
on March 31, 2008 at 9:24 PM
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Very interesting Dave, a li'l scary, but informative. Thanks so much :-)
posted by
Sinome
on March 31, 2008 at 8:45 PM
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This is a great post and I'm just not gunna let any dark side BS me!!!!!!
Kabu has spoken.
This is a greast post luv.
posted by
Kabu
on March 31, 2008 at 8:06 PM
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