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The key to moving beyond the ego’s guilt-based perceptions is not through more guilt, but rather through letting go of guilt. As a modern yogi, the key to finding peace through yoga is to keep coming back to the practice. It doesn’t matter how often we get distracted by the ego, or for how long we play the ego’s game. The only thing that matters it that we return. (from Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic by Darren John Main)
Alexa once said to me, “Once you become aware, you can’t become unaware.” I was worried that I’d go back to my old ways of drinking every night and generally being a freak.
Yoga and meditation are tools for self-transformation and change that are mind-bogglingly easier than clinging to the ego and hoping for improvement. It’s not beating oneself up with guilt or forcing a routine to go to the gym everyday. It’s letting go, and returning to the practices, returning to connecting with and finding the Self. That Self is clean, and pure, and beautiful, and innate. It’s not something that’s forced on a messed up human being through examining everything that’s wrong and trying to fix them. Everything is fixed, it’s just hidden under the emotions and perceptions that cloud the Self.
I don’t know about being “happy,” or pursuing activities that I think might make me happy. I’m increasingly of the belief that clearing away the mud hiding the diamond, or the dirt clouding our windshield of perception, and connecting to the true Self underneath is the true path towards... enlightenment, for lack of a better word. Inherent to that connection is true happiness.
Alexa once said to me, “Once you become aware, you can’t become unaware.” I was worried that I’d go back to my old ways of drinking every night and generally being a freak.
Yoga and meditation are tools for self-transformation and change that are mind-bogglingly easier than clinging to the ego and hoping for improvement. It’s not beating oneself up with guilt or forcing a routine to go to the gym everyday. It’s letting go, and returning to the practices, returning to connecting with and finding the Self. That Self is clean, and pure, and beautiful, and innate. It’s not something that’s forced on a messed up human being through examining everything that’s wrong and trying to fix them. Everything is fixed, it’s just hidden under the emotions and perceptions that cloud the Self.
I don’t know about being “happy,” or pursuing activities that I think might make me happy. I’m increasingly of the belief that clearing away the mud hiding the diamond, or the dirt clouding our windshield of perception, and connecting to the true Self underneath is the true path towards... enlightenment, for lack of a better word. Inherent to that connection is true happiness.