By acting from a state of love, there are no losers, only winners. By doing, simply because you love to, nothing ever seems like a chore, or a debt.
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The great thing about being a black belt is that, though there may be degrees you could work towards afterward, you are pretty much there in class because you want to be. Thus, testing your will, in large part, is the name of the game. Can you push past thinking brain into reptilian brain?
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What is it that yoga can offer us that no other discipline can? Meditation. Going within. For, at its core, yoga is meditation (Bhagavad Gita). So, why have so many schools chosen to forgo this most essential and important part of the practice?
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We are each a product of our choices. All of our victories, and all of our defeats. Nothing too big or too small to ever go unnoticed.
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The only way through this moment is through this moment. By doing, by moving, there is no mind to be found.
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So, be like Mario. Enjoy the video game of life. But, unlike Mario, just know that beyond you is something more infinite, more subtle; completely indescribable in-mind because it resides in no-mind.
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Yes, the universe does hold with it the property of time; however, how many creatures are actually in a state of watching time?
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Stilling the body, in turn stilling the mind, is the quintessential method for finding both inner peace and inner strength.
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If we learn to accept things as they truly are, see things as neither good nor bad, and learn to un-attach ourselves to any feeling states of the mind, only then can we truly be free (truly be "happy").
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Think of your bicep. You can tell your bicep to flex and it will obey. Now think of if your bicep could scream back at you, telling you “I will now move on my own, regardless of what you want!” How ridiculous would that situation be?
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The mind, like any other tool, needs guidance. Turn on a power saw and leave it there. It will begin to chaotically saw away at anything around it. Now, take hold of that same saw and guide it to help cut away at what's needed.
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Like the samurai of old, they say that ‘all life is but a dream’. We have already died, and therefore, we should not fear what has already come.
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What the english language has failed in is its lack of words to describe our more subtle-realities, both in their feeling states and slight differentiation.
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The goal and practice of any meditation is to bring oneself out of the mind and so fully into the present moment, such that, one becomes absorbed in it; unable to discern the difference between themselves and another, simply because there is none. You are the universe and the universe is you - a scientific fact.
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If you begin to take a look at the varying "great" personalities and free-thinkers, you will begin to realize that each of these "great" individuals was simply a merger between them both - the mystic who also found themselves out to be the scholar.
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Ultimately, everyone wants to be accepted (to be loved), and everyone wants to do the right thing (what is true to them); yet, most of the time, being accepted and doing the right thing are at two opposing ends of the same spectrum.
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One thing that these great inspirational quotes have in common is that they’re all missing that one most essential element that brings you out of your own head and into your body.
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What makes a great teacher? Is it skill? Technique? Does it require a specified format or predetermined pattern of call and responses? Can a real teacher be developed or must they go out and develop themselves?
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