Sutra 2.8 (duhkhanusayi dvesah)means that aversion stems from pain. This sutra describes the root of this klesa (impediment to freedom). Aversion has been haunting me lately, especially in my home life. I have a hard time focusing my self enough to not lash out or get angry. It helps to understand where aversion is coming from, but I need to find a way to overcome it.
Aversion stems from remembering pain from the past - but what does one do with that pain, how does one process it and move on?
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Avidya
"Desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is the choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing -- food, sex, power, fame -- will make you happy is to deceive yourself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy."
I AM THAT -Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
One of the hardest things to understand is that we, or our true selves, are already built perfect. I have read this, it has been explained to me, and it is one of the core ideas of yoga philosophy. Everything based in nature is suffering (or causes suffering) - the stuff beyond nature, and further into our own divinity is perfect and only that can bring us true joy. So why can't we just look into ourselves and find this happiness? Patanjali would call this Avidya - ignorance - or confusing nature for the divinity within ourselves.
The quote above from Nisargadatta makes it all sound so simple. Our true self is there - we don't have to find it, it is not a quest. We have to let ourselves be it, and let release the notion that the mind is the self. Easy right?
I AM THAT -Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
One of the hardest things to understand is that we, or our true selves, are already built perfect. I have read this, it has been explained to me, and it is one of the core ideas of yoga philosophy. Everything based in nature is suffering (or causes suffering) - the stuff beyond nature, and further into our own divinity is perfect and only that can bring us true joy. So why can't we just look into ourselves and find this happiness? Patanjali would call this Avidya - ignorance - or confusing nature for the divinity within ourselves.
The quote above from Nisargadatta makes it all sound so simple. Our true self is there - we don't have to find it, it is not a quest. We have to let ourselves be it, and let release the notion that the mind is the self. Easy right?
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