If you are against yoga 🙂 then just listen to Jesus

“The kingdom of God is within you.

Be still and know that i am God”

Meditation is about being still.

In my process of yoga, if i am something, i feel i have been attracted to a better understanding of God, i just don’t belong to any particular belief system. Just because they are all misleading-misunderstood by the masses and manipulated information, but they all have some good in them.

So yogis are just stubborn, they just chose not to have faith, but rather to experience God.

All yoga is doing is preparing you to be still. Because in this haste of always doing something, the hardest thing for you is just to sit, quietly.

Using the five senses we have developed tremendous abilities and even if we didn’t reach their limitations, we feel limited. Because we are trying to thirst a hunger for infinity, with finite steps. This body has an expiration date and taking one step at a time, has hardly brought us to the moon, but we want to touch the other side of the cosmos.

Using the practices in yoga, we learn how to develop new abilities. Breaking this boundary that we can manipulate only the exterior, developing a sense that has to do with the interior.

If you can find peace and joy and love and ecstasy, within yourself, not tied to any exterior source,Is it important what is happening outside of you? Can you still be touched and damaged from the situations outside of you? Out of your reach? Out of your control?

Once your strength is coming from the inside, there will be nothing outside of you that can unbalance you.

The only belief that is always making you to perform any action, to move all the time, to always do something is the belief that happiness comes only from the matter you gather, from the people outside, from whatever tv is propagating, love can only come from someone/something else never from you. You are never self-sufficient.

We should shift this idea. That you are not complete, that everything you need is somewhere “out there” and not somewhere inside of you.

These teachers that have walked the path of earth, Buddha’s and Jesus and Mohamed’s and Gods and mystics are just here to put us back on the right path.

Whenever we are lost, hope in the form of a teacher is always there for us, so we can remember who we really are and what we can do, and there is no limitation once you realize this.

Finding the divinity where it is.

Inside of us.

Stay in meditation.

For how long?

For as long as it takes.     

You wake up in the morning realizing that you haven’t been doing any cardio in the last weeks. So you plan to participate in an indoor cycling to manage your breath and your limits in your heartbeats.

You hydrate . Keep an empty stomach so your energy stays intact. Prepare all the equipment and warm clothes for the winter that’s outside. By the time you get to the bus station yourealize you’ll probably be late 5 min, miss one bus and then realize that is also Sunday and the next bust is in another 10 min.

Waiting for 10 min, no sign and then you look at the clock and the class already started 🙂 So getting there, you ll already miss half of the class.

Without any remorse or swearing, you just enjoy a cold air winter, analyzing how your body feels and it is so amazing. You fell how your body is benefiting from all the yoga during last week and you decide you ll return back home start cooking something and next time you ll be more prepared.

No hard feelings, just a beautiful walk.

Are you able to enjoy life, even if it doesn’t work your way?

Can you turn one “Bad” situation into another one which is great?

Can you just be present, instead of imagining a future where you ll probably be happy?

Can you focus your mind for a few minutes being here, rather than get lost into your imagination?

We seldom create more turmoil within ourselves by our thought process than the exterior factors.

This just brings in my head some lines in my Guru talking about Alexander the Great.

“For Alexander the Great, conquering half of the world, life did not settle. Yes? Alexander, I don’t know why they call him “Great”. Probably they forgot his third name! Alexander the Great Idiot; they forgot that.

Why am I saying this is, what did Alexander do in his life?

At the age of sixteen he started fighting and went about killing people, unknown people, people who did not know who he was.

What was his purpose in life? He went on slaughtered thousands and thousands of people. Sixteen years of non-stop fighting he did. At the age of 32 he died a miserable death. He was so miserable because the other half of the world was yet not conquered.

Let’s say this microphone is your property. Between you and me some dispute has arisen about this property. If we quarrel for five minutes, if you have little sense, you will feel “Let this property go. Let me be free from this nonsense first.” If you have some sense!

For sixteen years if a man has to go on fighting non-stop for something that is not even his, he must be absolutely insane; but this is the kind of people that you have made “Great”

What is his contribution to human life?

Now all your focus is in this way because he had the mad ambition of conquering the whole world, so everybody is an Alexander the Great, but not potent enough. They don’t have the same level of potency. They are impotent Alexanders; but everybody is an Alexander, wanting to conquer something all the time.

As long as this is your consciousness, as long this is the basis of the action you perform in the world, the world cannot be beautiful.

If Alexanders exist here, if your only intention is to conquer everybody in some way, conflict will be the way. This world will always be in conflict. Pain and suffering will be the way of the world.”

The first and most fundamental responsibility for a human being is to become a joyous human being; because no matter what are you doing, it doesn’t matter what are you pursuing in your life, whatever is business, money, power, education, service or whatever else you wish to do, you are doing it because something inside you know that this will bring you happiness.    

On a hot day, while mounting, a hill in order to visit a certain basilica, I was questioning myself why do they always chose such a high place to put churches, monasteries etc?

The first thought that come into my mind was purification.

Of course!

“God whose love and joy
are present everywhere,
Can’t come and visit you
unless you aren’t there.”

Walking 2000 m up the hill, requires a certain intention, strength determination, will. By the moment you reach there, your body may be sweating, you hardly catch your breath, your mind is at ease for dealing with these intense “Practice”.

” Now you are prepared to meet God.”

And for your surprise, God is not hiding in the church. God was all the time inside of you, you were just not capable of feeling, hearing him, experience an infinity part of his presence.
Just sitting on a bench, on the grass, taking a big inhale, appreciating some rest, you see beauty everywhere, in silence, in a sandwich, in a cup of water.

Happy to have reach your target, no matter how many times you wanted to stop, with some effort and discipline, and a certain purification of body and mind, the mind gets empty, you don’t think about work, about your fight with your parents or friends, about the rent, car or school.

Just a breath of fresh air and some freedom to replace all that was occupying your mind. Some time for you and God, the pleasure of a silent mind, overwhelmed by the sensations in the body, the “rest” you where longing for so long.

“God…can’t come and visit you, unless you aren’t there” It is not about your home, it is about the temple “My body is a temple”, it s about your mind.

How can anything come in, while you are so full of your own ideas, your mind is so busy thinking and in a constant meditation keeping intact your  precious identity?

¹⁹ Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; ²⁰ you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. Corinthians 6:19-20

So that silence and love and peace, you are experience every time you are doing an effort, that discipline, touching the limitations of the body, practicing yoga, you are more in touch with the holy spirit, the spirit, god, the universe, call it whatever you want, it is the experience that maters not the name.

This is the reason for a pilgrimage, for different rituals before “meeting god”, walking for 1000 km with an intention.

Wherever you find yourself on the earth there are different approaches to this.

Muslim, Buddhist, catholic, orthodox, any kind of religion or beliefs they all talk about a purification before conception, love, eating, walking, meeting god, any activity.

Now yogis discover this just some thousands of years before, experiencing the Holy Spirit on daily basis rather than to put everything on FAITH.

They don t need to travel for thousands of km, they just sit on a mat, on a stone, either in meditation, or preparing the body trough asanas or other forms of practice, for the next step in their evolution.

***Jesus captured trying to explain how to hold the finger when you practice “anulom vilom”, pranayama. He just chose index finger-pointing finger on the forehead 🙂 something to do with third eye :)), probably he was a monk or a yogi, his clothes and what he preaches sounds like Asia***—-just a possibility… 

“Some people talk about peace and spirit, as the goal of their existence, in yoga this is fundamental to a daily life.”

There are rituals before everything.

Probably this is one of the reasons we are the way we are today, we have forgotten how to respect the “spirit” in everything.

Japenese : Shinto tradition of purifying the body and mind before meeting others.

“Purify yourself before meeting others.” You don t want to bring your dirt, your clouded mind, you negative emotions into someone else’s life. This is seen as a duty, not as an optional task.

So the first thing before you eat, before you do anything, do yoga, pray, or any form of practice or ritual, that reminds you of your place in this world and respect your body, because it s trough the body that you experience this life.

If it s pain you experience lifting your body from the ground, no matter how many beautiful words you put, it will not feel better, so probably you slept to much,or your muscles are atrophying and you are in lack of physical activity – trough the prism of the body we experience life.

Your life is not about being a banker, or a husband, or a boyfriend or anything else. But being a spirit in touch with God, which is fundamental before you engage yourself in any other activity.

‘The world is a bridge, pass over it, but build no houses upon it. He who hopes for a day, may hope for eternity; but the world endures but an hour. Spend it in prayer for the rest is unseen.’

Nobility is not being better than someone else, is being better than your former self, and this is how you should spend your life, in being noble.