Yoga Private Lessons

Nov 15 2011

Right Activity

You alone are responsible for yourself. No one else may answer for your deeds when the final reckoning comes. Your work in the world - in the sphere where your karma, your own past activity, has placed you - can be performed only by one person: yourself. And your work can be called a “success” only when in some way it serves your fellowman.
- Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda “The Law of Success”.

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Devotion

The Searcher of Hearts wants only your sincere love. He is like a little child: someone may offer Him his whole wealth and He doesn’t want it; and another cries to Him, “O Lord, I love you!” and into that devotee’s heart He comes running. Don’t seek God with any ulterior motive, but pray to Him with devotion - unconditional, one-pointed, steady devotion. When your love for Him is as great as your attachment to your mortal body, He will come to you.
- Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda “Man’s Eternal Quest”.

Sep 30 2011

transcendental

Concerned with the primary basis of knowlage. Rising above common thoughts and ideas. To transcend is to pass beyond all ordinary limits. When the mind is quieted and emotions are passive, concentrated creative imaginaton enables us to transcend thoughts and feeling of limitation.

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superconsciousness

Clarified awareness which is beyond unconsciousness, sleep, and ordinary (modified) waking state.

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soul

A unit of pure consciousness (Self) which is unconsciously, or by choice, identified with modified mental states, emotions, and sensory perceptions to the extent that its awareness is blurred and fragmented.

Sep 29 2011
Japanese Buddhist 
Dharma Wheel

Japanese Buddhist
Dharma Wheel

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Dharma

Dharma (help·info) (Sanskrit: धर्म dhárma, Pali: धम्म dhamma; lit. that which upholds or supports) means Law or Natural Law (as in the natural order of things) and is a concept of central importance in Indian philosophy and religion. In the context of Hinduism, it refers to one’s personal obligations, calling and duties, and a Hindu’s dharma is affected by the person’s age, caste, class, occupation, and gender. In modern Indian languages it can refer simply to a person’s religion, depending on the context.

The idea of dharma as duty or propriety derives from an idea found in India’s ancient legal and religious texts that there is a divinely instituted natural order of things (rta) and justice, social harmony and human happiness require that human beings discern and live in a manner appropriate to the requirements of that order

Jul 28 2011

prosper

To thrive, flourish, and be successful in all ways. Prosperity is naturally experienced when the spiritual, mental, physical, emotional, and environmental aspects of our lives are harmoniously integrated.

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mind

The faculty that processes perceptions, will, thoughts, memory, feeling, and imagination. Used to reason, think, and apply knowledge. Our minds are units of a Universal or Cosmic Mind which is responsive to thoughts and states of awareness. Our state of awareness and mental states determine our thoughts, moods, and behaviors.

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realization

Direct perception and experience.

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grace

Supportive influences expressing in the omnipresent field of Consciousness and in us.

Jul 27 2011

meditation

Conscious withdrawal of attention from external conditions and the senses, emotions and mental processes to clarify awareness and experience Self- and God-realization.

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God

The one reality. The absolute (pure) aspect has no attributes. The manifesting aspect has attributes which allow expression and cosmic manifestation.

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ego

The illusional sense of self which is not one’s true essence of being.

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