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Light on Life is an excellent introduction to a practical understanding of the spiritual underpinnings of the yoga asana practice that has taken the world by storm.
Sutra #39
Vajragarbha’s 3 questions.
If sentient beings are buddhas, how is there so much ignorance?
If sentient beings are ignorant, how can we say they are buddhas?
If we start as buddhas, then become confused, when will the Buddha be confused again?
An Overview of Yogic Meditation
Shifting to the single-pointed expansion of deep meditation isn’t quite so easy as we’d like… but by “working our way” through the dimensions of and layers of being we can learn to do so reliably.
Sutra #40-41
As long as we’re using the mind bound by rational thought and linear time things will be confusing. These doubts will inhibit us from Perfect Enlightenment. We must trust this to be true so that we can have an experience to verify it.
Sutra #44-46
Sutra 44 makes a critical point that may be lost in the standard translations. What if it reads like…
Sutra #42: Samsara’s Disorienting Power
Or else whatever I see is still just another iteration of “inside” and “outside.” Conditioned phenomena includes any conceptual framework and even subject/object, past/present/future is all just conceptual framework. If I want to understand, I must stop and see!