Unravel The Thread: Living the Yoga Sutra today

Your experiences are influenced by your level of awareness To what exten are you present in your daily activities? Which ways of being interfere with your perception and participation in your life? Is what you know, true knowledge, the result of your direct experience? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/173764...

Objects in the world are not the product of your imagination What is your attitude towards the world?   What is it that makes it possible for you to perceive anything?   What is the relationship between your awareness and the world that can be perceived?  What is the purpose of everything that exists?   What is your purpose as a person in the world?  https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from...

An object does not depend of being perceived in order to exist How do you relate to the objects around you? How do your ways of being influence your perception?   Are there some aspects of your life that remain constant?   Are there some aspects of you that remain constant?  Are your thoughts, intentions, actions, and interactions charged by your conscious and deliberate presence? https://simple-y...

In spite of undergoing many changes, each object is unique and real. Do you notice changes in your body, breath, thoughts, emotions and memories? Is there anything underneath all of those changes? Is there continuity in you? Are you unique? What makes you aware of your uniqueness and continuity? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https...

How do the primordial tendencies in nature influence your inner world, intentions, actions and interactions? Are you at the mercy of inertia, agitation or harmony? How do you interact with your tendencies? What motivates your choices? Do your activities influence your own levels of energy?   Are you able to regulate your own energy levels ?   https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the boo...

There are latent, active and potential impressions. What impressions lead you to harmony with your natural state?  What impressions foster misidentification with temporary phenomena?  To what extent are you aware of the impressions left by your past experiences? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ A...

The impressions disappear when afflictions, ways of being and tendencies are removed. Are you aware of your afflictions (kleshas)? Which of your ways of being perpetuate the impressions already present? Are the eight limbs of yoga useful in removing causes, effects, support and objects that keep your impressions active? How are you creating effortless peaceful impressions (3.10) through your pract...

Are your desires toward enjoyment or toward liberation? What impressions do they leave? Desire powers the impressions and it creates a cycle that lasts for as long as there is desire. What desires are prevalent in you?   To what extent are those desires perpetuating some of your existing tendencies and inclinations?   Can you modulate your desire?   Is your desire a way to deepen your identificati...

Are you aware of the impressiones accumulated in you and of their effects? Are your ways of being related to your beliefs and opinions? Might it be possible that this collection of impressions, when unresolved, remains in your individual space of awareness offering you ways to overcome your identification with these experiences? Would it be possible for the impressions of previous actions to be st...

Subconscious impressions manifest under appropriate conditions.  Samskaras influence personality and tendencies. Are your intentions and actions generating new impressions? Are some of your actions and interactions the result of unconscious impressions? To what extent is your personality a form of conditioning? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available a...

Those who are not immersed in samadhi generate three types of karma. Yogis who have achieved integration, by living beyond attachment to results, do not accumulate karma. For others, karma is negative, positive and mixed. Can you notice how your current situation may have been influenced by your previous intentions and actions? Are you aware of past impressions that are still active in you? Do you...

Free from the ways of being, conscious and balanced actions Meditation is sustainable and makes it easy to act without leaving subconscious impressions that generate an endless chain of reactions and afflictions. Are you freer of expectations and attachments to the results of your actions? How do you know if your actions are the result of your deep emotional balance? https://simple-yoga.org This i...

Is there a single sense of self beneath all your experiences? What is at the core of all your experiences? Could there also be only one all encompassing awareness underlying all of existence? What is the nucleus of your being? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unrav...

What makes you aware of your own existence? Is it possible to generate new body-minds? What do you identify with? Is your sense of self (asmita) the meeting point between existence and awareness? What do you find when your internal activity and identifications cease?   https://simple-yoga.org/ This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/17376...

Removing obstacles to the harmonious flow of life. Incidental causes do not cause life. Facilitate the conditions for life to move without obstructions. Is there a difference between your normal state and your natural state?  How are you aligning with your natural state?  https://simple-yoga.org/ This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/17...

Life manifests in countless ways Changes in properties, characteristics or states do not change the fundamental essence. To what extent are you conscious of the flow of life in you?  How do your movements influence the flow of life through you?  Do your thoughts affect how alive you feel?   Is there a relationship between your emotions and the sense of aliveness in you?     https://simple-yoga.org...

Birth, herbs, mantra, purification techniques and deep integrationi (samadhi)   https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ and Barnes & Noble  https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get a...

Magnificence, the results of practicing the meditative limbs of yoga - Concentration, meditation & integration [3.1-3.8] -Transformation [3.9-3.15] -Meditative integration & its effects [3.16-3.37] - Warning [3.38] - Subtle energy [3.39-3.44] - Highest attainments [3.45-3.50] - Freedom [3.51-3.52] - Purpose [3.53-3.56] https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread ava...

The purity of the individual reflects pure consciousness Ultimate clarity is achieved after the process of noticing our ways of being, regulating them, choosing the ways of being that are beneficial, and then letting go of all of them to discover the natural state without past impressions or expectations. How do you return to your natural state? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the...

Complete transcendental knowledge To what extent is your life ruled by the illusion of time? What are the conditions that you place on your relationships? What are the ways of being that pull ou away from your natural state? What are the conditions that keep you from saying yes to life? https://simple-yoga.org/ This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.a...

Complete attunement to what is perceived To what extent are you able to notice the very subtle aspects of the phenomena that surround you? As the subtlety in your perceptive capacity grows, so do your kindness, caring and compassion? https://simple-yoga.org/ This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ and Barnes & Noble  https://w...

Samyama on single moments and their sequence   Is the fundamental difference between yesterday, tomorrow and today clear? What is your understanding of time? Is uncertainty about tomorrow a hindrance or a motivating factor for meaningful action? Can your meditation on the sequence of unique moments clarify the difference between the aspect of you that is changing constantly and the part that seems...

Vanity and conceit resulting from contact with others The seeds of the ways of being can flourish again because of invitations from celestial beings. Are there traces of self-importance in you?   What are the triggers that activate your self-importance?  How is your life purpose orienting you towards liberation?  https://simple-yoga.org/ This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread availabl...

And removing the remaining seeds of afflictions Freedom from attachments to beliefs, opinions and preferences. Established in uninterrupted discriminative awareness. Where are you on your path towards liberation?   What ways of being are you holding on to?   Which ones have you identified as unhelpful and released?  https://simple-yoga.org/ This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread avail...

Discerning between pure awareness and the immaculate individual consciousness To what extent do you believe that your experiences and mental activity are your true nature?  Are you gaining supremacy over your ways of being? Do you know everything that can be known? What is pure awareness? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www....