The world is just a shadow from which we are completely
free. This is what it means to be liberated. However, we come to this world
with lessons to learn. This is the nature of karma. Lets’ suppose you gain a
certain mastery over some aspect of life, but you die before you reach total liberation.
You leave behind your body, but must come back again to finish the job on the pathway
to enlightenment. It is only possible to attain liberation as a human being.
That is because it is only through our humanness that we can acquire the consciousness
necessary to attain complete liberation from desire. However, life is challenging.
We will always be presented with desires and will never attain true freedom
until we have burnt away the seeds of desire. This begins our study of karma
yoga.
All poses in yoga require work. We must be willing to detach
and let go in order to gain. The down dog is an example. It calls upon us to
both surrender and at the same time be disciplined. It takes discipline to hold
it and surrender to maintain it. Such as down dog; such as life.
To attain liberation we must work to remove the seeds of
desire. It is not that we should not desire. It is human nature to want. It is
our attachment and the value we put on these desires that must be examined. All
of life is transitory. Nothing is permanent, but everything has the possibility
for rebirth.
Doctor Lynn
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