"When we enter into the practice of meditation, of yoga, we are doing something radically unlike other human activities.
Of course the way yoga is sold in the United States, like everything else, is that it's supposed to be good for you.
It isn't.
[font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Has nothing to do with anything that's good for you. It's the one activity which you do for its own sake, and not because it's good for you. Not because it will lead anywhere, because you cannot go to the place where you are now, obviously. Yoga is to be completely here and now. That's why the word 'yeug' means join. Get with it. Be completely here and now. This is the real meaning of concentration - to be in your center. And the Christian word for sinning in Greek is 'hamartánein' which means to miss the point. And the point is eternal life, which is here and now."[/font]
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Of course the way yoga is sold in the United States, like everything else, is that it's supposed to be good for you.
It isn't.
[font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Has nothing to do with anything that's good for you. It's the one activity which you do for its own sake, and not because it's good for you. Not because it will lead anywhere, because you cannot go to the place where you are now, obviously. Yoga is to be completely here and now. That's why the word 'yeug' means join. Get with it. Be completely here and now. This is the real meaning of concentration - to be in your center. And the Christian word for sinning in Greek is 'hamartánein' which means to miss the point. And the point is eternal life, which is here and now."[/font]
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