Magic, science and poetry - the Alchemy of Yoga

Magic, science and poetry - the Alchemy of Yoga
br p I spent that most of the time in the past two days of hearing creating and writing this essay for the first time. Since this morning the file to open, the (unfortunately) in one of these disks Neandrethal (sigh) are stored... only to find the disk like some hard rock rocks taxes refused to release. So here I am again, the same story tell... (but you at least i /i is right the first time?) (J)... / p before recently was a friend of mine ~ a wonderful artist much time to play on Hawaii spends ~ & told me the story for a few months (in a summer a few years ago) sleep in an orchard in Hawaii. The nights were mild and so this was a very nice place to hot air, Starlight, the smell of flowering trees. One evening, when my friend in all was relaxed and feel mentally and emotionally "accommodative" it appeared it (in a dream?) On the screen their third eye?) A group of plants Devas ~ fairy tale light beings ~ to describe their inside like every spring, they would (float like a swarm hummingbirds) create between the branches of fruit trees ~ their wings vibration light with pleasure ~ power (of love and the joy of celebration) needed for the trees in full blossom and fruit later ~/p now this clarification (for flowering fruit trees and sustainability) is very different from what I could get, says a university educated gardeners, yes?" My friend (or at least plants devas) statement can be as "magical" or "Miracle". Horticulture Declaration: definitely "scientific". The difference at first sight between the two seems very clear, very clear./p but if wea little deeper we discover that only the events that the current knowledge are what is often as "Magic" or "Miraculous" look (outside of the conceptual framework), the exercise. The other day in a Yoga Studio, I saw a glass that the vine a exception ~ ~ everything was growing horizontally along the shelf drapery over the edges rests on the pot else down. It was only a vine which grew just upwards, embraces the wall. For me it was in the wonderful reasonable... a kind of "Magic" is involved, by a vine was approached, and the rest./p what I learned was that fast vines from small sucker-like structures so they ~ if in contact with a wall ~ and climbing came, looked like me. When I realized that a single grape variety for me is not so mysterious, their actions (climbing) no longer something I call "magic would." Since I now in possession of a "scientific" statements./p there are also some magician / illusionist (made most famous perhaps in India), the ~ light of hand techniques and use / or sing mantras ~ looks as, say, to do a Cobra... If no such ideas. Members of the audience for their appearance line to be "Miracles", during the magician to understand the perception of a serpent who are viewers simply uses the result of skill, technology, the very "scientific." (For a good explanation ~ language of Western science ~ many other so-called yoga "Miracles" that goes on the water check the footnotes to Yogananda u Autobiograpy of a Yogi /u.)/p: this story is in Buddhism, the difference between, on the one hand as "emotional fins""ternisse,"and on the other hand,"to illustrate spiritual darkness known." "Belief in the"reality"of the Serpent and the subsequent placement (based on fear and / or willingness) is the public in our history in connection with this (fictional) action (the Snake) compared with the category of" emotional eclipses. "Confirmation that the illusionist / Mage against their own creations has i /i (what he knows is an illusion) on"spiritual darkness"compared ~ a subtle level, the resolution auction operator of Buddhahood."/p history is also in a more general way, all options, which we used showed that people, a kind of "Reality" almost pleasant. We all have the potential, the "magician" Mastering "(dh_der_Buddha-Dharma) can be a true science of the mind, know us to take the action (or body, speech and mind)" to create"appearance of say we, health, happiness and welfare of ourselves, our loved ones and finally all living things." But if we look (also in the superficial kind) we determine that this seems to happen for most people. It is as if everybody owned a most amazing and sophisticated "bio computer" (in the system of our physical and subtle bodies), but by some old ~ / new "error" ~ somehow lost the instructions!/p so what now? And none of them deals with yoga practice? (In its different incarnations) not only a good way is shown in the Yoga to keep in shape (for example by an Asana i /i practice), not only a great spiritualand extended ≪, i / i tradition is also Buddhism, a lot of "Science" as including a number of techniques, if properly applied, lead to more or less predictable results. And what are these results? Physical, emotional and mental health? Yes. Clarity and inner peace? Yes. Mental ground? Yes. Yoga is also under many names ~ ~ A practitioner's technique of ecstasy "may indeed known... for a West trained scientists in the ear, a strange effect." In a sense indicates something in this "Science" of Yoga certainly beautiful, alive, is pretty clearly a sensual way, Yes? To examine more fully would take this paradox us beyond this text... but now it is enough to say that "Science" in the way we think (as Westerners) often is not designed only "ingredients" for a yoga practice required "Alchemy", equal to the delivery (such as ~ nothing can) as the sum of its parts. It is not more... / p tease, what can be "something more", let us back for a moment of magic, and the difference between considerations "black magic" and "white magic" (lack of a better word) "This award has for me, as the wizard / illusionist to do with use of power: is his / her use of power (knowledge, energy, Shakti i /i) a success for all involved.." . Is it a catalyst for greater joy, clarity and freedom for all living things? Or is its use of power to the "DIS empowerment, deception or submission from other ask for?" This is the kind of "Magic", the / childlike AWE and admiration created to be love and faith in the universe? Or iSt it the kind of "Magic", fear, mistrust, leads a retreat from our extensive natural state, our natural perfection?/p my intuition is that "Magic" is a positive, a necessary component for a kind of Yoga that want "alchemical moment access freshness, joy and every now and again ~ ~ one not pronounced ecstasy." We must all of us, not only is i /i Wizard (esoteric researchers) ~ training qualified use of different religious and esoteric techniques available to us, but we recommend the advantage of the ability to cultivate "Fear"; (always!) the kaleidoscopic the same way set how you can be in the audience in our world (body, mind)... much "impressed" by a theatre performance or magic show... even if they already know that "pretend." "/" "P noticed in my own journey, I have, is that the practice of reading and writing a poetry thing I open for the magic" such stay. The use of metaphors, in particular ~ find similarities between things that tend to bridge before as "different" to the conceptual framework, my thoughts and senses in the magical, wonderful quality of this special ~... a practice that is leaking over informed and is fed by my own yoga practice./p this pretty tough opponent, "Science" and "Magic" (with a little help from poetry) can a yoga be connected to my friends... that their relationship could be actually ignite the alchemical fire that our yoga, eventually learn ~, in a thriving Orchard stars in the night ~ i to shine /i./p