If you had 3 wishes what would they be? Tonight, Maha Shivaratri, the greatest holiday of Shiva in the Hindu Tradition, gives practitioners just this opportunity. How will you use your wish?
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To unpack Sutra 3.8 we find ourselves climbing through 3 levels of awareness. The first level, that of our normal life, the second level, that of a mindful life, and the third level, that of a spiritual life.
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A guided mantra meditation that skillfully grows our inner awareness and enhances to keep our attention on our mantra at deeper and deeper levels.
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A guided breath meditation that utilizes a counting Pratyahara {concentration) technique to help you arrive at true breath awareness.
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Discipline is the wish fulfilling tree, the bestower of grace, the redeemer of imperfection and the source of our spiritual growth. Reflect on anything significant you have ever accomplished in your life, and you’ll see discipline was there, walking with you step-for-step. So let’s take a moment together to see how the yogic tradition describes and cultivates discipline, so that we may can take our resolutions into the realm of realization.
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A discussion of the experience of putting your spiritual growth ahead of your limited perceptions of daily life through the lens of Shiva Sutra 3.8. The experienced practitioner recognizes that this type of work is not a negation of reality, not a pushing away of what feels ‘tough’, but an expansion of awareness, an unfolding of our practice that empowers us to use our life as fuel for enlightenment.
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An exploration of “The Path” and it’s two-fold interpretation in the texts of Kashmir Shaivism and ShambhavAnanda Yoga.
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How do you quit suffering if you don’t know you’re suffering? There are indicators that can help you notice it, but ultimately we can only recognize our own suffering, and surrender it, through an empowered meditation practice. How do you quit something you don’t know you’re doing? How do you quit suffering if you don’t know you’re suffering? There are indicators that can help you notice it, but ultimately we can only recognize our own suffering, and surrender it, through an empowered meditation practice— which is why we spend this hour not just studying, but meditating while we interpret the teachings of this Sutra about the topic.
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In this class we continue to work with Shiva Sutra 3.7, and unpack the concepts of illusion (Maya and/or Moha), differentiation, pure knowledge (vidya) and God Consciousness (atmaviyapti) from within the context of a living meditation practice both on our cushion and in our life. Below are the quotes from the class, as well as the explanations and questions to inspire personal feeling and reflection. Enjoy!
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