Discussion of Patanjali's Yoga Sutra 2.15: To Renounce the Human Experience, or Not?
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Some recent life events have me thinking about Patanjali's Yoga Sutra 2.15: "The wise man knows that owing to fluctuations, the qualities of nature, and subliminal impressions, even pleasant experiences are tinged with sorrow, and he keeps aloof from them". Here I have a little discussion with myself around how strictly it makes sense to follow this (and all of the) sutra(s).
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Very interesting, thank you!
I think your analysis of the human condition is essentially correct. Tell us more about this different kind of pleasure and satisfaction. I sometimes contact in my deeper sitting meditation something which sounds like what you are alluding too.
Ahh yes, thank you for this! I had the urge to be lazy and not go deeper into the difference between the two, so this is motivating. I have my own ideas about the difference, and I want to go back and do some reading to clarify and validate some stuff. But, yes, that state you experience in meditation is what I'm alluding to 🙂
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Almost like Ying and Yang, the light and dark sides of a circle, opposite forces that are interconnected. Personally, I'm not happy being alone. When I had my stroke in 2018, and was hospitalised for three months, I was actually happy being around others. Maybe I became somewhat 'institutionalised', I'm not sure.
I think this is pretty normal. And I think learning to be happy alone can be very empowering. The video I'm about to put up talks about this 🙂
I have a story for you that may shed some light on your current questions.
Buddha followers asked him "why do we suffer?"
Buddha said "we suffer because we desire."
So his followers did everything they could to remove desire from themselves.
They came to buddha, suffering more because they could not stop desiring and wanting more.
Buddha said to them "there are two ways to desire. A selfish way and an unselfish way."
"The selfish way to desire causes bondage and attachment. The unselfish way provides freedom and peace."
Desire Unselfishly. This is the way.🙏
Yes, I know of this. And I think Patanjali would argue that this is impossible in the context I am referring to. The desire for physical, sexual, even emotional, connection, is always from a place of selfishness, because they are wants of the ego. In the translated text I have, Swami Vivekanand says in the explanation of the sutra I'm discussing, "Even love is selfish, and the Yogi says that, in the end, we shall find that even the love of husbands and wives, and children and friends, slowly decays. Decadence seizes everything in this life. It is only when everything, even love, fails, that, with a flash, man finds out how vain, how dream-like is this world."
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