Another Yoga The Art of Being

These are the teachings of YogaYoga is the original state of peace and stillness where con-sciousness flows freely.In this state of peace and stillness, the mind reflects its true natureWhen not in this original state of silence, our minds are caught up in the stream of relative consciousness.THIS BOOK IS ABOUT THE PRACTICE OF YOGA. I am not talking of the Yoga that bends and stretches, that turns the heat up and sweats, that does down doggy and the corpse pose. The yoga in this book leaves the body and goes walkabout in the cosmos. You don't have to leave your house, and you don't need a mat. It's free at the point of source, and it doesn't have an operat-ing system.This book is about metaphysics, horizontal and vertical lines and defying the rules of gravity. It takes you away from the morgue and into clear blue skies. To be truly free, you have to go deep mystic, into a state of mind where our species, homo sapi-ens, does not rule like a deranged monarch. To a place where to-morrow never comes, and the past never existed, where all crimes are pardoned, and you are everywhere and nowhere.Spiritual Yoga relates to a union between transient mate-rial phenomena and boundless, infinite space. I am talking of a state of mind connected to a timeless reality immersed in the source of our existence. This yoga does not go to Church because religion does not define it. This practice is not a threat to the precepts of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism or any religious creed, because this Yoga doesn't deny or claim God. Yoga is not a belief system. Yoga is unity, and it is up to each individual to ex-perience what that unity is. It is a question that only you can an-swer when you have transcended yourself.This book is not for everyone. Many people are perfectly at ease with the world and their place in it. Reality fits them like a glove, and they can relate to the world as a place where they have always belonged, a place that works for them. There is no need to fix it. No need to look elsewhere other than this world of choice and opportunity. Life is what you make it, and you cannot argue with that.Others of us have been troubled in our relationship with the world, which can seem a confusing and often hostile envi-ronment to live in. Some of us live on the spectrum, autistic, As-pergers, bipolar, dyslexic, depressed, confused, perplexed. We yearn for a better understanding of what it means to be alive in a strange and unpredictable environment. Then there are those who just want to escape from reality because life is so painful. Some of us live life in a fog and wish for a bright sun to burn it all away so we can see clearly the world around us. This book is about living in a state of higher conscious-ness. You can call it expanded awareness or a transcended sphere of existence. The exact description will always be ambiguous be-cause mysticism leads to a place that is both beyond the world we live and also firmly rooted in reality. The world can be under-stood but not in a way that can be easily conveyed in language. Nobody is confused, perplexed or suffering in that transcended state, but at the same time you continue to operate in the every-day world of experience. Nothing changes but everything chang-es, Yoga has always had mystical and spiritual elements that the physical practice often overlooks in favour of a more postural emphasis. There is Hatha Yoga, based on movements in time and space. And there is Mystic Yoga that explains how a deep spiritu-ality characterised the earliest Yoga practice back in the heart-lands of India.Spiritual Yoga is not all about hitchhiking the galaxy on a magic bus. The spiritual practice is the ultimate self-help tool to develop a clearer understanding of the mechanics of the world and greater clarity of thought. In a mystic state of mind, you are not the victim of your problems. You are involved with or bound by them. Spiritual Yoga liberates you from all of that.