No Need to Transcend the Body

The wisest teachers understand that the only “guru” is the practice itself; and the greatest “certification” is finding dedication and joy in one’s own practice.

The greatest musicians are the ones that love it so much that the music becomes part of them. It’s not something they choose to do every day. They simply do it because it’s in their nature.

Yoga is using the body as our instrument in the search for self. Yoga sutra 2.21 says the nature of the Seen exists for the sake of the Seer.

We don’t want to leave the body; we want to be so far inside the body that the boundaries blur between body, breath, and mind. They become different branches of the same tree.

We don’t control when our flowers bloom nor do we control the weather. But we can control how often we water our soil. That’s the practice.

The body is the abode, the soul is inside, so we go inward rather than upward. We go down to the root rather than going straight for the third eye.

The root holds our karma and our kundalini; our baggage and our divinity; our yin and yang; our ida and pingala. And we’re not any of these things, yet we’re all of them and we’re the space in between.

Our karma produces fruits and if we don’t make ourselves available to catch those fruits when they fall, then we can try again tomorrow. That’s the practice.