Samadhi/Self-Realization/Enlightenment
Sutra Studies Week 62: Reflections On The Fact That Concentration And Focused Absorption Leads To Inner Accomplishment, Power, And Skill | This Is Not Magic; It Is Karma/Cause And Effect (Sutras 3.16-3.35)
“In order to get to these states of being, you must have full access to your prefrontal cortex, the front part of your brain…which means that you have to be in a fully regulated body-mind that directs your energies to this center of awareness for deeper insight.
Practicing, and becoming skilled in, all of the 5 limbs that come before Samyama, which is basically working through the last three limbs on the eightfold path, ensures that you can develop the regulation and awareness that supports you to consciously channel your life-force energy toward higher levels of awareness and being.
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Sutra Studies Week 61: Reflections On Developing Your Mind For True Seeing And Getting To The Point Of Pure Being (Sutras 3.1-3.15) [Excerpt]
“Humans have essentially been working as hard as they can to use their minds and egos to drop their minds and egos long enough to just be their pure undistorted Self for as long as their [perceived] disconnection from who they are has existed.”
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A List Of Mental Disturbances And Dis-Eases According To Yoga | The Path To “Healing” Summarized
While Western Medicine has only categorized certain mental-emotional states as illnesses, and the list continues to grow each day based on socially constructed “norms” that profess that some mental states are a deviation from an unclearly defined standard (with even appropriate circumstantial human emotions like sadness and/or anxiety being on the list with genetic neuro-emotional conditions like Schizophrenia), Yoga (at least according to Patanjali in Sutra 1.2) simply defines mental disturbance and dis-ease as “modifications of the mind-stuff” (Chitta Vrittis).
These modifications are all disturbances that stray from connection to the eternal Truth/Reality of the Self beyond physical form, of which there are mild to severe disturbances that range from highly destructive and delusional thoughts, ideas, beliefs, and ideologies (either within the context of not being grounded in reality that sees Maya clearly, or within the context of not being able to see the Greater Reality that is unchanging and eternal beyond form due to being over-attached to/traumatized by the illusions of the world) that lead to destructive Karmas that create ongoing suffering in the world.
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