Again I found today's read too moving not to share with you. This is an exert from the book by Rolf Gates. :
'Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and rightdoing, there is a field. Meet me there. - Rumi
Over the millennia, yoga has traveled between two opposing views of spiritual practice. In one view, the world is flawed, and the individual, an aspect of a flawed world, is flawed- and yoga practice is meant to transcend our flawed nature. In the other, everything is OK- and our practice is meant to remove our blocks to seeing this truth. Now, this may seem like semantics, but in fact nothing could be more important to sort out before beginning a serious spiritual practice.
I am of the mind that everything is already OK. For me, the sutras are an arrow pointing to the divinity within all of us. It is a given that in asana practice we do no disavow any aspect of our experience or our physicality. Rather, we progressively embrace what is real for us, so that we may find health and harmony. Why would this not also be true concerning every other aspect of ourselves? As you go deeper into the sutras, spending time with superlatives and ideals, remember that you are doing this study in order to remember yourself, to come home to all of 'you' (italic). Only after we get beyond ideas of right and wrong can we truly begin the practice of yoga.'
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