Teaching yoga? (2)

The teachings of yoga, the purpose of the yoga classes, and how the yoga teachers teach the yoga classes, are to allow the yoga students to :-

• Become their own teachers

• To know/see the truth by their own self-realization through self-inquiry (Insights)

• Develop self-awareness and mindfulness

• Develop dispassion (Vairagya) and right discrimination (Viveka)

• Develop non-attachment and non-identification

• Develop purity of thoughts, actions and speech

• Develop calmness

• Develop magnanimity

• Develop forbearance

• Develop self-discipline and self-control

• Have right livelihood, right view, correct understanding

• Be self-reliant

• Be vigilant, determined, persevered (stamina)

• Be patient and tolerant (strength)

• Be able to adjust, adapt, accommodate (flexibility)

• Be able to let go of the desire to interfere with the reality, or to control everything to be the way that we like it to be, or to change other people to be the way that we think they should be

• Be simple and content

• Be truthful and straightforward

• Be forgiving

• Be observant towards what is going on in the mind

• Be open-minded

• Be free from blind-faith, blind-belief, blind-agreement, blind-following towards any practice, thinking and beliefs, including the teachings and practice of yoga

• Be free from being conditioned by past pleasant and unpleasant experiences or happy and unhappy memories

• Be free from being conditioned by future imaginations, anticipations, projections, speculations

• Be free from judgment, comparison, expectation

• Be free from craving and aversion

• Be free from egoism

• Be free from duality

• Be free from both worldly and spiritual attachments and identities

• Be free from impurities - Anger, hatred, jealousy, greed, dissatisfaction, disappointment, pride, arrogance, feelings of hurt, feelings of guilt, regrets, agitation, depression, anxieties, doubts, fear, worry, ill-will, ill-thinking, violence, wickedness, selfishness, stinginess, and etc

• Be free from restlessness

• Be free from ignorance and suffering

• Be free from actions and the fruit of actions (Inaction in actions - Selfless-actions)

• Be free from the cycle of birth and death (Stop producing good and bad karma through the realization of Selflessness)

• Realize oneness, non-separateness, non-duality, attributelessness, namelessness, formlessness (Neither good nor bad, neither positive nor negative, neither happiness nor suffering, neither right nor wrong)

• Realize Selflessness / ego-lessness

• Realize unconditional love and peace (Compassion)

• Rest in silence

Om shanti.