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I started doing a daily yoga practice about 9 months about and also go to a yoga center.I have some meditation experiece too .. But when I sat down to meditate for 5 minutes before work after a 1 week break I got eeehhh ...ecstacy for about 15 seconds .Guess that yoga works eh ?
I started doing a daily yoga practice about 9 months about and also go to a yoga center.I have some meditation experiece too .. But when I sat down to meditate for 5 minutes before work after a 1 week break I got eeehhh ...ecstacy for about 15 seconds .Guess that yoga works eh ?
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But after sitting longer retreats I came to treat such experiences differently. Really, they're just blips, nothing special. Sure, I may get a bit high for a few minutes but that doesn't last and has little effect on my daily life. I also get a bit high from eating desserts, travelling or sex. I doubt those pleasurable meditation experiences are fundamentally different.
There's nothing wrong with feeling very good once in a while-- I suspect that the body even needs some of that to work right. However, once I make this good feeling or that good feeling my goal, I'm astray. My mind becomes narrower and becomes driven by pursuit of that elusive "high". That fixation causes me to suffer and make others suffer through neglecting the reality right here, right now (which is the only "reality").
So when good things come up, I try to observe them, be greatful for them and let them drop away when they have run their course. It's not always easy-- a lot of practice is needed.
There is a meditation method (Sonoma or something) where that feeling is the goal. He was trying to get me into it but it seemed like he was trying to get high off of meditation... Using it as a drug.
If it arises, enjoy it while it lasts but I wouldn't suggest making it the goal. Only my opinion but it seems "off" somehow.
Guess the bad serves as much a lesson as the good though.
So does sex and chocolate and running and . . . serotonin here I come.
I'll have what she is having . . .
Yoga can still you, make you feel good and improve your mind/body. Good stuff.
. . . however some of us dharma junkies are on a 'higher mission', some are not even on a mission . . . anyways . . . thanks for reminding us . . .
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Improving the world, to lessen suffering.
Spreading love, goodwill, education, prosperity, opportunity, generosity.
Finding a higher mission.
Not requiring being relaxed and happy . . . to be relaxed and happy.
Having a mission as an individual, as a community, as a society.
. . . maybe that yoga has not really kicked in yet?
Improving the world, to lessen suffering.
Spreading love, goodwill, education, prosperity, opportunity, generosity.
Finding a higher mission.
Not requiring being relaxed and happy . . . to be relaxed and happy.
Having a mission as an individual, as a community, as a society.
Yes but as a starting point all these things require personal contentment first .
Im not looking for ecstacy .I have spent 20 years doing the meditation work .
I sure as hell don't want to wake up at 5:30am every morning just so that I have time to meditate and make it to my 7am Ashtanga class on time. I don't wait until I am feeling personal contentment before I start my practices, or else I would never do them.
When there is an opportunity to be of service to someone or my community, my initial reaction is "Crap, I don't have time for this." Again, if. I waited until I was in some perfect enlightened personal space, if I needed that personal contentment as a starting point, I'd never do anything.
Instead I negate the thinking and simply move forward and show up for myself and to be of service and just "do." Seconds into just "doing" I feel that contentment.