“Things can be safe and comfortable on the surface, but going deeply requires that we question the structure of everything, including the schools we belong to.”
I’m reading the words from “The mirror of yoga” by Richard Freeman out loud over and over again at night before putting out the lights and sliding under the huge duvet. My friend Elli has an enormous bed and I’ve been spending the last few days here getting such a remarkably deep sleep, I don’t think I can live without from now on. Next project in life – get a proper bed!
I enjoy the way he writes (and speaks too), you have to stay fully focused to take it all in and I can tell so clearly when I’m not completely there. That was a beautiful sentence…indeed…what does it mean again..? And then I have to go back and read one more time. It takes a while to go through the pages, but it’s all worth it. It’s also nice to share the thoughts of someone who has a way of being completely honest about things, it’s refreshing to say the least.
Before I close for the night the text describes the common separation between different yoga schools and how it can become problematic when truth is being compromised: “What we do know, however, is that for any school of yoga to stay alive and applicable within today’s invironment it must continue to evolve. But we must be aware, because an excellent, profound, living tradition can still be worn by an idiot as a decoration for his or her ego, while a sincere and open-minded student of a fractured lineage can breath new life and insight into that tradition for everyone’s benefit.”