Bending Over Backwards

Day 184
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"If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world."

Reginald Blyth

There is a conservatism in Yoga that deeply disappoints me.

My thoughts are that once you have travelled through the system, the end result should be to be without the system, the traditions and the processes. To be unfettered by concepts, to live and express yourself as you are, perhaps this is the state of nirvitarka samadhi.

I don't really see much of that going on, people challenging their mental boundaries and comfort zones. Nobody seems to have the stomach for it. maybe because there isn't really anyone teaching that way. How do you deconstruct what took so many years to build? It seems to me that all yoga is aimed at this, but nobody seems to be doing it, not really.

Are we too comfortable in this age? Are we happy to sit with mental-emotional misery so long as our Sky tv is working and there's beer and wine in the fridge? Is there ANYONE out there who wants a little more???