Francis Lucille on Consciousness
If I deny the experience of consciousness, I deny the existence of a perceiver. Where does the sense of I come from?
Francis Lucille
Anil Ananthaswamy on the Question of “Who Am I?”
Maybe we can just marvel at the efforts of people over millennia, from the Buddha sitting under the Bodhi tree to the modern philosopher and neuroscientist who has asked themselves the question “Who am I?”
Anil Ananthaswam
Who or what is doing the experiencing, of our lives? This experiencing “I” in the question “Who am I?”
is at the heart of the debate about the self.
Dr. Vasant Lad on Activating a Marma Energy Point
Like a door or a pathway, activating a marma energy point, opens into the inner pharmacy of the body. The body is a silent, universal, biochemical laboratory—operating every moment to interpret and transform arising events.
Touching a marma point changes the body’s biochemistry and can unfold radical, alchemical change in one’s makeup. Stimulation of these inner pharmacy pathways signals the body to produce exactly what it needs, including hormones and neurochemicals that heal the body, mind and consciousness.
Murdhini marma, is the energy point enabling moment to moment awareness, meditation.
Dr. Vasant Lad, Ayurvedic Physician
Tyler Wauters on Walking in the Woods
Tyler Wauters:
Walk in the Woods.
When we walk through a forest path, there is a vibration sent out that is a form of communication, a form of language. When we enter a forest, it is up to us to learn how to communicate with it by communicating with our own inner workings, mending the relationship, by igniting the knowing that the forest is the nature within us, that we are not separate.
Our work here is to connect to our inner nature and to connect to nature that is all around us.
Dr. Vasant Lad on Activating a Marma Energy Point
Like a door or a pathway, activating a marma energy point, opens into the inner pharmacy of the body. The body is a silent, universal, biochemical laboratory—operating every moment to interpret and transform arising events.
Dr. Vasant Lad
Touching a marma point changes the body’s biochemistry and can unfold radical, alchemical change in one’s makeup. Stimulation of these inner pharmacy
pathways signals the body to produce exactly what it needs, including hormones and neurochemicals that heal the body, mind and consciousness.
Murdhini marma, is the energy point enabling moment to moment awareness, meditation.
Hatha Yoga Pradipika on “Shining Skull Breath”
“Shining Skull Breath” Kapalabhati invigorates the brain and awakens the dormant centres which are
Hatha Yoga Pradipika
responsible for subtle perception.
Sadhguru on Being “Shit-Scared”
Sadhguru
If you get scared, you will either have loose motions or get constipated. That/s why we say “shit-scared”. What is happening in your mind and what is happening “down there” are connected.
Charaka Sutrasthana (Ayurveda teachings) on Imbalance in Our Bodies
Though air and ether (Vata) imbalance in our bodies, diseases are innumerable. And amongst the eighty diseases that are the most commonly manifested with a vata imbalance, constipation, depression, sleeplessness and a restless mind, are naming a few.
Charaka Sutrasthana
Francis Lucille on the Silent Transmission
The teaching is in the silent transmission.
Francis Lucille
Hatha Yoga Pradipika on the Winds of Change
Autumn is a time when the air element (vayu) is predominant. There is more lightness, dryness and coolness as the “winds of change” blow ever more erratically.
Hatha Yoga Pradipika
These qualities in nature have a tendency to aggravate the air and ether element within our bodies, thus affecting our nervous systems, and how well we digest food.
Autumn is naturally a time of balancing vata and reducing any symptoms of wind, dryness and erratic behavioiur….the vayu should be skilfully inhaled and exhaled and retained.