What is Santosha
From an attitude of true contentment (Santosha), unexcelled happiness, mental comfort, joy and satisfaction, are obtained.
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Sadhguru on What Love Is
“Love is not about somebody, love is not some kind of action. Love is the way you are. If you close your eyes, you are just overflowing with love.”
— Sadhguru
How is LOVE experienced by the five senses in daily life?
The experience of love is really the understanding that you and i are are the same being, that your being and my being is the same being. The understanding that there is only one reality leads to the experience of love. This is love in the deepest sense.
Francis Lucille
In the realm of anatomy and Physiology, the cardiac plexus has been described as the network of the heart chakra and how that is connected to the brain through the ganglion of the cardiac plexus which is connected to the the vagus nerve through the mid brain. Dr. Lad references how prana (life force) along with Sadhaka and Tarpaka elements in the brain are related to transforming sensory perception to intelligence, knowledge and wisdom so that we can properly navigate the world around us. Prana, Sadaka, and Tarpaka in the heart (Ether, Air, Fire and Earth elements are connecting bridges related to transforming thoughts feelings and emotions into love.
How important is a daily routine?
Lifestyle & Daily Practices Anchoring us in Meditation
Various traditions offer practical suggestions that aid us in walking a spiritual path. Body and mind habits and patterns we wish to change, takes intention and will persistence. The Buddha taught the 8 fold path including Right Action. The Ayurveda tradition suggests a daily routine considering any one or as many “pillars” one chooses to work with (taken from https://liveayurprana.com/)
We watched Dr. Lad’s recording: How important is a daily routine? Ayurveda recommends not only practicing a morning routine, but also building a routine that follows the biological clock. Vasant Lad, shares his insights on the concept and importance of a daily regimen (dinacharya) in Ayurveda.
Each of the 7 pillars are rooted in universal concepts to help create a daily lifestyle routine (dinacharya) that ultimately supports and maintains wellness in any body.
This formula is simple. Give a few minutes per day to each of the 7 Pillars, and through these moments of attention and intention, we nourish all aspects of our being — promoting our own health and well-being!
Nutrition – Improve bodily systems by ensuring adequate nutritional intake through diet along with herbal dietary supplements
Cleanse – Rediscover your natural energy levels and invigorate the whole self by tending to this vital function
Movement – Incorporate balanced movement and breathing practices into your life to clear stagnation
Sleep – Fortify your body’s ability to restore vitality by developing supportive sleep habits
Community – Forge connection, communication and collaboration between mind and body, nature and self, individual and community
Inspiration – Wake up feeling inspired in body, mind and spirit by connecting with your life’s unique purpose and mission
Peace – Enhance your own serenity and begin cultivating an environment in which global peace may flourish
A silent meditation practice is simply an aspect of this intention. We come together, to “just sit”. We listen to the silence. We listen to our thoughts, We listen to our feelings and emotions. When we “just sit” we just BE the witnessing awareness. And this continues as we get off our mats or chairs and DO what needs to be done to live the dailiness of our lives. The BEing and DOing, the inhalation and exhalation and the gaps in between, Having this understanding empowers us to choose the lens we perceive and experience our lives with. “Just sitting”, silent meditation, reveals the layers that veil the clarity and luminosity of our true nature and the gap between these layers. Glimpses of the background, the ground of awareness, reminds us to rest in our true nature that is the witness to all experience.
Four Noble Truths (as taught by Thich Nhat Hanh)
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Enryu shared that he makes the point of inter-being. So often we see the purpose of our practice is to change or to suffer less, have a happier life. All these may happen as we practice. But this expectation when put aside and instead, seeing our inter connected ness, our “inter-being” or “inter-are”, the relationship between our suffering experience or ill-being and well-being is shared. No ill-being, no well-being. No up no down. They need each other. He talks about the all inclusive nature of our experience.
A flower is made up of the sun, water, earth and the care…there is no flower without these foundational elements.
Four Noble Truths can be seen very simply as 4 observations that the Buddha had:
- Ill-being – Dukha,, had to translate – a wheel, an axle, a lack of alignment in it and the bumpy ride. – suffering, friction
- This imbalance or friction is caused by desire or our orientation towards experience, where the senses are “thirsty” and heading into “craving”.
- There is a way to end suffering. THERE IS WELL BEING.
- The 8 fold path that includes right action that minimizes harm to self and others.
Thich Nhat Hanh talks about the 8 fold path in terms of the path to well being.
A fresh view of seeing. Life is not just suffering.
THERE IS WELL BEING.
Remembering our inter-being is a path to well being.
So we can reflect on:
- What s the path to ill-being and
- What is the path to well-being?
Various traditions point towards the universal teaching, the importance of revealing our root cause of suffering with may be embedded in one or two thought currents or deep core programs that are ruling our reactions in daily life. How you orient to the world, to every situation that arises. Teachings and practices help us reveal these patterns usually rendering us “limited” and reveal responses and possibilities that are expansive, guiding us towards well-being, our true nature.
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