Unravel The Thread: Living the Yoga Sutra today

Yoga Sutra 4.26 Gravitating toward liberation

Freedom from the sense of identity

Are there any attachments holding you back? What ideas limit your perspective? What notions limit your actions? Is there still some reactivity?
Would it be possible to feel at one with all of existence?

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Yoga Sutra 4.25 The individual self dissolves

Realizing the distinction between pure awareness and experiences

With no wants, no needs and no agendas, the yogi experiences directly the difference between the world of experience and pure awareness. Returning to the natural state of pure awareness.
What are the remaining obstacles on your path? 

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Yoga Sutra 4.24 Individual awareness reflects Consciousness without distortion.

Individual awareness becomes an open conduit between universal awareness and the world of experience. 

Yoga practice decreases the tendencies to misidentify with all external and internal temporary phenomena. Yoga unravels the fabric of the identity woven from the threads of beliefs, opinions, stories, as well as from the external narratives in movies, books, songs, and media. Is it possible that you are acting in the world with clarity, kindness, and compassion?

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The natural state of individual awareness

This is the state of harmonious integration between individual awareness and the world of experience. Your investment in your opinions creates an obstacle to opening your heart and mind. Are you neutral and inclusive or partial and limiting?  
Which of these two attitudes is more conducive to enhancing your aliveness?

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Are your ways of being neutralized?

What is the nature of the  relationship between your awareness and the world of experiences? How are your assumptions influencing what you perceive?
What is the impact of your thoughts on your body and emotions?
Can your physical manifestation be a vehicle for conscious awareness to experience the world?

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If it could, it would create an endless succession of observations that would confuse memory

Can there be more than one instance of your individual awareness? 
Can you feel the sensations in your two hands simultaneously? Can you observe yourself as you attend to the sensations in your hands? What happens when one part of you attend to an external process and another aspect of your awareness tries to attend to a different process, like plans, expectations or memories?

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You either focus on experiences or on the universal awareness.

What is your intention when you direct your awareness to the world of experience?  
What happens?  
Do you notice a difference when you focus on aliveness itself? 
What happens when you try to focus on both experience and pure aliveness? 

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Yoga Sutra 4.19 Individual consciousness is neither independent nor autonomous.

Individual consciousness can be a translucent window between Consciousness and the world

All yoga practices remove obstacles to experiencing the world with absolute clarity. Awareness is accessible only in the present moment. To what extent are your ways of being (including your activities, tendencies, beliefs, and personal history) illuminating or obscuring the connection between vitality and the world of experience?

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Ways of being are known by Consciousness

Experiences make it easy to recognize the fundamental difference between unchanging consciousness and the changing world. The vitality in all of life does not change, but our relationship with that vitality does. Experiences are not intrinsically good or bad. Do you have ways of regulating your connection to your own vitality?

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Your experiences are influenced by your level of awareness

To what exten are you present in your daily activities?
Which ways of being interfere with your perception and participation in your life?
Is what you know, true knowledge, the result of your direct experience?

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