Unravel The Thread: Living the Yoga Sutra today

Objects in the world are not the product of your imagination

What is your attitude towards the world?  
What is it that makes it possible for you to perceive anything?  
What is the relationship between your awareness and the world that can be perceived? 
What is the purpose of everything that exists?  
What is your purpose as a person in the world? 

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An object does not depend of being perceived in order to exist

How do you relate to the objects around you?
How do your ways of being influence your perception?  
Are there some aspects of your life that remain constant?  
Are there some aspects of you that remain constant? 
Are your thoughts, intentions, actions, and interactions charged by your conscious and deliberate presence?

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In spite of undergoing many changes, each object is unique and real.

Do you notice changes in your body, breath, thoughts, emotions and memories?
Is there anything underneath all of those changes?
Is there continuity in you?
Are you unique?
What makes you aware of your uniqueness and continuity?

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How do the primordial tendencies in nature influence your inner world, intentions, actions and interactions?

Are you at the mercy of inertia, agitation or harmony?
How do you interact with your tendencies?
What motivates your choices?
Do your activities influence your own levels of energy?  
Are you able to regulate your own energy levels ?  

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There are latent, active and potential impressions.

What impressions lead you to harmony with your natural state? 
What impressions foster misidentification with temporary phenomena? 
To what extent are you aware of the impressions left by your past experiences?

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The impressions disappear when afflictions, ways of being and tendencies are removed.

Are you aware of your afflictions (kleshas)?
Which of your ways of being perpetuate the impressions already present?
Are the eight limbs of yoga useful in removing causes, effects, support and objects that keep your impressions active?
How are you creating effortless peaceful impressions (3.10) through your practice and life?

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Are your desires toward enjoyment or toward liberation? What impressions do they leave?

Desire powers the impressions and it creates a cycle that lasts for as long as there is desire. What desires are prevalent in you?  
To what extent are those desires perpetuating some of your existing tendencies and inclinations?  
Can you modulate your desire?  
Is your desire a way to deepen your identification with temporary phenomena?

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Are you aware of the impressiones accumulated in you and of their effects?

Are your ways of being related to your beliefs and opinions? Might it be possible that this collection of impressions, when unresolved, remains in your individual space of awareness offering you ways to overcome your identification with these experiences? Would it be possible for the impressions of previous actions to be stored in our organs through some mechanism that we do not understand yet? Is it possible then that your unique configuration of memories, impressions and tendencies continues from one life to the next?

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Subconscious impressions manifest under appropriate conditions. 

Samskaras influence personality and tendencies. Are your intentions and actions generating new impressions? Are some of your actions and interactions the result of unconscious impressions? To what extent is your personality a form of conditioning?

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Those who are not immersed in samadhi generate three types of karma.

Yogis who have achieved integration, by living beyond attachment to results, do not accumulate karma. For others, karma is negative, positive and mixed. Can you notice how your current situation may have been influenced by your previous intentions and actions?
Are you aware of past impressions that are still active in you?
Do your actions reflect a growing balance within you?

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