Click “Ashtanga Yoga road” above to subscribe! Traditionally, people believe that wisdom is a full brain – the so-called “wise” are such people: they read a lot, cite classics, and are versatile However, the “wisdom” in yoga tradition is the opposite of extensive knowledge – not filling your brain with knowledge, information, views, positions, doctrines, rules And so on “content”.
What yoga practitioners want to achieve through practice is the internal quality of “emptiness”, and do not let all kinds of things from external sources with words as the carrier become the creator of consciousness, because one is “knowledge” The troubled brain lacks real wisdom – inner wisdom that arises when the mind is calm.
Tell a Zen story: one day, a college student came to the south to ask Zen.
After the two sides sat down, the scholars talked with confidence.
Master Nan Yin didn’t say anything, but just invited scholars to tea.
Nan Yin picked up the teapot and made water for him.
The tea kept pouring down and soon filled the cup, but Nan Yin ignored it and continued to pour the tea down, so that the tea overflowed the cup and flowed onto the table.
Looking at the tea constantly overflowing out of the cup, the college student couldn’t figure out what the Zen master was doing, so he eagerly stopped the Zen master: “master, the tea has overflowed out of the cup, please don’t pour it again!” Hearing this sentence, Nan Yin immediately put down the teapot, looked at the scholar and said, “your mind is like this cup, which is full of all kinds of views and thoughts.
How can I say Zen to you if you don’t empty your cup?” It is impossible to fill a cup full of water with tea.
A person’s mind is full of ignorant delusions, and his original wisdom cannot germinate.
It can be seen that if you want to understand the real inner wisdom, you must first eliminate all kinds of thoughts, delusions, prejudices and prejudices in your heart.
The reason why I tell such a story at the beginning of this article, It is because it is very difficult for many people to accept the quality of “emptiness”, because this proposition is very “anti intellectual”; you will ask: if the brain is empty, don’t you need to receive any education? Because in modern society, the “emptiness” is often understood as “ignorance”, “emptiness” and “lack” …
A negative state, we all believe that if the brain is empty, it means lack of knowledge, lack of intelligence, and even fools.
The concept of emptiness is negative and unattractive in modern culture.
When it comes to emptiness, people think of lack, meaninglessness, boredom, no emotion or no vitality.
However, the “emptiness” in the yoga tradition – Sanskrit Shunya is not the emptiness understood by passers-by, not ruthless, cold, ignorant, lustless Shunya is the direction of yoga practitioners’ practice – it is to empty the brain of various biological and social preset automatic program codes, including various prejudices, judgments, group opinions and various biological neurophysiological spontaneous reactions and social conditions spontaneous reactions Such a goal and pursuit is the SA ṁ s we mentioned in the opening chant of Ashtanga Yoga ā rah ā l ā halamoha śā ntyai。 Many people describe the pursuit in the Yoga journey as looking for internal light.
If the sacred and complete experience called “Yoga” is light, the process of practicing “emptiness” is to wipe away all kinds of worldly stains wrapped outside everyone’s internal light source; When we are no longer influenced by the codes of various creatures, social culture and history, but come into contact with the “original heart” expressed by the original self with infinite potential, creativity and joy, we fall into the “void”.
On the other hand, ”Empty “The practice of yoga is to cultivate humility – an empty heart will not be filled with all kinds of knowledge and views – but will no longer be trapped in all kinds of prejudice, deception, rigid dogma, doctrine, values, fame and wealth, enterprising spirit, judgment, envy, jealousy and hatred…
A person who practices yoga will take the initiative to lower his figure and hide in the Jianghu after a long time…
This is what we call humility, no ego, not trapped in his own ability and knowledge and Self important sense of identity.
Since ancient times, the true sages have been humble, not the “low-key” we understand in the secular world.
From the perspective of politics, the ancient Chinese wrote: wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it; Piled up on the bank, the current will be turbulent; If you do better than others, everyone must be different.
(from Li Kang’s fortune theory); But the real humility is not that you think you are “wood show” or “walk high with people”, but that you really don’t think you are so important, so capable and so awesome.
The earth is humble, so Lao Tzu’s “Tao Te Ching” said: “heaven and Earth last forever, so heaven and earth can grow and last for a long time, because it does not grow by itself, so it can live forever”.
The universe teaches us the simplest wisdom, which doesn’t care about long-term, so it can last for billions of years.
A yogi who “empties” himself will not be fettered by various emotions, nor will he spread negative emotions to the world; It won’t be about how strong you are and how bad you are, success and failure, important and unimportant, relevant and irrelevant, meaningful and meaningless, worth it or not, good and bad, right and wrong These binary hearts swing back and forth In everyone’s heart, there is a space paramashkha – sacred space, original mind, yoga, pure land Only when you empty yourself can you fall into it, and only when you fall into it can you really touch the legendary state -yoga..
