Reading Classics READINGBOOK~Night Reading Space~This article originates from “Night Reading Space” | “Tree of Yoga” Live Studio Reading Sharing, Issue 17, 2022.12.08, “Tree of Yoga” B.K.S.
Ayengar, the translator of “Tree of Yoga” Ms.
Yu Lina wrote: “Find a congenial movement in middle age, and want to live with it forever”.
The small details of Professor Iyengar’s 84 year old Belgian Empress Dowager doing headstand in the book also attracted me.
Let me realize that I must find a way to set up the courage to live again.
The practice of posture, accompanied by breathing, nourishes the dry and stiff body with blood, making the cells fresh again, and returning to health.
Like many people, yoga was first practiced as a sport.
“To plant a tree, you have to dig the earth first, remove the stones and weeds, loosen the soil, and then carefully bury the seeds and cover the loose soil around them.
In this way, when the seeds crack, the weight of the soil will not hurt them.
Then carefully irrigate them, and wait for germination and growth.
After a day or two, the seeds crack, and the seedlings grow in half, and soon sprout branches and leaves.
The seedlings grow steadily, and finally flourish.
Ninety percent of people suffer, either physically or mentally, or In the spirit.
Yoga science can help us maintain our body as a temple, making it as clean as our soul.
Would you like to plant this tree? ” Yoga is one of the six major Indian philosophies.
This book, The Tree of Yoga, will tell you that yoga is a philosophy, a way of life, and a universal practice.
Yoga wise men in ancient India compared yoga to a tree.
Start with a seed, germinate and take root in an appropriate environment, and gradually break through the soil to grow branches, leaves and trunks.
The content of yoga practice is not single, but a complete system.
From the preparation before starting, the cultivation of a healthy lifestyle, to the continuous and regular physical exercise, the control of breathing, meditation and cleaning exercises, step by step…
Just like from a seed to a tree, it takes time, rain, fertilizer, sunshine and air, and the gardener’s care.
Yoga also needs the guidance of teachers, the appropriate environment, and the encouragement of partners.
The roots absorb nutrients from the ground and pass them to the leaves through the trunk.
The leaves then bring the energy generated by photosynthesis to the whole tree.
As time goes by, the small trees thrive, bloom beautiful flowers and bear sweet fruits.
The roots, leaves, flowers and fruits of the whole tree nourish and function with each other, and the tree shows vigorous vitality.
The growth of the yoga tree is based on patience and perseverance, nurtured by long-term regular practice, and based on a good practice atmosphere.
It needs the guidance and care of good teachers.
If you can practice yoga every day persistently, you will be able to face the ups and downs of life with a stable and mature mind, and reap the rich fruits of health and inner joy.
The root of the tree is to keep the precepts.
There are five kinds of precepts: no harm, truth, no theft, moderation, and no greed.
To observe precepts is to guard the five moving organs of the body – hands, feet, mouth, reproductive organs and excretory organs.
Next is the trunk, which corresponds to the principle of self-cultivation, that is, pure, contented, fire like desire, self-study, and worship God.
These five principles of internal cultivation control our perceptual organs: eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin.
There are branches on the trunk, which are long or short, horizontal or vertical, or lateral or interlaced, just like the corresponding posture.
The branches are covered with leaves, which provide energy to the whole tree.
The leaves absorb the outside air and connect it with the inner part of the tree, so the leaves correspond to the breathing method.
Bark can protect the overflow of internal nutrients and external erosion.
Therefore, bark corresponds to retraction, which is an internal journey from the skin to the core of existence.
In this inner journey, the sap carrying energy is “concentration”, and the sap is connected to the root from the top leaf end of the tree.
In meditation, we experience the flow of consciousness from centrifugal to centripetal, and from centripetal to centrifugal.
When a tree is healthy and energetic, it will naturally bloom bright flowers, so meditation is the flower of the yoga tree.
Finally, flowers transform and bear fruit.
The essence of yoga practice lies in the harmony and unity of body, mind and spirit.
To be continued…
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