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At the auspicious threshold of choice, what is yours?

28/2/2012

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Two choices – we’re making one or the other in every moment…

Expand into love, into the challenge, into the opportunity, into the grace or contract into fear, into isolation, into limitedness.

It is the trajectory of our lives and our birthright to grow, to expand, to define and refine. Often the choices we make will create ripples we may never even be aware of. At the best of times, we are at our best; at the worst, often we struggle to rise above.

This practice teaches us, if we allow ourselves to receive it, surrender and supplication. While it ennobles our discipline, it also show us that the soft always overcomes the hard – the roundest drop of softest water will wear away the toughest block of granite, given its three warriors, time, patience and perseverance.

So, when we harden, when we stiffen and draw back, we feel the contraction and become defensive, closed, guarded… how often can we recognize this and move ourselves outward into connectivity, empathy, compassion, consideration or simply acceptance of what is? 
 
Perhaps this is the greatest yoga we can challenge ourselves with – not caturanga, not astavakrasana, not a 90-day meditation, but rather, to love – fully, in the face of hate, in the times where it seems impossible, ‘til it hurts, when it’s all you got and even when it feels gone – love is limitless, you can always create more from the prana in the next breath.

So, yogis, I bid ye – here is your mission. Be nice, nicer than is reasonable, with love and care and compassion. Not for your loved one, not your friends, but the person you work with you like least (why?) and the person who you meet next that pushes those buttons – love them for being your Teacher.

Give thanks and praise –expand into love.
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Sheila Singh link
27/2/2012 11:45:26 pm

Wonderful post Chrispy with so much wisdom! Love it & stand by everything you say. I don't think I can be reminded often enough :)

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Liz link
28/2/2012 12:48:15 am

Often we need a reminder, whether it be on the mat or off, we are faced with choices that we commonly forget we have (how easy it is to "forget" we can skip a vinyasa and take balasana to steady our breath or that we chose to go every day to the desk job that we can't remember why we started in the first place)... Be it sticky notes on your mirror, writing on your yoga mat, or blog posts it is important to remember choice is always present.
namaste sir... your light is shining bright!

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chrispy
28/2/2012 09:50:49 am

Thank you both, Sheila and Liz -

and Liz, I remember the first time I 'met' you; I walked up to your mat and started to read it. You had the most lovely thoughts literally written on your mat, as a frame, wrapping all the way around. I knew we'd be friends, then.

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