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28 Aug

Pratyahara (Jing Wei)

3/6 Pratyahara is described by the theory manual as ‘withdrawal of the senses from objects and subjects and moving consciousness inwards’. I think this long phrase is best explained with an illustration. Say a bee stings me. If I don’t practice pratyahara, my reaction would be to scream and run. But by practising pratyahara, I […]

28 Aug

Ahimsa (Jing Wei)

5 more posts to go. Now I want to talk about Ahimsa. I like Ahimsa. I want to share with everybody that my current thought is that it is in Ahimsa that one develops love. It is not in willing your mind to love someone – more often that not we are lying to ourselves. […]

28 Aug

Karma Yoga (Jing Wei)

I am supposed to write something. The problem is that my mind is quite still – no thoughts seem to be flowing through. There’s a possibility that I might have reached a state of Samadhi. Or that the time of the day is too Tamasic for me to make my mind work. These are big […]