Strength and force
'When you have strength, you don't need force. You will be happy. When you don't have strength, you need force. You will not be happy'.
That is my realization of the day.
The more force you have to apply on your mind to push yourself to get something done, the less happy you are. The more you get attached to your work and results. The less force you have to apply to get something done, the more happy you are. The less you get attached to your work and results. Yoga builds strength in the mind-body continuum and gets you to do things with strength and not force. Thus, yoga could possibly build up non attachment this way.
I see this principle true especially in grad school and in general in a lot of places in the modern world. A lot of force is needed to perform and in many cases just survive. A super aggressive supervisor pushes his/her students to perform more and more. A super aggressive manager pushes his/her subordinates to perform more and more. The unfortunate students/employees have to push themselves more and more to live up to the expectations. They need to force themselves more and more. This certainly causes a lot of unhappiness.
Unhappiness is a virus. It spreads easily from people to people. What more, once it spreads to a sufficient critical number of people, it spreads to the planet also. Result? Global warming, ozone depletion, species extinction blah blah blah.
'When you have strength, you don't need force. You will be happy. When you don't have strength, you need force. You will not be happy'.
That is my realization of the day.
The more force you have to apply on your mind to push yourself to get something done, the less happy you are. The more you get attached to your work and results. The less force you have to apply to get something done, the more happy you are. The less you get attached to your work and results. Yoga builds strength in the mind-body continuum and gets you to do things with strength and not force. Thus, yoga could possibly build up non attachment this way.
I see this principle true especially in grad school and in general in a lot of places in the modern world. A lot of force is needed to perform and in many cases just survive. A super aggressive supervisor pushes his/her students to perform more and more. A super aggressive manager pushes his/her subordinates to perform more and more. The unfortunate students/employees have to push themselves more and more to live up to the expectations. They need to force themselves more and more. This certainly causes a lot of unhappiness.
Unhappiness is a virus. It spreads easily from people to people. What more, once it spreads to a sufficient critical number of people, it spreads to the planet also. Result? Global warming, ozone depletion, species extinction blah blah blah.
3 comments:
How true Partha! Thats my realization this month!
If you are not naturally inclined or happy to do something and force yourself into it, that just does not happen. And you are no longer in harmony with your-self. Unhappiness follows.
It is indeed a task to find out with ourselves on a daily basis which tasks are we forcing on us and which tasks are we naturally inclined to do. There are always basic roles and responsibilities one would argue. Very much. I think doing that exercise will only help in performing the roles better.
realisation of truth is the ultimate end of yoga. possibly u really do gain strength via meditation,that you need not force yourself into things but happines or unhappines wont hav a distinction... its an intermediate state of mere satisfaction
i might be wrong.In my view, do give it a thought
@janaki - thx for the comments and continued patronage :D
@anon - lets not get lost in words.. IMO, realization of truth and happiness are equivalent.. so we are saying the same thing..
btw, could you please identify urself?
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