Click “Ashtanga Yoga road” above to subscribe! Most of the Ashtanga Yoga practitioners are self disciplined and diligent; Normally, most people who are lazy and have no willpower will not be associated with Ashtanga Yoga Practice for a long time.
But good things may become a problem, because I have observed many Ashtanga Yoga practitioners and found that many people work hard and their enthusiasm burns like fire – at least in the pursuit of progress, and their enthusiasm for advanced rising speed remains unabated.
In fact, there is nothing special.
There are many people in the gym who are enthusiastic about self-discipline and fitness every day.
An uncle in my neighbor goes to the gym to practice hard every day.
That little muscle has to wear a short sleeved vest this winter.
Their enthusiasm for showing the muscle beauty of the body is essentially the same as that of many astonga yoga practitioners.
When practitioners quickly gain a lot of physical flexibility and strength on the road of Ashtanga Yoga, becoming high-level in this practice also makes these practitioners more persistent to this practice system.
A hot passion and iron loyalty are established, and they begin to reject and reject any other possibilities.
I can feel this hot temperature and iron loyalty, because I used to be such a practitioner.
But then I knew that such practice actually deviated from what Buddhism called “right effort”; Not only deviated from the “right line”, but also separated his practice from the soil of Oriental culture and became a “Westernized” yoga practitioner, just like a strange plant without roots in the soil.
The “right path” in the Buddha’s “eight right paths” tells us that we can’t work too hard, but we can’t be conquered by laziness and laziness at the same time; On the road of practice, the Buddha himself is an example, He once brought tapas (click here to read the topic article on tapas) to the extreme and practiced asceticism – he tasted all kinds of asceticism: fasting, breathing, posture, and almost lost his life; after the torture of asceticism and deadly practice, the Buddha began to enter the “middle path”, that is, he did not indulge in sensory pleasure, but also did not indulge in physical abuse.
Take For the purpose of “right path”, we should find the “middle path” in every movement and every breath on the yoga mat.
Don’t be lazy, but don’t make the movement too “arrogant”; The practice of working too hard, competing too hard and caring too much about the results is like western boxing, and we need to return the practice to the soil of Oriental Kung Fu culture, similar to traditional Kung Fu.
When cooking porridge, Chinese people have porridge saying: burn it on a high fire, boil it on a low fire Porridge is like this.
What about soup? Another example, The highest level of Martial Arts (quite different from boxing) is…
Doing nothing; martial arts, the Chinese characters are “stop” and “Ge” “…
just don’t move, martial arts is to stop martial arts.
To practice martial arts, we should not be obsessed and unaware…
Corporal exercises form, Sergeant exercises Qi, and staff sergeant practices spirit…
Isn’t it also Yoga Kung Fu? For example, the way of bow and arrow stresses that the bow can’t be too full, but it can’t be too loose; there should be a precise balance at the time point of drawing and releasing the bow; close The way of freedom is the middle way and the right way; Isn’t this bow also a yoga mat for people’s body, movement and breathing? Frankly speaking, self-discipline and effort are the basic conditions for the Yoga journey.
Tapas is indispensable for practicing Ashtanga Yoga.
Tapas can be compared to the fire of alchemy.
Without it, it is impossible to expel impurities in the body and “poison” in the soul and get the pure gold for the physical and mental transformation of Yoga practitioners; However, in the environment of modern business culture, yoga is largely related to “practical” gains such as strength, flexibility or other health benefits; Therefore, many people are attracted by yoga practice, which coincides with the impulse and pursuit of material culture; However, many yoga practitioners have not transcended the pursuit of this yoga “material goal” after practicing for a period of time, so this practitioner deviates from the “right path” of yoga.
Without the practice of internal dimension, strictly speaking, what they practice is not yoga in the pure sense.
Ashtanga Yoga practitioners are like satellites.
They need to launch into space orbit with self-discipline and tapas rockets, but more self-discipline and enthusiasm after entering orbit will not help much; When you have the track, take your time, breathe like nothing, do nothing Pay attention to breathing? You’re right, but pay too much attention to breathing, breathing, breathing It’s too important.
Everything is bad.
It’s like nothing.
Action so “Hao”? All kinds of arrogance on the yoga mat, jumping handstand when crossing, standing wheel three feet off the ground and falling down Western practitioners are biased.
They say the difference between Chinese martial arts corporal, sergeant and staff sergeant.
The movements should be simple and economical, not so “arrogant”, and those elegant movements are just the combination of left hook and right hook in the boxing ring There is no root of Oriental tradition.
I remember a story told by a martial artist: there were two martial arts masters fighting.
The spectators said: master a plays casually, not like practicing boxing; Master B has distinct boxing style and strong martial arts flavor!; An expert immediately saw that master a was in the same world and hid all his tricks in the ordinary; Master B did not get the gist until he practiced boxing; As a result, a is actually B’s master..