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Patanjalis Yoga-Sutras : Der Sehende und der Gesehene

25. Wenn das Nichtwissen aufhört, hört auch die Verbindung (des Sehenden mit dem Gesehenen) auf. Das Aufgeben beider führt zur absoluten Freiheit des Sehers. +

Vivekananda (Raja-Yoga, 207: Fehlt jenes Nichtwissen, so fehlt auch die Vereinigung, welche das Zu-Vermeidende ist; das bedeutet Unabhängigkeit für den Wahrnehmenden.

Patanjalis Yoga-Sutras : Der Sehende und der Gesehene

21. Das Gesehene existiert nur für den Sehenden. +

Vivekananda (Raja-Yoga, 205: Seinem Wesen nach ist das Erfahrene für ihn, den Wahrnehmenden bestimmt.

Patanjalis Yoga-Sutras : Der Sehende und der Gesehene

22. Für den, der das Ziel erreicht hat, löst (das Gesehene) sich auf, aber es existiert noch weiter für die anderen wegen der Gemeinsamkeit der Erfahrung.

Patanjalis Yoga-Sutras. Kapitel D (106/107) : Der Sehende und der Gesehene

20. Der Sehende ist nichts anderes als die Energie der Schau. Obwohl er in sich selbst völlig rein ist, sieht er durch die Erfahrung.

Vivekananda (Raja-Yoga, 202): Der Wahrnehmende ist reine Geist, und obgleich er rein ist, wird seine Schau durch die Färbung des Verstandes bestimmt.

You don't become someone who doesn't grasp. You become someone who notices the moment the hands curl.

That gap, between grasping and releasing, is where the sutra actually lives.

Where do you notice the moment your own hands curl?

#yogasutras #aparigraha #yoga
#yogaphilosophy #nonattachment #mindfulness
#spiritualpractice #embodiedpractice #yogateacher

Hi all, I've just moved to social.lol from a self-hosted instance, so it's time
for an updated #introduction

One of my big passions is writing: I have a personal website @
https://kedara.eu where I #blog, tend a #DigitalGarden and web weave a #wiki ,
and try to contribute to the #Indieweb #smallweb communities.

I'm very much into #yoga and #meditation and everything related to that. I'm
trying to learn #Sanskrit because its a beautiful language and also in order to
be able to read text like the #BhagavadGita #Upanishads #YogaSutras
#BhagavataPurana which greatly inspire me.

I'm from the #Netherlands and work in #science in the field of outdoor
#AirQuality I may occasionally share something about that, but this is not a
work account (and any opinions are my own).

I love #photography and am slowly getting back into #AnalogPhotography again,
mostly related to #nature #weather #clouds #trees and other beautiful moments,
people and things. I love the #forest, I'm grateful to live at the edge of the
beautiful #Veluwe nature area.

Unfortunately I'm operating at half power thanks to #LongCovid since Feb. '22,
so some of my hobbies are in "partial maintenance mode".

Let me know if you have similar interests and I'll be happy to chat!

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Krishnamurti: Wahre Liebe ist deshalb ein Geisteszustand der eintritt, wenn die Zeit, wenn “Beobachter” und “Beobachtetes” nicht existieren!

I was doing a yoga pose about non-grasping. My hands were in fists.

Aparigraha, Sutra II.39. The one I thought I understood.

When has your body known something your mind was still convincing itself it understood?

Read the full essay

https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/the-hardest-yoga-sutra-to-actually-practice-709eb0d8851d

#yogasutras #aparigraha #yogaphilosophy
#nonattachment #embodiedpractice #yoga
#spiritualpractice #yogateacher #mindfulness

I practiced yoga for five years before I learned what yoga actually was.

The first sutra changed everything: yoga is stilling the mind, not mastering poses.

What surprised you most when you first encountered yoga philosophy?

Read the full essay

https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/books-that-challenged-my-yoga-practice-77c4aeddf69a

#yogaphilosophy #yogasutras #yogapractice
#mindfulness #meditation #contemplativepractice
#yogabooks #spiritualreading #embodiedwisdom

Stillness and Rest

Spring is starting to stir in the Northern Hemisphere. As I gently emerge from a season of stillness and rest, I am called to reflect on how rest is a beautiful embodiment of the teachings of the Yoga Sutras.

Enjoy these free yoga practices that allow you to embrace stillness and rest.

https://thunderhoneysnowstudio.ca/2026/04/09/stillness-and-rest/

#Yoga #FreeYoga #NewBlogPost #Rest #RestIsResistance #Stillness #YogaPhilosophy #YogaSutras

Stillness and Rest

Spring is starting to stir in the Northern Hemisphere. As I gently emerge from a season of stillness and rest, I am called to reflect on how rest is a beautiful embodiment of the teachings of the Yoga Sutras.

https://thunderhoneysnowstudio.ca/2026/04/09/stillness-and-rest/

#Yoga #FreeYoga #NewBlogPost #Rest #RestIsResistance #Stillness #YogaPhilosophy #YogaSutras

I was doing a yoga pose about non-grasping. My hands were in fists.

Aparigraha, Sutra II.39. The one I thought I understood.

When has your body known something your mind was still convincing itself it understood?

Read the full essay

https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/the-hardest-yoga-sutra-to-actually-practice-709eb0d8851d

#yogasutras #aparigraha #yogaphilosophy
#nonattachment #embodiedpractice #yoga
#spiritualpractice #yogateacher #mindfulness

I practiced yoga for five years before I learned what yoga actually was.

The first sutra changed everything: yoga is stilling the mind, not mastering poses.

What surprised you most when you first encountered yoga philosophy?

Read the full essay

https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/books-that-challenged-my-yoga-practice-77c4aeddf69a

#yogaphilosophy #yogasutras #yogapractice
#mindfulness #meditation #contemplativepractice
#yogabooks #spiritualreading #embodiedwisdom

My watch battery died on a Sunday. I ran without data for the first time in years.

Day three, something shifted. Without numbers, I started noticing different things.

What do you notice when you remove the measurement?

Read the full essay

https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/the-hardest-yoga-sutra-to-actually-practice-709eb0d8851d

#yogasutras #aparigraha #yogaphilosophy
#nonattachment #running #yoga
#mindfulrunning #spiritualpractice #lettinggo

Have you ever re-read a book years later and wondered who underlined all those passages?

Some of those passages feel essential now, I skipped them as boring at twenty-three.

What book surprised you most on a second read?

#yoga #reading #spirituality
#yogasutras #contemplativepractice #spiritualbooks
#secondreading #booklovers #wisdomthroughtime

My teacher said four words. It took me six months to understand them.

'You are holding your future.' Six months later, I finally understood.

Has a teaching ever arrived for you months or years after you first heard it?

#yogasutras #aparigraha #yoga
#yogaphilosophy #rishikesh #yogateacher
#nonattachment #spiritualpractice #embodiedpractice

My abuela never used the word aparigraha. She didn't need to.

She watered her jasmine with unhurried hands, no urgency, no checking of bloom. I was ten, watching.

Who in your life has shown you wisdom they didn't have a word for?

#yogasutras #aparigraha #yoga
#yogaphilosophy #nonattachment #familywisdom
#spiritualpractice #embodiedpractice #yogalife

My abuela never used the word aparigraha. She didn't need to.

She watered her jasmine with unhurried hands, no urgency, no checking of bloom. I was ten, watching.

Who in your life has shown you wisdom they didn't have a word for?

#yogasutras #aparigraha #yoga
#yogaphilosophy #nonattachment #familywisdom
#spiritualpractice #embodiedpractice #yogalife

My teacher said four words. It took me six months to understand them.

'You are holding your future.' Six months later, I finally understood.

Has a teaching ever arrived for you months or years after you first heard it?

#yogasutras #aparigraha #yoga
#yogaphilosophy #rishikesh #yogateacher
#nonattachment #spiritualpractice #embodiedpractice

For three years I called it discipline. Yoga called it grasping.

I ran with data for years, a bad split unravelling the whole morning. My raised shoulders knew before I did.

Have you ever mistaken grasping for discipline?

#yogasutras #aparigraha #yoga
#yogaphilosophy #nonattachment #running
#mindfulness #spiritualpractice #embodiedpractice

New blog post: "Perfectly Ordinary Thoughts in the Shower (POTS)"

https://kedara.eu/p-o-t-s

When do you get your shower thoughts?

#ShowerThoughts #longcovid #postcovid #yoga #YogaSutras #blog #indieweb

Hallo allemaal, ik heb net mijn eigen #GoToSocial server opgezet, dus het is tijd voor een bijgewerkte #introductie

Ik doe aan #yoga en #meditatie en alles wat daarmee te maken heeft. Ik probeer #Sanskriet te leren, omdat het een prachtige taal is en ook om teksten zoals de #BhagavadGita #Upanishads #YogaSutras te kunnen lezen, die mij erg inspireren.

Ik kom uit #Nederland en werk in de #wetenschap op het gebied van (buiten) #luchtkwaliteit. Het kan zijn dat ik daar af en toe iets over deel, maar dit is geen werkaccount (en toots zijn op persoonlijke titel).

Ik hou van #fotografie, meestal gerelateerd aan #natuur #weer #wolken #bomen
En speciaal ook van het #bos, ik ben dankbaar dat ik aan de rand van het prachtige natuurgebied de #Veluwe woon.

Verder hou ik van het verbouwen van voedsel in mijn #tuin met behulp van op #biologisch #permacultuur en #RegeneratieveLandbouw geïnspireerde methoden, ik droom ervan om ooit mijn eigen #voedselbos te onderhouden.

Helaas werk ik op halve kracht dankzij #LongCovid sinds februari '22, dus de meeste van mijn hobby's staan in de "onderhoudsmodus".

Ik post in het Nederlands, mijn Engelse account is @kedara_eu
Ik heb ook een persoonlijke website @ https://kedara.nl waar ik #blog, een #DigitaleTuin / #wiki onderhoud en probeer bij te dragen aan de #Indieweb #smallweb kringen.

Ik ben redelijk vaak van server gewisseld en had gehoopt dat op te lossen door mijn eigen Akkoma instance te starten, maar vond GoToSocial uiteindelijk meer geschikt. Ik hoop hier nu voor onbepaalde tijd te blijven.

Laat het me weten als je dezelfde interesses hebt, dan houden we contact!

Hi all, I've just setup my own #GoToSocial instance, so it's time for an updated #introduction

I'm very much into #yoga and #meditation and everything related to that. I'm trying to learn #Sanskrit because its a beautiful language and also in order to be able to read text like the #BhagavadGita #Upanishads #YogaSutras which greatly inspire me.

I'm from the #Netherlands and work in #science in the field of outdoor #AirQuality I may occasionally share something about that, but this is not a work account (and any opinions are my own).

I love #photography , mostly related to #nature #weather #clouds #trees
I love the #forest, I'm grateful to live at the edge of the beautiful #Veluwe nature area.

I love growing food in my #garden using #organic #permaculture and #RegenerativeAgriculture inspired methods, I'm dreaming of tending my own #FoodForest some day.

Unfortunately I'm operating at half power thanks to #LongCovid since Feb. '22, so most of my hobbies are in "maintenance mode".

I'll post in English, my Dutch account is @kedara_nl
I also have a personal website @ https://kedara.eu where I #blog, tend a #DigitalGarden / #wiki and try to contribute to the #Indieweb #smallweb communities.

I've done my fair share of instance hopping and had hoped to solve that by starting my own Akkoma instance, but found GoToSocial more suitable to my needs in the end. I hope to stay here now indefinitely.

Let me know if you have similar interests and I'll be happy to chat!

@ThunderHoneySnow this is potentially more than what you are looking for, but i’ve found Edwin Bryant’s translation and commentary of the #yogaSutras to be the most thorough examination of the #yoga texts, while still being accessible

@jjhysell Actually if you’re interested in learning more about kindness in different definitions you could take a look at #patanjalis #yogasutras. They describe the pillars of hatha yoga and with that karma yoga. 
Karma yoga talks a lot about acts of service/ kindness. It might seem odd but actually only 1/10 of yoga practice is physical. There is so much interesting philosophy to find like the 7 laws that talk about how we can make ourselves (un)happy (ego, attachment, ..)