The Healing Path of Yoga by Nischala Joy Devi

Author:Nischala Joy Devi [Devi, Nischala Joy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-56578-5
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2010-06-08T16:00:00+00:00

There was once a great and mighty king who had all the riches in the world. Nothing was beyond him in the physical sense, yet the king was unhappy. He realized that he could be happy for a short time by acquiring land, jewels, food, or drink, but his happiness always faded. He summoned all the healers, priests, and even jesters to help make him happy. Many people came to offer their suggestions, tricks, and charms. Nothing seemed to bring him the permanent happiness he wanted.

After weeks of exhausting interviews, a small, humble woman appeared before the king. “What could you possibly offer me that all the other great men and women could not?” he asked. The woman held out a velvet box. The king looked at the box and laughed. “You offer this great king jewels? I have the most precious jewels in the world.”

“Excuse me, Your Majesty, but this is by far the most precious jewel. This can lighten all your sorrows and bring happiness into a troubled time.”

The king’s curiosity was piqued, so he took the box. Slowly he opened it and found a plain gold ring. “A plain gold ring!” he yelled and started to throw it away.”

“Please, Your Majesty, read the inscription. Read it now and each time you are feeling happy or sad.”

The king read the inscription and read it again as he relaxed on his throne: AND THIS TOO SHALL PASS.

Good, bad, happy, sad—all will pass. I actually had a stained glass with the inscription tHIS TOO SHALL PASS given to me by one of my clients. I hung it over the desk in my office as a constant reminder.

By practicing meditation, we achieve a distancing from the outside of the wheel. It takes us literally into our center, into our spirit, into our self, into who we are. That’s the purpose of meditation, to remind us to go back to our origin.

Meditation is not something that we do. We use techniques to get us to the point of meditation or stillness. Once we get to that point we are no longer doing, we just are.

Beginning the practice, we often expect to be able to just stop or immediately control our thoughts. In frustration, we say, “I can’t stop my thoughts.” Thoughts that have run wild for our whole life now, with one or two sessions, we expect to obediently come under control.

In meditation thoughts go by. They’re not that important. Most of what we think about never happens anyway. Of all the plans we make, half of them never happen. Of all the worrying we do, most of that never happens either. Why waste that time? We experience frustration and a feeling that we are the only ones in the world unable to control their thoughts. So pull back from life’s trials, watch them, and if you like, laugh at them.

Begin to observe the mind and thoughts as a movie screen. When one walks into a dark movie theater, there is only a plain white screen.

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