Thinking Upside Down: Yoga Philosophy for Your Studio Practice by Harrington Michael

Author:Harrington, Michael [Harrington, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Queen Square
Published: 2021-01-23T00:00:00+00:00

Increasing Pain

If you are going to find a solution, it helps to know what the problem is. The most basic problem for us, at least as the Indian schools of philosophy identify it, is that we unnecessarily magnify and prolong our own pain. The methods we use for this are called kleshas in Sanskrit. Most yoga instructors have studied the five kleshas as they appear in the Yoga Sūtra. The list that appears in the following pages, drawn from the “Thirty Verses” of Vasubandhu, is the same, except for the final klesha. The Yoga Sūtra says that the final klesha is “clinging to life,” but this is really just a form of craving—craving one’s own life—and craving is already covered in the third klesha. The final klesha listed here is “harmful perspectives,” following the list presented in the “Thirty Verses.”

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