August 9: On the Board at Good Life Yoga
Aparigraha
Aparigraha is the fifth Yama and is often translated as “non-greed” or “non-possessiveness.” Does this mean we are to not want material things in our world or form attachments to anything around us? How can that really work? In the tantric philosophy, looking at everything as a manifestation of supreme consciousness, we come to the conclusion that our world around us exists, is very real and as such we have attachment to it - it is us.. As humans on the planet we will always have attachment to things. Our opportunity is to closely consider what things we choose to bring into our world and what things we don’t. Ultimately, making good choices and being responsible and conscious of our attachments to our choices is our aim.
In studying and practicing Aparigraha this week, we are invited to look closely at the choices we make in our world and to look closely at our level of attachment to them. Do we want the perfect backbend? Do we want the perfect house, car, job, body? How much attachment do we have to these goals? Do your goals bring you in line with your center of power, or take you past it into an unhealthy obsessive place of want? This week we choose to practice cultivating conscious choices about our attachments and to recognize how we are responding to those attachments.
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