Dear reader, are you ready for the spiritual journey or are you so ready, in need, for a spiritual validation? [în română puțin mai jos]

while on a continuous sync or just lucky days, meeting with my yoga teachers in Rishikesh, someone oriented us to some Mooji satsangs and having such a free program, there we were attending.. I saw the man walking before on the main street of Laxman Jhula, but didn’t had the chance to appreciate or qualify to a degree to seek.. Everything started with nice live and devotional music, in a big room colored in full with people, catching a Q&A session, Mooji was continuously explicit and insisting on being addressed with a heart burning question, on which you couldn’t move further without an answer. I was seeking them also inside my BUT in the meantime the microphone was passing from one spiritual CV to another, all the ones standing and addressing were spending more time explaining their spiritual road, what they did (or consumed) or reading poems.. to a point that the ones *really* attending were getting very nervous..

From that moment, I observed the difference between the ones who seek a spiritual path or just a validation for what they are already pursuing. You might call it a spiritual tourist, a diploma collector (yoga teacher including), a driver who goes to all places which accepts and validates him.. road that made (word) yoga more popular then known.

Observe your thought that leads your walk to either a yoga class, course, workshop or training. Are you going to learn or to become? As bigger your ego the lesser your presence or growth.

You might already *fall* at one of my classes and said “look at this weirdo, how he talks, who he thinks he is, how he critiques, what authority or so many rules.. but who is the one or what was really suffering in that moment, process? Did you get what you were looking for or what you deserved or needed?

I hosted for a while some Hatha Yoga Intro classes, where I was setting with purpose all my patience to talk from point 0 about yoga. I was always starting with many questions, seeking already perceptions and answers about yoga – maybe will start a YouTube series on that – but including there, many people were coming with sufficient spiritual *experience* to qualify their pompous rich answers about what Spirit, Yoga (journey) is – why they were there?

Than in some other presentations to some festivals, while getting the pulse of the audience, i was introducing similar questions. It was fun when someone was rising up to give an answer, or a more personal interpretation (which was more important to be heard by the audience – to show-off) than to really, sincerely answer to the topic – and even there my answer could have been “1 – stay down!” / “no – anyone else?”

Dear reader, are you ready for the spiritual journey or are you so ready, in need, for a spiritual validation?

From a different perspective, the impact each and every practice has is not only personal but directly depends of your focus and involvement into the process.

All (external) forces that helped you feel or appreciate a process, a (spiritual) journey, were just stealing your attention and then re-distributing to a better, righter, correct direction; but it was always in your power. The fact that someone, something made you feel different, doesn’t validate that someone / something, but conveys that for a moment you were truly experiencing that path, that you can be absolutely present.

Everyone’s attention is drawn differently, many still confuse popularity with authority, beauty with wellness, information with intelligence, etc.

One of my definitions about sex (love making) is a sum, a full participation of all senses. A complete exterior involvement to the highest limits, that level of presence, connection. So, when you were first present in a spiritual practice, you noticed that, as when it is noticeable again you realize that you are with your Self, Yoga – but nobody asked it less about you – it is and always has been in your power!

Draga cititor, esti pregatit de un drum spiritual sau este asa de pregatit incat ai nevoie de o validare spirituala!

eram intr-o continua sincronizare sau toate zilele erau pline de ceva, parca norocase, intalniri si timp din belsug cu profesorii nostri de yoga, cand la un moment dat, neavand un plan clar al timpului petrecut la Rishikesh, cineva ne-a orientat spre satsang-urile lui Mooji.. Il mai vazusem pe om, plimbandu-se pe strazile din Laxmanjhula si prin unele video-uri pe youtube, dar nu apucasem sa-l apreciez sau calific incat sa-l caut.. Dar uite-ne ajunsi intr-o sala mare, plina de oameni, de toate culorile, intampinati de o muzica live, devotionala si apoi o sesiune de satsang care era mai mult concentrata pe niste intrebari-raspunsuri.. Mooji insista cu precizarea daca exista acele intrebari arzatoare fata de care un raspuns ar ajuta sa treaca mai departe si oricat le cautam si eu in mine, nu le gaseam.. DAR.. cine nimerea la microfon sa puna o intrebare, parea mereu deplasat.. atat de deplasat incat incepeam mai degraba sa ne enervam, la cate CV-uri spirituale / prezentari de drumuri personale am auzit (fara vreo intrebare), poezii si altele..

Din acel moment, am inceput cu o frecventa mai mare sa intalnesc persoane in asa-zise cautari spirituale, ce nu au facut mai mult decat sa se plimbe in locuri unde erau acceptati, validati (incluzand diplome de yoga teacheri), un fel de turism spiritual, care a facut yoga mai mult populara decat cunoscuta..

Observa-te cu ce gand pornesti la drum, ca e spre o clasa de yoga, un curs, un workshop sau un training. Vrei sa inveti sau vrei sa devii? Cu cat e mai mare si mai prezent ego-ul cu atat mai mica sau inexistenta este prezenta sau cresterea.

Poate ca ati “cazut” la vreunele clase sustinute de mine si ati zis uite si la ciudatul asta, cum vorbeste, cine se crede, cum ne critica, ce autoritate sau atatea reguli.. dar cine sau mai exact ce suferea in acest proces? Ai primit ceea ce ai vrut sau ceea ce aveai nevoie?

Am tinut o vreme clase de Hatha Yoga Intro, respectiv clase unde imi disponibilizam toata rabdarea de a discuta de la pasul 0 yoga si asa imi facusem intr-un final formatul claselor incat continea si o parte de intrebari raspunsuri despre yoga – process pe care cred o sa-l reiau intr-o serie de video-uri pe youtube – insa inclusiv acolo, apareau deseori persoane, cu suficienta “experienta” spirituala incat sa-si califice pompoase raspunsuri despre ce inseamna spirit, yoga sau un proces spiritual – intrebarea evidenta – de ce erau acolo?

Apoi in unele prezentari la tot felul de festivale de wellness sau spirituale, incercam sa iau pulsul audientei cu unele sau aceleasi intrebari simple. Era distractiv cand se ridica in picioare cineva sa ofere un raspuns, o interpretare personala, ce era mai importanta de a fi auzit de auditoriu (sa-si cladeasca o imagine) decat sa raspunda sincer la subiect – chiar si atunci raspunsul meu putea fi de tipul “1 – stai jos!” / “nu – altcineva?”

Draga cititor, esti pregatit de un drum spiritual sau este asa de pregatit incat ai nevoie de o validare spirituala!

Intr-o alta ordine de idei.. impactul pe care il are fiecare in urma unei practicii, am repetat si voi repeta si de alte mii de ori, nu este doar personal ci depinde direct de atentia si implicarea in process.

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Toate fortele, externe, care te-au facut sa simti sau sa apreciezi un process, un drum spiritual, nu au un alt efect decat sa-ti ia si apoi sa-ti duca mai complet atentia spre locul unde trebuie sa privesti; respectiv tot drumul a fost mereu in mainile tale. Faptul ca cineva sau ceva te-a facut sa simti diferit, repet, nu valideaza pe cineva nici un ceva, ar putea comunica ca pentru un moment (oricat de lung) tu ai fost pe acel drum si a fost experienta ta.

Fiecaruia ii este atrasa atentia in mod si de lucuri diferite, multi confudam popularitatea cu autoritatea, frumusetea cu sanatatea, informatia cu inteligenta, etc.

Ca sa raspund si altfel pozei de mai sus, am definit in unele situatii actul sexual (amorul sau dragostea – ca sa nu jignesc pe unii) ca o suma, participare a tuturor simturilor. Respectiv nivelul de implicare cu exteriorul este la cele mai inalte valori ridicate, respectiv vorbim despre prezenta, conexiune etc. Asa ca, prima data cand ai fost cu adevarat prezent intr-o practica spirituala, unele senzatii ies la suprafata, apoi cand re-apar, stii, esti cu Tine insuti, Yoga, dar niciodata nimeni nu a cerut mai putin de la tine.