![]() ![]() ![]() I started to design my own yoga t shirts because I couldn't find tops that I wanted to wear in my local shops. Yoga is such an important part of my daily life both physically and spiritually. Peaceful Warrior Yoga shop came about through my love of Yoga. Yogistoney on Slipped The Net Monthly Meetup…Ĭherri on Slipped The Net Monthly Meetup…Ĭherri Gilham on SLIPPED THE NET – HELP T…Thank you for looking at my shop. Yoga & Transformational Breath Workshop: manifest your highest intention.Introducing Théo Marson, Blog Contributor!.Letting Go of Your Ego – The Way of the Peaceful Warrior.Slipped the Net – Help the Homeless Meet-up 18:00 Monday 28 September.Inside the space of ‘I don’t know,’ we can let go and ironically, find ourselves. Below is the profound moment in the film I mentioned earlier where the ego knowing that it is threatened, screams in Dan Millman’s face ‘WHO WOULD YOU BE WITHOUT ME?!’ This is THE question that all of us must eventually ask. Or perhaps as you’re reading this, my own life experience I share here can serve as teaching before you prepare to head off on your journey into the great mystery of Self. Teachers come to us when we need them most, like Dan Millman. Some people, without guidance, believe their thoughts to a very sad end especially sad considering that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn. I was able to see it as a (semi-) good thing due to the brilliant teachings of yoga and one teacher’s advice “when the time comes that you don’t want to get to the mat you get there and do not let hell’s army hold you back.” So I cracked on. Don’t be alarmed, thankfully I recognised it for what it was and actual suicide never crossed my agenda. I had a circular thought “Ok, well may as well just die now,” sometimes it came with a sinister instruction like ”get the razor” days before a large part of my conditioned mind blew out. The ego really believes in itself and anything that threatens it looks like annihilation. Suicidal thoughts are not uncommon before a part of the ego dissolves. The yoga practice prepared me well for this journey and therefore I would recommend seeking the guidance of a spiritual teacher should you be heading this way. I don’t offer this as a warning, it’s a path we will all walk eventually and we are all equally courageous. It takes some inner-metal to go through the ‘dark night’ and even more to transcend it. The understanding that I am not my thoughts has allowed me to feel less attachment and therefore suffering, so the journey through the aforementioned ‘dark night’ was worth it. This was not fleeting, it has forever changed, but there is more to let go of before I am truly in Buddha nature. I have battled my own ego while it raged and spat and tore at my attempts to let real love in and somewhere inside that battle I really did let go and I was lucky enough for my entire self/universal perspective to shift. My own relentless search for truth has pushed me down some dark highways where everything I knew and held dear was rendered meaningless. I know how it feels to have nothing to hold on to and to look at my own life and understand nothing. Feels good to tie it up in a neat box and romanticise it but don’t let that fool you, it’s not so much fun once you’re neck deep in it. It is commonly referred to in spiritual circles as ‘the dark night of the soul’. Like the character in the film clip below, I have stood on the edge of nihilism and I have looked straight into the abyss of my own suffering and screamed. There was one scene that gripped my heart space and twisted it until I was in floods of tears in painful recognition. I won’t offer spoilers but it’s a poignant journey through one man’s battle with his own ego and it’s well made. Last night I finally sat down to watch Dan Millman’s ‘Way of the Peaceful Warrior.’ A lot of the time spiritual movies are poorly made due to low budgets – Hollywood doesn’t go for the spiritual movie by and large – so what is produced can sadly end up feeling like watching a bad TV movie. ![]()
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