Yoga Party

New political party emphasizing unity rather than division, compassion rather than annihilation. Now only peace and solidarity can overcome the hate and destruction enveloping the world. Through cultivating insight and tranquility only, can life endure. Help me resist the purveyors of hate, death and destruction so that we can all live together in harmony.

I wish the rich well. I understand that the rich suffer as much as anyone else. From a yogic perspective (at least one yogic perspective) we are just acting out our karma and the only thing worth achieving is escaping rebirth, that essentially we are spirit. No harm can come to us as the physical body is only transitory. Nevertheless from this perspective we are very much involved in our lives, we are actors not realizing that we are playing roles, and play these roles we must in order to reach our salvation. And it is a fact that the rich do live longer and the poor die unnecessarily and therefore this is an injustice.

Another perspective put out by the late Sri Aurobindo is that we are not disembodied spirits, but are undergoing a sort of transformation and that even the body is a form of spirit and therefore we are evolving so to speak to a higher level of consciousness. The differences between each other are not so significant, in fact we all represent the same spirit. Since we all are the same spirit (Brahman) it makes sense for all of us to seek this salvation together.

Of course in this capitalistic society we are deluged with the supposed benefits of being of a higher class. Daily we are barraged with advertising to instill in us class consciousness (a false consciousness in which we deny our own interests). These are only images, constructs of selfish interests of the powers that be, that are irrelevant to our moral integrity. Ultimately to get out of this karma or as the buddhists put it, our suffering, we must all join together to escape this karma. Hopefully all will eventually see that struggle is not necessary except to realize our true conscious state of divine being. Only then can we find the way out of the tunnel of darkness. posted by Yoga Party @ 2:50 PM