The Yamas Week 3 - Asteya: Standing in Your Own Integrity
Every experience depends on where we're experiencing it from. What we hear depends on where we’re listening from. When we listen from our deep, we hear things deeply. When we experience ourselves from that depth. We experience everything from there. I love what is happening in our breath meditations— to be invited into such intimacy with Life. It’s a rare thing. How intimate is your breath with you? How close is it? How Life-oriented is it? How sensual? We use two mantras: open and surrender . They’re one thing, but they reflect opposites. “ Open ” says: engage , receive , say yes . Step forward. Rise into Life . It’s active. I have to do it. You can’t open me. I can’t open you. I have to open . Surrender appears to be the opposite, but they’re actually married together. I yield . I let go . I give way . Whatever you put into the breath is offered into the reciprocation with Life and is dissolved into it. We have discovered this for ourselves. You put an e...