Tantric Advaita
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Tantric Advaita |
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A “Talks & Tricks” session includes a lecture with slides as well as some guided practices. The subject differs from one date to another - see the event image for details.
While learning how to really meditate is a central subject, anything goes. It all hangs together anyhow. If we feel unhappy or stressed when starting to meditate, the result may be limited to changing our mood. Yet if we can step on our meditation mat with a smile, we can reach a much deeper level of peace and all related changes to our personality and life. Hence the peace that we seek evolves into one practice, both happening in life, as when we step out of it in meditation. Progress through the meditation phases is not primarily a technical matter. It follows our energetic transformation, as it is digested and manifested in life.
15' Welcome with a cup of chai or herbal tea.
15' Introductory ritual and chants.
60' Basic lecture with slides on the subject of the day.
30' Q&A on personal experiences and issues.
60' Guided practices with posture, breath, senses, concentration and meditation.
Teaching everyone the same meditation series is rather useless. Group practices can only give people some experience, leading to some insights in the process. We are all unique and if our differences are not taken into account, many will get stuck in some meditation phase or other. The example practices thus lead us to developing our own optimal series of practices.
There is the old Christian saying that ‘all roads lead to Rome’ and it also rings true here, as we are all having the same destination. Yet we all arrive from different airports and to reach Rome from Belgium I could even just walk. So the differences in the paths we need are as great as the differences that exist between us in terms of where we are as individuals.
Obviously, this is first of all a matter of ability. Our ability to let go of tension will affect the time needed for relaxation. Our ability to concentrate will determine when we can start relaxing into real meditation. Our ability to let go of control will decide when the deeper meditation trance manifests. Our meditation exercise series must thus naturally evolve and the time spend on each phase will vary accordingly. As general Self-awareness grows through the practice, the overall practice will mature.
Leela is the ancient vedic name for the theater of life. Life in all its forms is an illusion behind which we can find the ultimate truth of pure Being. Yet life is also a divine theater, a spiritual game played by us, the actors. Yoga allows us to hold on to the bliss of truth while playing the game. And also this yoga is a game, which we can only take seriously if we do not take ourselves and this game too seriously. That is the meaning of Leela Yoga, nothing more, nothing less. So, Leela Yoga is a vision on yoga and also a name for a simple organisation that allows me to bring this vision into practice... more about Leela Yoga & Peter Marchand
International Leela Yoga Facebook Group
Belgium : www.leela-yoga.be
New book : www.tantricadvaita.org
Harish Johari students sangha : www.sanatansociety.org
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in sweet memory of Harish Johari |
As the destination is the same for all, it is easy to make the error of assuming that the path must be just as universal.
The attachment that happens in the pursuit of happiness is the main source of unhappiness.
Don't think of going somewhere, because this somewhere will come along with you wherever you go, as you are already there.
Yoga requires unity between enjoyment and suffering, between bhoga and yoga, even between attachment and detachment.
How can anyone be "good" without a choice between good and bad?
While the mind creates the illusion of the universe through the senses, the intellect creates the illusion of understanding it.
When our day has been entirely ego-centered, then our meditation will probably have similar poor quality.
When the focus on the self is held strongly enough, the flow of kundalini energy happens on its own, naturally.
Tiptoe inside, don't make a sound, don't scare away that which cannot be found.
Enlightenment is nothing more or less than the final level of the game of life.
