Yoga of Life

One of the interesting things about David Deida is the his stuff is like onions. Yep, it has layers, and depth. I think all good material does. The cool thing is that it's always challenging, and always dead simple. Simple simple simple.

So today he was talking about making decisions and understanding the consequences of those decisions. The clarity of knowing the path opens the path. So if you want children, he says, understand that you are sacrificing some sleep in the future for them and all that goes with it. Make sure your choice is clear. If you want more money, consider the choices that will go with that. I'll have to go to school, I'll have to choose this friend and not that one, I'll have to forgo this and I'll have to choose this.

Likewise in a relationship. If you want a deep amazing relationship, then realize that you are going to have to make some choices. If you want a deep relationship them you have to open up, you have to be real, you have to be vulnerable, you have to be clear. Wanting a deep relationship and not being willing to do those things won't get you what you want. They come with the package.

So if you choose to be a dancer, you now make different choices: You now choose to exercise an hour a day instead of not exercise. So once you choose to be a dancer you make specific choices that now create the possibility of the yoga. You do NOT go now that I'm a dancer I'll just go do anything I want and just turn it into dance. That doesn't create the yoga of life, whether it be mastery in some thing, or financial success, or depth of relationship. You can't just say you want something and not follow with the choices that allow it to happen. If you want an opening in your heart and want deep love, then you have to make the choices that allow that love to fill you up.

Realizing God, of opening to that realization of BEING (as opposed to doing) is totally separate from what we are talking about above. You can be poor and have no sexual life, and be one with God. You could also be Rich and have sex all the time but not realize divinity. The idea is to do both of them. But one (realizing God) is done by just BEING, and the other is done by making choices. So realizing you are one with God is great, but if you want mastery in your self and your relationship, then you will have to do things about it.