Yoga - the path to liberation

身邊的人一直在問我，瑜伽不就是身體的伸展嗎？為什麼他們從我身上看到，聽到的卻好像不大相同。其實，瑜伽是一個很深很廣的課題，身體的伸展只是其中一小部份。瑜伽是關於我們的本質，我們到底是誰。瑜伽能讓我們成為一個更好的人，活得自在及精彩。瑜伽讓我們感受到內在的喜樂，不需要在外尋找及索取。

要感受到內在的喜樂，需要持續不斷的練習及淨化，因為我們實在太心高氣傲，太自我膨脹了。

我們一直活得無明而不自知。因為我們的頭腦，我們的小我，我們一直希望擁有更多，比別人更好，更多錢，更大的屋，更多證書，更多銜頭，更多人的讚賞，關注，比其他人更特別，獲得更多人的愛...我們所做的一切就是被頭腦 (小我) 牽着走，而我們一直也沒有察覺到，因為我們以為這些頭腦的想法便是我們。正因為此，我們覺得人生很苦，永遠也在追趕，不斷比較，競爭，好像沒有安寧的一刻。

瑜伽是喚醒我們和幫助我們淨化的一個道路。瑜伽能讓我們感受到最純粹，最自然的自己。我們明白了自己的本質後，生命將不再一樣。

生命不僅僅是讀書，工作，名利，買樓，結婚，生孩子以及不斷追逐更多更多。當然，我們需要有能力維持基本生活，但是，生命除了物質世界外，還有另外的層面。這便是瑜伽帶給我們的覺醒。

我們覺知到我們並不是那些名利。

我們覺知到頭腦裏的思想並不是我們。

我們感受到生命的寬廣。

我們感受到內在喜樂。

People have been asking me isn't yoga doing those poses stretching the body, and why from what they get from me is something very different. In fact yoga is a very deep subject far more than the poses. It is about our nature, who we are. It is about becoming a better person and live life to the fullest. It is about tasting joy and bliss within.

This involves lots of practices and purifications as we are ignorant and egoistic. Most of our speech and actions are driven by ego as we always want to have more and better than others. More money, bigger titles, more attention, more special compare to others, more love from others... This is the way we have been living. And we are not aware of this. We have been controlled by our mind and we thought this is life. We are suffering because of this mind game, chasing, comparing and competing.

Yoga is a path to awaken us and purify us, to such an extent we can be in our purest form, the very natural us. Then life will be totally different.

Life is not simply about work, titles, house, getting married, having children and keep chasing for more. Yes of course we need a place to live and food to eat. But there is a deeper dimension where we taste something beyond the materialistic world. And this is what yoga is about. We realize we are not these titles, money, houses...

We are not the mind.

We are not the thoughts.

We taste the vastness of life.

We taste joy and bliss within.