13/10/2024
Let your light shine brightly..
Yoga teaches us to bring the light of awareness into the shadows of our being, and to recognise our vulnerabilities and challenges as the vehicles for our healing.
If we ignore and continue to stuff down these tendencies out of sight and put on the superficial ‘it’s all good’ the latent tendencies are just waiting for us and can manifest in our bodies unprocessed as dis-ease within self.
If we can recognise these vulnerabilities and tender sides of our psyche, hold them dear and learn to love them then we are on the path of disarming our defence mechanisms and rendering our hearts and eyes wide open.
Our experiences add layers throughout our life and can cloud or veil our true essence/ authentic code.
I love this story..
During the 18th century, Thailand was at war with Burma. Some Thai monks were so concerned about possible invasion, that their statue of Buddha may be destroyed, that the monks hid its true value by covering it in clay. Centuries past and the people forgot. Until one day the statue so worn and tarnished, was being removed from the temple when, it cracked. What was revealed was a golden glow coming from the crack. Upon further inspection the monks discovered that what lay beneath was a solid gold Buddha- priceless.
“Just as the monks hid the shining nature of the golden Buddha during difficult times, so we cover up our inner purity and goodness when we have to deal with the difficulties of the world. As we grow up, we start to follow society’s values and judgements, losing touch with our virtue, creativity, and tenderness. We cover up gold because we want the approval of others to give us value.
By adding more and more layers to our pure nature, we begin to identify with these layers—we think we are separate from others, threatened, and inadequate. And even if we cannot see our golden nature, it cannot be dimmed or erased. It calls us daily through longing for connection, curiosity, beauty, and helping others. Our deeper intuition guides us to something beyond our habitual and detached selves: something spacious, mystical, and sacred.”
-Tara Brach
