Self-Understanding

Self-understanding: 

it sometimes feels as if there's a kindness deficit in the world right now, a lack of empathy and self-understanding - and I know as well that this must be true within me if it's recognized at all, a deep place of hurt that's not yet healed or come to light in my own inquiries and time spent in meditation. The world doesn't need healing, I do, and through this I will come to see the world as my reflection, already whole, healed, full of kindness, love, and empathy. 

being a yoga practice of kindness and compassion. 

and it is a practice, allowing this natural gift to come to surface, with just a little awareness and it becomes a spontaneous surprise, my true self being shown to the world in every act of grace and kindness, easily and without effort of my own. That's what's meant by self-understanding, exploring below the surface of my initial reactions and finding a deep reservoir of compassion, that by my very nature I display kindness simply being as I truly am, and that any practice done is really only a means of self-revelation, my own love shown to me and now given to the world. 

this isn't a yoga of denial, negating any emotions that arise, it's much more free than that, allowing, allowing, and always allowing my world exactly as it is right now. It's with this that I find myself whole, accepting every cloud as it passes through the spacious nature of my soul. I am clear sky, continuous, never darkened by any cloud or storm, and my real practice is in recognizing this, deeply so, associating myself with this ever present sense of loving-kindness, even as I get lost amidst the clouds of judgement and anger - there is still the self-understanding of my clear sky nature. 

that's my true yoga practice.

returning to this depth of loving-kindness, empathy displayed by acceptance of my unhealed pain and any faults that might be shown. My practice begins and ends with this, an allowingness of all that comes to surface, everything instantly healed through the lens of my awareness. 

in this self-understanding...

I see that I am whole, complete, a clear sky of infinite loving-kindness.

~

Peace, Eric