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Karmic Burden
Today we are talking about karma yoga. Yoga roughly translates as union. It’s like self-discipline in a way, but focused more on personal development than goal striving. In fact, the absence of goal striving is the key element behind karma yoga. The word karma draws its origin from the Sanskrit word kri, meaning action. Karma…
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Understand Actions
In Karma yoga, you don’t swear off all action, and in fact, there is a reason normally undertaken action has the burdensome effect it does. When you take an action you see yourself as personally involved, no? Anything you feel personally involved in you overlay personal meaning onto. This is the only way you can…
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Element of Choice
How often have you taken an action that you failed to see turn out the way you like, but would have accepted a working solution instead of the outcome you got? A compromise? How often does refusal to compromise pan out the way we want it to? Again, the issue at hand is not judgemental…
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Gnani, Bhakti and Karma Yoga
That trio I mentioned earlier, thought, belief, and action, these three form the core of any system of yoga, and ultimately anyone will manifest a leaning toward one of these over the others in yoga practice. The three correspond to Gnani, Bhakti, and Karma yoga respectively. In Gnani yoga, you seek to cultivate true understanding…
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Reflection on Actions
Karma yoga isn’t just constant action. There is a practice of reflection to gain insight from ones actions. You don’t subscribe to self-recrimination in this reflection. Self is a non-factor in Karma yoga. Insight meditation. You reflect on the course of the events you were involved in, how everything happened, your own actions included, and…
Category: Karma Yoga
In Karma yoga, you seek to cultivate a practice of action that creates the least disruption possible. You reflect on the course of the events you were involved in, how everything happened, your own actions included, and by doing so gain insight into how any event may weigh on your heart and mind, and influence your future actions.
There are bigger forces at play in the world than any form of human effort, and reality itself is “self-organizing” so to speak.
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“In Karma-yoga no effort is ever lost, and there is no harm. Even a little practice of this discipline protects one from great fear [of birth and death].” Bhagavad Gita