Ruben Vasquez

Ruben Vasquez

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4.11 Causes, support and removal of impressions

Yoga Sutra 4.11 Causes, support and removal of impressions

The impressions disappear when afflictions, ways of being and tendencies are removed.

Are you aware of your afflictions (kleshas)?
Which of your ways of being perpetuate the impressions already present?
Are the eight limbs of yoga useful in removing causes, effects, support and objects that keep your impressions active?
How are you creating effortless peaceful impressions (3.10) through your practice and life?

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4.10 Impressions and desire

Yoga Sutra 4.10 Impressions and desire

Are your desires toward enjoyment or toward liberation? What impressions do they leave?

Desire powers the impressions and it creates a cycle that lasts for as long as there is desire. What desires are prevalent in you?
To what extent are those desires perpetuating some of your existing tendencies and inclinations?
Can you modulate your desire?
Is your desire a way to deepen your identification with temporary phenomena?

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4.9 Unique configuration of impressions (samskaras)

Yoga Sutra 4.9 Unique configuration of impressions (samskaras)

Are you aware of the impressiones accumulated in you and of their effects?

Are your ways of being related to your beliefs and opinions? Might it be possible that this collection of impressions, when unresolved, remains in your individual space of awareness offering you ways to overcome your identification with these experiences? Would it be possible for the impressions of previous actions to be stored in our organs through some mechanism that we do not understand yet? Is it possible then that your unique configuration of memories, impressions and tendencies continues from one life to the next?

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4.8 Manifestation of impressions (samskaras)

Yoga Sutra 4.8 Manifestation of impressions (samskaras)

Subconscious impressions manifest under appropriate conditions.

Samskaras influence personality and tendencies. Are your intentions and actions generating new impressions? Are some of your actions and interactions the result of unconscious impressions? To what extent is your personality a form of conditioning?

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4.7 Karma of three kinds

Yoga Sutra 4.7 Karma of three kinds

Those who are not immersed in samadhi generate three types of karma.

Yogis who have achieved integration, by living beyond attachment to results, do not accumulate karma. For others, karma is negative, positive and mixed. Can you notice how your current situation may have been influenced by your previous intentions and actions?
Are you aware of past impressions that are still active in you?
Do your actions reflect a growing balance within you?

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4.6 Mind doesn’t generate impressions (samskaras)

Yoga Sutra 4.6 Mind doesn't generate impressions (samskaras)

Free from the ways of being, conscious and balanced actions

Meditation is sustainable and makes it easy to act without leaving subconscious impressions that generate an endless chain of reactions and afflictions. Are you freer of expectations and attachments to the results of your actions? How do you know if your actions are the result of your deep emotional balance?

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4.5 Single underlying awareness

Yoga Sutra 4.5 Single underlying awareness

Is there a single sense of self beneath all your experiences?

What is at the core of all your experiences? Could there also be only one all encompassing awareness underlying all of existence? What is the nucleus of your being?

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