Yoga Sutra 3.6 Step by step
Samyama is a gradual distillation of attention from a dense object to increasing levels of subtlety.
There are no shortcuts in yoga. Is your sensitivity growing? Are your knowledge and intuition growing? Do you feel like you get subtle suggestions during the day?
Yoga Sutra 3.5 Insight into higher wisdom
Practicing yoga helps you recognize insight by distinguishing it from your opinions.
As you become more practiced in connecting to your inner spaciousness, stillness, and silence, what do you discover?
How is your yoga practice fostering your receptivity?
How does insight manifest in you?
Yoga Sutra 3.4 Meditative integration - samayama
Natural progression from concentration to meditation and then to deep integration samadhi.
When you let go of your opinions, beliefs and preferences, do you find it easier to remain in a meditative state? How do your actions reflect your connection to your deep inner serenity? If you practice regularly, does clarity become more familiar and accessible?
Yoga Sutra 3.3 Samadhi - integration
Becoming a receptacle for wholeness
The deep integration of samadhi is not a static state but a dynamic and wholehearted participation in the endless interaction between life and awareness. What contributes to deepening your inner silence and stillness?
Yoga Sutra 3.2 Meditation - dhyana
Meditation is the natural progression resulting from concentration.
Keep honing the ability to direct your attention internally to feel and witness the richness of your inner universe. It is important not to confuse practice with the resulting experience.
Yoga Sutra 3.1 Concentration - dharana
Directing the mind to a specific point
What is important enough to deserve your attention? Have you noticed how focusing mostly on temporary experiences and goals often results in riding an emotional rollercoaster from success to defeat, from dissatisfaction to feeling accomplished?
Yoga Sutra Chapter 3 Magnificence
Advanced meditation practices and how they reveal subtle aspects of reality
Definitions of yoga include: supernatural means, charm, enchantment, and magical art; and the definition of a yoga practitioner, a yogi or a yogini, includes a magician, a conjurer, and someone who possesses superhuman powers.
Is it possible that the practice of yoga confers extraordinary powers?
Summary of Chapter 2 of the Yoga Sutra
Practice, the doing mode is the general theme of this chapter
Yogic action [2.1-2.2]
Afflictions [2.3-2.11]
Effects [2.12-2.14]
Suffering [2.15-2.17]
Awareness and experiences [2.18-2.22]
Discernment [2.23-2.27]
The limbs of yoga [2.28-2.55]
Yoga Sutra 2.55 Senses under control
Putting your senses at the service of the highest goal.
Is your awareness at the service of your senses or are your senses at the services of your awareness?
Can you articulate your senses to support your single pointed focus? Are your senses helping you participate consciously in your life?
