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2.9 Clinging to life

Yoga Sutra 2.9 Clinging to life

What is the most important moment of your life?

The more invested we are in our identity the greater our attachment to our life. What is your life? Do you live your life with a tacit assumption that your embodied life will last for a long time? Can you consider that millions of people before you have lived and died and that life itself has continued?

2.7 & 2.8 Desire and Aversion

2.7 & 2.8 Desire and Aversion

What are you chasing after and what are you pushing away?

Are you in charge of your likes and dislikes, or are they driving your decisions and actions? What is the origin of your wanting and cravings? To what extent do you believe that your likes and dislikes define who you are? Is there any time during your day when you are free from all of your preferences?

2.6 Self-centeredness (asmita)

Yoga Sutra 2.6 Self-centeredness (asmita)

Confusing awareness with the instruments of perception

What is your sense of "I"? Is there something in you that is not temporary? Do you entertain misperceptions distorting who you think you are such as “I am not good enough,” “I am not complete,” “I am lacking” and “I do not deserve unconditional love”?