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August 22, 2022

4.12 Past and future exist in the present

Yoga Sutra 4.12 Past and future exist in the present There are latent, active and potential impressions. What impressions lead you to harmony with your natural state? What impressions foster misidentification with temporary phenomena? To what extent are you aware of the impressions left by your past experiences? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at: Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60132974&idiq=52585765
August 16, 2022

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? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at: Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60132974&idiq=52585765
August 15, 2022

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? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at: Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60132974&idiq=52585765
July 29, 2022

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? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at: Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60132974&idiq=52585765
July 28, 2022

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? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at: Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60132974&idiq=52585765
July 24, 2022

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? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at: Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60132974&idiq=52585765
July 24, 2022

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? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at: Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60132974&idiq=52585765
July 6, 2022

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? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at: Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60132974&idiq=52585765
July 6, 2022

4.4 Created minds from sense of self

Yoga Sutra 4.4 Created minds from sense of self What makes you aware of your own existence? Is it possible to generate new body-minds? What do you identify with? Is your sense of self (asmita) the meeting point between existence and awareness? What do you find when your internal activity and identifications cease? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at: Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60132974&idiq=52585765