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People complain that it's difficult to trust anyone these days. You
hear it all the time, on television, radio, at the office, dinner
table and at parties. "I can't trust the government," they grumble.
"I can't trust the politicians, my church, schools, the other race,
my doctor, employer, spouse or even my kids," they moan. Yet most of
us do not suffer from having too little to trust. We suffer from
trusting others too much--and trusting our own Self too little.
Think about it. Without using their faculty of discrimination (buddhi
or conscience), most human beings habitually trust the endless
procession of unexamined suggestions streaming from their own
senses, ego and unconscious mind in the form of desires, fears,
resentments, memories and imaginations. People perceive the objects
of the world through the lenses of their unreliable concepts; thus
they choose improperly and end up grumbling about the outcome.
Hearing similar grievances over twenty-five hundred years ago, the
Compassionate Buddha responded emphatically: "Do not swallow a
red-hot iron ball and then cry, 'I am in great pain!'"
Yoga Science provides a blueprint that transforms everyday
consternation into a contented, creative force with one simple
promise: base your thoughts, words and actions on your own inner
intuitive wisdom, and then every relationship will help you joyously
fulfill the purpose of your life.
In Yoga Science, the wisdom of a purified buddhi (the conscience) is
considered to be the mirrored reflection of the will of the Divine
Reality. This is the same eternal truth spoken of as the Christ in
Christianity, the Lord in Judaism, Allah in Islam, theAtman in
Hinduism and the Buddha in Buddhism. Buddhi is the faculty of mind
that discriminates between the passing pleasure ofpreya and the
perennial joy of shreya. Consistently base your actions on the
Divine wisdom reflected by a purifiedbuddhi--serving the shreya and
sacrificing thepreya--and everything you need, you will receive. It
follows that the converse is also true. The more you serve those
preya habits that conflict with the wise and good counsel of
thebuddhi, the greater will be your dis-ease and pain.
Yoga Science refers to this understanding as "Trustful surrender to
Divine Providence." Known in Sanskrit as the practice of Ishvara
Pranidhana, it is one of ten yamas and niyamas--Yoga's common-sense
guidelines for leading a happier and healthier life. It is not a
blind trust in any one or any thing other than your real Self.
Undeniably, it has become a major challenge for modern human beings
to place their trust in a Divine intelligence that is not
perceivable through the senses nor verifiable by the hard sciences.
This has been increasingly true over the past 500 years--ever since
the "Age of Enlightenment" established reasoned thought and physical
science as the primary authorities over the nature and limits of
human consciousness. René Descartes, considered the "Father of
Modern Western Philosophy," enunciated this canonization of
materialism through his famous dictum, "I think, therefore I am" (as
opposed to the timeless yogic truth, "I am, therefore I think").
Descartes' single concept--accepted by a preponderance of
humanity--became the cornerstone of an agreed upon fiction that has
enslaved most people to the dualistic delusion that they are
separate, incomplete individuals and that certain objects and
relationships in the material world can bring happiness and
eliminate pain.
This material view of the world grew virtually unimpeded during the
Exploration and Industrial Ages. In America, only a whimper of
cultural protest came from the 19th century transcendentalist
writers like Emerson and Thoreau, and Hudson River School landscape
painters like Thomas Cole, Frederic Church and George Inness.
From the 15th century through today, humanity's obsession with and
obeisance to materialism has supplanted religion, myth and trustful
surrender as the ultimate repositories of human faith. Human trust
is no longer rooted in the inner wisdom of the
spirit. Instead, the modern quest for security and happiness is
firmly rooted in trust of the external, material world. Consider the
fact that the shopping center today has become the new cultural
cathedral of our time, and that from the ashes of the World Trade
Center, after September 11, 2001, Mayor Rudy Guiliani's first public
pronouncement was to urge the public to "Show you're not afraid. Go
shopping."
Placing our blind trust solely in materialism however, will always
remain problematic because only the buddhi has the power to
discriminate. The buddhi alone reflects our perfect wisdom from the
superconscious mind--the source of intuition, creativity and Divine
inspiration that lies beyond the limitations of the ordinary
conscious mind. The senses, ego and unconscious mind, although they
may never exhibit doubt, can provide only an incomplete perspective
on what should be done and what should not be done. Further, all
three have a permanent hidden agenda: to experience the pleasant and
avoid the unpleasant--even though we know intuitively (through the
buddhi) that the pleasant is not always good for us and the
unpleasant is not always bad.
Faced with disquieting conditions, the ego quickly draws a timeline
and declares, at this moment, "This is bad!" The ego revels in
condemning the unpleasantness of "what is" while slyly redirecting
our attention to either the past or the future, where the
relationship (and requisite action) is no longer a nagging issue to
be dealt with. If any situation is viewed only from this limited
perspective of the personality, a troubling anxiety will persist in
the form of unexamined desires, fear or anger. But because humans
are so habituated to the insistence of the ego,
we generally go along for the sometimes exhilarating but inevitably
exhausting ride.
Of course, whenever our desires are not examined and appropriately
handled as they arise, old issues will simply return in some new
form, again and again, until we learn to act skillfully in harmony
with the wisdom of the buddhi.
Conversely, if the same challenging situation is viewed through the
prism of Yoga Science, it can be seen, welcomed and trusted as an
expression of the Perfection of the Supreme Reality--offering hidden
gifts that will lead the spiritual aspirant for his or her highest
good. Thus, God (the Divine power and intelligence) manifests only
the "good." This is true no matter whether the packaging appears to
be pleasant or unpleasant to the personality. Regardless of its
initial appearance, our task as yoga scientists is to trustfully
surrender to the wisdom of Divine Providence, and to set aside the
limited viewpoint of the ego, senses and unconscious mind. By
sacrificing the preya and serving the shreya, we become open to
grace.
Without a genuine willingness to sacrifice our narrow concepts and
judgments that conflict with the wisdom of the spirit, our
attachments to the fleeting ego and sense pleasures will inexorably
bring us dis-ease and pain. Free will allows us to invest our trust
in the promise of materialism, but experience proves over and over
again that our long-sought, unbounded happiness still remains
vulnerable to hijack and imprisonment by the personality's likes and
dislikes(raga/dveshas). In the Bhagavad Gita, for example, Arjuna
must welcome and skillfully fight his own internal mental and
emotional battle because it alone serves as his "open door to
heaven." Every situation we encounter is a custom-made opportunity
for our personal liberation.
A Taoist story illustrates the understanding that pleasant
experiences are not always good and unpleasant ones are not always
bad.
One day, a farmer's horse ran away and all the neighbors gathered
that evening to console the man by saying, "That's too bad." The
farmer's reply was to say simply, "Maybe." The very next day, the
horse came back and brought with it seven wild horses.
"Unbelievable," the neighbors exclaimed, "Aren't you lucky!" The
farmer's response was simply to say, "Maybe." The next day, the
farmer's son, while working with one of the wild horses, was thrown
and broke his leg. Learning of this, the farmer's neighbors were
very solicitous, saying, "That's too bad that your son broke his
leg." In response, the farmer said simply, "Maybe." Finally, on the
day when military conscription officers visited the area to gather
young men for the army, the farmer's son was rejected because he had
a broken leg. Following that incident, neighbors came by and said,
"Isn't that great! Your son got out of the army." The farmer merely
replied, "Maybe."
Nothing is as it appears to an untrained and indiscriminate eye.
Without a philosophy of life to unite our outer actions with our
inner intuitive wisdom, our human perceptions will remain clouded by
our attachment to the concepts of pleasant and unpleasant. But,
through the practices of Yoga Science, even the boisterous ego will
eventually admit to not knowing in what direction real happiness
lies, and will bow to the buddhi's discrimination.
When the philosophy of Yoga Science guides your life you will
discover through your own personal experience that the light of
Divine grace often comes disguised as trivial, inconvenient,
aggravating, worrisome, overwhelmingly attractive or even painful
thoughts or circumstances. If you do not trustfully surrender to the
perfect wisdom of Divine Providence in these relationships, grace
cannot manifest. Fail to recognize this eternal truth, and you are
likely to remain trapped in a delusional whirlpool of lament and
bravado, and conclude that real contentment in life comes about only
by luck or by serving your ego's myopic and distorted notion of
happiness. St. Francis de Sales put it this way: "God does not
deprive us of the operation of His love, but rather, we deprive His
love of our cooperation."
As Swami Rama taught, "The only solution is to accept the
superiority of discrimination, will power and Divine inspiration
over sensory perceptions and cognition." Initially, learning to
trust your true Self will require discipline. As you experiment,
however, the discipline quickly yields to love because you
experience the truth of a practical, perennial wisdom that frees you
from the enslavement to habit, restlessness and pain.
Right now, you already have the precious gift of a human body, mind
and senses--all the instrumentation you need to venture beyond the
sorrows wrought by the arbitrary limitations of material
consciousness and to live in the fullness of your own Divine Self.
Do not delay. No one knows what the next moment of life will bring.
Grace, as the nineteenth century sage Ramakrishna taught, is a wind
that is always blowing. If you really desire to experience freedom
and unbounded happiness in this lifetime, set your sail now. As you
skillfully navigate life's many currents and crosscurrents with the
buddhi as your sextant, the winds of grace will guide you through
challenging seas to a safe and bountiful harbor.
"The more you surrender
to your inner intuitive wisdom,
regardless of your likes and dislikes,
the greater will be your reward."
Leonard Perlmutter
Philosopher, educator,
author and founder of the American Meditation Institute
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Many years ago there lived a king who relied extensively on the wise
counsel of his best friend and most trusted minister for every major
decision. One day, the king badly cut his hand. As court attendants
scurried to help, the king's most trusted minister threw his arms
toward the heavens and exclaimed with glee, "God is great!" This
seeming insensitivity in the face of such physical and emotional
trauma infuriated the king. To show his outrage, he immediately
ordered the minister to be thrown into the dungeon. Upon hearing
this decree, the minister once again threw his arms toward the
heavens and shouted with great joy, "God is great!"
Several days later, when the king was feeling better, he went out
from the castle on horseback for his weekly hunt. Upon spotting a
deer, the king rode after it in chase. The deer eluded him for hours
and, as dusk approached, the exhausted king dismounted to rest and
fell into a deep sleep. In the middle of the night, he was awakened
by a raucous band of tribal people who offered to bathe and feed
him. As dawn approached, the tribesmen marched the king up to a high
bluff overlooking their village and proceeded to tie him down on an
altar. Now the king realized that his life was in danger, and he was
filled with terror.
Suddenly, just as the king's head was about to be separated from his
body, the wise man of the village unexpectedly stopped the human
sacrifice. He explained that according to tradition only a "perfect
man" could be offered as a sacrifice. Then, pointing to the unhealed
wound on the king's hand, he ordered that the king be released.
With great joy and gratitude, the king rode back to the castle and
immediately ordered his trusted minister to be released from the
dungeon. The king told the minister of his harrowing experience and
that he now finally understood why the minister had shouted, "God is
great!" when the king had cut his hand. "However," the king said, "I
still don't understand why you shouted 'God is great!' when I
ordered you to the dungeon. Can you possibly explain this?"
"Well, your Excellency," the minister began, "if I had not been sent
to the dungeon, I would most certainly have been riding with you on
your weekly hunt, as I always do. Then, when the natives discovered
that you were not the 'perfect man' . . . God is great!"
The moral of the story is this: If you are willing to surrender
every thought, word and action to the will of the Divine Reality as
communicated through the buddhi, you will always be led for your
highest and greatest good. Despite the apparently unpleasant,
despite the suggestions of the ego or the clamor of the senses,
trustful surrender is the path of devotion that ensures your life
will be filled with poetry and song.
Reprinted from The Heart and Science of Yoga by Leonard Perlmutter,
©2005, AMI Publishers.
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Janice was panicking, and with good reason. She had bought a fabulous new house
in a terrific neighborhood ten years ago. But now her mortgage payments had
ballooned up to $4000 a month. She couldn't afford even half that.
"All my friends were buying expensive houses," Janice told me. "I thought if
everyone was doing it, it must be safe. It was supposed to be a great
investment." Hadn't her realtor explained about the balloon payments? "Yeah, but
I just trusted that when the time came, everything would work out somehow."
Trust is a big issue for many Americans these days. Several of my neighbors have
lost their jobs as the companies they work for struggle to survive the
recession. Others watched their retirement savings evaporate as stock values
plunged.
Trust is an especially big challenge for my friend Tom who was diagnosed with
lung cancer last year. The doctors threw a barrage of high potency chemo at him
and he started to improve. Then his oncologist discovered several new tumors.
His family told Tom he had to have faith. "Faith in what?" he asked. "Should I
trust I'll beat the odds? What if I'm just kidding myself?"
Life doesn't play fair. Good people develop terrible diseases, go bankrupt, are
victims of horrible crimes, get killed in accidents or maimed in war. How can
you trust a universe that allows that?
Something Worth Trusting
The very first law of human experience that the Buddha taught
2500 years ago was, "Life is filled with suffering." When he was a boy his
father-the king of Kapilavastu-tried to shield him from the harsh realities of
life by confining him to a royal palace where he was surrounded with every
luxury a young man of that era could desire. Everyone around him was healthy and
handsome, there was always plenty to eat and entertainment to enjoy, and if the
day got a bit hot a beautiful girl would appear to fan away the heat.
But there's a balloon payment in everyone's life. One day the curious prince
persuaded a servant to take him on a tour of the outlying countryside. For the
first time the future Buddha saw terrible poverty, sickness and death. These
grim realities shocked the prince out of his complacency and set him on an
urgent quest to uncover the purpose behind pain, and to find the path beyond
suffering if such a path existed. The prince's encounter with the horrors of
life transformed him into an enlightened sage. When the bank forecloses on our
home, when the doctor says we have cancer, what are we transformed into? Bitter,
frightened victims? Or Buddhas?
The Buddha taught that our real enemies aren't sickness, loss or death. Those
are inevitable experiences in a universe that doesn't sit still for a moment,
that's always changing, continually recycling itself. Our real enemies are the
thoughts and emotions that obscure our innermost nature. Greed, hatred, fear,
and ceaseless craving direct our attention away from the core of our being which
abides without disturbance in transparent clarity and compassion. Many of us
catch glimpses of that state in moments of undistracted meditation. The goal of
spiritual practice however is to experience the unchanging reality beyond
constantly changing appearances not only in rare moments but in every moment.
Sitting under a tree in Bodh Gaya, the Buddha discovered that state of
blessedness in himself. He learned to balance his awareness there whether he was
teaching or sleeping, walking or meditating. At this point no banker could
foreclose on his peace of mind; he was equally comfortable resting in a palace
or under a tree. Even sickness and death couldn't shake him from his spiritual
center. Many Western students don't know that the Buddha was in severe physical
pain much of his life; in fact he had so much back pain he needed to lean back
against a tree in order to meditate (early
histories suggest he suffered from a slipped disc). The Buddha also remained
calm and relaxed through his final, excruciating illness. He had found a deeper
truth he could trust absolutely, and fixed his full attention there. From that
foundation of illumined awareness he offered spiritual guidance that has led
countless disciples to liberation.
We may think, "Sure the Buddha could do that; after all, he was the Buddha!" But
the Buddha believed we can do it too; that's why he taught ceaselessly for the
last 49 years of his life. He urged his disciples to trust in three things: the
enlightened spiritual master, the truth the master directs us toward, and the
community of our fellow aspirants who strive toward that truth together with us.
An authentic spiritual tradition is a boat that never sinks. Because illumined
masters have reached the other shore-and provide evidence of their enlightened
condition through their luminous actions and the very radiance of their being-we
can climb in the boat with them and trust it will carry us over the turbulent
waves of life to our true home in spirit.
Trusting the Source
Trust is vitally important, but it must be employed with
wisdom. Janice was mistaken to believe a Higher Power would magically
materialize $4000 a month in mortgage payments for her. But she would not be
wrong to trust that a Higher Power is teaching her something important about her
needs, desires and attachments through the bitter experience of losing her
house. The shock of discovering how awful life can actually be awakened the
Buddha to far greater wisdom and compassion. We also need to use the failures
and setbacks, betrayals and loss, grief and anguish that life inevitably
delivers to our door, as portals to higher states of awareness. Numerous yoga
texts (for example the Vijnana Bhairava) urge us to seize on the moments of our
greatest pain or despair as opportunities for massive spiritual growth. This is
when the greatest breakthroughs can occur. In these moments God's grace is most
fully available if only we can find the presence of mind to recognize to it.
As we progress in our spiritual practice, our awareness of the vast intelligence
supporting this entire universe starts to expand. Increasingly we discover that
what we can trust is the process of life itself. The sages taught that life is
the child which takes birth when spirit embraces matter. When spirit is present,
the chaos of inert matter becomes the beautifully ordered cosmos and prana, the
life force, drives evolution. Because spirit lies at the root of all experience,
life is indelibly imbued with meaning and purpose.
In India, many Hindus picture the universe as the manifestation of Maha Devi,
the Great Mother. Through good times and bad, the unlimited intelligence
governing the cosmos is guiding, teaching and training us like a loving mother
who is also, when necessary, a strict disciplinarian. There is purpose behind
everything that occurs in our lives, even the most awful experiences.
When we look at our problems from the point of view of this one incarnation,
life really can seem overwhelming, random and unfair. But seen from a yogic
point of view, the soul is an immortal pilgrim traveling across the centuries.
In each of its incarnations it either wanders further from the ground of its
being, or pauses, reflects, and returns to a life in spirit. When we were small
children we trusted our mother to direct us toward our greater good. In the same
way we can trust the cosmos to ensure we'll grow spiritually. The universe is a
training ground for Buddhas, guiding us toward self-mastery and teaching us
compassion. No matter how many Nobel prize-winning scientists insist that the
universe is meaningless, the moment we turn within we sense the living presence
of a Higher Power.
All of us have stories of remarkable coincidences that led us to exactly what we
needed at that time. Coincidence, the saying goes, is what happens when God
prefers to remain anonymous. The highest form of yoga in action according to
Yoga Sutra 2:1 is trustful surrender to a Higher Power. We should make every
effort to achieve our goals practically and intelligently (buying a new house
with financial realities in mind, for example) but the ultimate outcome of our
efforts is in God's hands. When things don't work out as we hoped, we can trust
they are working out even better than we planned, for our Divine Father (or
Mother!) is directing these events for our greatest good. Even in instances of
truly terrible suffering, such as Tom is going through with his cancer, a higher
purpose is being served. I don't say that lightly-as a cancer patient myself I
know from personal experience how horrible a serious illness can be. And yet, as
I assured Tom, what I learned from that awful experience is invaluable and
hard-won.
Trusting the Outcome
Our culture teaches us to crave more and more material
things, more technologically advanced cars and computers and sound systems,
better quality coffee and more sophisticated couture, larger houses in better
neighborhoods. We were told to trust that our economy would expand forever.
What our culture doesn't teach us is courage, nonattachment, and grateful
surrender to a Higher Power. Many of us constantly demand more possessions, more
stimulating experiences, even more years of life than destiny is prepared to
offer us. But what we really need are inner strength, emotional balance, mental
clarity, and joy in helping others.
Like the Buddha, we can trust that the final outcome of our sincere efforts to
find the truth behind suffering, loss and death will be spiritual illumination.
Perhaps someday we'll be able to look back at the painful events of our lives
and say, "It was hard, but it was worth it."
Linda Johnsen is a regular contributor to Transformation and
author of eight books on spirituality including "Kirtan! Chanting as
a Spiritual Path" and "Lost Masters: The Sages of Ancient Greece."
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Leonard Perlmutter
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Member: International Association of Yoga Therapists
Yoga Self-Therapy is
based on the perennial psychology of yoga science. Each
individual counseling session will teach you how to free
yourself from habits and expectations that cause stress and
give rise to illness. By observing and training your internal
processes, you can become creative in all relationships while
establishing a state of personal contentment. By learning to
rely on your own Divine inner wisdom you become free to make
choices in life that continually improve your physical, mental
and emotional wellbeing.
AMI Home Center, 60 Garner Road, Averill Park
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The Heart and Science of Yoga:
A Blueprint for Peace, Happiness and Freedom from Fear
Review by Gregg St. Clair, Healing Springs Journal
We live in
glorious times don't we? We have information available to us
today that we never transferred to only an inner circle of top
students. This usually involved years of dedication proving
your desire to learn, followed by years of practice in the
more external realms of knowledge, and only then would a
master be willing to share the deepest levels of their art,
most highly guarded secrets. But today every esoteric subject
matter is available through books or just a quick click away
on the world wide web.
Everything has pluses and minuses and this is no exception.
Yes, it is all right there for us, but so is fast food. So how
do we discriminate what is valuable or not for our total well
being? Trial and error is, of course, an option, and something
most people have to go through on their path--be it with diet,
exercise or meditation. But when you find the right thing you
know it. This is how I felt when I read The Heart and
Science of Yoga: A Blueprint for Peace, Happiness and Freedom
from Fear by Leonard Perlmutter. I keep wanting to call it
the "Art" instead of the "Heart," probably from being
conditioned by other book titles, but "Heart" definitely works
better. Why? Because you can tell that that is where the book
comes from and that is where it is aimed.
The Heart and Science of Yoga is a manual showing how
ancient wisdom can help us with life today in an increasingly
chaotic world. No longer does one need to travel to India to
learn the deepest secrets of yoga for it is all contained in
this one book. Some might claim that there is too much
information (and at 538 pages they may be right), but not me.
It is written in a style so easy to read and so relevant to
spiritual development today that its information will be
beneficial, almost crucial, for everyone, not just yoga
practitioners.
Leonard Perlmutter has something rare among yoga practitioners
and meditation instructors today, not only a blessing from his
famous teacher Swami Rama, but a direct request to pass on the
knowledge he transferred to him and to become a full time
teacher. Leonard and his wife Jenness have founded and operate
the American Meditation Institute in Averill Park, New York--a
short drive from the capital city of Albany. A tranquil oasis,
the Perlmutters are dedicating their lives to creating
positive change in the world based on the teachings of yoga
with meditation as the key.
The book covers in detail the eight limbs of yoga is of course
more than different contortionist postures and includes a
blueprint for spiritual growth including, proper disciplines,
proper conduct, proper exercise, proper breathing, proper
control of the senses, proper concentration, proper meditation
and finally self realization. I particularly like how they use
quotations and references from all of the worlds religions,
including literature and even current sources (did you know
Elvis was a guru?), making the book very accessible if not
down right enjoyable to read.
With the invention of the airplane, the telephone and now the
world wide web, it has become obvious that it is one world and
we must act together if there is going to be hope for the
future. Unfortunately people become so caught up in their own
realities that they fail to see the bigger picture. But we are
spiritual beings, and as we busy ourselves with the illusions
of the world it separates us from our spirit, creating a
source of suffering that is only going to continue. I take
comfort in the fact that yoga has an 8000 year old history and
though I am a scientist, I don't need another double blind
study to know that it works. The key is, we have to practice
something to take control of our mind & lives, or they will
take control of us. If you are looking for a tried and true
system that has helped millions of people, then The Heart
and Science of Yoga is the perfect companion. I recommend
it for everybody.
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