Union of Blog and Yoga

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The very ancient Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are of sublime interest to the Sect of the New Super Bloggers.

Here is why it is so important.

Blogging being a form of auto-analysis, self-disclosure, and textually embodied consciousness...

...is akin to yoga sutras which gaze deeply into the text of the mind, and seeing a connection to the originating text, the Word, the First Voice...

...these mystico-technical stances hold forth valuable cognitive dissidence for the New Super Bloggers.


This is now the summary of stanzas 1 - 11 as exhibited by Swami Jnaneshvara at:

http://swamij.com/yoga-sutras.htm

Yoga = union
Sutra = thread



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Patanjali:

1: Now, after previous preparation, begins yoga

2: Yoga is the mastery and integration of the activities of mind
3: Then the seer, the Self rests in its true nature
4: At other times, it is identified with subtle thoughts

Un-coloring your thoughts

5-6: Witnessing 5 kinds of thoughts that are either colored or not-colored
7: Three ways to obtain correct knowledge
8-11: Incorrect knowledge, imagination, sleep, memory


A blog can be an instance of yoga practice.

A blog can serve as a written meditation.

A blog can act as a textual contemplation.

Thus, blog and yoga share similarities.

There can be a transcending union, a coupling that causes both to ascend.



[signed] Steven Streight aka Vaspers the Grate aka Leopold the Told