Can yoga be a help in self-awakening?
"When you tune a musical instrument, it is the listening
that brings you to the perfect tuning and to the perfect playing.
In the same way only listening brings you to the perfect posture
and to the re-harmonization of all your dispersed energies.
This listening already places you in the frame of silent awareness.
If you practice yoga to achieve something, you leave this frame.
Then yoga can become an obstacle, for it may generate the belief
that what you fundamentally are is a goal you can attain through
some system of progress. And this belief in progress takes you
further away from yourself. Let go of this need to find security
through an image. When all production stops, you come to know
what you are not. Reference to the past and to all preconceptions
comes to an end, and you're brought back to the frame of silent
listening."
Jean Klein
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