Beyond Any Limits Of Inherited Intergenerational Conditioning and Labels
Understanding Deconstruction
(or returning to The Wholeness of who you have always been)
Donna Farhi expresses it beautifully in her book ‘Bringing Yoga To Life’ when she says:
“When we’re witnessing from this neutral, non-presumptive place, the “me” is absent – the me being whatever collection of things I have stockpiled to make up my identity (which itself is created through another subset of assumptions). This assumed identity consists of opinions, judgments, likes, dislikes, narcissistic imaginings, and largely unconscious conditioning.
The process we call Yoga is one of deconstruction – removing these assumed identities. More accurately, the assumed identities cease to operate. Because the “me” that is usually the culprit in creating this mess in the first place is being deconstructed through the practice of Yoga, over time, the superimposed identities fall away of their own accord.”
It has often been said that Yoga is not just the practice of postures or asanas.
It is a multi-layered practice taking in not only asana but the other limbs of Patanjali’s codified sutras. This holistic approach to Yoga allows the ‘deconstruction’ process described by Donna Farhi, which will peel away the layers of conditioning to reveal the true you. The always present, eternal and fresh from moment to moment True Nature of your own Being.
This is akin to the dusty mirror that reflects a distorted view. The clear reflective mirror has always been there but has been covered with the dust of conditioning. Sometimes over many years. With Yoga, we wipe clean the mirror, and the true you or self is reflected. So however YOU choose to remove any remaining labels, drop remaining false hoods of inherited conditioning and "to CHOOSE to do The Inner Work" on an ever deepening, more subtle and nuanced de layering in your return journey back to your innate free birth rite, which is the consciousness of wholeness.
This is akin to the dusty mirror that reflects a distorted view. The clear reflective mirror has always been there but has been covered with the dust of conditioning. Sometimes over many years. With Yoga, we wipe clean the mirror, and the true you or self is reflected. So however YOU choose to remove any remaining labels, drop remaining false hoods of inherited conditioning and "to CHOOSE to do The Inner Work" on an ever deepening, more subtle and nuanced de layering in your return journey back to your innate free birth rite, which is the consciousness of wholeness.
| Human Human Holiness is Wholeness, Not Perfection |
