Why is the spine considered very important inYoga? 脊柱是宇宙的軸心 2016 | Sadhguru (薩古魯)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vibycXc8AuU 2009

Notes:

Whatever the experience of life, including the light, the sound, the taste the smell, or any sensation, in whatever kind of form, such as the pain, or pleasure, every experience that you have, is essentially conducted through your spine.

And if your spine is taken away, or what passes through it, is, in some way, if dislocated, there will be no experience.

We have always symbolized the spine as the axis (軸心) of the universe.

Essentially you know the universe, only from the context of your experience, and there is no other to know it.

You do not anything about the world without the context of your experience.

Do you understand what I am saying?

It’s only by knowing what’s happening within you, that you know or you think you know.

Since you know the experience only by the context of your experience, and the basis of your experience is what is being conducted through your spine right now, therefore, the spine is seen as the axis of the universe.

Today we know that the solar system is just a small blob (小點滴) in this cosmos, and tomorrow morning, if the whole solar system evaporates, there will be a great vacuum (真空) of just one little space out there, and the rest of the cosmos will even notice it, that’s how insignificant it is.

And in Yoga, they went to another dimension, because they didn’t believe that your spine was the axis of the universe, instead, they said that you are in the center of the universe.

Because you are capable of knowing the universe only from the context of your experience, and the basis of your experience is your spine, if one individual has to truly determine the nature of his 100% of his experience on the planet, then having a little mastery (掌握) over the spine becomes essential.

Only that one, who in any way determines the nature of his experience, would dare to explore the full potential of his life because he wouldn’t step into anything.

However, if your experience is determined by anything other than yourself, naturally, you will try to avoid certain things and go after a few things, whatever you consider as those which instigate or stimulate pleasant experiences.

Whatever you think will create unpleasant experiences, you will go away from them

Once this division happens in your consciousness, that you divide the existence into such two opposite categories, it becomes unnecessarily difficult to know the Ultimate Unity.

Why so much stress, joy, and blissfulness, it’s because of this, that your experience is not determined by something else.

Once you sit here and think that this tree pleasant experience for you and that tree creates an unpleasant experience, naturally you will not step in that direction., and you’ll only hang around here.

That’s all happening right now.

This is what’s happening in every aspect of life.

Once you divide the world, people will be telling you silly things, “Love your enemies”, and I don’t know why you have to make your life so hard.

Forst, you make an enemy out of somebody, and then you try to love him/her, and it’s very difficult.

It would be easy if you don’t make someone an enemy in the first place.

And if make someone an enemy and then you try to love him/her, this is an impossible condition.

People always want to set impossible things for you, so that you can constantly go there.

Let’s look at the possibilities.

Unless you don’t divide the world, it’s difficult to embrace the world.

In your consciousness, if you divide the world, saying this mine, and this not mine, etc,.then trying to grab everything is very difficult, in terms of that either everything is mine, or nothing is mine.

It’s okay, nothing is mine, which is one way.

Or everything is mine, which is still okay.

They are both workable solutions.

But it comes to that you are my enemy, but I love you, this is very difficult; it’s torture.

The fundamental for dividing the world is somewhere one entity causes pleasantness, and another entity causes unpleasantness within you, that’s why you divide the world, isn’t it?

It’s essentially a survival mode.

If you know that if you are here, there will be unpleasantness, and if go there, there will be pleasantness, then you will naturally go there and there, but not here and here.

And if after some time, you can not go there at all, because you know the level of unpleasantness is within you.

And only if you determine the nature of your experience, you can it pleasantness within yourself, no matter wherever you are.

If people cause unpleasantness, they can do it only around you, never within you

Once this freedom is there, it’s only then you can truly be inclusive, otherwise, you get stuck.

Every little sound that you hear, see if you can conduct (傳導) it through your spine?

And everything you see, can you conduct it through your spine?

And right now, I’m speaking, the sound itself is not flowing through this wire, but in the form of electric impulse (電流脈衝), and it goes through the wire to the speakers and boom.

If I just get a stick, that's not going to conduct the sound, and the spine is just like this.

The spine itself doesn’t know anything, but it is conducting everything.

Only the one who understands this, all the bunch of wires out there, can manage the sound properly

How it should be?

We’ve been having some trouble with the sound, you know because there are too many wires.

Only if you understand every wire that’s out there, you then manage the sound just the way you want it to be.

Otherwise, in between, so many things happen, and the same goes for this one.

If you have a little mastery over how it’s being conducted, then you can ensure what kind of experience you’re producing for yourself.

Otherwise, everything becomes accidental.

Once the very experience of your life is happening accidentally, once your very way of being is accidental,

If you’re existing here accidentally, and that’s like being a potential calamity (災難), you know, that you are carrying only the fear of what’s happening to me and what will happen to me, and it destroys everything.

The beauty and the gracefulness of being human will be completely lost once the fear of what will happen is there in my mind.

You know that animals are doing quite fine.

There is a lot of temptation.

A lot of philosophers have gone into the forest, watching the quiet, gentle, conscientious, and natural life that animals are having.

People have hugely drawn to it and they had to move into the forest and lived a simple life, just like them.

This draw is big time, because of the chaos of human societies.

But what you need to understand is that it’s never going to work, because the sense of peacefulness that an animal has is coming from a certain level of unawareness, which is a certain level of unconsciousness, whereas people can’t fall back there and do what you want.

Do what you want, but you can’t fall back into the unconscious nature of the animal.

Nature has pushed on into this level of consciousness. You try as hard as you want.

You can try hard and become conscious, but you can’t try hard and then become unconscious.

At least, this much nature has taken care of you, and you can only move forwards, not backward.

Philosophers and others, various types of people have just tried to live as simple as the animals live, hoping that life will become okay, or better, but it’s never going to work.

It’s not the complexity of the external situation, which is causing this, it’s just we are not determining the nature of our experience within ourselves.