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11/09/2024

Introduction: Why read 6 bhashyas?

Hello, if you’re following us on YouTube [do subscribe there if you haven’t yet] you will have noticed that we’re on Sutra no 38 now. I will also be updating this newsletter with the sutras for listeners on Spotify, Apple and other sources where you get your podcasts. This will be audio only, but you have the added advantage of using the transcript for your notes. I hope this is useful for those of you who are using it as a concerted form of study. Impt: To avoid spamming you you will not be receiving email notifications until all 36 sutras are uploaded, so if you’re interested do check back for the next post. Undertake a systematic, comprehensive & comparative study of the commentaries of the Yogasutras The course uploads a recorded session daily until the Yogasutras are complete i.e. all 195 sutras. Each lesson is one sutra with a comparative study of the six bhashyas. Each sutra is a capsule of 20 minutes or less each for easy listening & retention. Study the bhashyas of: Maharshi Ved Vyasa, Swami Vivekananda, BKS Iyengar, Osho, Swami Satyananda, & Barbara Stoler Miller This is the introduction. It answers the question: why are we studying six bhashyas at once, what is our intention, why these teachers specifically? My work is completely unfunded so every share, like and subscription costs you no money and helps me to keep it free for everyone who benefits from it, so please do support with a share, like or subscribe, is my ask! Thank you. Thanks for reading Sky Gazing! This post is public so feel free to share it. Our other channels include The Enzo Circle [books] and Basics of Buddhism [philosophy] and guided meditations [coming shortly]. We’re also starting the new podcast The Seekers, which is about ordinary people from all walks of life, all of the world, their stories, where they come from, where they go to, what they practice, what their experiences are, and their purpose. Do check back for the first episode in a few days. And if you’d like to sign up to be interviewed, you can contact us below: Sky Gazing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skygazing.substack.com

11/09/2024

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16 min
11/09/2024

Sutra 2: Mental Patterns Cease

योगश्चित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः ॥२॥ yogaḥs citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ ||2|| Yoga is the cessation of mental modifications. The purpose of this sutra is to work towards the inhibition or cessation of the Citta and to be careful about what it is you are blocking or inhibiting. Sky Gazing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Undertake a systematic, comprehensive & comparative study of the commentaries of the Yogasutras The course uploads a recorded session every day until the Yogasutras are complete i.e. all 195 sutras. Each lesson is one sutra with a comparative study of the six bhashyas. Each sutra is a capsule of 20 minutes or less for easy listening & retention. Study the bhashyas of: Maharshi Ved Vyasa, Swami Vivekananda, BKS Iyengar, Swami Satyananda, Osho, Barbara Stoler Miller Tara Das is an author, poet, and mind-body-spirit therapist. We are an alignment practice and use meditation, counselling, & bodywork to help you achieve your personal healing goals. Sky Gazing is a channel by Shamah | शम: All appointments are available only through the website (c) Tara Das / Shamah | शम: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skygazing.substack.com

11/09/2024

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28 min
01/15/2024

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön

When we sit down to meditate and take an honest look at our minds, there is a tendency for it to become a rather morbid and depressing project. We can lose all sense of humour and sit with the grim determination to get to the bottom of this stinking mess. After a while, when people have been practicing that way, they begin to feel so much guilt and distress that they just break down, and they might say to someone they trust, “Where’s the joy in all of this?” Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist monk and principle teacher of the Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. The Enzo Circle has been reading her book, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times [our reading list is chosen on recommendations by participants]. What you are listening to is an edited excerpt from the live session. You will not hear the voices of participants as sometimes people share deeply personal insights, thoughts, experiences and we maintain confidentiality of each member. Members attend worldwide. We are on online, via Google Meet, on Sundays at 8 pm India time and sometimes on Wednesdays 8pm when the group feels it’s needed. We read together, in class, chapter by chapter and see what we resonate with, what it reminds us of, share what comes up and contest what doesn’t work for us. We lean on and learn from each other in the true spirit of a sangha. You can sign up here: Join the Enzo Circle 2024 Our books for 2024 are: * The Myth of Normal, Gabor Mate * Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Shunryu Suzuki * The Courage to be Disliked, Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga * Don't believe everything you think, Joseph Nguyen * What makes you not a buddhist, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche * Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul, William Sieghert. [NB: Not necessarily in the same order and books may be subject to change based on the group’s mutual decision. The fee is a one time fee for the year. It’s bring your own book. Recordings of sessions are available only to members for private viewing and may not be circulated publicly or privately.] You can still listen to the free edited version on podcasts via Apple, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts every week. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skygazing.substack.com

01/15/2024

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14 min
11/09/2024

Sutra 6: Five Ways by Which Perception is Modified

प्रमाण विपर्यय विकल्प निद्रा स्मृतयः ॥६॥ pramāṇa viparyaya vikalpa nidrā smṛtayaḥ ॥6॥ “The five-fold modifications of the mind are right knowledge, wrong knowledge, imagination, sleep and memory”. The purpose of this sutra is to explain the modifications or vrittis, to understand to what level our perception is shaped by vrittis, that in fact perception itself is vritti, before undertaking the study of yoga. Sky Gazing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Undertake a systematic, comprehensive & comparative study of the commentaries of the Yogasutras The course uploads a recorded session every day until the Yogasutras are complete i.e. all 195 sutras. Each lesson is one sutra with a comparative study of the six bhashyas. Each sutra is a capsule of 20 minutes or less for easy listening & retention. Study the bhashyas of: Maharshi Ved Vyasa, Swami Vivekananda, BKS Iyengar, Swami Satyananda, Osho, Barbara Stoler Miller Tara Das is an author, poet, and mind-body-spirit therapist. We are an alignment practice and use meditation, counselling, & bodywork to help you achieve your personal healing goals. Sky Gazing is a channel by Shamah | शम: All appointments are available only through the website (c) Tara Das / Shamah | शम: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skygazing.substack.com

11/09/2024

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16 min
11/10/2024

Sutra 15: The principle of desirelessness

दृष्टानुश्रविकविषयवितृष्णस्य वशीकारसंज्णावैराग्यम् ॥१५॥ dṛṣṭa-anu-śravika-viṣaya-vitṛṣṇasya vaśīkāra-saṃjñā-vairãgyam ||15|| "Renunciation is the practice of detachment from desires." The purpose of the sutra is to set the foundation of desirelessness. Sky Gazing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Undertake a systematic, comprehensive & comparative study of the commentaries of the Yogasutras The course uploads a recorded session every day until the Yogasutras are complete i.e. all 195 sutras. Each lesson is one sutra with a comparative study of the six bhashyas. Each sutra is a capsule of 20 minutes or less for easy listening & retention. Study the bhashyas of: Maharshi Ved Vyasa, Swami Vivekananda, BKS Iyengar, Swami Satyananda, Osho, Barbara Stoler Miller Tara Das is an author, poet, and mind-body-spirit therapist. We are an alignment practice and use meditation, counselling, & bodywork to help you achieve your personal healing goals. Sky Gazing is a channel by Shamah | शम: All appointments are available only through the website (c) Tara Das / Shamah | शम: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skygazing.substack.com

11/10/2024

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19 min
11/09/2024

Sutra 7: How do I know I have right knowledge?

प्रत्यक्षानुमानागमाः प्रमाणानि॥७॥ Pratyakṣā anumānā agamāḥ pramāṇāni ||7|| “Perception, verbal cognition, and inference are real cognitions” The purpose of this sutra is to explain how we know we are cognizing right knowledge. Sky Gazing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Undertake a systematic, comprehensive & comparative study of the commentaries of the Yogasutras The course uploads a recorded session every day until the Yogasutras are complete i.e. all 195 sutras. Each lesson is one sutra with a comparative study of the six bhashyas. Each sutra is a capsule of 20 minutes or less for easy listening & retention. Study the bhashyas of: Maharshi Ved Vyasa, Swami Vivekananda, BKS Iyengar, Swami Satyananda, Osho, Barbara Stoler Miller Tara Das is an author, poet, and mind-body-spirit therapist. We are an alignment practice and use meditation, counselling, & bodywork to help you achieve your personal healing goals. Sky Gazing is a channel by Shamah | शम: All appointments are available only through the website (c) Tara Das / Shamah | शम: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skygazing.substack.com

11/09/2024

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19 min
11/09/2024

Sutra 1: Atha Yoganushasanam

अथ योगानुशासनम् ॥१॥ atha yoga-anu-śāsanam ||1|| Now, the study of yoga. The purpose of this sutra is to help us understand: What it is we are about to study? Why do the gurus say 'now'? Is it significant? Why? Sky Gazing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Undertake a systematic, comprehensive & comparative study of the commentaries of the Yogasutras The course uploads a recorded session every day until the Yogasutras are complete i.e. all 195 sutras. Each lesson is one sutra with a comparative study of the six bhashyas. Each sutra is a capsule of 20 minutes or less for easy listening & retention. Study the bhashyas of: Maharshi Ved Vyasa, Swami Vivekananda, BKS Iyengar, Swami Satyananda, Osho, Barbara Stoler Miller Tara Das is an author, poet, and mind-body-spirit therapist. We are an alignment practice and use meditation, counselling, & bodywork to help you achieve your personal healing goals. Sky Gazing is a channel by Shamah | शम: All appointments are available only through the website (c) Tara Das / Shamah | शम: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skygazing.substack.com

11/09/2024

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8 min
11/09/2024

Sutra 5: Painful & non-painful modifications

वृत्तयः पञ्चतय्यः क्लिष्टाऽक्लिष्टाः ॥ vṛttayaḥ pañcatayyaḥ kliṣṭā'kliṣṭāḥ || Vrittis modifications are five-fold: painful and non-painful This sutra lays out the modifications of the vrittis which will be explained in detail in the following five sutras. Sky Gazing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Undertake a systematic, comprehensive & comparative study of the commentaries of the Yogasutras The course uploads a recorded session every day until the Yogasutras are complete i.e. all 195 sutras. Each lesson is one sutra with a comparative study of the six bhashyas. Each sutra is a capsule of 20 minutes or less for easy listening & retention. Study the bhashyas of: Maharshi Ved Vyasa, Swami Vivekananda, BKS Iyengar, Swami Satyananda, Osho, Barbara Stoler Miller Tara Das is an author, poet, and mind-body-spirit therapist. We are an alignment practice and use meditation, counselling, & bodywork to help you achieve your personal healing goals. Sky Gazing is a channel by Shamah | शम: All appointments are available only through the website (c) Tara Das / Shamah | शम: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skygazing.substack.com

11/09/2024

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13 min
11/09/2024

Sutra 4: What happens in the waking state?

Sutra 4 says, वृत्तिसारूप्यमितरत्र ॥ vṛttisārūpyamitaratra || If the Purusa is established in itself, then what is the state of consciousness in the waking state? This sutra answers the other part of the question raised in sutra 3. Sky Gazing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Undertake a systematic, comprehensive & comparative study of the commentaries of the Yogasutras The course uploads a recorded session every day until the Yogasutras are complete i.e. all 195 sutras. Each lesson is one sutra with a comparative study of the six bhashyas. Each sutra is a capsule of 20 minutes or less for easy listening & retention. Study the bhashyas of: Maharshi Ved Vyasa, Swami Vivekananda, BKS Iyengar, Swami Satyananda, Osho, Barbara Stoler Miller Tara Das is an author, poet, and mind-body-spirit therapist. We are an alignment practice and use meditation, counselling, & bodywork to help you achieve your personal healing goals. Sky Gazing is a channel by Shamah | शम: All appointments are available only through the website (c) Tara Das / Shamah | शम: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skygazing.substack.com

11/09/2024

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7 min
11/09/2024

Sutra 8: No Match! Reality & perception error

विपर्ययो मिथ्याज्ञानमतद्रूपप्रतिष्ठम् ॥८॥ viparyayo mithyā jñānam atad rūpa pratiṣṭham ॥8॥ “Unreal cognition is the knowing of the unreal, possessed of a form not its own” The purpose of this sutra is to explain what is wrong knowledge, how it is different from right knowledge or even imagination, and how it affects us. Sky Gazing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Undertake a systematic, comprehensive & comparative study of the commentaries of the Yogasutras The course uploads a recorded session every day until the Yogasutras are complete i.e. all 195 sutras. Each lesson is one sutra with a comparative study of the six bhashyas. Each sutra is a capsule of 20 minutes or less for easy listening & retention. Study the bhashyas of: Maharshi Ved Vyasa, Swami Vivekananda, BKS Iyengar, Swami Satyananda, Osho, Barbara Stoler Miller Tara Das is an author, poet, and mind-body-spirit therapist. We are an alignment practice and use meditation, counselling, & bodywork to help you achieve your personal healing goals. Sky Gazing is a channel by Shamah | शम: All appointments are available only through the website (c) Tara Das / Shamah | शम: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skygazing.substack.com

11/09/2024

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12 min

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Introduction: Why read 6 bhashyas?

Sutra 2: Mental Patterns Cease

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön

Sutra 6: Five Ways by Which Perception is Modified

Sutra 15: The principle of desirelessness

Sutra 7: How do I know I have right knowledge?

Sutra 1: Atha Yoganushasanam

Sutra 5: Painful & non-painful modifications

Sutra 4: What happens in the waking state?

Sutra 8: No Match! Reality & perception error

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