When I lived in Los Angeles I visited the Self-Realization Fellowship retreat many times and I took some yoga classes based on Yogananda's teachings. Your video brought back many memories. I now know a space where there is neither abundance nor scarcity even though we live in a polorized world of wealth and poverty. People talk about the "haves" and the "have-nots" as if it's a struggle between opposites. The dirt-rich and the dirt-poor have at least one thing in common: the willingness and ability to HAVE and NOT-HAVE is virtually identical. They can want for something. They might even get it. They can "release" it but there's no where for it to go where it isn't already present! And that's freedom. Such is HAVINGNESS.
I'm loving the theme of "fun". This 3 or under took me right back to my childhood. I was an only child and learned in a very young age how to entertain myself and self-sooth .One of the things I loved to do was sit with a Sears catalog and do pretty much just what you're saying. When I was done looking at all the toys and pretty dresses and imagining they were mine I remember I could close the catalog put it away and have no feelings of loss just sort of like what you're saying, letting go (albeit, I could not articulate it then) and going on to something else that I would deem fun. Come to think of it I did the same thing as an adult when those Christmas catalogues would come in!
When I lived in Los Angeles I visited the Self-Realization Fellowship retreat many times and I took some yoga classes based on Yogananda's teachings. Your video brought back many memories. I now know a space where there is neither abundance nor scarcity even though we live in a polorized world of wealth and poverty. People talk about the "haves" and the "have-nots" as if it's a struggle between opposites. The dirt-rich and the dirt-poor have at least one thing in common: the willingness and ability to HAVE and NOT-HAVE is virtually identical. They can want for something. They might even get it. They can "release" it but there's no where for it to go where it isn't already present! And that's freedom. Such is HAVINGNESS.
I'm loving the theme of "fun". This 3 or under took me right back to my childhood. I was an only child and learned in a very young age how to entertain myself and self-sooth .One of the things I loved to do was sit with a Sears catalog and do pretty much just what you're saying. When I was done looking at all the toys and pretty dresses and imagining they were mine I remember I could close the catalog put it away and have no feelings of loss just sort of like what you're saying, letting go (albeit, I could not articulate it then) and going on to something else that I would deem fun. Come to think of it I did the same thing as an adult when those Christmas catalogues would come in!
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