If you want to really meet reality you need to be ready to face boredom. Don’t escape to the new. Same hour, same position, same asana. You will not fall asleep during the asana if you are focused on the right posture.
Many people fail in meditation because they think that God is the big entertainment. So they search for the unique experience and after a while they get bored.
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Yoga means union with the authentic, with the real… Our experience of life as thinking beings is from a past and towards a future, ignoring the present. We live from the yesterday and towards the tomorrow, from what no longer exists, towards what does not yet exist. But we lose the now. We live from that stale world of the known, towards a world of hopes, expectations, fantasies, dreams and illusions, which draws us into an interminable search for aims and results.
An article by Swami Ramakrishnananda
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