Rowan Cobelli

“The privilege is a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

This clip is a stunning and important piece on those who have had the initial awakening into presence and then find themselves in a slow deconstruction. Motivation and direction collapse. I started this phase just before Covid and 6 years later it’s still integrating and deepening. Deep disorientation. Lack of an ability to even teach yoga in the way I have. A disinterest in so many things. And a capacity to see through so much nonsense in a matter of fact sort of way.

Lovely to hear Mr Young.

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“Every single idea that we have in our heads—there are no exceptions—is an abstraction. It’s an abstract thing in the sense that the idea itself has no fundamental reality to it.”
~ Adyashanti
September 21, 2013
Breaking Free
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This weeks topic: The distinction between “self” and “Self” is central to many spiritual traditions, especially in yoga and Vedanta.

• self (lowercase ‘s’) refers to the egoic or mental identity—our personality, body, thoughts, emotions, and the image we construct about who we are.

• Self (uppercase ‘S’) refers to the true, unchanging consciousness, also called Atman in Vedanta, which is beyond thought, perception, and the mind’s constructs.

Scriptural Backing from Yoga Texts

1. Bhagavad Gita (6.5-6)

“One must elevate oneself by one’s own mind and not degrade oneself. The mind is the friend of the self, and the mind is also the enemy of the self.”

• Here, Krishna points to the dual nature of the mind—it can serve as a means to transcend the false self or keep one trapped in it.

2. Mandukya Upanishad (Verse 7 – Turiya State)

“That which is beyond the senses, beyond thought, beyond all imagination, which is neither inwardly nor outwardly aware, but which is pure consciousness, that is the Self, the Atman.”

• This text clarifies that the true Self (Atman) is beyond all mental constructs and dualities.

3. Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (1.2, 1.3)

“Yoga is the cessation of the modifications of the mind. Then, the Seer (Self) abides in its own nature.”

• The Self is realised only when the mental activity that creates the false self is stilled.

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