Prāṇāyāma - the gateway to consciousness
Prāṇāyāma - Der Schlüssel zum Bewusstsein
Definition of Pranayama
Definition von Pranayama
Frei von "Erreichenwollen" und nur durch Loslassen des "Bekannten" können wir die "unbekannten" Prozesse wahrnehmen und andere Bewusstseinsebenen durchdringen.
Dies ermöglicht eine unmittelbare, rohe Erfahrung dessen, was aus toter Materie etwas "lebendiges" macht: „Prāṇa“ (Prāṇa, Apāna, Udāna, Samāna, Vyāna).
Grischa erklärt, wie aus mechanischen Übungen (kapālabhāti, ujjāyī, viloma, nāḍiśodhana usw.) tatsächlich die Erfahrungen entstehen können, die in den ursprünglichen Yoga-Texten beschrieben sind:
You practice Prāṇāyāma every single moment of our life. You are either inhaling, exhaling or holding your breath. To make all this useful according to the Yoga Sutra we observe and modify place, length and number of breaths. Prāṇāyāma makes us aware of most subtle sensations in our nervous system and focuses the mind on the amazing process of breathing. It is an amazing tool for binding our awareness uninterruptedly on one mental impression. This mental transformation process is called dhārana (“concentration”) and prepares the mind for dhyāna (“meditiation”). The raw experience of the present moment, in which breath, breathing and the breather become empty of form and fall into one, is samādhi.
Authoritative definitions of prāṇāyāma as a yogic practice
We must overcome a lot of nonsense about Yoga on the market today. Therefore we must go back to it's origins. There is no other way.
Maßgebende Definitionen von "prāṇāyāma" als yogische Praxis
Eine der wichtigsten Aufgaben im Yoga heute ist, den vollkommenen Unsinn loszuwerden, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten darüber erfunden wurde. Wir müssen zu den Wurzeln zurück. Es gibt keinen anderen Weg.
- Inhalting-exhaling, (and) interruption is prāṇāyāma
- Observing external, internal, holding modifications, place, time and count, long and subtle.
- The "fourth" (mode of prāṇāyāma) transcends "external" and "internal".
- Then, destruction of the covering of light.
- The restraint of all modifications of the mind by regarding all mental states like the citta as Brahman alone, is called prāṇāyāma.
- The negation of the illusionary world (as we know it) is known as rechaka (breathing out). The thought "I am verily Brahman" is called puraka (breathing in).
- The steadiness of that thought thereafter is called kumbhaka (restraint).
This is the real course of Pranayama for the enlightened, whereas the ignorant only torture the nose.
What all that means? Come and practice with us.
Was bedeutet das alles? Übe mit uns.