Yoga The Alpha and the OmegaVol 6汇总.doc

Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 6 Discourses on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Talks given from 01/09/75 am to 10/09/75 am English Discourse series 10 Chapters Year published: During the early 1980s it was planned to publish the Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega volumes as Yoga: The Science of the Soul. Only the first three volumes were actually published, the title stayed as Alpha and Omega for the other seven volumes. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 6 Chapter #1 Chapter title: A Life is a Mirror 1 September 1975 am in Buddha Hall Archive code: 7509010 ShortTitle: YOGA601 Audio: Yes Video: No Length: 92 mins 35. WHEN THE YOGI IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN NONVIOLENCE, THERE IS AN ABANDONMENT OF ENMITY BY THOSE WHO ARE IN HIS PRESENCE. 36. WHEN THE YOGI IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN TRUTHFULNESS, HE ATTAINS THE FRUIT OF ACTION WITHOUT ACTING. 37. WHEN THE YOGI IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN HONESTY, INNER RICHES PRESENT THEMSELVES. 38. WHEN THE YOGI IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN SEXUAL CONTINENCE, VIGOR IS GAINED. 39. WHEN THE YOGI IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN NONPOSSESSIVENESS, THERE ARISES KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOW AND WHEREFORE OF EXISTENCE. Once it happened, I was in the mountains with a few friends. We went to see a point known as the echo point; it was a beautiful spot, very silent, surrounded by hills. One of the friends started barking like a dog. All the hills echoed it -- the whole place appeared as if full of thousands of dogs. Then, somebody else started chanting a Buddhist mantra: Sabbe sanghar anichcha. Sabbe dhamma anatta. Gate, gate, para gate, para sangate. Bodhi swaha. The hills became Buddhist; they reechoed it. The mantra means: All is impermanent, nothing is permanent; all is flux, nothing is substantial. Everything is without a self. Gone, gone, finally gone, everything gone -- the word, the knowledge, the enlightenment too. I told the friends who were with me that life is also like this echo point: you bark at it, it barks at you; you chant a beautiful mantra, l