You are THE Beauty of Reality | Mark Whitwell

New York City NY

01 January, 2021

11:07 AM

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Mark Whitwell | Heart of Yoga It is self … You ARE nature. If you look at a bird or a tree or a flower and see the beauty, this beauty is no different than what you ARE. You are the beauty. But we try to capture beauty with our mind. We try to “experience” the beauty; or maybe hold on to it, savor it and try to duplicate the experience. But the mind will never capture beauty. It cannot even capture experience. It is too slow. You are beauty so you don’t have to capture it. So! Relax and stop looking. The power of the cosmos is arising as you, as utter beauty, intelligence and function, and all things. Enjoy mother nature directly, in you as you. Yoga is not a technique for a future result; Yoga is not a method; Yoga is not seeking. It is participation only in what is already true. Participation in the Given reality. As soon as it becomes a method of “becoming” it is not Yoga. Mark Whitwell | Heart of Yoga Even being “in nature” or trying to capture beauty is futile. Yoga cannot be defined as a method, a style or a type. “People often ask me if I teach āsanas, and when I answer “yes” they say: “Oh, then you are a haṭha yogi!” If I am talking about the Yoga Sūtra they say: “Oh, you are a rāja yogi!” And if I say I recite the Vedas the comment is: “Oh, so you are a mantra yogi!” If I simply say that I practice yoga, they do not know what to make of me. Many people want to give everything and everyone a label. Unfortunately, these classifications have become much too important and give the impression that there are fundamental differences between the various forms of yoga. But really they are all dealing with the same thing, and are only looking at them from different perspectives. If we really follow one direction in yoga as far as we can go, then it will lead us along all paths of yoga.” — TKV Desikachar, The Heart of Yoga (1995). Read the full article here: Mark Whitwell About: Mark Whitwell was born in 1949 in Auckland, Aotearoa/ New Zealand. In 1973, he traveled to India and began a life-long study of yoga with Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888-1989) and his son, T.K.V. Desikachar (1938–2016). Mark Whitwell’s simple mission is to give people the principles of practice that came through Tirumalai Krishnamacharya to make their Yoga authentic, powerful, and effective. Mark Whitwell is the founder of the Heart of Yoga foundation and the Heart of Yoga Peace Project, an organization dedicated to developing yoga communities in conflict zones around the world. Mark Whitwell lives between New Zealand and Fiji.