It’s only human beings and their need for orderly minds that would have the audacity to assume that the Universe can be ordered and structured.
Maybe, maybe not—there is no seeming “sense” in the chaos-order-cycle of Divine Consciousness played out in our Cosmos, and of course by the Mother of Existence—Nature. But what I say here might explain a little of why I teach both Yoga and Zen, and why I guide you in this way: I prefer to say that I don’t really teach you, I guide you . . . it is Love that teaches you.
Nonsense of Order
It may seem a bit nonsensical in our seemingly ordered, logical and linear world that we could jump into something as vast as self-realisation through At-one-ment with the Ultimate Mystery in maybe only 10 minutes of meditation, as we do in our zen practice and definitely as we do in our YinZen SoMa practice. But Yoga has been described as a many threaded tapestry, all threads of which ultimately lead us to our Union, Samadhi . . . and on this Ancient path, we learn that the sacred place is where we are, and what we are doing is opening our spiritual vision to see our life in that way. This is a path of practice that is further than the Yoga that many of you know: and it carries with it the roots of Zen . . . which is why I’m a multi-dimensional teacher.
As I teach it, Yoga is the practice which enables us to live with Divine Communication in our lives . . . or the zen of divine presence in all things.
“It’s only human beings and their need for orderly minds that would have the audacity to assume that the Universe can be ordered and structured.”
Initiation and Transmission
In our practice of yoga meditation we follow ancient steps taking us from self-acceptance to the necessary inner peace and balance for our conversations with the Divine . . . Yoga, your Union with the Divine . . . Yoga as we know translates as “union” or “communion” but it also means discipline—the discipline in our practice. So we’re bringing a form to our meditation practice through discipline . . . the path which leads us to the At-One-Ment, or transcending to the mystery. Yoga also means “to bind”—it is what your Soul is “bound to” or your Bliss. And it is a process of initiation, opening and growing our consciousness individually so that the vastness of the Ancient knowledge can be transmitted to us. Because none of this is orderly just for the sake of pacifying a human being’s day-to-day mind, and most of the time “making sense of it all” is a futile path.
Simple Practice
Simple practice is important: so, for example, practice in breath flow through the subtle bodies, our Koshas, and perhaps with an ancient centering meditation, as centering brings us into the balance we need to open awareness of consciousness, and the inner peace we need for our Conversations with God/Goddess . . . keeping the channel for Divine Communication open. I teach you the ancient centering meditations in the Initiation process of Membership, and I call the 100-day process The Eye of the Daughter of the Moon—an “unclustering of the living mind”.
“It’s a process of initiation, opening and growing our consciousness individually so that the vastness of the Ancient knowledge can be transmitted to us.”
Contemplation
And, for contemplation, mainly for Westerners not familiar with this from the Upanishads, Ancient sacred Indian Spiritual texts, there are a few lines here which I’ll leave you with:
A Reading From The Upanishads
I do not know god
nor can I say that I don’t know it
If you understand the meaning of . . .
“I neither know nor don’t know . . . “
you understand god
Those who realise that god cannot be known
truly know
Those who claim that they know
know nothing
Namaste, Suzen
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