Love Unfolds Like Flowers in the Sky
Mary Taylor
From a talk by Richard Freeman, 2006
The Yoga Sūtra, which as you know was composed by Patañjali, is kind of a universal text that comes in four different chapters called Pādas. Pāda means foot and so you can look at the Yoga Sūtra as four-legged animal with good balance, good footing. The subtle and complex teachings are organized so that they loop back on themselves from different perspectives as you work your way through the text. In that way, if you make it through the entire book, you might be enlightened. But don’t count on that because, clinging to the idea of enlightenment pretty much guarantees you’ll never get there. Regardless, any one sūtra is enough to keep most of us occupied and happy for years.
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