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Awesome stuff. Thanks. Yoga sometimes gets the "work hard to be a better person" label. When all the stuff falls away, what is left? The stuff was all imaginary so the dualism is imaginary.
That quote about "sitting right" makes me think of the Buddhist idea of sukha and dukha. Dukha is when a wheel is not aligned properly and so it causes dysfunction. Sukha is when the wheel is straight, so it is a smooth ride (sitting right, walking right...).

And wow:
"here are no rituals you have to go through.
There are no prayers you have to chant.
You simply have to awaken to your true nature"

Beautiful.

Lovely, clearly put.


"The problem is not your life. The problem is this worm of an inferential belief that appears at the moment of the awakening of personal consciousness, which says, I don't know what is going on here, but I know that I am profoundly and fundamentally in danger here. The only solution to this fundamental mistake has nothing to do with taking on a new understanding or a new belief. All that needs to be done is to look at yourself. All of our beliefs, all of our conviction that we are in danger, and at stake, and unworthy here come from this one false inferential thought-form. That thought-form is entirely about identity and it leads us to the insanity of identity-worship which is the cause of all our desperate effort to try to become what we think we need to be. Since this mistake is entirely about identity, the only thing that can be done to rid you of that is to look at you. Not your true self, just at you, because you are the subject of that thought form. And if you look at you as often as it occurs to you to do so, without regard to anything else you are doing in your life, that false inference will go away over time. If you look at the subject of that inference, which is you, reality will certainly snuff out that thought-form, whereupon the whole enthusiastic, energetic, and desperate interest in the way in which life is unfolding; the whole conversation regarding the nature of life and of your relationship to it will just vanish, along with the belief that you are at stake here. All this comes not from finding yourself, but from looking at yourself, looking at the subject of this false inference."

This is an excerpt from John Sherman's monthly podcast, available online.

Yay! Tony is a dude. That last quote reminded me of a passage in Unmani's book "I am Life Itself" rightly or wrongly I always seem to burst out laughing when I read it...

"...After that I went back to Pune and did a therapy group where we all regressed back to childhood to relive our pain for 5 days! This was basically a week of crying (not that my childhood was particularly traumatic at all). On the last day during a heavy catharsis session, I broke my ankle by attempting to kill my mother as I punched and kicked the matresses and padded walls. This compounded my emotonal state. As I sat in a wheelchair on the last day of the group, and lisened to the therapist say 'This has been just a taste of the work that you need to do on yourselves'. My world went black."

Both Tony and Unmani can be found on You tube too.