Developing Your Yogic Superpowers by James Connor
Developing Your Yogic Superpowers
to Make the World a Better Place
Anyone who casually skims the verses of The Yoga Sutra, the third century root text available in nearly every yoga studio, bumps into a most perplexing fact. The third chapter on Mystical Powers describes specific causes for supernormal abilities like mind reading, invisibility, and flying.
So what exactly are the causes for superpowers? And how can we develop them within ourselves to make the world a better place?
Fortunately, superpowers don’t come from radioactive spider bites or laboratory mishaps. Instead, Master Patanjali tells us in The Yoga Sutra that “The powers are found in love and the rest.” He’s referring to the Four Immeasurables: Immeasurable Equanimity, Immeasurable Compassion, Immeasurable Love, and Immeasurable Joy. These attitudes are immeasurable because they are aimed at every living being and because the merit they generate is immeasurable. Indeed, as Patanjali tells us, the merit from these attitudes of heart are so powerful they lead to miraculous abilities.
The Buddha first taught the Four Immeasurables around 500 B.C.E. These attitudes were so well known in ancient ...
http://kajama.com/developing-your-yogic-superpowers/
So what exactly are the causes for superpowers? And how can we develop them within ourselves to make the world a better place?
Fortunately, superpowers don’t come from radioactive spider bites or laboratory mishaps. Instead, Master Patanjali tells us in The Yoga Sutra that “The powers are found in love and the rest.” He’s referring to the Four Immeasurables: Immeasurable Equanimity, Immeasurable Compassion, Immeasurable Love, and Immeasurable Joy. These attitudes are immeasurable because they are aimed at every living being and because the merit they generate is immeasurable. Indeed, as Patanjali tells us, the merit from these attitudes of heart are so powerful they lead to miraculous abilities.
The Buddha first taught the Four Immeasurables around 500 B.C.E. These attitudes were so well known in ancient ...
http://kajama.com/developing-your-yogic-superpowers/