ライブラリ
There is no better way to bring the body under control than the way used to bring the mind under control--to put it under a daily routine of exercises and to have a fixed time for their repeated practice.
4.5.5.4Care of the physical organism will require attention to physical exercise as well as physical relaxation and to deep and abdominal breathing.
4.5.5.12All physical techniques have an indirect helpfulness but their value should not be overrated, as the advocates and teachers of these techniques almost always do. They misplace their emphasis on the body and on the tricks it is able to perform. Only one detail of the human organism deserves their greater emphasis and that is intuition.
4.5.5.61Body purification and strengthening are prerequisites and preparations for spiritual awakening and development …
4.5.5.74,The artist, the thinker, or the mystic must not neglect the muscular vigour and health of body that can be obtained through physical yoga. This would include deep breathing, stretching exercises, and a diet of light and easily digested foods which will not dull inspiration.
4.5.5.79Eugene Sandow, once the strongest man in Europe, confirms the point. He said, “It is a matter of the mind. If you concentrate your mind upon a set of muscles for three minutes a day, and say ‘Do thus and so,’ they respond.”
4.5.5.117All these yoga exercises and physical practices are praiseworthy. They are recommended to aspirants—but only as accessories. They are not, and never can be, substitutes for that moment-to-moment struggle with the ego in daily living which is fundamental and inescapable …
4.5.5.148,
15 7 2020
14 10 2022
17 12 2021
8 2 2022
25 6 2020
19 7 2023
9 3 2022
The notebooks are copyright © 1984-1989 The Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation
This site is run by Paul Brunton-stiftelsen · info@paulbruntondailynote.se