20230924 瑜伽教育讲座(1)Education about Yoga

从今天起,我们将刊登普尚吉的 “瑜伽教育”,我们只发布它的前十讲,每周日,将发布一讲。

“瑜伽教育”从问世以来,即2020年4月(疫情期间),已近300讲,从未间断过。

普尚吉如此之高产,是非常不可思议的;每周,他有四五节两小时的课,雷打不动地教了几十年;然后,这三年还有近300期的“瑜伽教育”讲座:Education about Yoga

同时,他还在不断出版着新书,各种纪念日的特殊课程,他也要发表演讲/授课;

他还担任着总院的院长、艾扬格基金会的主席…… “世俗的”所有这些要务,不比大多数人的少吧?但我们至少在网课上,依然看到他云淡风轻,温文尔雅、不急不躁,而且,他一直都是一个样子。

他在课上常说:艾扬格大师(B.K.S. Iyengar)在他的200多个体式里面,即《瑜伽之光》所呈现出来的所有体式里,只表现出了他的一张面容;而我们呢?在一个体式里,却展现出了200多张“嘴脸”。

两位瑜伽士是怎么做到的?他们接受的是怎样的教育?为何那种特殊的瑜伽教育可以让他们都成为瑜伽士?

而我们,作为瑜伽的学生,仅仅在意学体式,练体式;至今都依然可见如此言论:说《瑜伽经》八支的三支,即 Yama, Niyama, Asana 是为了我们的身体健康!

这,恰好验证了普尚吉语:很多人,即使练了几十年,依然未受到过任何“教育”,所以在瑜伽里,普尚吉继续说到:只要你受到了瑜伽教育,无证的,比有证的高级,初级的,比高级的高级,前提是要受到瑜伽教育!

普尚吉还说过:你们都只关心Guruji做了什么体式,他是如何做的;

你们不关心的是:这位瑜伽的艺术家、瑜伽的哲学家/科学家其他时间都做了什么?甚至他都吃了什么?他是如何待人接物……

所以,我们通过重新温习曾经发布过的10期内容,展开“温故而知新”之旅!

因为,这个所谓的 “新”,按照普尚吉的说法,并非是全新的概念,它,其实早在那里,未必是完全 “未知”。


只是我们在 “温故”之前,不知道我们自己不知道!

我们对待生活里的很多事情、很多人,总是以为我们知道;我们的口头语难道不是:“我知道这个!”、“我知道那个!”、“我知道!” “我知道!” “我知道!”……

即使我们被告知了真理,我们依然能比真理坚硬,依然会深陷于“我知道!”

是的,我们也许因为熟悉,真的觉得自己知道;但是,普尚吉让我们发问:
你知道“你”吗? 知道自己的“我”吗?

瑜伽(Yog)这门神妙的科学和技术,正是为了让我们自己通过我们自己去认识、了解、理解、领悟我们自己的 “我”!

所以,那句著名的“普尚吉语” 在《意识之歌》里说到:
“Asanas, are by the body for the Chitta.   ”
体式,是通过身体、为了意识”。

因为,没有了思想意识,我们会枉为“人”;没有受过教育的思想意识,我们不会转化为明理之人。


闲话少说,让我们重新开启我们的 “瑜伽教育”!!!

瑜伽教育讲座(1) Education about Yoga

Hello, Namaskar all of you.

This is Hanuman Jayanti and on occasion of Hanuman Jayanti, I intend to give a kind of on-line Education about Yoga. It is not ‘on-line class’. The world is very familiar with on-line classes particularly with the adventage of Corona Virus — a problem all over the world, (so) teachers are going on-line to be teaching yoga. So, this is certainly not teaching, this is Education about Yoga, a preliminary kind of education. And let me make a declaration here that this is open to anyone who is practicing yoga and at any  level of it — could be a beginner or by being considered a senior student. So this is for one and all. There will be greater advantages however to ‘Iyengar Clan’ practitioners.

大家好,感谢你们所有人。

今天刚好是哈努曼敬拜日,借哈努曼敬拜日,我有意推出了线上的“瑜伽教育”,但这不是网“课”,全世界都很熟悉线上课,尤其是伴随世界范围的新冠疫情,老师们都到线上去教瑜伽了,但这里不是“教课”,而是“瑜伽教育”,基础性的教育。让我在此声明一下:这个课开放给任何习练瑜伽的人、任何水平的人,可以是个初学者,或自认为资深的学生,所以这是给每个人、给所有人的,但“艾扬格体系”的习练者们会有更大的优势。

So, this is kind of education, therefore I won’t be conducting the class usually you are familiar with—you are asked to do some asanas. Unfortunately, today yoga is doing asanas, perhaps maybe asana and pranayama and maybe asana and pranayama and some meditation. This is what our notion of yoga is.

所以这是一种“教育”,因此我不会按照你们平时熟悉的方式安排课程,即你们会被要求去做一些体式;不幸的是,今日的瑜伽一直在做体式,可能、也许是体式加上“呼吸法”,还可能是体式加上“呼吸法”再加上一些冥想,这就是我们对瑜伽的认识。

However, when it comes to education, let me tell you here that I will not stipulate any posture for you. You can get to any posture in which youwill commence your session. Those who are used to practicing yoga, you can settle to any position, posture with which you start your practice session, and then my instructions will be compatible to any position that you are in. Some youngsters who are bubbling with energy might be wanting to do some physical workout, they can be going for physical workout; some of you might be senior-citizens kind of being and you may not be looking for exercise, you might be looking for just well-ness and well-being. Whatever is the case, you can be going for that. So, in respect of any age-group, this Education should come good. This is what I feel, anyway.

然而,当说到“教育”时,让我在此告诉大家,我不会给你规定任何姿势,你可以去到任何一个开启你这堂课的姿势,习惯了练习的人,你可以选择在任何一种摆放方式和姿势中安定下来,那就会开启你的练习课了;然后,我的指令才会适用于你所处的任何摆放方式。能量爆棚的那些年轻人想锻炼身体,你们大可以去锻炼;你们中的一些人或许年事已高,你们不想去追求锻炼效果,你们只想找到舒适、安好,所以不论是哪种情况,你们大可以那样去做,因此考虑到任何年龄组的问题,这种“教育”都该有好处,反正我是这样认为的。

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Now, you can embark upon any of your asana, could be a supine position, could be a standing position, with which you usually start. Now let’s try to understand these are not postures. These are not postures that you are doing. So, you are settled to so called posture, you think it a posture. But let me tell you that this is not just a posture and let’s see how yoga comes in there.

现在,你可以开始你的体式了,那可以是个仰卧的姿势、可以是个站立的姿势,都是你平时用它去开始你(练习)的姿势;现在让我们尝试去理解:这些并非姿势,这些并非你正在做的姿势;只因为你安于被称为“姿势”的姿势当中,你就认为那是姿势;但让我来告诉你,这不是姿势,让我们看看瑜伽如何进到那里面。

So in the preliminary stage, what you should be going to be doing is:become aware of your body, mind and breath, because in every position, the breathing physiology changes. The way you breathe in different asanas is going to be different. So, become aware of your breath and breathing and become aware of your mind, body, breath. Now you are settled into a body position, you have taken a body position. Now merely being in the posture, it does not become yoga. Basically, what has to be done is that you must start using whichever part of your body is able to use in your position. If you are in standing position, you can use your limbs, you can address the limbs; you can use the arms, you can address the arms. If you are in supine position, find out which parts of the body you can be using.

因此在初始阶段,你应该一直要做的是:逐渐觉知到你的身体、头脑、呼吸,因为在每一个姿势当中,呼吸生态都在变,你在不同体式中的呼吸方式会不同,所以你要逐渐意识到你的气息和呼吸,逐渐意识到你的头脑、身体、呼吸。现在,既然你在一个身体的摆放中安定下来,因为你选择了一种身体摆放的方式,但仅仅处于这个姿势当中,并不会变成瑜伽。基本上,必须要做的是:你必须在你的姿势中开始去使用你能使用的任何身体部位,如果你在站姿里面,你就可以去使用你的肢体、你可以去调节肢体;你可以去使用手臂,你可以去调节手臂;如果你在仰卧的姿势里面,就去寻找哪些部位你可以用上。

So use those parts of the body and also address those parts of the body. For instance, address your pelvic segment, address the abdominal segment, address the diaphragmic segment, address the chest segment, address the upper back, address the lower back and whichever part of the body that you are able to address, address those parts of your body; then use the various parts of the body, find out which part of the body can be using in your posture, how much you can use your legs, how much you can use your arms, how much you can use your trunk. So, find out different parts of the body, how you can be using them.

所以是:要去使用那些身体部位,也要调节那些身体部位,举例来说:调节你的骨盆区域、调节腹部区域、调节横隔区域、调节胸腔区域、调节上背部、调节下背部,不论你能调节哪个身体部位,就去调节你身体的那些部位;然后,去使用身体的不同部位,去探寻,在你的姿势里面,你能用上身体的哪个部位 —— 你能多大程度地用上你的腿部、能多大程度地用上你的手臂、能多大程度地用上你的躯干,去探寻身体的不同部位,看看你在如何使用它们。

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So, in asanas it is not just doing. You are in a posture, now use any part of the body, every part of the body that is possible; address any part of the body and every part of the body that is possible; then use, address, apply the various parts of the body, become connected between your limbs and trunk, so they will be able to co-opt. So find out in your position, can you use, connect your limbs with the trunk?And find out the usages.

因此在体式中,那不仅仅是在做,你既然处于一个姿势里了,就要尽可能地去使用身体的任何部位、每个部位;尽可能地去调节身体的任何部位、每个部位;然后,使用、调节、应用身体的不同部位,逐渐在你的四肢与躯干之间产生联结,它们因此才能合作。在你的姿势中去探寻,你能用上你的四肢吗?你能将你的四肢与躯干联结起来吗?要去探寻使用性。

So also try to understand that in the position that if you are going to exercise, you are going to go for exalted bio-mechanical actions, like you want to exercise the body parts, you are going to go for exalted actions that is tighten, straighten, stretch, elongate, extend, bend, rotate, pull, push, in, out etc. So, these bio-mechanics are going to be more exalted in case you are going for exercise, so it can be skeleto-muscular exercise, so find out how far you can exercise your skeleto-muscular body, skeleto-muscular frame in your given position.

还要尝试去理解:在任何一个姿势中,如果你要进行锻炼,你就会做出极致的生物-力学行为,比如你想锻炼身体的部位,你就会去做出极致的收紧、伸直、伸展、拉长、延展、弯曲、旋转、拉、推、进、出等行为,所以在你进行锻炼的情况下,这些生物-力学的行为就会在你锻炼的模式中表现得更极致。所以也可以是骨骼-肌肉的锻炼,但要去探寻的是:在你现有的姿势中,你可以多大程度地锻炼到你的骨骼-肌肉体以及骨骼-肌肉的框架。

And now while you are going to do that, you are also using your breath on those parts of the body. A mindful profound exhalation, a mindful profound inhalation; then a hyper-normal cycle, a sharper breathing, softer breathing, thicker breathing, thinner breathing. So make application of your breath on your skeleto-muscular body and find out how you can be getting some benefits to corporeal body.

在你那样做的同时,你在那些身体部位上也在使用着你的呼吸,有意识地来一次深呼气、有意识地来一次深吸气,然后来一轮超出常规的呼吸、更用力的呼吸、更轻柔的呼吸、更厚的呼吸、更薄的呼吸,让你的呼吸应用到你的骨骼-肌肉体上,去探寻你能多大程度地给这个肉身一些好处。

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So also your mind; use your mind, intent, your disposed condition, that you are disposed to be doing what you are doing and bring your mind for a focus to understand your body, how you are activating your body, how the body is activated, how the body is activating. So in your exercises, you will be activating the body, the body will be activated. So start identifying those with your mind, read those things with your mind —— will, volition, resoluteness. In certain positions, you are required to have will and volition, quite in a pronounced way. So see that you are trying to bring in mind aspects —— sensation, perception, cognition, thought process, deliberation; and then will, volition, awareness, sensitivity, so these are various functions of the mind. So see that your functions of the mind are also in place while you are in a position —— what you call it a posture.

还有你的头脑意识,即意愿,你喜欢的,你喜欢做的,将你的头脑意识带向理解你身体的聚焦点上:你在如何激活你的身体、身体如何在被激活、身体如何在主动去激活。所以在你的锻炼里面,你会激活你的身体,身体会被激活,要开始用你的头脑意识去认识到那些,用你的头脑意识去阅读那些——意愿、意志、决心。在某些姿势当中,是需要你有意愿、意志的,而且还极为突出。所以要明白,你在尝试带入头脑层面 —— 感受、感知、认知、思想过程、思考;然后是意愿、意志、觉知、感知,这些都是头脑的不同功能;所以要明白,当你身处这个摆放方式的同时,你的头脑功能也就位了,但你却称之为“姿势”。

Now if you are going for exercising organic body, find out any scope to exercise your organic body —pelvic organs, abdominal organs, thoracic organs, so these are the trunk in locations where you have your organic body situated. So, find out in any way for that you can be exercising your organic body: contractions, extensions, expansions, hardening, tightening, flexing, bending, rotating… whatever is in your position that you are taking in, find out all that. You can be working to exercise even physiological body, organic body.

现在,如果你要去锻炼内在的身体,就要去探寻一下锻炼你内在身体的范围,即骨盆器官、腹部器官、胸腔器官,这些就是你内在身体器官在躯干部分所处的位置,所以要探寻,你用了什么方式,才能锻炼到你的内在身体:收缩、延展、扩展、变硬、收紧、屈伸、折叠、旋转……不论你采用的姿势里都有什么,要把它们都找到,因为你此时甚至能锻炼到生理层面的身体,即内在的身体。

So that is the body-set addressal, that’s called body-set addressal. So, with your body, limbs and trunk connectivity, with your breath—exhalative, inhalative, normal to hyper-normal and then mind-awareness, mental functions of sensation, perception, cognition, memory, volition, will, resoluteness, intent, diligence, find out in what way the mind can be brought in on your corporeal body as well. So, this is the body-set addressal.

因此,那就是针对身体-层面的调节,被称为“身体层面的调节”,所以随着你的身体、四肢、躯干的联结性,随着你的呼吸,即呼气性质的、吸气性质的、正常到超常性质的呼吸,然后随着头脑-觉知,感受、感知、认知、记忆、意志、意愿、决心、意向、坚韧等精神功能,去探寻头脑意识在以何种方式也被带入了你的肉体,所以:这是“身体层面的调节“。

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Then in the same asana, in caseif that asana is a not a long-duration asana, you can come up and if you will need to change the sides, you can change the sides or you can repeat the posture once again. Some asanas are short-duration asanas, like between trikonasana and shirshasana. Shirshasana is a long -duration asana, trikonasana is a short-duration asana. So, if you are in the short duration asana, you can repeat; you can change the sides on your own and follow the directions that I am giving to you and perhaps you can repeat the same posture multiple times as well.

然后,在同一体式中,比如那个体式并非可以长久保持,那你可以出来;如果你需要换边,可以换边,或你可以重复、再做一次这个姿势。一些体式是短暂停留的体式,比如在三角式和头倒立之间(进行对比的话),头倒立是个可以长久保持的体式,三角式是个短时停留的体式。所以如果你处在短时停留的体式中,你就可以重复做;你也可以按照自己的节奏换边,再跟随我给你的指引,而且你也可以反复做几次同一个姿势。

Now in your position, just as you go for intense body activities such as bio-mechanics, straightening, stretching, elongating, extending, concaving, convexing, narrowing, widening, thickening, thinning, pulling, pushing, rotating, bending, whatever is in your position coming up. So these are the addressal of body and the exercise of the body, we activate the body.

现在,在你的姿势中,就像你在进行强烈的身体行为那样,比如生物-力学的伸直、伸展、拉长、延展、内陷、凸起、收窄、变宽、变厚、变薄、拉、推、转、弯,它们都是你的姿势里会出现的动作,所以这些就是身体的调节、身体的锻炼,我们在激活身体。

Similarly about the breath, see that you are trying to use a profound exhalation rather than just a normal breathing. Find out how the profound inhalation can contribute, how the profound exhalation can contribute. So hyper-normal volume of breathing, then change velocity of your breath — normal – velocity pattern to hypo-normal velocity pattern, that is decelerate the breath, making it thinner, making it slower and slower and slower; on the other hand, making it hyper normal velocity of breath, that is a little thicker, a little sharper and a little faster as well. So, find out how you can be addressing the breath. So, you should try to exercise the breath and breathing physiology as well by using volume of breath and velocity of the breath.

呼吸也是一样,要看到,你在试图使用深呼气,而不仅仅是在进行正常呼吸,要去探寻深吸气如何才能做出贡献、深呼气如何才能做出贡献。所以,(还要使用)超出正常的呼吸量,然后改变你的呼吸速度 —— 正常速度模式到低于正常速度模式,那是在减速,好让它更薄、让它更慢、越来越慢;另一方面,则让它是超正常的呼吸速度,即稍厚一些、稍用力一些,还要稍快一些。因此要去探寻你如何在调节呼吸,你应该尝试去锻炼气息和呼吸的生理机制,还要使用呼吸量和呼吸速度。

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Thirdly you can use confinements. The breathing of pelvic confinement to abdominal confinement to diaphragm confinement to chest confinement to even head-brain-face-skull. You can be breathing there also because now you are not in respiratory breathing but you are in wholistic breathing. So, you can be using the breath, you can be exercising the breath, you can be conditioning the breath, you can be culturing the breath even in various locations.

第三,你可以使用局部区域:骨盆区域的呼吸、到腹部区域的呼吸、到横隔区域的呼吸、到胸部区域的呼吸,甚至到头部-大脑-面部-颅骨区域,你也可以在那些区域进行呼吸,因为你现在不是在心肺呼吸的模式当中,而是处于整体性呼吸的模式,所以你甚至能在不同的区域去使用呼吸、你可以去锻炼呼吸、你可以去调节呼吸、你可以去培养呼吸。

So, make aware of that as well. Then you can also exercise your mind in that position. You can exercise the will, rather than merely investing will, why don’t you generate will also; rather than having intent in your posture and position, why not generating intent; rather than just having an investment of diligency, perception, cognition, why not try to generate those? So, you will have those acts also to generate will, volition, intent, diligency, perception, cognition, so the mind also can be put into exercise while your body being exercising in that posture. So, this is called mind-set addressal.

还要觉知到那一切,然后你才能在那个姿势里去锻炼到你的头脑。你可以锻炼意志,而不仅仅是在投入意志,你为何不去激发出意志?与其在你的姿势中和摆放方式中有强烈的意愿,为何不去激发出意愿?与其仅仅是投入坚韧、感知、认知,为何不尝试去激发出它们?所以你还会通过那些行为去激发出意愿、意志、意向、坚韧、感知、认知,因此头脑可以在你的身体处于那个姿势里进行锻炼的同时,也被放到锻炼当中,这个方面就被称为“头脑层面的调节”。

So, there is a body-set addressal where body-mind-breath work on body; there is a breath-set addressal where body-mind-breath work on breath and therefore breath has those aspects such as exhalative and inhalative; then in the mind-set addressal, the mind is addressed by body-mind-breath. So, it is always a composite activity, it is a community activity. The body-mind-breath community comes together and it carries on various activities.

所以,存在着“身体层面的调节”,即身体-头脑-呼吸在其中会作用于身体;还存在着“呼吸层面的调节”,即身体-头脑-呼吸在其中会作用于呼吸,呼吸因此也有了自己的层面,即呼气性质的、吸气性质的;然后,在“头脑层面的调节”中,头脑会通过身体-头脑-呼吸而得到调节。因此那永远是一个复合性行为,那是一个团体性行为,身体-头脑-呼吸这个“团体”走到了一起,是它在进行着各种不同的行为。

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So, this will be a kind of fabric of classical yoga getting into your postures; otherwise we are used to just doing the postures, learn the posture and practice the posture and perfect the posture, and we miss the yogic fabric, so this is how one of the very basic components of yogic fabric in your practices. So just as you can be exercising your body, mind and breath in a position, now if it is a difficult asana, you know you will find difficulty in breath and breathing. In that case, you can exercise the breath, even you will try to breathe very normally in a difficult contortion, in difficult intensity, hard intensity, then try to breath normal in sense of exercise!So, there is also exercise coming to breath-aspects, mind-aspects and body-aspects.

这就是正在融入你姿势中的传统而经典瑜伽的质地,否则我们都习惯于只去做姿势、只去学姿势、只去练姿势、只去完美姿势,我们就此也会错过瑜伽的质地,因此,这就是瑜伽质地非常基本的元件之一如何进到你习练中的方式,就像你可以在你的姿势中去锻炼你的身体、头脑、呼吸那样,此时,如果那是个困难体式,你们都知道,你会在气息和呼吸中感到困难,在那种情况下,你就能锻炼到呼吸了,你如果被放在一个高难的扭曲中、在高难的强度中、艰难的强度中,然后你甚至就会去尝试进行锻炼意义的正常呼吸!所以说,存在着呼吸层面、头脑层面、身体层面上的“锻炼”。

In yoga, we need to have prominence to purificatory process. So, in your asana, find out we need to go for purificatory processes. Exhalation is a very important instrument to be purifying the cellular body, corporeal body, empirical mind, temporal mind and perhaps at a later stage, a deeper mind as well as deeper body and cellular body. So, in every asana, make it a point to exhale more and more and more and more and more often. This will work on cellular plane which you can testify yourself by exhaling more and more and more in the head segment, brain segment to pelvic segment.

在瑜伽中,我们需要突显净化的过程,所以在你的体式中去探寻,我们需要展开的是净化过程,而呼气正是一个非常重要的器具,可以净化细胞体、躯体、经验主义的头脑意识、稍纵即逝的头脑意识,而且在后面的阶段,还有可能去净化更深层的身体和细胞体。因此在每一个体式当中,找到一个节点去越来越多、越来越多地呼气,这会作用于细胞层面,通过在头部区域、大脑区域到骨盆区域呼得更多,你可以自己去验证这个作用。

So, try to experience, when you exhale unusual volume of exhalation, it will be a kind of internal excretion, internal evacuation, internal purification because classical yoga postulates that there must be a purificatory process in place in whatever aspect of yoga is being practiced. So, find out how you can have a purificatory process in your posture and position that you are having; hereafter, we should dare not call this a posture, because there are so many things taking place, mind-body-breath, they are addressing, they are addressed; they are used, they are applied, they are applying….so it does not justify to call these as postures.

尝试去体验——当你用非同寻常的呼气量进行呼气时,它会成为内在的排泄、内在的清空、内在的净化,因为传统而经典的瑜伽由此推论:无论瑜伽的哪个层面在被习练,都一定会有净化过程。去探寻,在你的姿势和摆放方式当中,你如何才能拥有一个净化过程?这之后,我们就不应该再称这个为“姿势”,因为有太多事情在同时发生——头脑-身体-呼吸,它们在主动进行调节、它们在被调节;它们在被使用、它们在被应用、它们在主动去应用……因此称其为“姿势”,就不公正了。

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Now purificatory aspect is one aspect of classical yoga, the other one is knowledge aspect. If you look at the Sutra, the second chapter 28th Sutra which is described in Ashtanga yoga: ‘yogaganusthana asuddhiksaye jnanadiptih avivekakhyateh’.

净化性的层面是传统而经典瑜伽的多重层面之一,另一个层面是认知层面。如果你去看经文(帕坦伽利的《瑜伽经》),在“八支瑜伽”(《瑜伽经》的另一个说法)第二篇第28节经文的阐述中,帕坦伽利是这样说的:“通过瑜伽的修行即可消除不洁的意识杂质,认知桂冠上的明辨之智才会闪耀出光芒。”

So, there are two aspects, one is a purificatory process, cleansing process and the other one is knowledge process. So, when you are having your awareness, when you are having your mental act, intellectual act, emotional act, psychological act, mental act, psychic act and it is a knowledge in the realm of the internal world. You are doing everything with awareness, you are doing everything with sensitivity and therefore there is perception, there is cognition and therefore there is knowledge process as well. 

所以,(瑜伽里)存在着两个方面,一个是净化过程、清洁过程,另一个是认知过程。所以当你有了你的觉知、当你有了你的精神行为、智性行为、情感行为、心理行为、心理行为、心灵行为,那就是内在世界里的认知领域。你是带着觉知在做每件事,你是带着感知在做每件事,因此才有了感知、才有了认知,也因此才有了认知过程。

So, you can identify that there is both purificatory process and knowledge process as described by Patanjali in his Ashtanga Yoga Sutra. And of course, it is implied yoga is a purificatory process, yoga is a knowledge process. So, see how there is a knowledge process. Therefore, there is education.

你也能认识到:的确存在着帕坦伽利在他的八支瑜伽的经文里所阐述的净化过程和认知过程,当然,那也隐含着瑜伽是一个净化过程,瑜伽是一个认知过程。所以要明白,如何才会有认知过程,也因此才有了教育过程。

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You learn about your body-mind-breath, you learn about the interactions of body, mind and breath. You learn about interplay of body, mind and breath. You understand how they can work for each other. They are working for each other. Your body is not working for you. Your mind is not working for you. The breath is not working for you. They are working for each other, their interaction. So, there is enormous internal community culture, internal social condition, social interaction and therefore it is an internal sociological act which is taking place between your body matters, mind matters and breath matters.

你过去一直在学你关于身体-头脑-呼吸的一切,你在学关于身体-头脑-呼吸的相互作用,你在学你关于身体-头脑-呼吸的互动,你在理解它们如何才能为彼此服务;它们是为彼此服务,你的身体不是在为你服务,你的头脑意识不是在为你服务,呼吸不是在为你服务,它们在为彼此服务,那是它们之间的相互作用。因此存在着大量内在的“社区”文化、内在的“社交”、社交性质的相互作用,因此那成为了内在“社会学”的一种行为,那就发生在你的身体物质、头脑物质、呼吸物质之间。

So that is one of the fabrics of classical yoga which you can start exploring, identifying, discovering in any position that you are(in). So, you can try various postures, various positions and see how this precept can be applied and then you can see how education is coming in place.

那就是传统而经典瑜伽的质地之一,即你在任何摆放当中都能开始去探索、认识、发现的质地,所以你可以尝试各种不同的姿势、各种不同的摆放,去看看这个理念如何才能被应用(到你的姿势里),然后你就能明白“教育”如何进入其中。

Now comes totake a conclusive note after this kind of educative session, a short session that I gave you. Now today you are all under a tremendous gravity of this Corona Virus. The whole world is tensed, stressed, petrified and therefore let me give a few words about this.

现在这堂教育性的课程要进行总结性的发言了,因为这是我给你们的一堂简短的课程。今时今日,你们都被卷入了这个新冠疫情的巨大漩涡之中,整个世界都很紧张、倍感压力、充满恐惧,因此让我就这个问题跟你们说几句。

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Now, in present situation, what everybody’s longing is that one is longing for having good immunity because we don’t have any medicine on Corona so far. So, there is no remedy, there is no medicine discovered yet. So, we all are going to depend upon our immunity and we want our immunity to be well on surface and on toes, we want our immunity system to be on toes.

在眼下这个境况中,所有人想要的,无非是自己拥有好的免疫力,因为迄今为止我们还没有药物去对抗新冠,还没有疗法、还没有发明出药物,所以我们全都要仰仗我们的免疫力,我们想要我们的免疫力很好地表现出来、扛得住,我们希望我们的免疫系统可以抗得住。

Sowith the yogic perspective, let me tell you here, the immunity depends upon two factors that one is that your organic system, physiological system, more particularly the belly, the abdomen, which is abdominal organic-complex. The abdominal organs should function well. They must optimally function. If they are not functional, functioning optimally, then we are vulnerable to get infected, get every kind of infection, either bacteria or even virus. So, the abdominal organs must be considered as a primary factor because they have a defense mechanism which is important in immunity system.

所以从瑜伽的角度出发,让我在此告诉你们;免疫力依赖于两大要素,一个是你们的内在系统、生理机制的系统,尤其是肚子、腹部,即腹部器官的这个综合体,腹部器官应该发挥良好的功能,它们必须发挥最合适的功能;如果它们不能发挥功能、不能合适地发挥出功能,我们就会因脆弱而被感染,感染各种疾病,要么感染细菌、甚至感染病毒,因此腹部器官一定要被当成一个主要因素,因为它们有抵抗性的机制,那在免疫系统中是很重要的因素。

So in asanas, in any posture, in any position which you now perhaps did,try to understand how much you addressed your belly,how much you could address the belly; how much you could address the abdominal organ, how much did you address, how much can you address; progressively, how can you improve the addressal to the abdomen, participation of the abdomen in your posture, addressal of the abdomen in your posture, involvement of your abdominal organs in the posture. So, using, addressing, involving, making the abdomen participate, making the abdomen to be recipient. This is the very important aspects of dimension of asanas which you work on your abdominal organs, belly organs and therefore that aspect of being vulnerable to any disease or infections will be kept at bay.

因此在体式中、在任何姿势中、在任何摆放中,即你刚才做的那些,尝试去理解——你可以多大程度地作用到了肚子上——你能多大程度地去调节肚子,你能多大程度地去调节腹部器官,调节了多少,你能调节多少;再来,你能多大程度地提高对腹部的调节?尤其是在你的姿势中的腹部,在你的姿势中,对腹部的调节,在你的姿势中,你腹部器官的投入是否提高了。所以,使用、调节、投入、让腹部参与、让腹部成为受益者,这才是体式非常重要的层面——那就是你会作用到你的腹部器官上、肚子里的器官上,所以导致任何疾病和感染的脆弱层面,都会远离我们。

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So abdominal organs must be in a good condition. So just as we say you must eat fresh good and good food etc. during such times and we are doing it, we are trying to keep our food free from any junk food, we are free from junk food, fast food, food from outside put out in the restaurants. So we are having homely food, so that is taking care. It is not just only we eat good food, it works on the belly and belly works on it, so when it works on belly and belly works on it, it is building up our immune system.

因此,腹部器官一定要处于良好的情况当中,我们都说,在这样的时刻,必须吃新鲜的、好的东西等等,在这种时候,我们也的确正在这么做,我们在努力远离任何垃圾食品,我们杜绝垃圾食品、快餐,避免吃外面餐厅的食物,我们吃家里的饭菜,那都是在小心地维护。但还不仅是我们要吃好的东西,还要作用在肚子上,肚子又可以作用在吃进去的东西上,当它们相互作用时,就会作用在强化我们的免疫力上。

So that is about physiological dimension of immunity problem that you are facing today. The second one is mind: the brain, mind organs, psychological organ. The brain, if it is under a lot of tensions, stress, worry, anxiety or any malaise, etc., that is going to be counter-productive; that is going to not work for our immunity system positively. It’s going to work negatively. So those who have turbulent mind very rarely they have the defense system. If they have it, it is by default, it is by some chance, it is by the luck. That somebody is unhealthy in the mind but ends healthy in the body, so it is a fortunate thing, it is by luck, it is by default. Usually, logically, the brain function and metabolism, the brain function and the immunity process go hand in hand.

所以那是你今天所面临的免疫力问题的生理性角度,第二个角度是头脑意识:大脑,头脑器官、精神器官。大脑,如果处于大量的紧张、压力、担心、焦虑、或任何心神不宁等情绪当中,就会抵消免疫力,那就无法正面地作用于我们的免疫系统,反而会起到负面效应。那些有着波动不安头脑意识的人,几乎没有什么抵抗力,如果他们有,那也是误会、巧合、运气,即有人头脑意识里不健康,却最终在身体上很健康,那只是件幸运的事,只是运气、只是误会;通常情况下,从逻辑上说,大脑功能和新陈代谢、大脑功能和免疫力,(二者)会携手并进。

So, we must have a sound brain process, mind process, psychological process, mental process. You must be at ease, you must be ‘dis-tensed’ rather than being tensed, you must be ‘dis-tensed’; You must be ‘de-stressed’ rather than being stressed. So, we have to understand the difference between distress and ‘de-stress’. So, we should go for ‘de-stressed’ conditions.

因此我们必须有明智的大脑思考过程、头脑意识的思考过程、心理的运作过程、精神的运作过程,你必须放轻松、你必须“去除紧张”,而不要紧张,必须“去除紧张”;你必须“去除压力”,而不要有压力。所以我们要理解压力和“去除压力”之间的区别,我们该找寻“去除压力”的状态。

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And in asana, when you go for addressing the head-brain-face-skull, you are addressing your psychological mind, you are addressing your psycho-mental mind, psychic-mind, so the mind will be kept in a good state, a stable state without any symptoms of malaise or activity of malaise. Mind will be quiet and serene. So, addressing the brain in every asana is so important, as much as it is abdomen which I said earlier So, we can only now try to reinforce our immunity system, by addressing your abdomen, by proper food; addressing the abdomen by our postures which you call postures or asanas, so also the brain. Address the brain.

在体式当中,当你进行头部-大脑-面部-颅骨的调节时,你就是在调节你心理的头脑意识,你就是在调节你心理-精神的头脑意识、心灵的头脑意识,头脑意识才会因此而处于良好的状态,才不会有不适之症或不适行为的稳定的状态,头脑意识会是安静的、祥和的,因此在每一个体式中去调节大脑是很重要的,和我之前建议的腹部同等重要。所以,我们现在只能尝试通过调节你的腹部、通过合适的饮食、通过你称之为“姿势”的体式去调节腹部,还有大脑,去强化免疫系统,要调节大脑。

So, you are interacting within yourself. When you interact within yourself in yoga, do you say you have a condition that you don’t like you or you like you; you love you or you hate you? So, we are having interaction where there is no love or hate; there is no condition of attachment, aversion when we interact within ourselves. This is the very important field of work. So, within us we can get a field of work where there is no attachment, no aversion; no like, no dislike; no distaste, no love, no fondness. So, within ourselves, where we work we keep these dualities at bay—love and hate, like and dislike, and this is unique field for the brain, for the mind that it is not working under any gravities. This is also important to build up immune system.

所以,你是从你的内在去进行互动,当你在瑜伽中从你的内在与你自己交流时,你会说你有这样的状态吗——即你不喜欢你或你喜欢你,你爱你或你恨你。所以我们都有一种内在的交流,在那里没有爱、也没有恨;当我们从我们自己的内在去进行交流时,不会存在依恋、怨恨的情况,这是一个非常重要的一个“领域”建设,因为在我们的里面,我们可以获得一片没有依恋、没有怨恨、没有喜欢、没有不喜欢、没有不爱、没有爱、也没有偏爱的“领域”,我们在这里会挣脱二元性——爱与恨、喜欢与不喜欢,这对于大脑而言、对于头脑意识而言,是个独特的“领域”,它不再处于二元性的引力之中,这对于建立免疫力也是很重要的。

So, our mind is oscillating in all polarities, attachment, aversion, like and dislike, love, loath, then it will not reinforce the immunity system. In asanas, we can address the brain. We can use the brain, address the brain internally where there is no field for attachment and aversion gravities; no field for gravity of likes and dislikes; no field for gravity of love and loath. Is that not a saintly mind-set? So, asanas give us a field to have such a mind-set, therefore immunity aspect will be taken care of by these practices.

我们的头脑意识总是处于所有二元对立当中——依恋、怨恨;喜欢、不喜欢;爱、恨,那就无法加强免疫系统。在体式中,你可以去调节大脑,我们还可以去使用大脑、从内在去调节大脑,在那里面,就不会产生依恋和怨恨双重引力的领域,不会再有喜欢或不喜欢双重引力的领域,不会再有爱与恨双重引力的领域,那难道不是圣人般的头脑系统吗?因此体式给了我们这样一片“领域”,让我们拥有圣人般的意识,免疫的层面才会通过这样的习练而得到关照。

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Finally let me tell you, immunity is not a pill that you can swallow and you get it. It is a metabolic process. It is a body chemistry process. So, there is no instant measure for having immunity. You can take some supplementary vitamins and proteins and calcium and minerals etc. You cannot have any supplementary for this. So, metabolism turns it out. So, it’s a process, it is a physiological process, it is a cellular metabolical process and it’s a bio-mechanical process.

最后让我告诉你,免疫力不是你可以吞服药片就能获得的,那是新陈代谢的过程,那是身体化学变化的过程,因此不存在免疫的速效措施。你可以服用一些补充剂,比如维生素、蛋白质、钙片、矿物质等等,但你却无法给免疫力任何补充剂,只有新陈代谢才会产生免疫力,因此那是一个过程,那是生理机制的过程、那是细胞新陈代谢的过程、那是生物-力学的过程。

So don’t expect something like ‘pill’ of immunity. No asana is a ‘pill’ of immunity. Whatever asanas you are doing, they can work for immunity. Immunity is something that is developed in a long- run. It is not something that can be had in short-term basis, short-run basis. So, it is our system and the chemistry of us will generate something which gives us the immunity system.

不要指望免疫力“药片”这样的东西,没有哪个体式是免疫的“药片”,不论你在做哪个体式,它们都可以为免疫力发挥作用,免疫力是需要长期培养的东西,那绝非一朝一夕可得的东西,也没有捷径,那是我们自己的系统,我们(内在)化学变化过程会激发出某种给予我们免疫系统的东西。

So let me tell you, don’t get carried away. You will have so many things coming on mass media: do this asana, good for immunity; do this pranayama, good for immunity, it is really fooling. Because it has to work in our system. So, it works, takes a longer time, like a child takes 9 months to take birth; similarly immunity is something like that. And therefore, it will be by our bio-chemistry improving and our cellular metabolism improving. There is no short-term measure, there is no pill. No pranayama is a pill to immunity. No asana is pill. No kriya of yoga is a pill. So, understand this. Continue this kind of practice, with this perspective, the classical fabric which I introduced, you will certainly work on that front as well. Thank you, Namaskar!

所以让我告诉你,不要被带偏,你通过大众传媒上的课程,会得到很多信息:做这个体式吧,(它)对免疫力好;做这个呼吸法吧,(它)对免疫力好,那都是在骗人,因为(免疫力)是作用在我们系统里面的,它需要花上很长时间才能生效,就像婴儿需要9个月才能出生,免疫力也是这样的东西。因此那需要我们的生化系统的不断提高,我们细胞新陈代谢的不断提高,不会有短期措施、不会有特效药,没有哪种呼吸法会是免疫的特效药,没有哪个体式会是特效药,没有哪个瑜伽行为会是特效药。 因此要去领悟这一点,要继续这种瑜伽修习,从这个角度出发,即我刚才所说的传统而经典的瑜伽质地,你就一定会作用到当前的急需上,谢谢你们,谢谢!

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