You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

EGO YOGA
102 / You Are Not
If you’re doing to get (like doing service or meditation
to get peace or liberation) it is ego yoga.
“This cannot be done by force, for that creates resistance.
This can be achieved only by alert passivity, by
relaxing the citta or mind, by not thinking of anything
in particular, and yet not losing awareness.”
(Pratyabhijnahrdayam, p. 31)
Staying in awareness, noticing how the abstracting of
the nervous system continues to abstract, like the digestive
system continues to metabolize food, and that the “awarer,”
along with what it is aware of, are made of THE SAME
CONSCIOUSNESS.
In this way, in this context, throughout this section we will
examine the “I” seeking enlightenment, and doing spiritual
practice. Moreover, how spiritual practice further entraps the
“I,” reinforcing the belief in its existence, and that the “I” is
the doer, and that somehow the “I” will get something.
THE “i AM” iS THE ROOT Of
All SpiRiTUAl pRACTiCES, SpiRiTUAl pRACTiCE
iS DEpEnDEnT UpOn THE EXiSTEnCE Of
THE ”i AM” AnD An “AWARER”—
nO “i AM” OR “AWARER,”
nO SpiRiTUAl pRACTiCE