Did you know???

Drishti, in sanskrit, is a focus or gazing point.  It stems from the with the roots drish, meaning to see, drishau, meaning the eye, and drishtah, meaning observed.   In that, drishti refers to our external gazing points, such as where I eyes physically wander in a yoga class or while in a yoga asana, but also to our internal gazing points.  This latter meaning of the word is the most challenging part of true yoga, and in that, life.

Today, take a moment and see where your internal gaze is…. Is it on your colleague who you can’t stand, or on a guy that may or may not call?  Is it on a fight you had last week or on your friend who got some great news?  Or is your internal drishti stuck on the own circles and iterations of your own mind?

If you can figure out where you are truly looking, then you can teach yourself how to see.  And when you accomplish that, you can learn how to see everything you dreamed of.  True Sight. True Focus. True Yoga. True YOU.

Have you ever looked for something you have been unable to find?  Have you ever been searching but unable to pinpoint what it is you are looking for?  You know the way….you look and search, grasp and reach, and yet still come up with nothing that really is something. Or you find something, but it is not any thing.  This is essentially the crux of Tibetan Yoga philosophy. 

Think about it all as a cloud, like the beautiful ones that were out in the NYC sky yesterday.  Clouds are made of water particles that are constantly shifting and changing, but that together from our earthly perspective appear to form something.  But when you get to them, they are translucent, and transient.

In Tibetan Yoga Philosophies, GAKJA is the word for something that is not there, but that we think is there and are always looking for.   Like a cloud.  When we accept that we are each living, seeing, experiencing our own clouds, our own gakjas, we begin to be able to deconstruct them into what they are - moving, changing particles with our perception attached - and from there reconstruct our own reality, one in which everything is picture perfect.  

It is up to you and you alone to pin the clouds, or take yourself to them.