Alternating between San Rafael and San Francisco on the second and fourth Sundays of the month respectively. Please see the maps, directions, schedule, and details below.
All those who are interested in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras are welcome. Bring your favorite copy of the yoga sutras or download from the web:
http://www.dailyreadings.com/sutras_1.htm (Swami Venkatesananda’s brilliant interpretation)
http://hrih.net/patanjali/english.htm over 25 different translations found on the web
http://www.rainbowbody.net/HeartMind/Yogasutra.htm a detailed commentary and modern translation (case sensitive)
Cushions are available at the San Rafael site. Chairs will be made available in San Francisco. We will sit in silent meditation for the last 10 minutes.
This will be a thematic approach with topics and agenda decided upon by the group members. The approach will be experiential (practice oriented) as distinct from a theoretical, philosophical, or academic rendering of the Yoga Sutras.
NEXT MEETING: January 11, 2009 in San Rafael at 4:30 P.M. and will last for two hours (ending in a ten minute sitting meditation)
We will begin with Sutra IV.7 (See Kavalayam Pada).
IV Sutra 7 karma-asukla-akrsnam yoginas trividham itaresam
The actions (karma) [of a yogi who has thus rid himself from past residues by mastering meditation] are can not be measured, discerned, or grasped in ordinary relative terms as either white nor black, pure or impure, and so forth as the yogin's actions are no longer caused in turn by the winds of karma, while the actions of ordinary karmically driven beings are driven by cause and effect and can be understood and characterized thus in a three-fold (trividham) system.
IV Sutra 8 tatas tad-vipaka-anugunanam eva abhivyaktir vasananam
Thus they [non-yogis being propelled by the winds of karma] experience their habitual patterns (vasana) ripening (tad-vipaka) according to conditions which are conducive (anugunanam). Thus their negative impressions ripen, or they do not ripen, according to external circumstances which are non-conducive.
Directions:
On the Second Sunday of the month January 11, 2009), the meeting will be at 294 Union St., San Rafael, 94901
Public transportation Directions to 294 Union St. San Rafael (2nd Sunday of each month)
Driving Directions and map to 294 Union St. San Rafael meeting on the 2nd Sunday of each month (carpooling suggested)
On the Fourth Sunday of the month, the meeting will be at Kaiser Permanente, 2238 Geary Blvd, (directly above Divisadero. The January 25 Meeting is Cancelled.
Please RSVP to Frank Sclafani if you plan to come, by email ( Frank.A. Sclafani at kp.org ) or phone, 415.833.8720.
There is parking under the building (under entrance on Geary Blvd marked Garage). Typically on Sunday there is no charge.
Because of building security regulations, we will need to all meet together in the main lobby at 5:00 PM, and jointly proceed to Frank Sclafani's office on the fourth floor (suite 4W). 415.833.8720.
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