The flexibility that matters

The flexibility that matters in the path of yoga, is not about the physical flexibility, but it's about the mental flexibility or ability to be making necessary adjustment at anytime, to adapt and accommodate the present impermanent condition of the body and mind, and life, being what it is.

It's about performing necessary action in accordance to the condition and situation in the present moment now.

It's about knowing when to keep moving, when to retreat, and when to take rest, or when to go faster, when to go slower, and when to stop for awhile, or be able to make necessary changes to the plan or the route without changing the goal, without being determined or disturbed by all kinds of challenges, obstacles, difficulties, the possibility and impossibility, success and failure, or the fruit of actions.

It's about respecting what is possible and impossible in the present moment now, and both possibility and impossibility are impermanent.

When there's a need to be gentle and soft, one can be gentle and soft.

When there's a need to be strong and aggressive, one can be strong and aggressive.

But one is neither gentle and soft nor strong and aggressive.

One doesn't need to be a person, or have a personality, that is gentle and soft, or that is strong and aggressive.

It's about neither 'gentle and soft' nor 'strong and aggressive', but merely performing necessary actions according to the condition and situation in the present moment now.