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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 ge...

One of the very basic yoga practice is about taking full responsibility towards looking after the over-all physical and mental well-being of oneself, as well as towards all one's desires and doesn't desires, actions and reactions, and the consequences of all that. The mind that doesn't know how or refuses to be taking full responsibility towards looking after itself, and all its desires and don't desires, actions and reactions, and the consequences of all that, where all that lead to all kinds of desirable and undesirable life experiences, while putting the responsibility onto some others or everything else but itself for all its desires and doesn't desires, actions and reactions, and the consequences of all that, such mind cannot realize yoga, even if it is performing some kind of yoga practice regularly, while enjoying the yoga practice and the physical and mental health and fitness benefits that it receives from performing the yoga practice. When the mind feels h...

All kinds of yoga practice served the purpose of rendering and preparing the mind for developing correct understanding that enables the mind to transcend the limited conditional mind perception of a selfless impermanent worldly life existence that is not necessarily pleasant, agreeable, or desirable. Opening the mind, liberating the mind perception and thinking, developing correct understanding, empowering mental and emotional independence, disciplining and modifying the mind behavior pattern, purifying the intellectual reasoning, calming and quieting the thought activities, inquiring towards the truth of everything, knowing the modification of the mind, realizing the truth of selflessness and impermanence in the body and mind and in all kinds of names and forms, eradicating the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, and resting in unconditional peace. May all be free, be peaceful, be happy.

The teachings and practice of yoga exists for the minds that appreciate peace. Peace is there as it is, upon the absence of the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness. The selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind that is endowed with correct understanding is not being determined or disturbed by the mind perception of pleasantness and unpleasantness, or upon coming in contact with unpleasant, disagreeable and undesirable experiences, relationships, interactions, events, conditions, situations, objects or names and forms, and vice versa.