Radikal Freedom Yoga as realisation

Welcome to the new little one on planet Earth. If he/she were not born in the affluence of the contemporary medicalised world and instead has been born in one of the poorer ghettoes on earth then he/she may not survive beyond five years. But none the less welcome young one, most welcome and may you live well.

Some people say we are overpopulating the world, that there are going to be disasters based on over population, that we will use up all the resources and so on. For sure it can look like that, which perspective do we choose to hold?

Which viewpoint reflects what is real and serves to benefit all beings?

However we choose to view the situation, the simple fact is that this planet now does hold 7 billion human beings. This simple fact is also wonderful proof of human creativity and resilience.

In 200AD the Christian philosopher Tertullian said that we humans are burdensome to the world. In the early 1800’s Malthus stated that the earth cannot deal with any more people and the population then was 980 million, not even one billion.

Since then we have heard any numbers of warnings of imminent collapse, warfare over water and land and so on. Now we have 7 billion souls what are we going to do about it?

It is as it is, so what do we do?

My suggestion is that we deal with the negative psychology that continues to generate greed, anger, violence and their finest exemplar warfare. Greed is rooted in fear. Fear is a psychological and emotional contraction whose reality is about creating protection, walls, defences, fortresses, strong boundaries, definitions that exclude, the other, the enemy. Fear is rooted in ignorance of how things actually are, inseparable!

The lived recognition of inseparability is love. Love is open, mutually related, respectful, kind, appreciative, creative, expansive, aware, and is the reality of the inseparable intimacy of life-essence as sacred and unified.

Love works to heal wounds, heal warfare, heal and resolve fear and welcomes every being to reach their creative potential. As Brendan O’Neill author of Spiked says: Human beings especially in the third world are often sneeringly referred to as ‘another mouth to feed’. This mentality ignores the reality that each human being is also more hands to create, more minds to think, more hearts to love. As Brendan says: Seven billion minds are better than one.

Isn’t love that is pragmatic, engaged and embodied the way to turn around the culture of fear on this planet?

What tools do we have available to make this happen?

There are currently over of us 2 million yoga practitioners on planet Earth, at a conservative estimate. Each one of these beings is in some way working towards creating a world of pragmatic love. Many people working through humanism and some religions are also seeking this outcome.

As yoga practitioners we have the power of practice, the continuous generation of love through making every moment perfect with our awareness.

Contraction into fear is simply making this moment imperfect, unsatisfactory and wrong. Suffering requires a consistent moment-by-moment contraction into fear. Fear leads to greed and anger. Greed and anger lead to war. The recognition of inseparability is not just a cognitive event. The embodied realisation of inseparability lives in the legs, the arms, the muscles, the tendons, the joints, the glands, the organs, the heart and in every neurological event that occurs. The realisation of inseparability lives as each perceptual position occupied and in each arising moment of consciousness. The consequences of this lived realisation are what we might call love.

Isn’t this Yoga?