{"id":1401,"date":"2019-04-15T16:23:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T16:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2019-04-15T16:23:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T16:23:51","slug":"the-yoga-of-contradiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/the-yoga-of-contradiction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yoga of Contradiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"main\">What kind of lineage is this? &#8230;&#8230; where self means no-self, where emptiness means fullness, and fullness means emptiness, or both. If you think you know, you don\u2019t and if you don\u2019t know, you do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"main\">Even the notion of lineage collapses in the timeless, as no transmission can occur anyway, since there is no other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"main\">What a state of contrariness! What is one to make of an ancient invocation where the arithmetic of truth negates itself, leaving only truth? No wonder there is nothing to get.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"main\">0 \u2013 0 = 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"main\">From the 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0 (?) Century BCE, here is the Invocation from the\u00a0<em>Brihadaranyaka Upanishad<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"main\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"main\"><i>This is fullness.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span class=\"main\">That is fullness.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span class=\"main\">From fullness springs fullness.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span class=\"main\">Take fullness from fullness and<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span class=\"main\">only fullness remains.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span class=\"main\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"main\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/miscellaneous-meanderings\/chant\/Invocation.mp3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Listen to Sanskrit chant<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"main\">For a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacredsoundinstitute.org\/recordings.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">professional recording<\/a>\u00a0of this chant: Cynthia Snodgrass<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"main\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"main\"><em>Om purnam-adah purnam-idam<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"main\"><em>Purnaat purnam-udachyate<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"main\"><em>Purnasya purnam-aadaaya<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"main\"><em>Purnam-eva-avashishyate<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"main\"><em>Om shanti shanti shanti<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of lineage is this? &#8230;&#8230; where self means no-self, where emptiness means fullness, and fullness means emptiness, or both. If you think you know, you don\u2019t and if you don\u2019t know, you do. Even the notion of lineage collapses in the timeless, as no transmission can occur anyway, since there is no other. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meanderings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}