The Daily Yogi

By Jayden Kyryluk   "What we think, we become. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. "  - Gautama Buddha    Nothing I have done is who I am. This self-image I have so strongly built up for myself through relationships, travels, experiences, accomplishments, and interests do not even equate to a particle of dust when the true drop of my being is found in the ocean of cosmic consciousness. This ego mind clings so hard to the self-imposed, to the created self and outer public image. It believes that is what it is. Who I am.    The harder I try to cling to the image of myself and build it into something I may believe in, the further I travel away from my true being. I can feel it. Can you? The more we search for who we are in external things and satisfactions, the further we distance from the true definition of ourself found within. I look back at my actions in building up an image of who I want to look like rather than...

By Kyle Wilfer As a mountain manifests the silence between the words in an incarnation of grace and magnitude, the sheer chaos that pours out is met with a semblance of perfection. Just as our ego paints the canvas of the soul; a mountain invokes storms, houses wildfires, and harbors death and life. The duality of such grace is pure and just.  Allow me to see, but not to possess.  Allow me to hear, but not to react.  Allow me to taste, but not to want. Allow me to love, but not to desire.  Allow me to be in the world, but not of it.  Ah so, and that too. As yet another part of the sadhana arises at every moment, no goal but the power of now lingers in this heart. What shall manifest will be as is written.  Kyle's Bio: I am witnessing the promises and pitfalls of this incarnation and writing is the mechanism in which the witness can speak. Through my many travels I have come to some amazing realizations that have carried on to everyday life. Finding God in ...