EL YOGA SOCIAL del REY MONO

 

Wednesday, 16 September 2015

EL YOGA SOCIAL del REY MONO

THE SOCIAL YOGA of the Monkey King

The heart of social yoga is the preservation and defense of life itself. Life in all its manifestations. My life, our life. Individually and socially, without any distinction of race, gender, condition or appearance. It is a theoretical and practical proposal, which takes the essential elements of several of our mother cultures. In it, spiritual practices from diverse geographies are found and dialogued, such as: the spiritual and social findings of some indigenous cultures, Buddhist thought and practice, Islamic ethics, the love of neighbor of the Christs and, of course, the transcendental practices of yogiism.

Yoga, in its modus operandi, means liberation 

from all forms of oppression and suffering. 

Liberation from alienation, from daydreaming, 

illusion (“maya”), ignorance and attachments. 

Liberation from prejudices, ideas, imprecise, 

deceptive concepts and sectarian visions. 

Its ancient and effective techniques and methods, 

tested by countless liberated masters 

over at least 5,000 years, require constant 

conscious effort and several years of practice. 

There are no magic or instant solutions. 

In this sense, Social Yoga proposes a type 

of internal struggle similar to Islamic Jihad, 

in its true philosophical sense, as: 

“invincible effort to subdue our own dark nature, 

our animal heritage.” 

“This constant Jihad means strict adherence 

to the will of God in all aspects of our life,” 

according to Maulana Wahiduddin Khan 

in his book “True Jihad. The concepts of peace, 

tolerance and non-violence in Islam.” 

According to Yoga, in its sense of union (“Yug”) of the individual soul with the universal soul (Jivatman-Paramatman), the human being necessarily incubates his goal of final liberation within the community. In the sphere of social relations. Between human consciences and hearts. Individuals, couples, families and groups in communion, common union with harmonious nature. Thus, the practice and hope of Social Yoga is similarly reflected in the meaning and profound praxis of the term Sumak Kawsay (from Quechua, roughly translated as “good living”), originating from the indigenous communities of the Andean region, and which can be defined as: “the satisfaction of needs, the attainment of a dignified quality of life and death, loving and being loved, and the healthy flourishing of all, in peace and harmony with nature” (Ramírez, 2010: 61). Even yogis, shadus, shiddis, swamis, sanyassas, jivanamuktas, monks, hermits and gurus drink, have drunk and are fed, in their fundamental values ​​and higher customs, by the social group that sees them born and grow.

The social, the community, especially in our days, takes on a surprising relevance, and the enjoyment of a dignified life for all, can only be a logical achievement for any spiritually conscious being. Social Yoga conceives that human dignity is unthinkable without social justice and unrestricted respect for human rights.

The Buddhist thought expressed as: “until all sentient beings have been liberated, no one has been liberated” could never have been more relevant than in our days. As long as human suffering, caused by ignorance or political and economic violence of governments and companies, subjugates one of us, we are all subjected because we are all ONE. Yug, union, again.

 

It is true that life has preserved and maintained its balance and harmony for millions of years without human intervention, however, in this era - the modern era that has given us not only comfort and material progress - we have seen its greatest threat emerge as never before in any other period of our history. Isolated and minority groups of men and women, who venerate and submit to material values, ruthless consumerism, the market and the economy as the only goal and objective of life, are those who now govern us. By their actions and omissions, they are directly responsible for having erected and continuing to sustain an empire ("the empire of forms", wrote the Most Worthy MASTER S.W.K.). Their actions, thoughts and poisoned emotions (toxic ideas, "kleshas", in the language of yoga) - made into economic, political, moral and social systems - impose themselves on our human dignity, and that of all living beings on planet Earth, leaving it seriously threatened and denigrated.

Why, then, are we governed by these elites who are predators of life? Are they “the culprits” of the economic crises that hit our families, the lack of decent employment for all, the ecological catastrophes, the unpunished promotion of all kinds of addictions and discrimination as lifestyle habits, the tendency towards the privatization of education, health services, security, culture and everything else that is possible?

 

Are they directly responsible for the suicidal and self-destructive tendencies of millions of teenagers and young people, the commercialization of the body, appearances and female sexuality, the business of war, the invention of terrorist groups supported by them, the massive manipulation of the media, the selective persecution and murder of social, peasant, indigenous or human rights leaders and the marketing and distribution of carcinogenic, unhealthy and toxic “food” products without restraint or restraint? Are they, or are we, with our imperial ignorance and our excessive apathy, the ones who feed them, support them and allow them to do it?

 

Social Yoga proposes, then, as a common, ideal and necessarily urgent goal, the replacement of these implicit and explicit governments, made up of human beings with deformed and sickly bodies, mentally and emotionally unbalanced and spiritually rudimentary, by autonomous governments, in areas freed from their products, habits, consumption and laws, formed by councils of noble, wise old men and women, healthy in body, mind and soul, elected for their deeds of life in favor of life, by our own communities: girls and boys, included. Something that within the indigenous communities, in America, Africa, the Asian and Oceanic continents, was common and desirable before the European invasions and plunderings.

 

Social Yoga calls for a true Simple Revolution, non-violent and non-oppositional to anything. A true internal revolution, from each being, their conscious decisions and actions, towards their partner, family, groups of friends and relatives and our communities. The proposal is: to start with ourselves, replacing habits, products, goods, services and mental attitudes that destroy life or feed the insatiable greed of those groups, with actions and habits, products, etc., noble, elevated and that feed community life, in its most precise and elevated sense.

 

Social Yoga for liberation from individual and community, spiritual and material, economic and psychological oppression.