Jain Philosophy:

Aparigraha (Non-Attachment): Minimizing greed, desire, and material possessions to prevent karmic bondage.😌

Become established in अपरिग्रह (aparigraha,
non-hoarding).

Remove clutter; remain light.

For three years I called it discipline. Yoga called it grasping.

I ran with data for years, a bad split unravelling the whole morning. My raised shoulders knew before I did.

Have you ever mistaken grasping for discipline?

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Can I define a new term. Possessibilism: the social norm which at one extreme allows for humans to acquire other humans. Aparigraha is an opposite philosophical term. Aparigrahaism would be an existence without material possessions. Politics tries to possess minds and actions, but science

My abuela never used the word aparigraha. She didn't need to.

She watered her jasmine with unhurried hands, no urgency, no checking of bloom. I was ten, watching.

Who in your life has shown you wisdom they didn't have a word for?

#yogasutras #aparigraha #yoga

My teacher said four words. It took me six months to understand them.

'You are holding your future.' Six months later, I finally understood.

Has a teaching ever arrived for you months or years after you first heard it?

#yogasutras #aparigraha #yoga

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You don't become someone who doesn't grasp. You become someone who notices the moment the hands curl.

That gap, between grasping and releasing, is where the sutra actually lives.

Where do you notice the moment your own hands curl?

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Aparigraha asks us to loosen our grip gently.
Not through shame.
Not through force.
Through awareness.

Your nervous system deserves sustainable care too.

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The SPH: ambition is a sickness. The cure isn't what you think.
https://medium.com/p/e41eb4fa5c11

#KAILASA #Hinduism #Indigenous #Aparigraha

My watch battery died on a Sunday. I ran without data for the first time in years.

Day three, something shifted. Without numbers, I started noticing different things.

What do you notice when you remove the measurement?

#yogasutras #aparigraha #yogaphilosophy

You don't become someone who doesn't grasp. You become someone who notices the moment the hands curl.

That gap, between grasping and releasing, is where the sutra actually lives.

Where do you notice the moment your own hands curl?

#yogasutras #aparigraha #yoga

I was doing a yoga pose about non-grasping. My hands were in fists.

Aparigraha, Sutra II.39. The one I thought I understood.

When has your body known something your mind was still convincing itself it understood?

#yogasutras #aparigraha #yogaphilosophy

A Lesson In Aparigraha

The Bountiful Yogi: On non-attachment. open.substack.com/pub/thebount...

I was doing a yoga pose about non-grasping. My hands were in fists.

Aparigraha, Sutra II.39. The one I thought I understood.

When has your body known something your mind was still convincing itself it understood?

#yogasutras #aparigraha #yogaphilosophy

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