Here it is again:
"Attentiveness, and even craft, are not the same as will. Knowing and not knowing are equal parents to a poem [practicing yoga]; to learn from what lies outside the self requires stepping beyond what lies within."
What is the "within you/without you" of will?
Try to realize it's all within yourself
No one else can make you change
And to see you're really only very small
And life flows on within you and without you...
— George Harrison on lyrics there.
Ravindra would say that we are not small, that we need to step out of our smallness. But that is for
another moment of contemplation.
Will: The mental faculty by which one deliberately chooses or decides upon a course of action
Okay, so choosing to do something purposefully. That sounds like the within of practice. What lies outside the self here? Stepping into what? Or is that the not knowing?
Diligent purposefulness; determination
Again, the within is clear, the without, not so much. A desire, purpose, or determination, especially of one in authority
That "authority" would be me, or whichever practitioner ...
Deliberate intention or wish
The doing of it. Okay, I get all the within of it. But the without of it eludes me entirely. Maybe I'm tired. Would love to know what others might think.
Here's what Cicero said about motive that might relate:
"Of all motives, none is better adapted to secure influence and hold it fast than love; nothing is more foreign to that end than fear."
— De officiis, 2.7, trans. Walter Miller, 1913.
Again, I get the "within" which might include self-love and esteem and that could keep one on the path, but what is the "without"?
Comments?
