2nd Full Day at Yoga School=Phew!

Well, another beautiful and full day here~ Started with a great practice at seven a.m. and a beautiful talk with Gurudev and some powerful sharing. I asked him if what I thought I was understanding that by learning the Yoga tools that we are learning I can connect my higher self and my physical self together and use them as one was right. He responded by telling me there is no higher self and no physical self, that all is one but yes that I could raise my energy with these tools.
This afternoon spent four hours learning and practiced listening to Prana and breathing techniques along with Bhandas, or locks in the body to keep our energy inside instead of it leaking out and use it to strengthen.
Tonight we talked about the principals of Karma for two and a half hours. My head hurt and while I can intellectually understand what the theory of Karma is, I do not think that I have enough proof to confirm or deny this as a law of the universe. I do know that my Christian background disagrees and holds firm to the idea that what separates man and the animals is the ability to freely choose our actions. That on a daily basis we have the choice of good or evil, and depending on the choice we make our consequences result in actions and we and others pay the price of those actions. After all we have a justice system built on deciding if the choices people make are right or wrong. We do not have a karma court that decides if someones karma let them to the point that brought them to the jail. We judge them on the choices they have made. We were told not to try and believe in Karma, that it needs to be tested in our lives and if we are open to it, we will see that it is the way things are.
I wanted to be open to the Karma idea and was fine with the discussion as it went from deep to silly and then even deeper, until it was finished with the statement that it did not matter if I believed it or not, that is the way it is. LOL, guess that is my Karma, to be confronted with this......
Missed the Oscars, Karma...Phew!
"Karma" literally means "deed" or "act", and more broadly names the universal principle of cause and effect, action and reaction, which Hindus believe governs all consciousness.[11] Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will creating his own destiny. According to the Vedas, if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of our actions and their concomitant reactions in this and previous lives, all of which determine our future. The conquest of karma lies in intelligent action and dispassionate reaction. Not all karmas rebound immediately. Some accumulate and return unexpectedly in this or other births.[11] We produce Karma in four ways:[12]