The poses are the teachings we are the disciple. The teachings are only relative to the disciple. The pose is only relative to us. If the disciple does not challenge the teachings, how can it understand what is being taught? It will accept a fixed idea based on a non-fixed reality. The poses / teachings are fixed ideas that offer elements of truth. That truth is relative, to that moment. A living human is an organism that is forever changing, so a non-fixed reality. Until death. Then the memory of the human becomes a fixed idea for others to remember or forget. Great teachings live forever, humans do not. When a person becomes fixed on the idea of themselves, they’ve limited their living organism. They’re living dead. They’re relationship to self has blocked them. Their potential becomes unrealized. They have constructed a reality of themselves from their memory. A person’s self image is built over time and experiences to create a constructed reality. So how much time and energy does a person spend to protect that self image? It’s easy to see the reason for goal setting. The goal gives us direction to work towards some unrealized potential, in the process creating a habit of discipline. A person that has little love for something, might have to force the goal upon themselves. A person that has love towards something, may not need no goal. They could care less about the outcome, and care more about the work. Because when they are at work, they are in love. If I am writing these words, so that the reader will have an orgasm, then I am writing from my idea of what I think the reader wants to read. I am writing to get something. But I am not writing from something. Writing to get something will always leave me unfulfilled and out of love. Writing from something will expose me, which might feel scary at first. But it’s in that process of exposing myself that I am learning who I really am and how I relate to the world. This is true art. Everyone is an artist, because we all have the capacity to create. But if our only concern is what we get from our work, we lose our capacity to create, the joy of figuring stuff out is lost and we become cogs in the system. We just chase results, which creates a society of imitations and copy cats. We become clones to one another. In creation is the greatest joy. Having a child is a form of creation. Raising that child is a form of creation. What exposes a person more than raising a child? Look what you created, as they’ve grown up! You’ve either created a beautiful loving contributing member of society, or a monster collecting welfare. But they were your responsibility until at least the age of 18. If you love that work of raising a child you will likely raise a lovely child. If you are afraid to be exposed to your own weaknesses, you will find clever ways to hide and avoid those weaknesses. You will become fearful, nervous, anxious. You will hate the work of raising a child and likely raise a terrible child. Surrender is an act of exposure, and to surrender makes you feel more uncertain, so you don’t do that. So you impose only control. Control comes from a fixed mindset. Surrender comes from an open mindset. Control is to hold on. Surrender is to let go. Control offers boundaries, so security. Surrender offers nothing, so insecurity. We set boundaries for ourselves to limit distractions so we can maximize a skill and realize a new experience. The discipline builds out a groove to take us somewhere new. So for ourselves and for that child we want to create boundaries to the degree for us to learn, but not be trapped or controlled. The purpose of structure, just like in the yoga pose, is to offer a guide for us to learn, to figure out and understand how our body and mind cooperates. But if the child or ourselves remains stagnant within the boundaries / yoga pose then you are creating the habit of imitation. You see a limit and you conform. Those that rise to the top, see beyond the limits. Their awareness is expansive, where others stop at limits, they get curious about what’s beyond.