Protection 3: Intention Vectors

Intention:  The vector from you to what you are creating.

For example.  If you want an object, your intention is a vector that leads through time to you having the object.

Yoga: The vector that leads directly to the highest intention, Ishvara ईश्वर, the Supreme.   Total liberation, that all beings everywhere might be happy and Free.

It sounds pretty enough to put on a Hallmark card, but don't be fooled that this intention is anything other than a martial practice of Self defense.

For the practitioner many perils surround, things that distract you from your connection to Self, distractions from the vector of highest intention.

We can become distracted from our intention and spend weeks, or years, or lifetimes not remembering who we are and where we are going.

This happens.  I'm not making this up.

Until the fine day we release all false paradigm, there is the the possibility of awareness becoming dispersed in an unskillful way, trapped in attachments.... drawn away from the vector of your intention.


The Crowded Market

Its like if you've ever been a stranger walking through the medina in Tangier or some similar place.  As I walk many voices urge me this way and that.
"My Friend,My Friend"
"Over Here"
"Come here, look at this"
"Please, My Friend"
When I become confused by many vectors of intention shooting every direction around me like a laser light show, an arm appears to "Help me", and maybe another pulls from the other side.

Moments like this exist and in more subtle form too.

The Hustle

A good hustler can make you forget what your intention is in a situation.  He convinces you that his intention is your intention.

A hustler tries to draw your awareness away from what you want to create, in order to procure desired energy, an object, or outcome.  A skillful hustler plays your desires, fears, or need to stay within the bounds of some perceived paradigm, to guide you along the path he chooses.

In the larger crowded market of life this takes on an even more insidious form.  Many entities want your energy.  They will hustle you to get it.  They try to sell you something, be it a product, a belief system or an entire worldview.  Are you aware that you have been conditioned to see the work as a limited scope of possibility?  Are you aware that someone "profits" from this?

Our awareness sings as a frequency and and resonates with harmonic frequencies around us.  This leads to the "appearance" that the world is the way we "think" it is, or what in yoga is called Avidya. 


Ishvara Pranidhana

Lost in the dream of many intentions and the illusion of what I think, how do I remember who I am and where I am going?

In Yoga this practice is called Ishvara Pranidhana.  Being the expression of your Self (capital S).  Being unbound by the desires of the ego, personality and what we think, in order that thought word and deed are the will of your Supreme Self.  When practiced, this "Surrender to the Supreme" works as a portal which appears even in the dream of the crowded market, through which you are connected to the the Highest intention of who you are, Right Now.

Ishvara Pranidhana is very powerful and can even penetrate the spell of powerful emotions like rage.  That even in the midst of a explosion of temper, you may realize that you are connected to who you are, and may find that you are observing the dramatic roller coaster ride of body, mind, ego, personality etc. from a place of stillness.

Ishvara Pranidhana is the mental emotional expression of the inward upward current which right now welcomes every aspect of who and what you are to be more aligned with the intention of the Supreme Self.