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The Present Moment

'Yoga begins in the present moment, and the present moment begins in silence.  From that silence, words are born.  In the Yoga-Sutra attributed to Patañjali (third century b.c.e), considered to be one of the core texts of yoga psychology, we being with a simple sentence: ‘Atha yogānuśāsanam.’  This is translated as ‘in the present moment is the teaching of yoga.'. . .

​'The first word in the Yoga-Sutra - atha - literally means ‘now,’ ‘what is here in this moment.’  Yoga begins in the present moment.  Yoga is the present moment.  We could more concisely translate this opening line as: ‘Yoga beings now.’  The teachings of yoga orient us toward this very moment, rendering the future invisible and the past no longer in reach…'

- Michael Stone, 'The Inner Tradition of Yoga.
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