Sublime

Working to perfect Mūlabandha is key to enhancing an āsana practice (and to beginning and deepening your prāṇāyāma and meditation practices), because all poses ground through the seed-point of Mūlabandha and, on a more external level, the pelvic floor.

And let that highest goal toward which Patañjali’s Sūtras point be our goal: that one day we should all attain the highest samādhi, the totally liberated state.

In the fourth samādhi, even that ānanda is not there but just awareness of individuality. You contemplate the “I-ness.”

nirvitarka-samādhi is a state beyond the ability of words and concepts to describe (so a commentary on sūtras such as this is a priori somewhat oxymoronic).

This attitude of “acting as a Buddha” is particularly stressed in the Soto School, where both za-zen and the round of daily activities are not at all seen as means to an end but as the actual realization of Buddhahood.

You have to always be at it, not just for a few minutes a day and then allowing the mind to have its own free time all the other hours.