“As long as we have physical bodies,
we hold on to the physical breath for life;
yet there is a breath inside that breath
which,
from the viewpoint of Yeshua’s Aramaic,
connects to [our] soul, ruha.
This ruha-breath is the activity in us
that is always connected to Reality
[, in other words, God, the Source of Life.]
--Neil Douglas-Klotz, Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus
In my studies of the Aramaic Jesus of Nazareth, I have learned that the Semitic worldview of the nomadic people that Jesus taught was very similar to that of the Sankhya Yoga worldview.
The Semitic people understood that a human was a “naphsha” (a breathing being made of clay) and a “ruha” (a soul made of the Life Force of the Creator.) Although yoga makes more distinctions regarding the make-up of humans, it believes that we have a physical body that is empowered by the life force called “prana.” Both traditions believed that they were united in the one human person. Each human had a physical and spiritual dimension that could not be separated while we were living on the Earth.
When we cling to our physical breath and focus on that life, we lose touch with the source of our spiritual breath, or true life force because we are separating the physical breath from the spiritual, “life-force” breath. I do this whenever I do not to “real,” seamless, effortless flow of the breath within me. Whenever I worry about the future or stew over the past, I cut short or fluctuate or even stop breathing that real seamless, effortless stream of life that permeates my body all the time. When I am in the “now” and acting from my heart’s desire, no matter what I am doing—teaching, meditating, eating with Mary, exercising, in a group with loved ones, etc—I experience a new energy, a new zest. I begin to experience more energy, especially during this medically challenging time in my life.
Aramaic Jesus and Yoga’s Vishoka Meditation are teaching me this important truth.
I bow to the divinity within you!
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