（文瑩老師翻譯的原文附在最下方，英文好的朋友可以讀到原汁原味。）

有人向 Geetaji 提問，當身體緊繃或有障礙時，心靈會覺得有阻力，不想再往前行了，我們如何突破這個關卡呢？

Geetaji 回答：問題的癥結在於，你只用眼腈去看最後的動作（final pose），這只是一個完成式了(a complete pose)。(那練習的過程呢 ?)

若以蠍子式（Vrchikasana）為例，如一個人的腳可以碰到頭，而另一位的腳離頭還有６英吋，你會怎麼看呢？你說，前者做的比較好，他做了漂亮的瑜伽，因為他的腳碰到頭了。

其實那並不是必要的。因為腳碰到頭，並不是蠍子式所必須的。重點是，做蠍子式時，【你活動了腎臟或器官，你活動了脊椎，你進入了心靈…這才是最重要的。】

做蠍子式時，腳沒碰到頭的人是謙虛的，是很實在的；而腳碰到頭的那一位，創造了驕傲的空間，【他完成了蠍子式，卻沒有完成瑜伽。】不要把體位法僅看作是體能上的姿勢，身體的緊繃僵硬根本不是問題。

若你【盡己所能】地完成了頭碰膝式（Janu Shirshasana），那麼你的頭是碰到膝蓋，還是在椅子上，根本沒有差別。頭碰到那兒完全不是那麼要緊。

讀後心得 :【盡己所能】在不傷害自己的情況下，享受盡情的伸展，持續的練習，這就是瑜伽。

Words from Geetaji that have always stayed with me.

Question: When your body is difficult or stiff, you can get resistance from the mind. You reach a point where, even if you want to learn, the body becomes sensitive; it doesn’t want more… How can you practice to go beyond this?

Answer: … The trouble is that you visualize that a final pose is a complete pose.

Suppose someone does Vrchikasana and touches the feet to the head, and another person does Vrchikasana and there is a gap of 6 inches. What do you think? You say “This person has done better, this person does beautiful yoga” because he has touched his feet to his head.

That is not necessarily so, because touching the feet to the head is not essential in Vrchikasana. Getting the action on the kidneys or organs, getting the action on the spine, getting the access to the mind is important.

In fact a simple thing is this. In the fellow who has not touched his head with his feet there is humbleness, which is positive; this fellow who has touched will create room for pride. So he has done Vrchikasana but not done yoga. Don’t look at the asanas just as physical postures. They are meant to give access to the mind, and if they have done the job, there is no question of your stiffness.

If Janu Shirshasana has done what it should do to you, there is no difference as to whether you have brought your head to knee or chair. It is absolutely irrelevant.



蠍子式（Vrchikasana）




頭碰膝式（Janu Sirshasana）