The class I found more fulfilling was the one in which I had surrendered more deeply, not comparing my flexibility with more advanced students, with no thought of how it should be, no repeated clock checks, just childlike compliance and present and relaxed in every breath and moment. I had allowed the class to be fulfilling simply by letting go. Aparigraha reminds us to never hold on, and letting go is the cultivation of emptiness in our lives.
We shape the clay into a pot, but its the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. - lao-tzu
the empty ruins of Angkor Wat, my trip to Cambodia this summer