Based on a talk given by Rev. angel Kyodo Williams on February 3, 2007, at the Center for Transformative Change/New Dharma Meditation Center in Berkeley, California.

Good morning. So the hopefully enticing quote on our flyers is from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, Book One, Verse 21, “For those who seek liberation wholeheartedly, liberation is near.” The one that I didn’t include that just follows it is, “How near depends on whether the practice is mild, moderate, or intense.” That’s usually the verse that we don’t really want to hear. It basically says that liberation has something to do with our degree of relationship and application of our own practice, that it doesn’t just kind of descend on us.

Read the full essay here: http://transform.transformativechange.org/files/wholenessthroughrelationship.pdf