{"id":189,"date":"2009-12-26T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeon-yoga.com\/articles\/?p=189"},"modified":"2017-07-17T00:27:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T00:27:56","slug":"martyn-jackson-personal-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/26\/martyn-jackson-personal-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"MARTYN JACKSON:  Personal Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Shelley Piser: <\/strong> How do you imagine the next decade, the next 10 years for yourself?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Martyn Jackson:<\/strong>The next 10 years, when I finish this teacher\u2019s course, I\u2019m going to have about a months rest.I\u2019ll spend with my son and daughter and I\u2019ll start by practice gradually, intelligently. I\u2019m not going to start going into it with brute force, I\u2019m not going to go into it saying, \u201cRight Martyn, you\u2019re going to be the best again.\u201dThat doesn\u2019t suit me anymore.Once upon a time I wanted to be the best and that doesn\u2019t pay. Being the best is just another phase in your life, you know.Because there is always somebody that is going to be better.But, all you\u2019ve got to do is to work to the best of your ability. You\u2019ve got to pursue, you\u2019ve got to open up areas in your body that you haven\u2019t visited before and you must observe them and you must be thankful for what you can do at this moment and just be honest with it.There must be integrity in everything you do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I picture the body as the dwelling house of the Lord. And that He\u2019s there all of the time. This energy, what people call G- O -D?\u00a0 It\u2019s there all the time. You must always be cleansing that temple, the body. You must pursue it; you must be honest with it. You must penetrate it so that you can really understand the truth. Because when you understand the truth you understand yourself. And this is what I feel. This is what I feel that I don\u2019t want to be a pseudo person, I want to be a person that shines like a knight in armor, and I want to be a person that is a Godly person; an honest person. I want to have the utmost integrity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>SP:<\/strong> Do you feel that you are still striving for that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>MJ<\/strong>: Yes, definitely. At the moment I\u2019m \u00a0fighting off a lot of my old pupils because they seemingly feel a lot for me, which I believe that they do too. I sense that they are protective towards me and that\u2019s why they protect me in such a way that they won\u2019t allow me to do this they won\u2019t allow me to do that. They encourage me to take more time off. I feel that tremendously, but that\u2019s got to break away to go away. I will be leaving the school eventually and just starting something quietly on my own again. Just very quietly. I am going to be more selective with pupils now. Like if you were around, I would ask you to work six months with me, or if you wanted to stay, I would encourage you to stay. Because. I think I have observed you for a long time and you\u2019ve got the potential of really going out there and having people. You can cut yourself off. You can become an individual. If you\u2019ve got somebody really serious, you could work well. Physically you\u2019re ok, you can do the asanas, but, I\u2019d like to get a better understanding with you that I want to bring your soul consciousness. It\u2019s there, I mean, it shows, It\u2019s there, but there is something a little forlorn about you and there is something a little\u2026 Like there is loneliness there that you don\u2019t really understand and this is holding you back. But I feel that it is a learning stage that you are learning but it\u2019s slow, you are not, I don\u2019t know, I sense a lot of fear in you sometimes. But you\u2019ve got a lot of potential if it\u2019s guided properly. That is the sort of teachers that I want. I want teachers, not because I teach them; not because I\u2019ve trained them. But, because I\u2019ve been allowed to participate in their growing, that\u2019s what I like and I\u2019d like to be more selective now because there are a lot of young teachers out there now. You know if they work well and devotionally they\u2019ll make quite good guides<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9shelley piser 2009<\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelley Piser: How do you imagine the next decade, the next 10 years for yourself? Martyn Jackson:The next 10 years, when I finish this teacher\u2019s course, I\u2019m going to have about a months rest.I\u2019ll spend with my son and daughter and I\u2019ll start by practice gradually, intelligently. I\u2019m not going to start going into it with brute force, I\u2019m not&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/26\/martyn-jackson-personal-thoughts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}