Haha I enjoyed your response Hubert, however, there are some missassumptions in it about me and what I believe, but that’s ok.
Firstly, I do not see the mind as the enemy, nor do I picture this path as a ‘war against the mind’ because of one simple reason: My way is to focus beyond the mind, war means that there is duality, there must be 2 sides to have a war. One thing must battle another. If we are fighting the mind, we are not getting anywhere. If we let go of it and transcend it, that’s when things get interesting. And that’s when all the yamas and niyamas are absorbed in our character automatically.
Yoga is not just a tehnique. It does not work the way, I do this and I get that. The whole being must be adressed.
So even if you jump to withdrawal of senses, concentration and meditation, but you have no control of your everyday life in terms of restrains and commitments, these still will be the first things to take care of. Your mind will have erroneus thoughts, false beliefs, doubt, and your heart will nurture dark feelings like jealousy, hatred, anger. This will be the first line of fire in this war against the mind. So isn’t it more appropriate to focus on these first ? Life is not just meditation. We must live. How we live affects a lot our meditation. That’s why tradition teaches how to deal with our everyday thoughts, behaviour and emotions first, so later on we arrive with less luggage to the plane of meditation.
First of all, I see no seperation, no difference in life and meditation. Living life = meditation. Thinking = not living life/no meditation.
Yes you can work on all these things, in fact, that’s what I do as well, just slightly different. But you should not underestimate what you are already capable of. Who knows how many lifes you have been thinking that you had to prepare this or that? Maybe your insecurity is making you ignorant in regard to what’s possible in your personal evolution… That’s what I see all around, and that’s what I pity at times. I am free of suffering with them, but I see what’s possible and I see how their minds are fooling them with insecurity, making them believe they need a long, hard road, while happiness is right here, right now. Even my teachers lack that insight, that’s why after decades of practice, they are still not enlightened. Just that one piece of disbelief, of lack of insight, lack of courage to see beyond the mind, beyond yoga, beyond the systems.
All you need to do is truly recognize that voice in your head saying you need alot of practice and that ‘Bentinho’s way’ as you called it is inaccessible to most… its just a voice saying that, can you see? Just a voice. Its simple! Probably when reading this it sais:“Yeah he has easy talking, things ain’t that easy.” again… its just a voice, just a vibration, a thought-wave saying this. What’s real in that? What has ever been real in that and what will ever be real in that? Nothing right? its just a voice… then why do you believe in it’s beliefs so firmly? Why do you allow something unreal to make you insecure?
The only thing that makes those beliefs in those voices real, is [B]you[/B] [I]because you believe in them[/I]. Once you stop believing what your mind throws at you, truth will remain. Those that find my immediate method inaccesible or: “for more advanced people with alot of practice” will find my method hard indeed, simply because they are consumed by the voice saying that… but it’s just a voice. My tip: Stop believing yourself, stop believing every voice you hear, and suddenly you will see them for what they are: just voices. Again, it’s simple, you just need to be courageous enough to radically change your consicousness by recognizing the things I said above.
[I]Accept the fact that your mind is a total fake, and all insight will come.[/I]
It takes courage to defy the ego, the mind like this. The long way around is for the cowards among us, the hypocrites. But that’s my opinion. The mind doesn’t want you to not believe in its voices, so it will throw at you even more voices when you try this, voices that have a history, a past, that are charged with insecurity. They will trial you, and you will fall for them, untill you stop believing them! Then the mind will throw even more intelligent thoughts at you, because the mind knows what triggers you, the mind knows where your greatest attachments lie, and it will use it against you, simply because without your attachment to the mind, it has no individual existence. It depends on you. Stop believing anything it sais, even the response that your mind will try to make up here in this thread. Please do make it, but don’t believe it and recognize the voices, the insecurities 
. It’s simple.
Things aren’t as difficult as they seem, you only have to [B]make the choice[/B] to change these aspects, have the will to put aside yourself, your mind that is. Of course the mind is a wonderful tool, but a tool it is, it is not you, as you know obviously. I am not against the mind, I do not suggest annihilation, I only suggest not believing it. Let it talk, let it discuss, but be seperate from that. Observe it and don’t believe it.
That’s my way. Often for beginners even more accessible that for the advanced practitioner, becaus the advanced spiritual pursuiter, often believes him or herself to be highly spiritual and advanced. Their egoes are bigger than those new in the field. Some of the ‘advanced’ yogis don’t want to face the fact they have been hypocrites their entire lifes. How painful! haha. Don’t get lost in spirituality, in Yoga. Use it as a tool, but be very wary of it all, be aware of your mind, or it will just turn spirituality into a new sense of self, ego. Don’t ever become a yogi, always remain you and stop believing everything you hear. Silence and truth will arise.
Bentinho