第10页 1. Natural Alignment: The Internal Forms of the Practice

pg. 9-10
Diety visualization (or any symbolic de8t6 construction, such as a mandala) follows the step-by-step process of vinyasa. At a certain point of balance, contextualization, and harmony the visualization or constrcution is placed down as an offering to the whole world as pure consciousness. We then let it go. In placing the content of the mind down, or nyasa, insight airses into the impermanant nature of all gross and subtle structures. 
观想的关键是信任：相信当下看着神明，就可以达到那个形态。这需要大量的耐心和好奇心，这个过程类似于抽象思维（abstract thought），比如探索无穷大，但观想可以给出更直接，更发自内心经验。 
Visualizations can be embodied to give direct, visceral experience of what otherwise might be a complex construct.
解剖学和运动生理学解释了骨骼，肌肉，呼吸与运动的关系。而观想连接了身体形态与意识波动。
As we breathe and move in and out of postures, we simply allow a visualized form to rest in the background as a subconscious context from which to experience whatever actually arises as feeling, sensation, or thought. The visualization provides a reference point for our experience so we can be there with full attention... This is really what the Ashtanga Vinyasa system of yoga is all about: taking a multidemensional view of what happens when we practice yoga. Cultivating the simplest of circumsances in a context of open-minded awareness and a full range of movement, we invite the yoga practice to unfold like a flower in bloom.