Last night I was led to the sermon on the mount. Jesus begins there with the beatitudes, starting off by saying “Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom Heaven.”
Our Spirit is our ego. Those things about us that make us feel that we are right! Our habits and fixed ways of being. Those strongholds, pride, preconceived notions that we are attached to. So being poor in Spirit is to be void of that. To decrease so that God can increase within us.
I had a mentor when I first began as a yoga teacher who advised me regarding an empty apartment that I was afraid to rent. “I have no furniture,” I said. “Find fullness in the emptiness,” she said. I did that, and for a time my place served many purposes: it was a yoga studio, an art studio, even a dance studio at one point; it was an available space for creativity.
As I added furniture – piece by piece- I would come to grieve the empty space that it replaced.
So being poor in spirit, well it’s being non-attached. It’s being empty and available; then yours is the Kingdom of Heaven.
This is a yoga teaching also. In the beginning of Light on Yoga, BKS Iyengar answers the question “what is yoga?”
‘When a (person) stills their mind, intellect and self through the practice of yoga, they become a Yucta – one who is in communion with God.
Still your Mind.
Thank You Very Sweet 
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