Yoga Philosophy

The first pillar is the core belief in the oneness of God.

The goal of yoga is summarized and experienced in that first word: “Now is the discipline of yoga.”

The Perennial Philosophy is a much more natural attitude to me than the exclusivism and tribalism of Christianity, which I find strange and incredible.

“Enlightenment” is often regarded as a purely “Eastern” concept, foreign to the Western monotheistic religions and to non-Western indigenous and shamanic traditions.

The recurring detail of the seamless robe resonates with the human imagination because it serves as a symbol of the radically equal state of cognition, called non-dual awareness or the unitive state, which is the goal and the heart of world mystical traditions.

Most people give little thought to the reasons why they see the world as they do—why they see themselves as separate and alone.

Buddhism and Judaism share a bounty of common practices.

As Jesus and Buddha have been remembered, they both had a common starting point for their preaching: the sufferings that all humans (though some more than others) have to face: the inadequacies, the perplexities, the insufficiencies, the diminishments, the pains and disappointments that darken human existence.