Yoga Philosophy

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.

The presence of an authentic advocate like a Muslim chaplain can be empowering for Muslim patients and families.

One typical but currently out of favor response (among academics at least) to doctrinal differences separating religions has been to reduce the welter of contrary doctrinal formations to an essential teaching, a kind of ‘superdoctrine,’ such as “All religions are true,” or “All religions point to the Absolute.”