Yoga Philosophy

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.”

Let’s develop a sense of trusting the inner refuge – trusting more in this moment, trusting in the source.

Many people today who are deeply concerned about the world’s suffering inhabit a secularized worldview in which it is assumed that religious understandings of salvation or spiritual liberation are irrelevant to the material needs and ways of thinking prevalent in our time.

We are at a moment of great significance for humanity, at the beginning of this new century, which could be either a horrendous time of natural and man-made mega-disasters or the greatest century yet of environmental restoration and peaceful global community.

The feminist significance of the Goddess Kali lies in an indigenous worshipful attitude of “Kali-bhakti” rather than in the mere image of the Goddess.

Guanyin or Guanshihyin is the Chinese name for Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, who has been worshiped throughout the Buddhist world.

The annual Durgā Pūjā is the climax of Navarātrī, literally “nine nights,” which is in fact a ten day observance. I like to call this the “Hindu High Holy Days,” because it is a very special time of year.