Yoga Philosophy

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.”

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.