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#BlackLivesMatter and the Yogic Art of Negation

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To be a true yoga master, you need to master the art of negation. That’s Patanjali’s idea, from the Yoga Sutras: 2.33 Vitarka badhane pratipaksha bhavanam. The practice of pratipaksha bhanavam prescribes that, when disturbed by negative thoughts, opposite thoughts should be brought into awareness.

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#BlackLivesMatter and the Yogic Art of Negation

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Ancient and Modern Ritual: A Creative Approach to Working with Grief, Loss, and Change

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At a Planetary Crossroads: Contemplative Wisdom of Black Geographies

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The Spiritual Origins of the West: A Lack Perspective

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The more we learn about other civilizations, the more anomalous the West seems. If we resist the presumption that Western culture is the growing tip of social evolution, to be contrasted with the stagnation of non-Western ones, what becomes highlighted is its dynamism, for better and worse. Rather than trying to account for the “undevelopment” of non-Western societies — why they did not evolve further along our path — it is the apparently self-generated and future-driven “progress” of the West that needs to be explained. What caused it?

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Working the Land, Working the Self: Understanding Healing and Embodiment Through Diverse Traditions

What is the story you tell yourself about who you are? Is it true? Is it time to change the story you carry within to align with your inner truth?

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Yoga, Social Justice, and Healing the Wounds of Violence in Colombia

Violence has become a structural part of the Colombian psyche perpetuating wounds even in the youngest members of the population. Healing these wounds is now a priority of peace agreements.

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In Praise of Lalitā Devī

In this seminar, we will learn about the origins of the Lalitā Sahasranāma, its place in the Śrīvidyā tradition, and a broad understanding of its philosophy.
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Killed by God: A Comparison of the Jaya-Vijaya Story with the Kabbalistic Concept of Gilgul

In this article, I will focus on the lengthy, convoluted, and symbolically weighty version of the Jaya, Vijaya, and Narasimha story that one can find in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, which I will henceforth refer to as the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam.

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Is Academia (Like) a Religion?

Scholars are practitioners of academia. Many people, initially in the West and eventually globally, have had a millennium to imagine the knowledge and research that are data for academia, which is solely the creation of scholars’ studies.

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Who is Sri Aurobindo?

Sri Aurobindo was a modern Indian yogi who founded the form of yoga known as Integral Yoga.

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Who is Abhinavagupta?

Abhinavagupta is an enigmatic figure, not because he tells us so little about himself, but because he tells us so much.

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To Love the World or Leave It – On the Problem of Inauthenticity and How to Respond to It

Indian traditions can be categorized by the degree to which they proffer a world-denying (via negativa) or a world-affirming (via positiva) perspective. Both world-deniers and world-affirmers see everyday attitudes toward the world as, in important ways, illusory; it is thus their respective responses to the world’s illusions that distinguishes them.

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Who is Krishna?

The Sanskrit word krishna has two meanings. It means the dark one. It also has another root and that is “karsha” which means to entice or enchant.

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Oneika Mays on Privilege and Incarceration (#93)

Oneika is an activist, yoga and meditation teacher.

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