Traditions

John Greer has spent nearly twenty years inquiring deeply into sacred texts and teachings of the world’s traditions, spurred by his own spiritual search.

Without a serious personal study of this mind-body phenomenon one never really learns about why and how ones moods, interests, drives, desires, emotions, abilities, performance skills, and essentially all of our physical and psychological activities wax and wane throughout the day (and night).

In the Vedic tradition, the basis of creation can only be known by becoming it.

Kenneth is a professor of Religion and Theology and author of “Yoga, Meditation and Mysticism.”

David is a scholar and Buddhist teacher.

As virtually everyone who has heard the term “Tantra” is aware, the central dyad in Tantrik cosmology is that of Shiva and Shakti, the Divine in masculine and feminine aspects, coupled in eternal union.

Here we encounter a vision of Lakṣmī—the central mistress of this “festival of light”—that raises surprising contradictions and cause us to rethink the real significance of Hinduism’s most important celebration.

One generally approaches the Yoga tradition by looking at its self-definition: yogaś-citta-vṛtti-nirodha.