Yoga
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One of the most widely discussed topics in religion is the topic of non-violence, Ahimsa. For someone following the yogic path, as myself, the Yoga sutras themselves are not very specific on what non-violence really consists; therefore, I think it could be useful to clarify this topic from the lenses of psychology. Most of what…
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Can meditation be dangerous? Somebody asked me whether meditation was dangerous. We can initially laugh at that question, but I must admit that even I had the same doubts before. It does not take a long time to decipher in the question a profound lesson to be learned. Behind this question, we find superstitious thinking,…
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What yoga is not: There’s this tendency in the West to approach yoga and other spiritual practices within the framework of materialistic thinking. By this I mean that there’s a tendency to see yoga as a tool to achieve external results. The West has lost its Christianity, and this event has permitted people to explore…
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I just finished, perhaps, the most consequential book I have read in a very long time, perhaps even more consequential than Aristotle’s Metaphysics in philosophy, the Bhagavad-Gita in religion or Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra in poetry. I’m referring to the Samkhya philosophy coming to us as the Prava Chana Sutra. The world may not know…
Oscar G Najarro 