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The Safe Path of Yoga
Even to try the path of yoga for a while and then abandon it, or to try it and fail, or to follow it and die before making any significant progress–all these will result in tremendous benefit. Find out more.
Buddha’s Eightfold Path: A Yogi’s Practical Analysis
An excerpt from The Dhammapada for Awakening, available for free online reading here, or as a paperback and ebook here. “Of paths the Eightfold one is best, and of truths the Fourfold. Dispassion is the best of mental states, and of human beings the best is the seer” (Dhammapada 273). Thanissaro Bhikkhu: “Of paths, the eightfold is best. Of truths,
Awaken with the Tao Teh King for Awakening
We are happy to announce that Abbot George’s latest book, The Tao Teh King for Awakening: A Practical Commentary on Lao Tzu’s Classic Exposition of Taoism, is now available as a paperback and ebook at Amazon.com and other online outlets. With penetrating insight, Abbot George Burke illumines the the wisdom of Lao Tzu’s classic writing, the Tao Teh King (Tao
Build a Foundation for Understanding Yoga
A selection on Yoga, from Perspectives on Yoga, a new book to be published later this year. Keeping in mind that the body and the self are not the same is not just a matter of holding a philosophical concept. Rather, it is a matter of maintaining spiritual awareness throughout external experience, to center our identity in the Self and
Four Ways to Be Happy: Practical Wisdom from Buddha
Though originally published on our Blog almost 10 years ago, spiritual articles never lose their relevance, so we are re-pubishing this today. From the first time I ever heard it until today, “everybody does it” seems to me one of the most moronic and irrelevant–not to say almost always untrue–things anyone can say, especially if it is meant to justify
What is the Tao? (The Wisdom of Lao Tzu from the Tao Teh King)
A selection on the Tao, from The Tao Teh King for Awakening, a new book now available at Amazon.com. The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.(Conceived of as) having no name, it is the Originator of heaven and earth; (conceived of as)
Shiva and Shakti: A Yogi’s Perspective
A selection on Shiva and Shakti, from Perspectives on Yoga, from Perspectives on Yoga: Living the Yoga Life, now available at Amazon.com. When the yogi awakens the divine power that pervades his bodies, unifies and directs it upward into the Sahasrara, in time the core of the Sahasrara will be awakened and the subtle power will be drawn into it, completing
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Yogis Who Saw Jesus
The Many Advantages of Vegetarianism
Seeing the One in All
In response to our recent blog posting about the reality of Jesus in the experience of India’s great yogis, we received a most heartening letter from India. I want to share parts of it with you and my reflections on it for I feel it presents the most authentic perspective on these matters.