by Thich Nhat Hanh Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow —even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arrivingto be a bud on a Spring branch,to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings,learning to sing in my new nest,to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,to […]
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The Bhagavad Gita is the central text of yoga. It is slotted into the middle of the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata, just as the Pandavas (Arjuna’s family) are lining up for battle against the Kauravas. Arjuna is a Pandava and his brother (Yudhishthira) has a rightful claim to the throne, but those they are about
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As a Buddhist who practices hatha yoga, I often wonder what the differences are between the yogic scriptures and Buddhist teachings. Buddha lived in India 2,600 years ago so it may be no surprise that his teachings bear some similarities to the Hindu tradition in which he lived. In a similar way that Jesus’s teachings
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