The Essential Yoga Sutra - Ancient Wisdom for Your Yoga

Informationen zum Autor GESHE MICHAEL ROACH is a fully ordained Buddhist monk and has been a teacher of Buddhism since 1981. He is also a scholar of Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Russian, and has translated many works in these languages into English. He founded the Asian Classics Institute and the Asian Classics Input Project and has been active in the restoration of the Sera Mey Tibetan Monastery, where he received his training. He lives in New York and Arizona. Klappentext The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali is a classic Sanskrit treatise consisting of 195 "threads," or aphorisms, describing the process of liberation through yoga. Although little is known about Patanjali (most scholars estimate that he lived in India circa 200-300 B.C.), his writings have long been recognized as a vital contribution to the philosophy and practice of yoga. This new, expert translation of the original Sanskrit text of Patanjali's best-known work presents his seminal ideas and methods in accessible, plain-language English. Patanjali organized the sutra into four parts: Samadhi (absorption), Sadhana (practice), Vibhuti (supernatural powers), and Kaivalya (liberation). Each represents a step in breaking free of our limited definition of consciousness and training the mind to achieve oneness with the universe. Geshe Michael Roach, one of the most respected teachers of Tibetan Buddhism in America and a renowned scholar of Sanskrit, provides authoritative commentary on each of the sutras. His notes and clarification are straightforward and highly readable, untainted by obscure, academic terminology or New Age jargon. The first edition of the Yoga Sutra to present a Buddhist perspective, this paperback original will be welcomed by students and spiritual seekers alike. 1 Yogi, Dancer, Thinker, Doctor A Short Book about Yoga: The Yoga Sutra of Master Patanjali Patanjala Yoga Sutram A sutra is a short book that tells us the very crux of something--ideas tied tight together, with a stitch of thread. The Yoga Sutra is the mother book of all yoga. It was written about two thousand years ago by Master Patanjali. Master Patanjali was a great yogi; he knew the physical poses of yoga and the art of breathing: yoga of the body. He was also a great thinker and meditator--a master of the yoga of the mind. He wrote as well famous books on medicine and on Sanskrit, the ancient tongue from which almost all our languages come. He is recognized too as the father of the classical dance of India. Dancer, doctor, yogi, thinker, master of ancient words. What do they all have in common? Yoga, as we shall see, has many meanings. One is the union of the winds within our inner body. We unite these winds with our yoga, when we think and understand. The winds will sing within us, the very first words of all. They will flow free, and force us to dance, and to run to heal others. First Cornerstone The Chapter on Meditation 2 It Begins with Meditation Prathamah Samadhi Padah The Yoga Sutra has four chapters: four cornerstones upon which it stands, like a table on four legs. The first chapter describes five crucial steps that we all pass through during our spiritual journey. This journey always begins from pain: we see death, we see people suffer, we dream of saving them. And the journey ends when we change, finally, into a sacred being who actually has the power to save them. In between its beginning and its end, the road we travel has five parts: five paths, each one leading into the next, each one marked by its own special milestones. Stepping up to each new path from the one before it can only be done in one way. We must be in deep meditation; we must learn to meditate. Thus it is that the first chapter, the chapter on the five paths, is called the Chapter on Meditation. 3 The Power of Humility I.1  I will now review...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Christie McNally, Lama Christie McNally, Geshe Michael Roach, Geshe Michael/ Mcnally Roach
• Verlag: Harmony
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 27.12.2005
• EAN: 9780385515368
• ISBN: 978-0-385-51536-8
• Seiten: 144
• Abmessung: 142 mm x 210 mm x 10 mm
• Thema: Ratgeber > Gesundheit