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A call to all female Ashtangis .... please read

feeds@yuku.com (skelly) — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:16:46 GMT

Hi Guys,
I am after any pearls of wisdom from female Ashtanginis to put together a little booklet/book.
The point of what I am calling "project Ashtangini" (till I think of a better name) is to put together a resource for fellow Ashtanginis that is both light hearted and informative.
The idea came to me when I asked a male teacher, one quite high up in the yoga world how long it takes after having babies to really get back...

titthibhasana

feeds@yuku.com (rtsvet) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:22:19 GMT

Why TiTTibha (ṭiṭṭibha) in TiTTibhAsana is translated firefly?
That is a kind of small bird? For which it's spoken in Manu V, 1- 56 or Hitopadesa 2.146?

Perhaps they mean - titibha which is small insect (cochineal L) but it is in no case filefly! I've seen so many misspellings!

...

Qudraphenia

feeds@yuku.com (yogavajra) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:46:09 GMT

Nothing to do with 'The Who' sorry...

I am not sure who said it but I recall somone saying "...choose a path then stick to it". Over recent months I have been like a leaf in the wind being blown from one set of tools to another without any capacity to remaining in one long enough to gain any real benefit. Its almost schizoid the way it manefests. Not like me at all...

Don't get it...?

feeds@yuku.com (yogavajra) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:29:55 GMT

No offence to those members who are clearly interested in neuroscience...however; it seems to me that articles with such arrogant claims like "Scientists Find God in the Brain" or "Neuroscience Explains the Nature of Enlightenment" are creating a rift and a definite us/them scenario.

Anybody with a vestiage of an understanding of Emptiness has to concede that it it fundamentally impossible for subjective phenomena to be located in an objective organ like the...

Four ages

feeds@yuku.com (Lavazza64) — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:56:46 GMT

What is your take on the four ages of man?

In an old long thread somebody wrote of ashtangis putting their practice before their family. That would run contrary to the idea of the househoulder phase where you put your obligations to your family first after having spent your youth devoted to spiritual practice.

How do you see a "modern" evolution of the different ages of man for an ashtangi who most of the time has come in contact with the practice much later than the...

vedanta primer

feeds@yuku.com (AliJG) — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:38:04 GMT

Can anyone recommend a good basic (though not idiot-level) primer on vedanta?

Darwin's soul

feeds@yuku.com (bluh2o ) — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:59:02 GMT

I hadn't looked at it that way before, until my wife mentioned it. She believes in next lives. She's a botanist. Everything evolves. Why not your soul?

The other five darhsans

feeds@yuku.com (vagabond 16III) — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:35:34 GMT

I was wondering if anyone knew if the other five (okay, really four, other than Yoga and Vedanta) darshanas of traditional indian philosophy are still practiced. I know that Sri T. Krishnamarcharya was educated in all of the branches of Indian philosophy, but i never hear about masters in the Nyaya or Mimamsa traditions.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

W.

Sanskrit & Artificial Intelligence NASA

feeds@yuku.com (DesiYogi) — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:35:53 GMT

Sanskrit & Artificial Intelligence NASA
Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial
Intelligence

by
Rick Briggs
Roacs, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California
Abstract
In the past twenty years, much time, effort, and money has
been expended on designing an unambiguous representation of natural
languages to make them accessible to computer processing. These efforts
have centered around creating schemata designed to parallel...

Shunyata

feeds@yuku.com (yogavajra) — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:18:08 GMT

If Nargajuna and Shantideva are right then would it be fair to say that any other philosophy that doesn't use Emptiness as its fulcrum is doomed to failure?

Indeed anything that looks upon any phenomena as inherently existent is fundamentally flawed.

Thanks,

Tony...

ps. this is meant to be evocative not provocative

Buddhist Geeks

feeds@yuku.com (elegant homunculus) — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:36:56 GMT

This website is a nice resource:

Buddhist Geeks

Yoga Philosophy

feeds@yuku.com (AYS NYC) — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:08:55 GMT

"It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best." - Sri K Pattabhi Jois

yoga teacher

feeds@yuku.com (subeer9084) — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:09:57 GMT

what to do if you get too emotionally attached to your yoga teacher of the opposite sex?

an aching heart ....

Soma

feeds@yuku.com (supta kurma) — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:37:53 GMT

Soma and Haoma in proto vedic culture: the archaeological origins.

users.primushost.com/~india/ejvs/ejvs0901/ejvs0901d.txt

Am I beating myself up?

feeds@yuku.com (yogavajra) — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:24:33 GMT

When fully into my practice I tend to immerse myself a little too deep - to the exclusion of many of my friends. Reason? Well because most of my closest friends have no interest in yoga or anything spiritual at all! I used to love finishing work, calling in to my local bar and spending a couple of hours having a drink, smoking a few cigarettes and generally talking about the 'stuff' that 'blokes' talk about - cars, sheds, oil and so on (tongue firmly in cheek here!).

I haven't done...

why and when did Guruji stop practicing asana?

feeds@yuku.com (apanaprana) — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:34:07 GMT

I searched the board and couldn't find out. someone asked me the other day, a non-yogi. They had seen a youtube video SKPJ teaching and commented that all the students were very thin and Guruji seemed a bit chubby in comparison.

Shakti

feeds@yuku.com (elegant homunculus) — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 08:56:01 GMT

Shakti - Power and Femininity in Indian Art

From Heaven to Household: The Many Tales of Shakti

Is yoga self centered?

feeds@yuku.com (bluh2o ) — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:48:52 GMT

Walking by the homeless on the way to the studio it occured to me that the more I get into the practice of yoga the less time I have for anything else but me. So I wondered, what do you think?

foxy insights

feeds@yuku.com (onamatapaya) — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:08:39 GMT

while i was walking last night , i think it would be called volta in your neck of the woods , i happened across a beautifull fox crossing a field . so i stopped and went to ground so as to not alert the creature to my precence.which seemed to work as the fox carried on seemingly obhlivous to my watching. enjoying the delicate footfalls and powerfull reflexes of this magnificently gracefull being,it struck me as being very close to a state of vinyasa flow.
its as if the foxes movements...

Gregor Maehle's Ashtanga Book, Parts 3 and 4

feeds@yuku.com (homerhanumat) — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 11:26:40 GMT

Anybody reading the "philosophy" parts of Maehle's new book? I inherited a remaindered copy from my practice partner, a lurker on this board (Hi, Leslie).

I am very impressed.

Gregor has consulted a great many sciptures and yogasutra commentaries, and he employs these sources sensible ways in his own comments. He wears his erudition lightly, not citing obsessively. He's got some strong opinions, but he inspires interest and respect even where one is inclined to...