Sriman T. Krishnamacharya (1888 – 1989) “Teach what is inside you. Not as it applies to you, to yourself, but as it applies to the other.” – T. Krishnamacharya Widely acknowledged for being the father of modern postural yoga. However, the credit for the popularity of today’s yoga goes to his foremost students, who were not…
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Past and present Yogis, Gurus and Teachers
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh A Vietnamese Buddhist monk, spiritual leader, bestselling author, poet and activist. Born in Vietnam in 1926, he started his monastic education at age 16. Besides fulfilling his ascetic wish, he grew into a prolific writer and a leading activist. In 1966 when he was 39, following his peace proposal in the United States,…
In her father’s light – Interview of Geeta Iyengar
For me a healthy yoga addiction is better than other addictions. The fire of yoga must remain burning without smoke in the spiritual heart throughout the practice, the sadhana. The interest of the practitioner, sadhaka, needs to be affirmative and dynamic. However, this interest should not be a wildfire burning down the forest; the interest in yoga should not…
Are we all crazy?
[Written by Lama Zopa Rinpoche] From morning to night we do everything with the self-cherishing mind. Inside the house, outside the house, getting dressed, walking around, talking to people, working, eating, seeing things, shopping, going to bed—we do everything with self-cherishing. Even though everything we do is motivated by the wish to obtain temporal happiness and avoid temporal problems,…