The term yoga suffers quite a bit from “meaning expansion”. This is also true for other similar concepts from the East – Tao, Zen, karma, and nirvāna. The original meaning of these words seems to have been somewhat lost. Conceptions are shifting. In our time of opulence, busyness and threat, we usually associate yoga with […]
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Licht voor ogen
Wim van de Laar, Yoga docent en vertaler Ik kom uit een katholiek nest en uit een klein dorp. Mijn religieuze opvoeding was zeer bescheiden, en als kind zag ik in de kerk dat ook veel andere ‘gelovigen’ wat verveeld op de bankjes zaten. Religie als plichtpleging – hoeveel verlossing valt daarvan te verwachten? Ondanks […]
True hope and Desire
Human beings are driven by longing. Desire sets us in motion, makes us reach out. We want to emerge as we are at our deepest, as a plant grows and spreads its flowers. Human beings want to share their inner richness, not live in and for ourselves. We multiply ourselves through sharing. That, in all […]
Yoga – A Healing Connection: About Restraint and Freedom
The self-existent created the senses outward: therefore, one sees outside and not the âtman within. A wise person, with his senses turned away, (from their object), desirous of immortality, sees the âtman within (Kaṭha Upaniṣad, II, 1.1). Birth is the first big movement out. Out of the darkness you are ‘thrown’ into the light of […]
Led by what?
The fifth part of the Chāndogya Upanishad recounts how the five senses argue amongst each other about who is the very best. Speech, Sight, Hearing, Thinking – each of them thinks it is superior to the other. To settle their disagreements, they turn to Prajāpati, the Lord of Creation. He says that the most superior […]
Dealing with the indefinable
At moments of great uncertainty, many great leaders like Swami Vivekanand, Mahatma Gandhi, and Dr Abdul Kalam always found comfort and wisdom in one of the great scriptures of Hinduism: the Bhagavad Gītā, the Song of the beloved. In Young India, Gandhi writes: ‘When misfortune hits me full in the face and I, lonely and […]
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