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I have been reading the yoga sutras recently and it strikes me how applicable it is. The weird stuff about attaining magical powers is... cool, but samyama and
by edwardbernays 1y ago
I have been reading the yoga sutras recently and it strikes me how applicable it is. The weird stuff about attaining magical powers is... cool, but samyama and the nature of the reflective consciousness have a lot of explanatory power imo.
- rramadass 1y agoSamkhya gives you the Worldview/Model and Patanjala Ashtanga Yoga gives you a practical framework/discipline to implement it. Here is a older comment of mine which you might find useful - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41538322 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41538322 Also see the classic Yoga and Western Psychology: A Comparison by Geraldine Coster - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.189086/page/n1/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.189086/page/n1...