Sublime

Ahaṅkāra is thus not only pivotal in all experience but also is the critical midpoint in the choice between material identification or spiritual pursuit, the external material world or the pure puruṣa.

USING A CHAIR

very goal of yoga and of human existence in the Yoga school is the very cause of bondage and ignorance in Buddhism.

late S. N. Goenka, the Burmese-born master who is to the Vipassana method what B.K.S. Iyengar is to the method of yoga that bears his name.

The most important discourse ever given by the Buddha on mental development (‘meditation’) is called the Satipaṭṭhāna-sutta ‘The Setting-up of Mindfulness’ (No. 22 of the Dīgha-nikāya, or No. 10 of the Majjhima-nikāyd).

Finding the exact end of the out-breath is a commonly used exercise of great profundity once mastered.

advanced stage of meditation in

the teaching of self-attentiveness, arguing that [doing] many karmas [actions], which are done forsaking the path of our Lord [Bhagavan], who said ‘Summā iruppu [just being (without rising as ego to do anything)] alone is sukha-vaṙi [the path of happiness or path to achieve happiness]’,