[quote=Balen;6387]Let me show my ignorance here…
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Hey, we all show that. The mind can take the form of anything, and comprehend elaborate thought systems, and we still remain ignorant.
What I like in yoga that it is a practical and very effective discipline, and it states what must be done, and how, involving every aspect of our live’s.
Yoga for me is the ladder I can touch with my hands, and finally I am not alone with my mind, but I feel at home in the universe.
I use to say, a religion is worth something if it changes your everyday’s life. Religions throughout history often fall to ritualistic practice and chanting, but for example in christianism, too much concessions has been made regarding the way of conduct, and tehniques of purification. It became exoteric, and hard to accept by introverted or people who like to think for themselves. I don’t have anything with rituals and chanting, as they are useful, especially if done regularly. But today’s man, next to his faith want’s knowledge and firts hand experience also.
Did you know that in early middle ages, in Europe, the number of days of fasting were close to 150 ? How many days a year a roman-catholic fasts today ? (Fasting meant not consuming products of animal origin, not eating to completley fill the stomach, not having intercourse)
Because these traditional practices failed to survive, especially in case of the greater public, we must reach to wisdom of other places, as they are more acceptable. Yoga is such a practice. Even christian monks practice yoga today.