View Single Post
  #8  
Old 14-08-2017, 04:32 PM
BlueSky BlueSky is offline
Master
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 7,993
  BlueSky's Avatar
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jyotir
Hi Gem,

Good point.
No yoga of any kind can be truly meaningful as only theory.
It has to be practiced, experienced, assimilated, realized, and embodied as demonstration. Otherwise the 'teaching' is really nothing other than an intellectual speculation.

~ J
True but my point is that one has to understand the theory and see something in it that motivates them in order to begin a practice.
Buddhism as a whole doesn't do that for me. Parts of it does but buddhism as a practice is more like a vow which requires faith in the theory.
__________________
CHITTA VRITTI NIRODHA

The cessation of identifying with the fluctuations arising within consciousness
Reply With Quote