I think you are still under the impression that yoga is just an exercise. That may be how it is to some people today, but that's not how it originated.
The point isn't one of trying to decide whether the Christians are right or wrong in how they do things any more than it is of trying to decide whether yoga is the right or wrong way of doing things. The point is that the two ways are incompatible because they have different ideas of the nature of happiness and what the good life requires! Even though some of the principles, as I have admitted my SEEM similar. Yoga isn't evil, but it may lead A CHRISTIAN away from living the good life because living the good life entails very specific things.
No. I am under no impressions of yoga at all! I'm simply willing to wager that it offers a way to happiness that is terminal, not normative.
Regardless, I am one amongst many people who believe that Jesus taught a form of yoga to His disciples, and that the original esoteric teachings of Christ ARE the same as those rishi's who practiced what is called bhakti, kryia, and hatha yoga. And if no one tries to find the truth, the wonderful Christian money making machine will keep on converting people in a manner that is apparently unhealthy. Not that my little thread is going to change a world that is embedded in its ways, but every little bit helps. Or at least, that's what I think.
Shit, I guess you've never been in a Lulu Lemon. A hundred dollar yoga mat!??! Talk about money making machine. I should have cashed in on the craze. You're mistaken about the nature of Christianity and thus the goals of the Faithful.
The hundred dollar yoga mats are made from people wanting to profit from the exercise of yoga... these are most likely people not interested in the origins of yoga or any kind of enlightenment...they just want people to have great abs
pppffffffff Commericalism is a choice you have to go waste your money at a store. Christians dont even let you sit in church comfortably and in peace, concentrated on God, if you dont put money in their collection basket. "Dont ask, no questions! a Why come, a reverend has a nice house? OR, or, a why come, reverend have to have a nice car?" That is reality, not just a movie lol. For your information, I hand made my own japa mala (prayer beads), I never once purchased a yoga mat, I practice on the floor wherever I can, and the majority of Vedantic literature I have read was free gifts from some very beautiful people who only wished to help me pursue my interests. I wont get into details about my experience with yoga as you would probably assume them to be hallucination/psychosis, seeing as how you dont even care to learn a little bit about that which you are so quick to insult.
Again usfcat, Exactly. Not to mention that yoga is thousands of years older than the time of Christ, originating in one of the poorest countries in the world
Well there is something we can both agree on lol. But I must admit, my thin figure is due most likely to a quick metabolism, I am QUITE lazy when it comes to physical exercize.
Maybe in your experience, but during the 13 years of my experience being involved in a Christian curch and school, that is exactly what I perceived. To each their own, I guess. Not all Christians are the same, I should have elaborated.
Not to mention that most are more than happy to donate something. Its all part of the good life that Aquinas told them about.
You aren't really going to bring up Christmas as a negative thing are you? The happiest day of the year?! Have you no shame?
I just need to get to 100 posts. I dont' really care about any of this. I am not Christian and yoga is retarded to me. There is a thread in the politics forum that has my name on it. I'm almost there!
