Friday, June 29, 2001


fixed the problem with the search engine indexing. now you should be search normally and receive answers. thanks for alerting me, gentle readers! the tiramisu recipe is coming -- never fear. but today i received an exciting email from renowned yoga teacher, john friend.

john friend, of anusara yoga fame, kindly emailed a reply to a question i had asked him. included was the interesting news that he will be publishing a new translation of the yoga sutras by patanjali in the fall as well as a book on general yoga philosophy:

"In Anusara we ascribe to a Tantric viewpoint, so we translate the Sutras very differently than the Classical approach. For instance, we take the premise that everything is Supreme Consciousness, so everything is this world is just a different form of one spirit. Douglas Brooks and I are also translating the Sutras from a Tantric point of view. That book will follow the general yoga philosophy book. "

as i have complained here in the past about the difficulties in almost all currently available translations of patanjali, this makes me hope that finally i will be able to understand more of what yoga is really about, beyond false and superficial new-agey generalities. generally, when people hear the word "tantra" they think all kinds of strange and wild things. as the links above should show, the essence of tantrism is the theory that all matter is a form or extension of a universal spirit, often conceived of as shakti or the devi.



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