Many people know about the Advaita Vedanta teachings on the five koshas , sheaths or bodies covering our atman , or highest core self. However, people do not know how to strip off or negate each of the lower koshas to become liberated and attain "Advaita...
The Buddhist, Taoist, Yoga and Hindu traditions are usually taken as the primary guides to enlightenment theory and practice, yet all genuine religions share some common cultivation theories and practices which will take practitioners to the same spiritua...
The martial arts and yoga are both schools that teach physical stretching exercises, and they both emphasize internal energy cultivation, or neijia. The martial arts also emphasize ideal body alignments and physical movements so that you can express treme...
Above the gate of the Imperial shrine in Hangzhou, China was a sign that once read, "Husbands and wives were connected in the past. Whether for good or bad those connections never fail to meet again. Children are basically past debts. Some come to...
The path to enlightenment, self-realization, moksha or spiritual liberation is essentially a pathway of Yoga. Specifically, this pathway of Buddha Yoga entails both mental meditation practice and inner cultivation of the Qi or Prana within your body via...
Breathing new life into the fields of philosophy and spirituality, the self-cultivation practices of the Confucian way, reinterpreted for modern times, are once again a great blessing for humanity. Similar to vipassana, the methods of mindfulness and self...
Ordinary people often experience unusual mind-body phenomena due to meditation practice such as hearing voices, seeing visions, dreaming colorful scenarios, and feeling inexplicable energy sensations or strange movements inside their body. This book expla...
There is a very effective branch of yoga that few people practice Nyasa Yoga. Nyasa Yoga is a physical yoga internal purification and cultivation practice. It is related to an entire host of yogic exercises for clearing your nadis of obstructions by invok...