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YOGA Anonymous Thu Mar 16 22:07:53 2023 No.21794065 [Reply] [Original]

Good books on yoga. Preferably more philosophically or historically oriented

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 22:27:33 2023 No.21794136 Why does Evola have such interesting recent covers for his books?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 22:29:46 2023 No.21794147 >>21794065 Mircea Eliad Patanjali’s yoga sutras

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 22:30:46 2023 No.21794154 Yoga Body

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 22:32:42 2023 No.21794162 >>21794136 He decided to change with the times and embrace a modern approach to graphic design.

Anonymous Thu Mar 16 22:34:07 2023 No.21794168

>>21794065
Yoga is interesting but personally i prefer the Western traditions of awakening understood alongside eastern traditions, which have been preserved well and are out in the open. Evola talks about "magical initiations" being a Western thing.

Damien Echols has been putting out some good stuff, but nothing you won't already know after a sufficient study of Evola's esoteric works.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 22:35:16 2023 No.21794172 >>21794162 >He decided to change with the times No he didn't. He's simply riding the tiger, like Dio sang about.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 22:43:09 2023 No.21794211 >>21794136 Inner Traditions and Arktos choose the covers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 22:45:03 2023 No.21794220 >>21794211 Arktos has been banned on account of their presumed ideology.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 22:46:08 2023 No.21794225 >>21794220 Communism?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 22:53:52 2023 No.21794266 >>21794225 >getting banned for being a communist Kek things that never happen

Anonymous Thu Mar 16 23:01:10 2023 No.21794301

Light On Yoga by Iyengar gave me a pretty good sense of the scope of yoga. "Yoga is the act of putting yourself in right proportion with everything else" is the first line I think. I personally feel at this stage that getting ensnared by the seductive semantics of yoga philosophy/mysticism is just a distraction from experiential practice and actually LIVING it. There are no 8 astral planets with 42 demigods or anything else. There are no nine sacred seals of astral realisation. You're just reading a fantasy novel. Just deepen your practice in your life and live authentically with awareness. There is nothing more than that.

Anonymous Fri Mar 17 00:16:23 2023 No.21794570

>>21794065
I’ve read Doctrine of Awakening with such deep interest that I memed myself into becoming vegetarian and going to a Buddhist temple for one straight year. But for some reason I never finished this book even though I must have started it three times.

>>	dago !deClb9SBC. Fri Mar 17 00:29:03 2023 No.21794621 >>21794065 check out James Mallinson I just read some of his books on Hatha Yoga and found it to be good

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 12:50:41 2023 No.21796164 Small fires in the winter forest

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