I just finished rereading A Heart Full of Peace, a wonderful book on Buddhism and the spiritual life written by Joseph Goldstein, one of the premier meditation teachers in the United States. Goldstein, along with Jack Kornfield and Sharon Salzberg, was instrumental in bringing classical Buddhism from the East to the West in the last several decades of the twentieth…
Yoga is everywhere—in corporations, health clubs, and elementary schools. And yet, it is not an exaggeration to say that there’s very little real yoga in today’s yoga-mad world. When tall, lithe women posed like contortionists grace the covers of glossy magazines and TV commercials, it is natural to assume, as most people do, that yoga means performing a physical movement…
