The Deeper Dimension of Yoga: Theory and Practice

The Deeper Dimension of Yoga: Theory and Practice

By Georg Feuerstein

Shambhala Publications, Boston, MA  © 2003 (Meditation - Body) 432 pp.

“People often ask me whether I experience cognitive dissonance as a result of my continuing work on Hindu Yoga and my personal practice of Vajrayana. My answer is always the same: No, I experience no conflict at all. My approach to spiritual life is integrative rather than sectarian. I hold all liberation teachings in the highest regard, even when I do not feel moved to practice them personally . . ."

" . . . Both our common experience of suffering and our shared potential for enlightenment should give us cause for much tolerance and compassion. Whether we are practitioners of Hindu or Buddhist Yoga—or indeed any other spiritual tradition (or conceptual universe) and another, as well as between ourselves and others. This sense of boundary crossing lies at the heart of Tantra.”

pp. 57, 59