Yoga Sutra

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1. aq3cnMay 2018
   Read Patanjali Yoga Sutra.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali

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2. dschiptsovMar 2016
   Some of these advices are in harmony with thousands old maxim "fortune favours the prepared", which not only hints that so-called success is much more a result of chance, like almost everything else in the universe, but also correlate with the notions of avoiding a debt, concentration and persistence. But the chance is still the major factor.

   BTW, the parts of the Patanjali Yoga Sutra, which gives practical advice about the practice - about necessity of an appropriate isolated place, diet, habits with emphasis on sleep cycle, proper state of mind, concentration and persistence - is the best universal advice to achieve anything in life that I am aware of. The word Yoga could be translated as "discipline", and has little to do with asanas, mats, and yoga pants.

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3. svntDec 2023
   Humility was a major factor in most pre-Christian religions and similar efforts, featuring prominently in Patanjali’s yoga sutra, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Buddhism, and so on.

   The position reiterated in your article is based on a comparison of the New Testament to a naive reading of the Greek philosophers. Christianity did not uniquely bring humility into culture.

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4. lngnmnJan 2017
   It is nice to see a demonstration of the fundamental principle, described in the Patanjali's Yoga Sutra, in contrast to the cascades of bullshit of the Yoga Pradipika.

   Humans bullshit everything, painting degrade to the modern colorful Warkshok inkblots, music - to sophisticated noise, yoga became a method of hipster's public snowflakery. Philosophy - Hegelian nonsense, politics - vagina marches.

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5. savitur_itJan 2017
   is better practice meditation not alone, but with a master or an experienced practicer of many years. Meditation can bring to light unconscious content. In ashtanga yoga of Patanjali (yoga sutra) the meditation (dhyana) is considered an high state of practice. For general relax and for stress, is better learning yoga(for example yoga nidra and some light pranayamas), some forms or chi kung and/or taichi
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6. saskuramboAug 2016
   Meditation today is a term must abused with many differente significances. Meditation is a state of conscious. The tecnics of meditation are used for create the condition for the manifestation of this state. Mediation can't be learned in a book. The best mode is learning it from a master. And one of the best clean way for me is Zen with zazen. In yoga sutra of Patanjali mediation is considered one of the high level of yoga, level that is reached after a long practice of other yoga levels (asana,pranayama,prathyara and dharana)
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