How do you feel about Christian Yoga?
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I think for the most part Hindus are rather tolerant of other religions. As far as what you chant during yoga, you should say whatever helps you concentrate on breathing as long as you are not too loud and disturbing others.
How do you know what the Hindu 'yoga chants' are referring to? Often they just say "OM" don't they? (I believe that means God / Supreme being).
Yoga is not suppoed to be a introduction to Hinduisim. It is form of secular meditative exercise that just happens to have Asian roots.
How do you know what the Hindu 'yoga chants' are referring to? Often they just say "OM" don't they? (I believe that means God / Supreme being).
Yoga is not suppoed to be a introduction to Hinduisim. It is form of secular meditative exercise that just happens to have Asian roots.
Yoga is a major form of demonic activity (inviting demons into you) . What you say and do can be extremely dangerous.
Yoga is a straight gateway into Hinduism thus the demonic stuff.
Christian just isn't right. Call it yoga without the christian part. Yoga is yoga and it originated in a hindu country, yet they don't have a monopoly on it.
But there are things such as hindu pushups, which are perfectly fine since they are very accurated.
Christians need to do better things than take away yoga from another religion.
But there are things such as hindu pushups, which are perfectly fine since they are very accurated.
Christians need to do better things than take away yoga from another religion.
*checks sarcasm meter's batteries*
*taps it on table*
*runs calibration set*
hmmm....inconclusive
Sort of like Diet Caffeine Free Soda.
Yeah, you can remake something and still have it have many of the properties it had before, but it's not the same thing, and shouldn't pretend to be.
There are plenty of Christian spiritual meditative traditions, I can't imagine why a Christian wouldn't choose one of them rather than trying to unmake Yoga.
Well, I am Hindu, and methinks that the West's use of Yoga kinda sucks, as a whole, as it is taking away the thinking and relaxing bits and making into something that it is not. They should call it "Make you pay a lot to look like a buffoon and maybe even lose weight class".
Then again, maybe I'm just really tired.
Then again, maybe I'm just really tired.
The physical part is only a precursor to meditation, where the mind gradually becomes so totally interiorized and riveted on God, that eventually there's some sort of merging of the little personal self with God.
Kogase,Yoga is NOT ?just stretching.?
Patanjali expressed some rules about yoga and one had to do with asana or posture. The physical yoga exercises are just a stepping stone to true yoga, to enable perfect asana so the person can meditate a long time without being distracted by their body.
Yoga came from ancient times as described in Vedas out of India, predating Hinduism by maybe thousands of years. So some Hindus may practice yoga, but yoga isn't Hindu.
Real yoga is about a totally sincere dedicated deep search for God, of which there's only 1, so it seems all good to me.
I read a lot of Joseph Campbell whose personal library was relocated from Hawaii to near me after he died. It's pretty cool to visit. Campbell says that the more ancient ideas in yoga fanned out from India to influence later (but still ancient) religious thought in Egypt, Israel, Tibet, China, other lands.
So the practice of ?depth prayer? by a Christian monk sitting in a cave or cell, or the Jewish Kabbalah equivalent, is strongly influenced by the much older yoga. I appreciate that the Jewish people believe their stuff goes all the way back to day 1, but the Vedas and yoga is probably older.
Yoga is techniques to relax from (all levels of) the body, from the mind, and become actually consciously aware of the omnipresent Infinite.
Winchester , Yoga is NOT a major form of demonic activity (inviting demons into you).
Almost all the popular ?yoga? stuff is garbage, hokum, obscuring the real teachings.
At least that's how I understand it.
Kogase,Yoga is NOT ?just stretching.?
Patanjali expressed some rules about yoga and one had to do with asana or posture. The physical yoga exercises are just a stepping stone to true yoga, to enable perfect asana so the person can meditate a long time without being distracted by their body.
Yoga came from ancient times as described in Vedas out of India, predating Hinduism by maybe thousands of years. So some Hindus may practice yoga, but yoga isn't Hindu.
Real yoga is about a totally sincere dedicated deep search for God, of which there's only 1, so it seems all good to me.
I read a lot of Joseph Campbell whose personal library was relocated from Hawaii to near me after he died. It's pretty cool to visit. Campbell says that the more ancient ideas in yoga fanned out from India to influence later (but still ancient) religious thought in Egypt, Israel, Tibet, China, other lands.
So the practice of ?depth prayer? by a Christian monk sitting in a cave or cell, or the Jewish Kabbalah equivalent, is strongly influenced by the much older yoga. I appreciate that the Jewish people believe their stuff goes all the way back to day 1, but the Vedas and yoga is probably older.
Yoga is techniques to relax from (all levels of) the body, from the mind, and become actually consciously aware of the omnipresent Infinite.
Winchester , Yoga is NOT a major form of demonic activity (inviting demons into you).
Almost all the popular ?yoga? stuff is garbage, hokum, obscuring the real teachings.
At least that's how I understand it.
QUOTE:
Modern science has shown that everything in the universe is composed of energy, and that the apparent differentiation between solids, liquids, gases, sound, and light is merely a difference in their vibratory rates. Similarly, the world?s great religions state that all created things originate in the cosmic vibratory energy of Aum or Amen, the Word or Holy Ghost. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God . . . . All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made which was made" (John 1:1,3).
"These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God" (Rev. 3:14). Even as sound is produced by the vibration of a running motor, so the omnipresent sound of Aum faithfully testifies to the running of the "Cosmic Motor," which upholds all life and every particle of creation through vibratory energy.
The Sanskrit root word or seed-sound denoting that aspect of Godhead which creates and sustains all creation; cosmic vibration. Aum of the Vedas became the sacred word Hum of the Tibetans; Amin of the Moslems; and Amen of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Jews, and Christians.
Yoga treatises explain that cosmic energy enters the body principally through the medulla oblongata at the base of the brain. In the scriptures the medulla is referred to as "the mouth of God," and cosmic vibratory energy as the "Word" or Aum. Jesus declared: "Man shall not live by bread [material sources of energy?food, water, and oxygen] alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God" (Matthew 4:4).
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The chanting has something to do with your breathing rythm and resonance of your internal organs, however, they may lost their value throughout the language evolution.
Replacing it with Christian stuff doesn't make sense at all.
Replacing it with Christian stuff doesn't make sense at all.
Really? I thought they were just focusing on breaking down your internal barriers, your resistance to change...hence, Ohm.
I find it funny, frankly...but then again, I really don't see the point of yoga.
Strange though, that only the Christian yoga practicers get demons and go on a killing rampage... Must be inherent to their religion I guess
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