2019 | April | 16 | Essential Lectures, Philosophies of Asia, Searchable, The Works, Transcript
The word yoga, as most of you doubtless know, is the same as our word yoke. Y-O-K-E. And the Latin word iungere, to join. Join, junction, yolk, union, all these words are basically from the same root. And so likewise when Jesus said my yoke is easy he was saying...
2019 | April | 16 | Essential Lectures, Philosophies of Asia, Searchable, The Works, Transcript
In the philosophy of the Tao, iIt is said, it’s always being said this is. You read this in every art book about Chinese art that in Chinese painting, man is always seen as in nature rather than dominating it. You get a painting in titled poet drinking by...
2019 | April | 16 | Essential Lectures, Philosophies of Asia, Searchable, The Works, Transcript
It is believed generally in India that when a person sets out on the way of liberation, his first problem, is to become free from his past karma. The popular theory of Karma, of the word that literally means action or doing in Sanskrit, so that when we say that...
2019 | April | 16 | Essential Lectures, Philosophies of Asia, Searchable, The Works, Transcript
The philosophy of the Tao is one of the two great principal components of Chinese thought. There are of course quite a number of forms of Chinese philosophy, but there are two great currents which have fairly molded the culture of China and they are Taoism and...
2019 | April | 16 | Essential Lectures, Philosophies of Asia, Searchable, The Works, Transcript
The object of Buddhist discipline or methods of psychological training is as it were, to bring about a state of affairs in which the individual feels himself to be everything that there is. The whole cosmos, focused, expressing itself here. Now, in that way, your...
2019 | April | 16 | Essential Lectures, Philosophies of Asia, Searchable, The Works, Transcript
I suppose most of you have heard of Zen. But before going on to explain any details about it I want to make one thing absolutely clear. I am not a Zen Buddhist. I am not advocating Zen Buddhism. I’m not trying to convert anyone to it. I have nothing to sell. I...
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