via Symposium sheds light on benefits of Tai Chi (08/28/09).
The symposium, sponsored by the International Yang family Tai Chi Chuan Association, offered a chance to study with five of China’s top masters and the opportunity to learn more about the latest research on the health benefits of Tai Chi Chuan.
More than 400 Tai Chi masters, scholars and practitioners from across the world came to Vanderbilt this summer for a special symposium sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for Integrative Health.
It is a good thing to see, these symposiums, put on by actual programs at Universities. It has taken so long… traditional methods coming to the attention of the west many years ago. It is the only hope for real reform of out medical industry from one of slice and dice drug pushing doctors and other industry specialists, to a field oriented toward real healing, and the integration of all aspects of what it means to be a human being.
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Yogis in the US are voicing opposition to proposed measures that would require them to become certified to continue their practices throughout the country.
The government has proposed regulations on the yoga industry that would require those who teach to go through training programs to become certified instructors.
via Yogis Break Tradition, Fight Back Against Regulation – Health News – redOrbit.
Isn’t it amazing how today’s government officials are always on the look out to regulate. Would they be willing to propose the same type of certification for religious leaders? No Way! We have a thing called the Constitution, which includes a Bill of Rights that clearly tells the government goons to butt out.
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Since the yogic metaphysic of Advaita Vedanta is in perfect accordance with the Islamic doctrine of tauhid (God’s oneness), there is perfect compatibility between Islam and yoga on the highest level. The ‘Book of Sufi Healing’ by Hakim G M Chishti clearly states that life, from its beginning till the end, is one continuous set of breathing practices. However, in Tariqat-e-Naqshabandiyah, the Sufi tradition of Islam, breathing practice has been there exactly as in yoga. The Quran, in addition to all else it may be, is a set of breathing practices.
GW says:
It is good to see this development. Yoga is not a religion in the sense that it requires a certain creed. It requires faith, dedication, love, compassion and forgiveness for the yogi to succeed in achieving release from attachment or identification with the illusory world. All of these qualities also can serve to deepen one’s faith in the religion they have grown up with.
To those who say God cannot be found in yoga and meditation I say, “Where can you look and not see God?”
via Mind set: Yoga beyond religion – Mind over Matter – Spirituality – LIFE & STYLE – The Times of India.
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The Morning Star Zendo vision
Kennedy
Kennedy’s vision is for the Morning Star Zendo to foster continuously an environment for interfaith dialogue—to be a place where people of all religious varieties meet and respect one another’s traditions and points of view.
The spirit at the zendo reflects and builds upon Kennedy’s deep respect for and knowledge of Buddhism. It carries out the principles laid out in the Jesuit statement on mission and interreligious dialogue, which demands that Jesuits be not only familiar with the thought of men and women of other religious traditions, but be immersed with them in theological exchange and in a dialogue of life, action, and religious experience.
GW says:
This is a beautiful thing. At the deepest levels, Christianity and Buddhism are very closely related. You can see the relationship by substituting the word “ignorance” for “sin” or vice versa. Doing this, both traditions can understand one another. Also there is the Bodhisattva, who takes on the suffering of others, much the same as Christ, who takes upon himself the sin of others.
via Morning Star Zendo.
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