Yes, do it every day. But yoga is much more than just stretching, it can be stillness of the mind and body, Raja Yoga is one of many yoga practices to go within.
"Raja Yoga, sometimes called the "Royal Yoga" is inclusive of all yogas, and its philosophy goes beyond the boundaries of the many styles of yoga today. Raja Yoga emphasizes the benefits of meditation for spiritual self-realization and the purposeful evolution of consciousness."
The meaning of yoga is to join, union, unite, but can also mean to subjugate. It can also be a way of gaining control over the mind, perhaps the powers that be wouldn't want us to do that...
I posted this in another thread, I think these Muslims deserve a hug.
It was around this time last year that the trustees of Bradford's final remaining synagogue faced a tough choice. The roof of the Grade II-listed Moorish building was leaking; there was serious damage to the eastern wall, where the ark held the Torah scrolls; and there was no way the modest subscriptions paid annually by the temple's 45 members could cover the cost.
Rudi Leavor, the synagogue's 87-year-old chairman, reluctantly proposed the nuclear option: to sell the beautiful 132-year-old building, forcing the congregation to go 10 miles to Leeds to worship.
It was a terrible proposition, coming just after the city's only Orthodox synagogue had shut its doors in November 2012, unable to regularly gather 10 men for the Minyan, the quorum of 10 Jewish male adults required for certain religious obligations.
But rather than close, Bradford Reform Synagogue's future is brighter than ever after the intervention of Bradford's Muslim community, which according to the 2011 census outnumbers the city's Jews by 129,041 to 299.
A fundraising effort – led by the secretary of a nearby mosque, together with the owner of a popular curry house and a local textile magnate – has secured the long-term future of the synagogue and forged a friendship between Bradfordian followers of Islam and Judaism. All things being well, by Christmas the first tranche of £103,000 of lottery money will have reached the synagogue's bank account after some of Bradford's most influential Muslims helped Leavor and other Jews to mount a bid.
It was around this time last year that the trustees of Bradford's final remaining synagogue faced a tough choice. The roof of the Grade II-listed Moorish building was leaking; there was serious damage to the eastern wall, where the ark held the Torah scrolls; and there was no way the modest subscriptions paid annually by the temple's 45 members could cover the cost.
Rudi Leavor, the synagogue's 87-year-old chairman, reluctantly proposed the nuclear option: to sell the beautiful 132-year-old building, forcing the congregation to go 10 miles to Leeds to worship.
It was a terrible proposition, coming just after the city's only Orthodox synagogue had shut its doors in November 2012, unable to regularly gather 10 men for the Minyan, the quorum of 10 Jewish male adults required for certain religious obligations.
But rather than close, Bradford Reform Synagogue's future is brighter than ever after the intervention of Bradford's Muslim community, which according to the 2011 census outnumbers the city's Jews by 129,041 to 299.
A fundraising effort – led by the secretary of a nearby mosque, together with the owner of a popular curry house and a local textile magnate – has secured the long-term future of the synagogue and forged a friendship between Bradfordian followers of Islam and Judaism. All things being well, by Christmas the first tranche of £103,000 of lottery money will have reached the synagogue's bank account after some of Bradford's most influential Muslims helped Leavor and other Jews to mount a bid.
I prefer the more positive quote..."Do unto others as you would have them do to you."
Personally I like to try and follow Buddhist teachings. Dharma teaches compassion for all living beings, although I really can't resist the occasional bacon sarnie...
I see god as a metaphor for love and kindness, an indestructible energy within us all. To pray to god is to remind us of that energy, to connect to that energy and to be that energy.
"When we take the gods as facts, rather than metaphors, then we get lost in debating the merits of the facts rather than apprehending their meaning. The fundamentalist ties his or her beliefs to the facts and narrows the spiritual vitality by fighting rear-guard actions against disputation. On the other hand, the atheist disputes the evidence, gets confused by the institutional forms to which he or she has been exposed, and misses the possible deepening which occurs whenever one confronts the meaning of divinity."
This is exactly what these lunatic terrorists want you to believe to further their cause. You have been fooled and manipulated, you've fell for it hook, line and sinker!!!
Have you ever spent any time in a Muslim country? Have you ever experienced this intolerance you speak of from Muslims? From my own experience the time I spent in a Muslim country was made all the better by the warmth and hospitality displayed towards by almost everyone I met. Even though for most of the time I was in a quite lawless part of Pakistan, no police, no army, we could have been robbed, kidnapped or even killed at any time without any police intervention, the strength of their religious beliefs ensured we were treated with total respect and kindness.
That was my experience of Islam at work in everyday life, in fact it was quite a humbling experience, one that I have never experienced in Western Christian countries, before or after.
"Love is what you are, what everyone is regardless of your thoughts, and feelings now or in the past. It is only known when there is no longer any impulse towards separation and when all sense of 'mine' has gone."
I was originally responding to the op, which reeks of gratuitous violence. I'm not suggesting being "nice" will solve the problems we face, what I'm suggesting is the spiral of violence will probably get worse, it always does.
Hatred begets hatred, as I mentioned earlier, a greater awareness, a shift to a higher level of consciousness has to happen before this madness ends.
You seem convinced that there is an answer, that we can stop this. Have you considered there is no way of stopping all this killing with more killing? The only way you can stop hatred is to stop hating, that is the only option open to me as an individual, it's all I can do.
Stopping who? The likes of the eight men who were capable of bringing Paris to it's knees? Or the warlords whose planes deliver death and destruction in the name of power and greed?
It's too late to halt all this. Our capability to destroy, spread hate and fear has driven us to the edge, a shift in awareness is the only hope, we are fast approaching a tipping point, more violence will ensure we reach that point sooner rather than later.
Whilst there is a will to kill and maim there will be killing and maiming. Killing and maiming is not exclusive to terrorist attacks as the people of Iraq discovered not too long ago. The madness has gathered momentum, fear and distrust and hatred is spreading round the globe, it can't be ended with more violence.
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