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J. Brown Yoga Talks

Hareesh (Christopher) Wallis - “Tantra Illuminated”

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.4696 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Hareesh (Christopher) Wallis has a B.A. in Religion and Classics from the University of Rochester, an M.A. in Sanskrit from U.C. Berkeley, an M.Phil. in Classical Indian Religions from Oxford, and a Ph.D. on the traditions of Śaiva Tantra from Berkeley. He talks with J about the art and science of translating Sanskrit, the influence of Tantra on modern yoga, qualifications on non-duality, Abhinava Gupta, and how the removal of conceptual overlays and integration of transcendence reveals inherent wonder and awe in life.

 

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0:00.0

Yep. Hello, everybody. How's it going? Welcome to Yoga Talks podcast. My name's Jay Brown.

0:20.2

Thank you for listening. It's my pleasure to be with you again.

0:26.2

On this late summer evening, how's everybody's late summer going? I say late summer because I once read

0:35.4

that there are certain strains of thought that actually

0:39.9

think of late summer as its own season, like summer then late summer than fall.

0:46.9

They talk about it as being a time when things really, you know, slow down kind of a dead time

0:53.1

before things wind back up, you know, slow down kind of a dead time before things wind back up, you know.

0:57.9

And I do feel like that. I feel like I could feel here at the end of August,

1:02.9

the latter part of August coming on, things have a bit of a slowdown feeling.

1:11.6

But I'm still busy, you know.

1:14.5

And slow down in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, it's not that slow.

1:21.2

You know, I was walking today with my two daughters.

1:25.5

I needed to get them out of the house.

1:29.2

So we went for donuts.

1:31.5

My wife gets so mad at me.

1:32.8

It was like, let's go get donuts.

1:34.6

And the girls were like, yeah, donuts.

1:35.5

She's like, Jay.

1:38.0

I was like, babe, come on, summertime.

1:39.3

Let's go get some donuts.

1:41.6

So we went to Dunkin' Donuts.

1:44.0

It was even worse because there's kind of like a fancy, dancey donut place, but I don't know. They didn't really have the flavors we wanted when we went

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