Seth Powell and Chase Bossart - "On Patañjali's Yogasūtras"
J. Brown Yoga Talks
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4.3 • 710 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Seth Powell and Chase Bossart come together with J for an in-depth debate into the nature and substance of Patañjali's Yogasūtras. They discuss whether the sutras and the commentary are written by the same person, differing views on what the text says yoga is, whether it involves stilling the mind to reach a liberation beyond this world or a means of finding clarity and purpose in having this existence, distinguishing between mind and consciousness, and the power of deep yogic inquiry. This episode is sponsored by Karmasoft.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, here we are. |
| 0:12.1 | This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. |
| 0:15.3 | My name is Jay Brown. |
| 0:17.0 | If you happen to be a first-time listener, let me welcome you. Everyone else, good to have you back. |
| 0:25.6 | This is the first time we are together in the new year, and it is customary for me to wish you a happy one. |
| 0:33.9 | But I have to admit that in the last few days, |
| 0:38.1 | every time I run into someone who I haven't seen yet in the new year |
| 0:41.3 | and we exchange our customary happy New Year's, |
| 0:46.7 | in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, |
| 0:49.3 | well, maybe we should not put too much pressure on ourselves. |
| 0:55.6 | Not that I'm not wishing everyone well, |
| 0:58.6 | but some of you know how I feel about happiness as a goal. |
| 1:03.5 | Maybe I'll just say, |
| 1:05.8 | have a joyful new year. |
| 1:09.1 | But really, the reason why it's felt strained to say it is there is some real darkness afoot. |
| 1:18.2 | I don't want to get into it. |
| 1:19.6 | I don't want to get into politics or news, but just to say, I think we need to be very |
| 1:26.9 | vigilant and not just believing everything that's being set on cable news. |
| 1:33.2 | And boy, do we need to be shining light. |
| 1:36.4 | We need to be some serious light, my friends, |
| 1:39.7 | in the face of what feels like some real darkness. |
| 1:46.2 | On another note, I want to send profound love to my friends in Australia. |
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