Talk:Yoga

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Please continue, Dawei. Excellent start. (applause from the grateful audience) Nancy Nancy Sculerati MD 08:51, 8 February 2007 (CST)

I do not know enough to know if you already have included this in one of the already written subheadings, but could you kindly add "Yoga as a healing art" to the article? This article will open up into several others, and at least one should go in that direction. Thanks, Nancy Nancy Sculerati MD 20:49, 8 February 2007 (CST)

Okay, will do. Thanks for the kind words! Bei Dawei

Big Clean-up

Nothing much to change if I am not mistaken. Thomas Simmons 17:50, 16 March 2007 (CDT)

Intro

Great content so far, but I'm wondering if the intro is a bit too chummy. Would anyone object to making it a bit more academic? Blessings. --Michael J. Formica 10:44, 5 November 2007 (CST)

Go for it!--Gary Giamboi 12:44, 5 November 2007 (CST)

Buddhism & Daoism

Please see my last revision on the history page. I picked the word "Entity"; but, I am wondering if "Concept," might be closer to the Central Ideas of BUddhism and/or Daoism; and, thus make it eaiser to see how they could be included in the final goal of Yoga. Any thoughts?--Gary Giamboi 12:44, 5 November 2007 (CST)

The problem is that Yoga is not restricted to One Eternal Absolute Being/Entity/Concept, etc. Yoga appears in Taoist practice, Wicca, Kabala, and even Christianity. As a practice within the Hindu religion, the statement fails, as both Hinduism and Buddism regard a patheon of dieties, without One Supreme anything...Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahma are all part of Brahman, which is part of Indra...and on and on... Blessings --Michael J. Formica 13:04, 5 November 2007 (CST)

Perhaps I was not clear. I changed the word to try to include the other belief systems. As for the pantheon of deities, in the end there is only One in Hinduism and in some forms of Buddhism. Even Daoism ends with the Dao. So back to my question: is there a word which will include these belief systems better? As for religions in the Judeo-Christian system, I believe they all end up with God is God and You are You, no matter how close to God you may become. Which is not my idea of a complete union. In Hinduism you realize your consciousness is part of "Tat" or "That which Is" or "Tat Tvam Asi" (That Thou Art), in Buddism you become a Buddha, in Daoism, you become one with the Dao.--Gary Giamboi 13:36, 5 November 2007 (CST)

How about just One Eternal Absolute. That covers the base and still leaves room for the more amorphous version of G-d? Blessings --Michael J. Formica 16:08, 5 November 2007 (CST)

Too much in one place...

My fear is that this article suffers the same problem as the Martial arts article (see my comments there Talk:Martial arts#Article scope. There are, to my thinking, several articles here. Can we come together on separating things out? Blessings, or, here, Namaste... --Michael J. Formica 10:48, 6 November 2007 (CST)

References

References need to be in-line, in order to populate the References section. A reference to a work that is not tied to a statement in the article is not going to pass the demands of academic rigor, I suspect, for which we are striving. Blessings... --Michael J. Formica 18:14, 7 November 2007 (CST)