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It’s hard to believe it has been a year since I last wrote here. In the fall of 2023, I made a promise to myself (and to you), to write a monthly blog post on the intersections of yoga philosophy with daily life. Yoga is a moment to moment practice, and how we choose to live each moment is up to us.
But then, life got busy. Things changed. I got caught up.
It’s time to come back to the present.
Indian Philosophy 101
Years ago, when I was an undergraduate student, I took an elective course in Indian philosophy. As a Linguistics major, I had been studying Japanese language and history, and I was drawn to the Buddhist philosophy that is so deeply woven into Japanese culture. As Buddhist traditions have their origins in India, I thought a course in Indian philosophy might provide useful context for the evolution of Buddhist sects in Japan.
