Who needs Patanjali when you have Lana Del Rey?
Westerners are such desperate copycats sometimes.
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In all seriousness, Yoga is great technology and not to be underestimated, but people need cultural referents they can grasp.
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Westerners are a miserable, despairing lot despite appropriating a huge share of the world's material wealth.
It's tempting to blame conspicuous technologies of personal and spiritual subjection, but the absence of technologies of personal and spiritual liberation is telling.
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You should all have an idea of the basis of abiding happiness that isn't something you could read in a fashion magazine.
Well? What does your culture say?
Yeah...
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It just isn't part of the script. There is only the struggle, devoid of any purpose whatsoever. Deep, deep deprivation.
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Yeah. I didn't get as far as blaming the Christians last night, but I totally agree.
I could have had a shamanic lineage, too, but I have the Norwegian govt. to thank for killing *that* culture.