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Index
Acknowledgments
Preface
PART ONE: Orientation
1. What Is Yoga?
2. Mapping Yoga
3. Yoga: What For?
4. Yoga: For Whom?
5. Guidelines for Selecting a Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist, or Class
6. Ten Fundamental Principles of Yoga
7. Is Yoga a Religion?
8. Yoga as Art and Science
9. The Yoga of Science
10. Traditional Definitions of Yoga
11. Yoga in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism
12. Forty Types of Hindu Yoga
13. The Tree of Hindu Yoga
14. Styles of Hatha-Yoga
15. Crossing the Boundary between Hinduism and Buddhism via Tantra-Yoga
16. Vajrayāna Buddhist Yoga
17. Introducing the Great Literary Heritage of Hindu Yoga
18. Yoga Symbolism
Part Two: Approaching Practice
19. Approaching Spiritual Practice
20. The Twelve Steps of Spiritual Recovery
21. Happiness, Well-Being, and Reality
22. The Quest for Happiness
23. Spiritual Discipline
24. Life Is an Earthquake
25. Samsāra Means Running Around in Circles
26. Spiritual Friendship
27. The Guru: Dispeller of Darkness
28. The Guru Function: Broadcasting Reality
29. Understanding the Guru
30. Holy Madness
31. Grace Has a Place in Yoga
32. Tapas, or Voluntary Self-Change
33. The Art of Purification
34. Obstacles on the Path According to Patanjali
35. In Praise of Study
36. Silence Is Golden: The Practice of Mauna
37. Die While You Live and Last-Hour Yoga
38. Living in the Dark Age (Kali-Yuga)
39. Yoga and Terrorism
Part Three: Moral Foundations
40. Yoga Begins and Ends with Virtuous Action
41. Is Nonharming (Ahimsā) an Old-Fashioned Value?
42. Nonharming According to Jaina Yoga
43. Yoga and Vegetarianism
44. The Practice of Eco-Yoga
45. Overcoming Greed
46. Authenticity, Integrity, Unity
47. The Power of Truth
48. Compassion
49. Ethical Guidelines for Yoga Teachers
Part Four: The Spectrum of Yoga Practice
50. Āsanas for the Body and the Mind
51. Shava-Āsana, or Corpse Posture
52. The Breath of Life
53. Cultivating Wisdom
54. Buddhi-Yoga
55. Jnāna-Yoga: The Path of Wisdom
56. “That Art Thou” The Essence of Nondualist Yoga
57. Discernment and Self-Transcendence
58. Karma-Yoga: The Way of Self-Transcending Action
59. Bhakti-Yoga: “Worship Me with Love”
60. Degrees of Love
61. The Kriyā-Yoga of Patanjali
62. Faith and Surrender: A New Look at the Eightfold Path
63. Mantra-Yoga: Sounding Out the Depth Within
64. The Gāyatrī-Mantra
65. The Sacred Syllable Om
66. Mudrās: Gestures of Wholeness
67. Tāraka-Yoga: Seeing the Light
68. Yantra-Yoga: Divine Geometry
69. What Is Tantra?
70. Sex, Asceticism, and Mythology
Part Five: Higher Stages of Practice
71. Pathways to Relaxation and Meditation
72. What Is Meditation?
73. Prayer in Yoga
74. The Ecstatic State
75. The Serpent Power and Spiritual Life
76. Who or What Is the Self in Self-Realization?
77. Emptiness
78. Liberation
Notes
Glossary: Key Sanskrit Terms of Hindu Yoga
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