Re:What Type of Exercise Is Best for Mental Health?
by codr7 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @11:18PM
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Breaking the identification is a big part of Yoga from my experience.
But so is being fully within your body and not fighting it.
As well as disciplining it and removing any disturbances.
Re:What Type of Exercise Is Best for Mental Health?
by mandelbrotwurst on Sunday June 25, 2023 @11:44PM
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One way that I sometimes think about this is that we are all of these things, and that being one thing need not preclude being another as well.
Re:What Type of Exercise Is Best for Mental Health?
by mtalantikite on Monday June 26, 2023 @11:18AM
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I'm not sure what sort of yoga you practice, but if it is more based in Hinduism then this would be one of the major differences between it and Buddhism. [1] In all schools of Buddhism there is the teaching of anatman, that there is no self or soul. [2] So the attitude around 'I' is a bit different, mainly that there is no permanent 'I' to identify with. Still, you're right in that 'I am a body' isn't quite right either.
[1] There are Buddhist yogas too, mainly from modern day Bangladesh that were preserved in Tibet, for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Dharmas_of_Naropa and the trul khor exercises. A Baul I've been lucky to practice with a little talks about it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JZ4__GTbjA
In fact in my yogic training, we learned to apply the 'i have' vs 'i am' as much as possible - directly opposite of what you are saying.
As someone growing religiously right now, I like the framework of the body being a vehicle for the soul (or at least, the mind) resonates a lot more.