[thereisone] Defending Yoga?
- From: Gutman Locks <locks.gutman@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 06:15:06 +0300
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Defending Yoga?
* Brian *comment on *Din Torah*’s answer to my question, “Are Jewish
Institutions allowed to teach yoga?” He also posted a link to a 13 minute
long video of his example of “entirely non spiritual yoga”.
He wrote, “The assumption is that your experience puts you as an
authority on yoga and Hinduism. It doesn’t. Some amount of yoga was added
relatively recently to some practices of Hinduism. Lets keep exercise
separate from other peoples religion and leave the experts on topics to be
the one making those decisions. Next thing you know we can[‘t] use
computers because Hinduism uses that too.”
*Gutman’s* response:
Brian, why are you questioning my ability to comment on yoga? That
response where you posted your comment was written by the rabbis at “Din
Torah”. I merely submitted the question.
I looked at 15 seconds of your video example of “objective health
value” yoga teachings and up came the word “*namaste*”. *Namaste* is the
Hindu greeting that means “the god within me salutes the god within you.”
If you look it up the yoga teacher will explain, “We bring the hands
together at the heart chakra to increase the flow of Divine love.”
*This is not what we want to teach Jewish children*. This is not the
way a Jew is taught to greet someone. Jews say, “Shalom” which means
“Peace” and is one of Hashem’s names.
Again, if you want to do the exercises without the word yoga or *any*
other of their spiritual teachings that is up to you. But do not defend
spreading their spiritual teachings to Jews (or to anyone else for that
matter).
What's Wrong with Yoga?
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7RYzjxwKoM&list=UUNdbWBiilyPuDwoEAN3ObDQ>
(link)
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