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Comment by Vincent Wright on January 18, 2017 at 4:23pm

The trouble with knowledge is when some try to pass it off only to the financially well-off ...

Comment by Vincent Wright on January 18, 2017 at 4:22pm

Knowledge gets into trouble when some try to pass it off only to the financially well-off ...

Comment by Vincent Wright on February 19, 2014 at 5:01pm

Thanks, Lawrence.  As a yoga practitioner yourself, I'm sure you're aware that Patanjali, himself, the codifier of Ashtanga Yoga (8 Limbed Yoga) was a grammarian.  Most classical interpreters of his "Yoga Sutras" paint him as "an interviewer" who went around interviewing yogis and gurus and swamis and "threaded"/"sewed" (sutra) their vast experience into those ~184 bits of endless wisdom into ONE UNIFIED WHOLE on which "Raja Yoga" is based...

Comment by Lawrence Carroll on February 19, 2014 at 4:46pm

It's good to reflect that the great written works were often summaries and footnotes of dynamic oral traditions. The written works could never transmit the "moment" of knowledge being imparted. And a big YES to practice. Practice was essential to take the understandings to a new level.

Accumulating information is soil for understanding and needs all of which you said plus  an interlocutor.

Comment by Vincent Wright on February 19, 2014 at 8:42am

If you read everything but, reflect on nothing, what good does that do you? Read. Reflect. Practice.

Comment by Vincent Wright on December 15, 2013 at 4:45pm

In this, THE Golden Information Age, you have NO EXCUSE for being uninformed. If you can't afford to pay anyone to educate you, educate YOURSELF