Tag: satya
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The Sound of Silence
Prior to the break between Christmas and New Year, we in Yoga Teacher Training were learning about the heart chakra, “anahata,” which relates to touch. Anahata, however, means “Unstruck Sound.” I was struggling to wrap my head around this concept of unstruck sound. What is unstruck sound but silence? Maybe Simon and Garfunkel’s Sound of…
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Satya: On Authenticity
What is the truth? When I was in graduate school, longer ago than I want to admit, the social sciences were grappling with postmodernism. According to postmodernism, there really is no truth – truth is in the eye of the beholder and based on conditioning. There was some tension between this and a belief in…
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