Why is Yoga incompatible with Catholicism? - FATHER JOHN HARDON, S.J.
From Fr. Gabriel Amorth, the Vatican's Chief Exorcist: The devil does yoga
And, finally,
MB asks: “While it’s true that most yoga positions are designed to be positions of worship to Hindu gods, I find it hard to believe that there’s any danger in practicing them when it’s just being done as an exercise.” - See more at: http://www.womenofgrace.com/blog/?p=17011#sthash.ggtxRmmq.89BjEVzj.dpuf
Yoga, as well as Transcendental Meditation, are incompatible with being a Christian.
That’s news to me. Now I know why I was always bored stiff trying to twist myself into a pretzel while exclaiming “om!”
How many public schools teach and encourage yoga?
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Sorry, couldn't help it. Carry on.
Can one replace “Om Namah Shivaya” with “Our Father Who Art in Heaven?”
There are plenty of “new age” spiritual movements which borrow a little this and a little that from eastern religions that say “I am God”, “The universe is God”, etc. Even if their message is well-camouflaged as something innocent, there is usually a deeper core that leads in the wrong direction, saying there is no absolute God and whatever feels good is right.
Down dog...
Yoga, the most pressing matter in Catholicism.
You looking to add to the anxiety that people in this country are facing and dealing with?
When is it enough for people like you?
Oops, I meant to say
YOGA!
I’ve never been a big fan of yoga .
It’s basically just sour milk ... tastes nasty even with the fruit on the bottom.
Yoga is one of many practices that Christians should avoid. Tarot, crystal balls, horoscopes, fortunetellers, all of that stuff. We’re not to look for answers and solutions except from God.
In regard to the title, some arguments just start on their own. I get enough action just giving Bible quotes without trying to start any trouble.
A few years ago, a Catholic friend asked my opinion about yoga, and she thought I was nuts when I said I preferred to stay away because of its pagan origins.
Besides, I believe kickboxing or weight training or even fast walking are all better workouts that bending yourself around on a mat.
Japanese say 禅茶一味 zencha ichimi, "Zen and tea [have] one [and the same] flavor."
But does the tea ceremony have to be Buddhist? Of the seven disciples of Sen no Rikyu, the "originator" of the tea ceremomy, four were Buddhist and three--one of them the nephew of the Japanese ruler Oda Nobunaga--were Christian. Moreover, the Zen temple associated with Omotesenke is the Zuiho-in, the only Zen temple which commemorates a Christian samurai, Otomo Sorin. The temple has two rock gardens: one has a cross shape hidden in the rock placements, at the foot of which is buried a statue of Mary, and the other is an abstract representation of Jesus giving the Sermon on the Mount. Finally, there are ways in which the tea ceremony embodies hidden Christian messages, too numerous to list here; I will simply point out one, that the ritual of the tea ceremony seems to emulate the Sacrament of the Altar.
So can a Christian practice tea ceremony without fear of entering into the realms of Zen Buddhist heterodoxy? Of course s/he can, but it takes some wariness, and some open proclamation of one's faith. My most recent experience of this was teaching the basics of chanoyu to Christian martial arts students. In Japan this would be tantamount to heresy: people study tea or they study karate, but almost never both, and never at the same venue. In the US, however, it makes perfect sense: Christian martial arts teachers emulate Kingley's idea of muscular Christianity, and Christian tea ceremony provides the complementary discipline of learning theosis through reverence and koinonia through harmony.
So my answer to the Christian yogis would be: if you can teach Christian doctrine and practice through yoga, and if you can find some Christian historical connection to yoga--NOT pseudo-Christan "Jesus was Mahavishnu" or similar heresy, but rather something connected to, say, the Thomas churches or the Yashu Bakhti movement--then have at it. But the advice a fellow Christian gave me 34 years ago, when I began my first lessons in tea ceremony, still rings true today: if you EVER feel yourself being pulled away from Christ, leave it IMMEDIATELY, because there are worse things than gaining the whole world, and one of them is losing your own soul.
Many societal destructions are visited upon us through women breaking out of their roles for just the sake of breaking out
Women should be pilots, dictors, writers, CEOs and anything else they want to be, the PM of Great Britain, for instance. And they should have full respect when they do so. If they’re good at it and if they’re doing it because they’re good at it
But meanwhile, kids all over the western world are deserted without mothers. No one is home
Women do things because others are doing it. Like 15 year olds whose attentive parents would ask, ‘so, if someone told you to jump off of the Brooklyn Bridge, would you do it?’
Oprah Winfrey is a great perpetrator, yet not even she understands the consequences and the power of her massive pied piper spirituality toward women looking to ‘feel better, and about everything, and now, immediately’
Yoga invites spirits. And not angels, guardian angels, saints, not the holy family nor the Holy Spirit It’s poses and positions create a channel for these spirits who are unfriendly to the holy spirits
Many things- activities, foods, drinks, people, etc, make us feel better. Yoga does. That doesn’t mean they’re good. It doesn’t mean they’re not evil
Women devote themselves to yoga. While men continue through this time unglazed by and disinterested in all of this, but continually interested in mesmerizing inconsequential sex, through the objectifying birth control, bowing to it and refusing to stand up to any principal, while women bow to this feel good activity completely oblivious
I’ve seen families scrounging for food on a Sunday morning while mom is at yoga, completely pissed on having to attend mass on Christmas Catholics going back to the 800s in Ireland
Not an image of the blessed mother not a crucifix not a cross in the house
Advising me to take up yoga. They look great, money in the billions ( no stretch) completely unable to not only not handle adversity, immorality, a wrong path, but unable to recognize it
No thanks. The rosary works just fine
Somewhere I read a Vatican release about yoga. Can never locate it
Johnette b or FR Mitch paces must have it somewhere
NYer this actually is very important. It takes the mother out of tge home effectively
All of the Seinfeld style, ‘oh how silly’ comments should tell you the nature of the power of yoga
Nothing wrong with Pilates. It was devised by a euro (French?) md to rehab war vets.
I saw a Kook who was standing on his head.
He flipped his lid like he should have been in bed.
I said, "what gives, man?"
He looked at me and said,
"I'm a Yogi, I'm a Yogi, baby.
I'm a Yogi, I'm a Yogi, baby."
Hey, Booboo!
And then the cat started strutting on hot coals.
He was wearing sneaks, but they were so full of holes.
He sang right out from the bottom of his soles,
"I'm a Yogi, I'm a Yogi, baby. I'm a Yogi, I'm a Yogi, baby."
Hey, Booboo!
"Listen here, baby," the Yogi man said,
"It's all a matter of the mind.
Just commune with your innermost being,
Baby, you'll be just fine."
He was hip, all right, wasn't he?
So I tried my best to dig my inner me.
I walked on coals, my head below my knee.
Until at last I heard me say perfectly,
"I'm a Yogi, I'm a Yogi, baby.
I'm a Yogi, I'm a Yogi, baby."
Hey, Booboo!