Foreword ix

Introduction 1

1 Vidyā: Seeing Things As They Are 7
2 Embracing Suffering 17
3 Mārga: Establishing the Path 25
4 Embodying the Path 31
5 The Eight Limbs 43
6 Practicing the Yamas 51
7 The Yamas Beyond Dualism 59
8 The Five Kleṣas 65
9 Freedom through the Kleṣas 83
10 Stillness and Movement 91
11 The Five Kośas: Sheaths of the Mind and Body 95
12 Working with the Kośas 109
13 Saṁskāras: Webs of Mind and Body 115
14 Prāṇa: Energetic Flow 123
15 Body in Mind 131
16 Letting Go: Āsana and Meditation Intertwined 137
17 Prāṇa and Citta 147
18 The Empty Vessel 161
19 Śūnyatā: Boundless and Empty 175
20 Yoga, Death, and Dying: What Is Most Astounding? 189

Acknowledgments 209
Notes 211
Glossary of Sanskrit Terms 217
Permissions 225
Index 227