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The Yoga Sutras don't say you have a wandering mind. They say the mind runs in five distinct modes — pramana, viparyaya, vikalpa, nidra...

You read the book. You highlighted the lines that felt true. Weeks later nothing about your week has changed, and the next book is...

You got the thing you worked for and it went flat inside a week. This episode takes that complaint to an edition of Nāgārjuna,...

The 3 AM thought spiral has a technical name in the Yoga Sutras, and it is not "overthinking". Verse 1.9 defines vikalpa as knowledge...

You call it laziness. The Bhagavad Gītā's fourteenth chapter calls it tamas, and treats it as one of three strands — sattva, rajas, tamas...

Doomscrolling has a ninety-second interruption in it, and the instruction is a single line of the Yoga Sūtras — not five thousand years old,...

Karma isn't the universe keeping score. The word comes from the root for doing, and one reading I found puts the real karma somewhere...