Lama Marut gave this public talk, How Yoga Really Works: The Missing Teachings on Yoga, at the newly-opened Mahasukha Center in Los Angeles, December 2008.
While promising “All secrets tonight will be revealed!” he also asks - with some 25 million people practising yoga, what could still be secret about it?
In this talk Lama Marut tells a story of a monk who, hearing that millions of Westerners were doing downward dog, decided it was a miracle: “25 million advanced yogis reborn in the same place!” He wakes up the “amnesiac yogis” and, using the Yoga Sūtra, lays out the “whole enchilada”: ethics through the yamas and niyamas and the karma behind them, meditation as becoming the boss of your own mind, and the wisdom that sees the world coming from you, not at you.
“Yoga is meant to change you so that you can change the world.”
The full talk is now available to listen to and download, with the reading he used that night.
