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HCLA 1013
04/20/17
Western Yoga, although it has adapted similar ideas and concepts from
Eastern ancient yoga, has taken on its own, Americanized version. Eastern
Philosophy in general is more focused on cosmological unity, life as a journey
leading toward eternal realities beyond any reality we are currently in. It focusses
on being an inner world dependent, and focusing on the false version of, ME and
finding the true, ME. The idea of, True ME is focused on reaching a state where
there is no real meaning in self-worth or self-importance. They focus on behavioral
ethics. Western culture is quite the opposite when you compare the list.
Americans, Western Culture, focus on, oneself, as its own element of The
Divine. Life is treated as a service to a specific goal such as work, money or belief
in God. Between Eastern and Western culture, there are different end goals that
change the values and behaviors of how we live our lives. Eastern Philosophy has a,
circular view on the Universe, as everything and everyone are of eternal
occurrence, while Western Philosophy follows more of a linear view of life and the
universe, more generally based off the Christian Philosophy that everything has a
beginning and an end. Western Philosophy is focused on being an outer-world
dependent. It is focused more on self-dedication to a specific goal with behaviors
driven to reach that one goal. Western Philosophy is quite lacking when it comes to
behavioral ethics.