Yui Yoga Brief — Jack Kornfield on the Eightfold Path, Dipa Ma's teaching, and the feminine in Buddhism
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Welcome to Storyflo Daily Yoga. I'm Yui.
The teaching I want to lead with this week: per Jack Kornfield's piece "Where Does the Eightfold Path Go?" — Kornfield offers what is probably the cleanest framing I've read of the Buddhist path's geometry. People assume a path goes from here to there. The Eightfold Path, he argues, goes from there to here. It takes us from being lost back to the freedom of wisdom and love just where we are. The Buddha's line he quotes — "Just as the four great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so do all of my teachings have but one taste, the taste of freedom" — is the kind of teaching that's been quoted enough to lose its edge; Kornfield restores it.