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Is Yoga Evil? w/ Former Yogi (Alex Frank) | Ep. 314

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Is There a Difference Between Buddhism and Yoga?

Buddhism doesn't believe in the soul and yoga believes in a soul. Buddhism says that you are supposed to just realize your own impersonal awareness, which is what you really are. You're supposed to completely empty yourself of yourself. Whereas yoga, you're supposed to grow yourself, empower yourself, and then realize that yourself is actually the divine. Okay. This is blowing my mind. Like I knew the Buddha, if we can call him that, was from India and he was a Hindu at the time. Is that correct or not? He was a Hindu. Right. And he was a very well to do one. If I remember correctly, he had a marriage to a

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