How Yoga Works: Healing Yourself and Others With The Yoga Sutra

 超級暢銷書《當和尚遇到鑽石》作者麥可‧羅區格西最新力作！

 　　有人做瑜伽，身心合一，日益散發光采。

 　　有人做瑜伽，卻常常受傷，不知瑜伽功效在哪裡。

 　　到底瑜伽要怎麼做才有效，才是真正在做瑜伽？

 　　麥可‧羅區格西第一部長篇小說，引領你深入《瑜伽經》，

 　　告訴你瑜伽不只是動作，還有轉化身心靈不可思議的力量！

 　　筆是筆嗎？花是花嗎？你，是你以為的那個你嗎？

 　　《瑜伽經》說：「是心靈中無數的種子，使我們看見周圍各種事物。」

 　　而你，在心靈裡種下什麼種子呢？

 　　時節是西元一一○一年二月，春天的腳步已悄悄來到，冬天卻尚未走遠，天氣依舊冷冽。

 　　一個17歲的西藏少女，遵循上師臨終前的指示，帶著一隻小小西藏犬和身上僅有的一只紅色毛布包，徒步走了一年，要到印度尋找另一位能教導她的上師。然而就在她準備穿越邊境時，被印度警察攔了下來，罪名是偷竊《瑜伽經》──一本蘊藏神祕力量的珍貴古書，身體違和者得之能恢復健康，心靈枯竭者得之可重獲平靜，失去愛與慈悲者得之必能重溫幸福。

 　　失去自由的少女，從牢房中看著牢房外的人──因嚴重背傷而脾氣暴躁的隊長，個性陰沉且嗜酒如命的中士，單純如白紙的下士，還有隔壁牢房那個總是裝瘋賣傻的神祕人……，每個人內心深處都藏著無比的傷痛，以及因傷痛而累積的健康問題。西藏少女如何運用《瑜伽經》的智慧，解答他們在練習瑜伽的過程中所產生的疑問和阻礙，幫助他們認識生命的真義，將蒙塵的心靈擦亮，重拾健康，身心充滿平靜與愛。

  

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The Yoga Sutra is the great motherbook of all the yoga works ever written; it was composed by the Indian master Patanjali some 2,000 years ago.

The Sanskrit text is written in 210 brief, cryptic verses whose meaning has long ago sunk into darkness; the many, confusing modern attempts to explain them bear little resemblance to each other, which is just a sign of how difficult this priceless little book can be.

Geshe Michael Roach is an honors graduate of Princeton University and the first westerner in the 600-year history of Sera Mey Tibetan Monastery to be awarded the degree of Geshe, or Master of Buddhism. He is known for his business bestseller, The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Managing Your Business & Your Life.

Using a database of almost half a million pages of ancient Asian literature, Geshe Michael has produced a fresh, clear, and immediately usable translation of the Yoga Sutra in the form of a wonderful novel about a young Tibetan woman who uses the wisdom to transform the corrupt world around her into a paradise on earth.

How Yoga Works has been acclaimed as a must-read for anyone who does yoga and who wants to know what the Yoga Sutra really says. It is an especially popular reading for yoga teacher training courses throughout the world, and as a personal daily guide for spiritual inspiration.

作者簡介

麥可‧羅區格西（Geshe Michael Roach）

　　是受具足戒的佛教比丘，他在位於印度的賽拉梅西藏寺院（Sera Mey Tibetan Monastery）學習了二十二年之後，成為第一位得到格西（佛學博士）學位的美國人。他從一九八一年開始教導佛法，也是研究梵文、西藏文和俄文的學者，翻譯作品等身。他運用西藏古老又先進的智慧，幫忙成立位於紐約市的安鼎國際鑽石公司，打造成年營業額一億美元的事業。他也是亞洲經典機構（Asian Classics Institute）的創辦人，此外，他也積極進行賽拉梅寺院的重建整修工作。著有全球商業暢銷書《當和尚遇到鑽石》。

Geshe Michael Roach is an honors graduate of Princeton University and has received the Presidential Scholar Medallion from the President of the United States at the White House. He is also a recipient of the McConnell Scholarship Prize of Princeton’s renowned Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs. Michael is the first westerner in the 600-year history of Sera Mey Tibetan Monastic University to be awarded the degree of Geshe, or ＂Master of Philosophy.＂ He has also received an honorary doctorate for lifetime achievement in the Congress of Mexico, in 2015.