Christopher Key Chapple

Christopher Key Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and Founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. Chris serves on the advisory boards for the South Asian Studies Association, the Forum on Religion and Ecology (Yale), the Ahimsa Center (Pomona), the Jain Studies Centre (SOAS, London), the Dharma Academy of North America (Berkeley), and the International School for Jain Studies (Delhi). He has published more than 20 books, volumes as well as single author studies, including Yoga and the Luminous: Patañjali’s Spiritual Path to Freedom and Thinking with the Yoga Sutra of Patañjali: Translation and Interpretation.

Christopher Key Chapple shares the wisdom of Patañjali’s Classical Yoga as it relates to the challenges of our modern world. Drawing from his decades long study, practice and teaching he acknowledges the importance of social justice, tolerance, resilience and nonviolence.

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:31 Chris’s yoga history

00:06:27 Definition of yoga

00:12:31 The purpose of yoga practice

00:20:08 Nonduaity and attachment

00:24:27 Mental agony and the comparing mind

00:28:09 Understanding and acceptance

00:30:42 The Bhagavad Gita and the three gunas

00:35:13 Social justice and nonviolence

00:42:09 Beyond the polarities + chit shakti

00:49:55 Politics and a divided world

00:56:37 Humility

New Thinking Allowed Guest Host Leanne Whitney, PhD, is a depth psychologist and transformational coach based in Los Angeles, CA. She is the author of Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali and currently serves as Executive Director of Center for Transformation and Integration. Her website is https://leannewhitney.com/

To learn about Leanne Whitney’s upcoming Transformational Coaching Certification Course with an emphasis in Somatic Integration Therapy, please visit: https://transformationandintegration.com/courses

Producer: Megumi Nishikura

Editor: John Hartmann

(Recorded on July 17, 2024)

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Published on August 26, 2024