Question

Do you think working with chakras and energies in our body can help us go the spiritual way, e.g. combining Buddhism with Yoga meditation, not here in the retreat, in normal life?

Answer

One problem with energy work is that sometimes people get more interested in the psychic phenomena and psychic powers than in letting go of greed, hatred and ignorance. This is what I have observed in most people who get in involved in these things. And then things like Morality, Compassion/Lovingkindness and Wisdom tend to be overlooked. These people also tend to judge their practice more on whether they can get a lot of concentration experiences rather than on whether their Morality is increasing in their life, whether their ability to be compassionate, equanimous, develop Wisdom, understand the characteristics of existence is increasing. So I would be very cautious about these things.

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