Re Aron:
"What have your experiences with the eightfold path been?"


This is the classical Buddhist Arya Ashtang Marga. The original formulation comes directly from Guru Sakaymuni Buddha himself.

Short answer : I teach this stuff. This means I have to PRACTICE it, and that means I have to STUDY it. So that is my experience of it. IT is an integral way of life and personal awareness in all domains of thought and being. To do this properly one has to know the Buddhist teaching on karma, in particular.

A most essential and indispensible book on this and Buddhist practice generally is
"Dakini Teachings", by Padmasambhava

So that is the basic reference and guideline, written and essentialized by one of the great masters of India. For Buddhists, for those who engage or want to engage the Arya Ashtang Marga taught by Guru Sakyamuni. Yoga teachers in general are not held to this specific standard, since many are Hindu or non-aligned, rather than Buddhist, but the Noble Eightfold Path is a good general guideline.

The point here is that it has a Very Specific Buddhist meaning, which is clear and classical and rigorous, and it is straightforward to study this with the text Dakini Teachings. Now you know.

You have been helped.

Sarva mangalam. Siddhi rastu!

KT