Yoga Sutras

Just finished reading The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. They are amazingly similar in philosophy to Buddhism (and Neale Donald Walsh's conversations, though this fact is less remarkable). Though the sutras were written after early Buddhist writings (including the eight-fold path, four noble truths, etc) I don't believe that means they were a major influence, simply that both have accessed the same root wisdom through similar means. Which is heartening since the more I read Buddhist philosophy and attempt to physicalize it, the more it seems to make a lot of sense.

This afternoon I did an exercise I found in a book on Reiki and I was stunned to find results actually manifest, which makes me all the more excited for the course I'm taking next weekend. This Saturday I'm hoping to work up the energy to attend the San Francisco Zen Center's 8:45am Zazen Meditation instruction. But following a longer day of work on Friday than usual and my generally unrestful sleep lately, things may not go as planned.