Where the Yogi Came From: Tracing the Old Roots of Gathered Attention

A background guide to where yogic meditation and the idea of gathering a scattered mind come from, framed around The Billionaire Yogi Code. If you have ever sat down to focus and found your mind running in six directions at once, you have met the oldest problem in contemplative history. This article is a background guide to that problem and to the long tradition of yogic practice that grew up around it. It is not a summary of any book. It is context, offered so that you can read with more understanding. The book that prompted it is THE BILLIONAIRE YOGI CODE (https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=JGTuEQAAQBAJ) by Dr. Ajarn Robert Shumake (Ajarn Shaman Shu), subtitled The Sacred Practice of Gathering Your Scattered Power, and it is linked again at the end. The questions below are the ones a curious newcomer tends to ask. We take them one at a time, and where history is uncertain we say so plainly. Related book: THE BILLIONAIRE YOGI CODE by Dr. Ajarn Robert Shumake. More titles: Amazon author store.