Question

Hello Master,
I practise yoga, the Iyengar method, very hard and demanding, but I do not know if it is my way. But anyway, it is very clear to me that the body is the base of the spiritual progress, and I believe that Zen do not pay enough attention to this aspect. Do you believe, yourself, that Zen can guarantee a healthy body, so that it does not become an obstacle to our spiritual search? Master Deshimaru said that Zen is something higher than yoga, although this answer seems to me a little ambiguous, I do not know what he meant with that. what do you think of yoga? I suppose you will find that Zen is better. Their purposes are the same, but they are such different roads...
Greetings.

Answer from Master Kosen

You can contact my disciple Gabriela, responsible of Barcelona's dojo. She too teaches and has studied Iyengar yoga very seriously.

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