What Teaching Others Taught Me — Eugen Mîrtz (eBook, PDF)

Dozens of live talks, a thousand-seat hall filled every week, eight essential themes — the book that keeps it all

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In 1990s Romania, once a week, over a thousand people walked into a thousand-seat hall. Some stood in the back, on the stairs. Nobody advertised these talks. People simply came — week after week, year after year.

Why? Not for theory. Theory was in books, then as now. They came because someone was finally talking about their actual lives: the choice you have to make tomorrow morning, the jealousy eating at you, the excuse "I don't have time" you've been using on yourself for ten years.

Eugen Mîrtz had been teaching yoga since the early '80s — through the years it was banned under the communist regime, when practice meant discretion and a certain kind of courage. When the ban fell, the questions poured out. These talks were his answers.

From dozens of those evenings, this book distills eight themes — the ones everyone runs into, whether they practice yoga or not — kept exactly as they were spoken. With the questions from the audience. With the examples. With the humor. You don't just read it; you hear it.

EIGHT THEMES, ONE THREAD:

- Good unites, evil divides — a five-second test for any choice life throws at you

- Why you can't build the new self on top of the old one: "first you die, and then you are born"

- What level are you really living on? The one test few people run honestly on themselves

- Love isn't missing from this world — it's dammed up. Who built the dams? You did

- Jealousy, questioned until there is nothing left of it to fear

- "I don't have time." Really? Yoga does not take your time — it gives you time

- A yoga posture has seven levels of depth. Most people never leave the first

- Man and woman on the spiritual path — polarity, past all the clichés

TESTED ON A THOUSAND PEOPLE A WEEK

These answers weren't written at a desk. They were tried live, in front of an audience with no patience for empty talk — an audience that kept coming back because what it heard worked. First published in Romanian in 2002 and long out of print, the book appears here for the first time in English, in a translation reviewed and approved by the author (2026).

WHAT YOU GET

- The complete book as a PDF, delivered to your email right after purchase

- Read it on your phone, tablet, or laptop — or print it and read with a pencil in hand

- No prior knowledge needed: anyone could walk into that hall. Same with this book.

An email with a download link for the PDF. That's it. No account to create, no app to install. The file is yours — put it on your phone, your laptop, print it if you're the pencil-in-the-margins type. If the email doesn't show up within a few minutes, check your Spam folder; if it's not there either, write to us at contact@eugenmirtz.ro and we'll resend it.

Yes — and that's not a sales line. The original talks drew everyone: engineers, students, retirees, people who had never done a yoga posture in their lives. Two chapters (on postures and the energy centers) get more technical, but even there the author explains every term as he goes. The rest is about love, jealousy, choices, and excuses — things you have regardless of what you do with your body.

Fair question. Here's the short version: yoga was banned in communist Romania until 1989, and Eugen Mîrtz taught through those years anyway. When the ban ended, his weekly talks filled a thousand-seat hall for the better part of a decade — no marketing, just word of mouth. He's an engineer and psychologist by training, which shows: no mystical fog, no guru posturing, just clear language about difficult things. The book was a bestseller in Romania in 2002. This is its first English edition.

No. It's a book about the inner life, written by a man who talks about God, physics, and what to do when your partner drives you up the wall — sometimes on the same page. It draws on the yoga tradition and quotes Christian, Hindu, and Zen sources alike, but it asks you to believe nothing. It asks you to verify things in your own experience — the author's engineering side is non-negotiable on that point.