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abhiniveśa (self-preservation)
abhyāsa (practice)
Abrahamic religions
Absolute, the
acceptance
addiction
Advaita Vedanta
Adyanshanti
aging. See also under body; death
accepting our
Agni
ahaṇkāra
ahiṁsā (nonviolence)
ālambana
ānanda (bliss)
anandamaya kośa
anātman
anguish. See also suffering
annamaya kośa (sheath of food)
anxiety
aparigraha (nonacquisitiveness/greedlessness)
Arjuna
āsana (posture)
meaning and nature of
and meditation intertwined
Patañjali on
psychological perspective on
āsana practice
asmitā
Aṣṭāṅga yoga
asteya (not stealing)
atha (present moment)
Atha yoganusāsanam
ātman (inner self)
attachment
interrupting, and dropping the narrative
to self (see also “I, me, and mine”; self)
attention. See also concentration
aversion
avidyā
defined
awakening
awareness
cultivating
pure (see also anandamaya kośa; puruṣa)
separation from all that is perceived
bandhas
Batchelor, Stephen
Becker, Ernest
being with what is. See also avidyā
Bhagavad Gītā
Bhakti yoga
bhujaṅga (Serpent)
birth, death, and rebirth. See also death
cycle of
body. See also specific topics
aging, death, and the
in mind (see also kośas)
Borges, Jorge Luis
Brahmā
brahmacharya
breath. See also prāṇa
cycles of
stretching the
watching the
breathing into heart
Buddha
buddhi (intelligence)
buddhindriyas (sense capacities)
Buddhism
vs. Hinduism
Campbell, Joseph
Carver, Raymond
causality
center of gravity
lowering your
chakras
citta vṛtti
clinging
community
compassion and compassionate action
concentration. See also attention; dhyāna
concepts and conceptualization
Cupitt, Don
death (and dying)
accepting
contemplating and practicing
denial of
dissolution and
fear of (see also abhiniveśa)
of habits
meditation on
delusion
Denial of Death, The (Becker)
Desikachar, T.K.V.
desire
dhāraṇā (meditation)
dharma megha samādhi
dhyāna (concentration)
discontent. See also suffering
dissolution. See also death; self: selflessness and dissolution of
Downward-Facing Dog
duality. See also nondualism/nonduality; opposites, tension of
clinging to
duḥkha (unsatisfaction)
freedom from
model of
dveṣa (aversion)
dynamic stability
ease. See also āsana
ego. See also ahaṇkāra; asmitā; “I, me, and mine”
eight-limbed path. See limbs, eight
elements
five
four
emptiness. See also śūnya; śūnyatā
nature of
enemies in the heart. See also kleṣas
Pattabhi Jois on
energetic flow. See prāṇa
enlightenment
ethics
existential dilemma
experience
accepting
process of
faith in yoga practice
fascia
fear
feelings
freedom. See also mokṣa
moving from duḥkha to see also under duḥkha)
path of
Freeman, Richard
Freud, Sigmund
Gandhi, Mahatma
garuḍa (Eagle)
God
finding
granthi (knot)
grasping
gravity. See also center of gravity
greed
gunas (qualities)
Guruji
gurus
habits. See also patterns
death of
kleṣas and
nature of
overcoming (see also nirodha)
perpetuating and ongoing cycle of
saṁskāras and
types of (see also specific habits)
hālāhala
Halifax, Joan
hands down. See Downward-Facing Dog
Hatha Yoga
healing
heart
Hinduism
holding patterns. See also patterns; postural holding patterns; saṁskāras
kośas and
overcoming/letting go of
prāṇa and
revealing/eliciting
honesty. See also satya
“I, me, and mine”. See also abhiniveśa; asmitā
clinging to notions of
moving beyond (see also self: selflessness and dissolution of)
nothing belongs to
nothing can be owned as
“I”-maker
iḍā
identifications
impatience
impermanence
repression of our awareness of
Indra’s net
īśvara-praṇidhānā (devotion)
Iyengar, B.K.S.
jñāna (knowledge)
Jung, Carl Gustav
Kabir
kaivalya
kāma
kapotāsana (Pigeon pose)
karma
karmedriyas (action capacities)
karuṇā (compassion)
kleṣas, five. See also specific kleṣas
freedom through
habits and
poisons as symptoms of
Kohut, Heinz
kośas, five
overview
as sheaths of the mind and body
working with the
kraunca (Heron pose)
krodha (anger)
Kṛṣṇa
Kṛṣṇamacharya
Kumbha
kuṇḍalinī
language
letting go. See also under holding patterns; vairāgya
of attachments
in the face of death
in posture practice
Li Po
liberation. See mokṣa
limbs, eight
lobha (greed)
loneliness
longing
love
mada (pride)
mahābhūtas (gross material elements)
Maharaj, Sri Nisargadatta
Maitreyi
maṇḍala
manomaya kośa
mārga
mātsarya (envy/jealousy)
māyā (illusion)
meditation. See also dhāraṇā; Hatha Yoga
and āsana intertwined
on death
on karma
purpose
mind-body. See body: in mind; kośas
mindful awareness
mindfulness
moha (delusion)
mokṣa (liberation). See also enlightenment
moral obligations. See also ethics
mṛtyu (death)
mūla bandha
myofascial system
mythology
nadis
Nhat Hahn, Thich
naming (nama)
Narada
narcissism. See also “I, me, and mine”
nature vs. nurture
negative thoughts, impact of
nervous system. See also neuroplasticity
net of Indra
neti, neti
neuroplasticity
nirodha
nirvāna
niyamas (internal restraints)
no-self. See also self: selflessness and dissolution of
nonattachment. See also under attachment
nondualism/nonduality. See also duality
nonviolence. See also ahiṁsā
Patañjali on
opposites, tension of. See also duality
padmāsana (lotus posture)
pain. See also suffering
paradox
examples of
paramātman
pariṇāma
Pascal, Blaise
past lives
Patañjali. See also kleṣas
agnostic approach toward reality
on āsana
on awareness
on the body
on concepts and conceptualization
on death
on dharma megha samādhi
on emptiness
on kaivalya
on karma
on kleṣas
on meditation
on nirodha
on nonduality
on nonviolence
on puruṣa
on samādhi
on saṁyoga
steps in initiating the path of yoga
on śūnyatā
on svādhyāya
on svarūpa śūnya
use of language from other traditions
on violence, dishonesty, and stealing
on viveka
path (of yoga). See also mārga
embodying the
establishing the
rāja/eight-limbed
patience. See also tapas
Pattabhi Jois, Sri K.
on āsana
Aṣṭāṅga Vinyasa system
on breathing into heart
on dying
on enemies in heart
on God
on kleṣas
on practice
prāṇa and
on prāṇāyāma
on psychological dimension of practice
on six poisons
on suṣumnā nadi
on symptoms of suffering
patterns. See also habits; holding patterns
permanence. See also impermanence
piṅgalā
poisons, six
Pattabhi Jois on
as symptoms
postural holding patterns. See also holding patterns
postures/posture practice. See also āsana; Hatha Yoga; specific postures
functions
importance
letting go in
nature of
as Tantra practice
practice. See also abhyāsa; specific topics
Prajapati
prajña (wisdom)
prakṛti
prāṇa
citta and
flow, stability, and
meaning and nature of
prāṇa vāyuu
prāṇamaya kośa
prāṇāyāma (breath and energetic regulation)
pratyāhāra (withdrawing of senses)
present moment. See also atha
participating in each moment
Proust, Marcel
pṛthvī (earth)
psychoanalysis. See also Freud
psychology
defined
psychotherapy
purāṇas
puruṣa (pure awareness)
raga (attachment)
rāja path of yoga
Rama
reaction vs. response
reality, nature of
rebirth. See also birth, death, and rebirth
vs. reincarnation
religious traditions
repetition compulsion
“return of the repressed”
Rilke, Rainer Maria
robustness of systems
Rouche, Hélène
sahasrāra
Śākti (female energy)
samādhi (integration)
saṁsāra
saṁskāras
context and release
samstitihi (equal standing)
saṁyoga
Sankarac̣arya
santoṣa (contentment)
śāstras
satya (honesty)
śauca (purification)
security
self
selflessness and dissolution of (see also “I, me, and mine”: moving beyond)
story of, dropping the narrative
self-centered thinking. See also asmitā; “I, me, and mine”
self-esteem
self-image. See also abhiniveśa; self
self-judgment
self-preservation. See abhiniveśa
sensations. See also attachment; nonattachment
from all that is perceived
sexuality and sexual energy
Sikhidhavaja
skandhas (groups)
smṛti (immediate attention)
spiritual path. See path
steadiness. See also āsana
stealing. See asteya
Stevens, Wallace
stillness. See also ānandamaya kośa
movement and
suffering. See also discontent; duḥkha; pain
all forms of clinging create
causes of (see also enemies in the heart; kleṣas; poisons, six)
as compulsion
embracing
wheel of
śūnya (empty)
śūnyatā (emptiness). See also emptiness
origin of the word
surrender. See also letting go
suṣumnā
suṣumnā nāḍī
svādhyāya (self-study/contemplation)
svarūpa śūnya
symptoms
systems theory
tanmātras (subtle material elements)
Tantra Yoga
tapas (discipline/patience)
defined
thoughts/thinking. See concepts and conceptualization
Thurman, Robert
union
vairāgya (letting go)
vajra (thunderbolt)
Vāsiṣṭa
vāyuu (“winds” of the breath)
vidyā
vij̃ñanamaya kośa
vinyasa
violence. See also ahiṁsā
causes of
vipāka
virāsana
viveka (discrimination)
vṛtti
Western religion. See Abrahamic religions
wisdom
Wright, Robert
Yajñavalka
Yalom, Irvin D.
yamas (external restraints)
beyond dualism
practicing the
yoga
heart and essence of
meaning and nature of
miracle of
as path (see path)
reasons for coming to
Yoga-Sutra. See also Patañjali
Yoga Vāsiṣṭa
Yuddhiṣṭhira
yuj (to unite)
Zaehner, R. C.
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