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āgraha
Āsana
Abu Ghraib
accumulation. See also aparigrahā
acquisitiveness
release of
See also aparigrahā; economics
action(s)
intimate
volitional
See also ethical action
Adi Śeṣa
ahimsā
anger
animals. See also nature
anthropocentrism
aparigrahā. See also economics
Aristotle
Armstrong, Karen
aṣṭāṅga yoga
invocation (practice ideals)
Patañjali on
See also eight-limbed path of yoga
asteya
authenticity
honesty and, (see also honesty)
awakening. See also samādhi
awareness
pure
balance
of difference among systems
optimum
Batchelor, Stephen
Berry, Wendell
Bhagavad Gita
Bhisma
biosphere
body and mind. See also postures
bottomless mind
bowing
brahmacarya
Braunstein, Mark Mathew
breathing
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
Calasso, Roberto
capital punishment. See also Saddam Hussein
capitalism
Carson, Rachel
celibacy and marriage
center
Centre for Gravity Sangha
change. See also psychological change
clinging
to self
communication
community
samādhi in
See also under honesty
consumerism
core notion of
time and
consumption. See also under karma
cowardice
crime
Dasgupta, Shashi Bhushan
death
fear of
deep ecology
deforestation. See also environmental degradation
denial
desire
honesty and
See also lack
despair
dhāraṇā
dharma
dhyāna
dualism vs. nondualism. See also nondualism/nonduality; “other”
duḥkha
characteristics
consumption and
See also lack
ecological awareness
ecological exploitation
ecological imbalance
spirituality and
ecological intimacy
ecology
social life, spirituality, and
See also deep ecology
economic models, psychology of unrestrained
economic webs
economics
karma and
ecopsychological perspective
ego
ego-self
eight-limbed path of yoga
circular conception of
concentric conception of
linear conception of
Eliade, Mircea
emptiness
energy
money and
psychic, (see also sexual energy)
enlightenment
environmental degradation
accumulation and
consumption and
deforestation
ecology and
Gary Snyder on
Rachel Carson and
satya and
yoga and
ethical action, universal nature of
ethics
awakening and
as expression of samādhi, (see also samādhi)
linear conception of
Patañjali on
psychology and
yamas and
evil, causes of
evolution
expressing practice
Faber, Leslie
fear
antidotes to
flow
free market and “the invisible hand”. See also economic webs
freedom. See also under Patañjali
Freeman, Richard
Freud, Sigmund
Gandhi, Mohandas K.
on abundance and greed
ahimsā and
on Bhagavad Gita
on cowardice and violence
and identification with all that lives
listening and
on nonstealing
on nonviolence
renunciation
satyagraha and
on torture
globalization
greed
groundedness and ungroundedness
Gulf War. See also Iraq
gurus
habit energies
hatha yoga
Hawken, Paul
Hill, Julia Butterfly
honesty
community practice and
desire and
opening up, shutting down, and
peace, contentment, and
See also satya
Horace
Houseworth, Stephen
hunting
“I,” “me,” and “mine”
distracted by
imbalance
individualism
individuality
Indra
Indra’s web/net
industrialism
Ingham, Michael
integral parts of an integrated whole
intentions
interconnectedness. See also integral parts of an integrated whole; nature: humans and; unity
interhuman ethics
intimacy
ecological
the idiom of
vs. lack
renunciation and
intimate actions
Iraq, U.S. invasion of
isolation
“jewels shower down”
Juergensmeyer, Mark
Jung, Carl Gustav
karma
and a culture of consumption vs. connection
defined
economics and
liberating potential of
nature of
stealing and
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Klüger, Ruth
Ko Un
Krishnamurti, J.
lack
characteristics of duḥkha in the form of pervasive
healing
impermanence, self, and
vs. openness and intimacy
language
law and ethics
leaving nothing out
life
listening
without knowing
loneliness
Lopez, Barry
Loy, David
macrocosm and microcosm, interplay of
Marlatt, Daphne
materialism, industrial
McKibben, Bill
mechanistic view of nature
meditation. See also listening
meditative stillness
microcosm and macrocosm, interplay of
Miller, Barbara Stoler
Milner, Marion
money
as symbolic
morality. See also ethics
movement and stillness
Muir, John
Myers, Esther
Naess, Arne
nationalism
natural world
absorption of human mind in
See also environmental degradation
nature
humans and
“leaves nothing out”
society and
as yoga
nihilism
niyama
non-injury, virtues of
nondualism/nonduality. See also deep ecology; opposites; “other”
nonviolence
becoming
new pathways
yamas and
See also non-injury; violence
nonviolent attitude
object and subject
open-mindedness
opening up and shutting down
opposites. See also dualism vs. nondualism
“other”. See also dualism vs. nondualism
outreach programs
outsidelessness
overpopulation
Patañjali
on absorption of mind in natural world
on ahimsā
on aṣṭāṅga yoga
on awakening
on awareness
on breathing
on clarity of mind
on ethics
on freedom from wanting
holistic view of life
as incarnation of Adi Śeṣa
on kaivalya (isolation)
path of freedom
on psychological change
on puruṣa
on samādhi
self and
on self-clinging
serpent and human form
on sexual energy
on suffering
visualizations
on wisdom and compassion
on yamas
on yoga
yoga of
See also Yoga-Sūtra
peace
honesty, contentment, and
how to become
“Peace of Wild Things, The” (Berry)
perception and action
Phillips, Adam
Plato
Porritt, Jonathan
postures
prāṇāyāma
practice, spiritual
purpose and nature of
See also expressing practice
pratyāhāra
Proulx, Annie
psychological change. See also change
psychology
ethics and
punishment
puruṣa. See awareness: pure
relationships
renunciation and intimacy
repression
restraint
“return of the repressed”
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Saddam Hussein
samādhi
in community
definition and meaning of
as dynamic balance of difference among systems
ecology and
eight-limbed path and
and existential integrity of humans and natural world
nature of
Patañjali on
saṃsāra
sangha
satya. See also honesty
satyagraha
security
security projects
self
awakening and
clinging to
Patañjali and
See also “I,” “me,” and “mine”; lack
self-expression. See expressing practice
self-interest and economics
self-realization
sensitivity, ordinary
September 2001 terrorist attacks
Sessions, George
sexual energy
marriage, celibacy, and
meditation on
nonattachment and
unfolding
Shakespeare, William
silence of not knowing
Smith, Adam
Snyder, Gary
social action. See also environmental degradation; outreach programs
social activists, attitude of
social and personal, false division between. See also interconnectedness
spirituality
stealing and nonstealing
and fear of detection and punishment
law of causality and
stillness
movement and
psychological
sūtra
subject and object
subjectivity
success
suffering. See also duḥkha
suicide bombers
sukha
svarupa shunya
Szymborska, Wislawa
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
theft. See stealing and nonstealing
Thompson, Evan
time
consumerism and
torture. See also Abu Ghraib
transformation of individual and society
trees. See also deforestation; nature
truth. See also honesty; satya
unity. See also interconnectedness: nature, humans and
unrestraint
values. See ethics; yama(s)
vidya
“View with a Grain of Sand” (Szymborska)
practical antidote to
See also nonviolence
vipaka
war
Whicher, Ian
White, James Boyd
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
“world-centrism”
Yama
yama(s)
clinging to them as rules
defined
eight-limbed path of yoga and
ethics and
everywhere
karma and
as manifestations of Indra’s web/net
nature of
Patañjali on
principles of
subjective way of looking at
yoga
core teaching
deep ecology and
defined
evolution and future of
final goal of
first step of
nature of
as practice of action
as the reality of leaving nothing out
as social action
Yoga-Sūtra
Yudhishthira, King