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Re: The Psychology of Samadhi - Patanjali's Eight Limbs of Yoga [Re: syncro] * 1
    #28441149 - 08/20/23 10:16 PM (5 months, 5 days ago)

I like the improvement of production, with the music in between, and the images, also the enrichment in the terminology.



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Re: The Psychology of Samadhi - Patanjali's Eight Limbs of Yoga [Re: syncro]
    #28441220 - 08/21/23 01:41 AM (5 months, 5 days ago)

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syncro said:
I like the improvement of production, with the music in between, and the images, also the enrichment in the terminology.






Very true! Compared to his older videos the production quality certainly improved!

He describes he had to go to a Yogi that explained and broke it down for him, because even with his broad knowledge of Advaita Vedanta he couldn't fully understand the Sutras of Patanjali. Which just shows how cryptic some of these instructions can be, if approached without somebody that is knowledgeable in them next to you.

What was most funny was the point were he was concentrating so hard on the point between his eyebrows that it kept resulting in a headache because his eyes kept looking at it :lol:


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Re: The Psychology of Samadhi - Patanjali's Eight Limbs of Yoga [Re: syncro] * 1
    #28455994 - 09/02/23 12:39 PM (4 months, 24 days ago)

Poem time! :crankey:

When It touches the heart, one knows of this,
when's said the body's an abode of bliss.

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Looking at this again, we can wonder if we have attained some level of samadhi, and depending on source, there are lower levels of samadhi that are fairly easily experienced. But as more than an illustration, the chart can perhaps be seen as a rough indicator, relating samadhi to the level of thoughts quelled in practice, etc.




Recalling what is meant by alambana.

Yogapedia
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Alambana is a complex concept that has different interpretations in different schools of thought. Vedic philosophy divides alambana into two types: asraya and visaya. It also uses the term to mean “pillar of strength,” referring to God. When this alambana is contemplated, it provides the support or foundation for the mind to travel toward God.

In contrast, Buddhist philosophy sees alambana as a cause or object-condition of knowledge and mental fluctuations. The term can be used to describe the objective base of consciousness. It further divides alambana into three categories, according to their motivations:

    Sattva-alambana
    Dharma-alambana
    Analambana




asraya and visaya
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Ālambana may further be divided into asraya and visaya, Radha is asraya and Krishna is visaya; Radha, as the devotee, experienced greater pleasure than Krishna who remained the object of her veneration.[2] Visaya is the potential object of a perceptual consciousness, ālambana is the objective basis which can even be the cause of perceptual or cognition support for a perceptual error.[3] The Nyaya school does not consider the object in front to be the ālambana of the illusory cognition but rather the interfering external element with its own characteristics.[4] The best ālambana for the upasana (worship) of Brahman is Om.[5]




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Sattvālambana (सत्त्वालम्बन) refers to “that [loving-kindness] which has beings as object” and represents of the three types of Maitrī (“loving-kindness”), according to the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra chapter 32.—Accordingly, “the mind of loving-kindness (maitrī-citta) of which we have just spoken is that which has beings as object (sattvālambana). It is found mainly among worldly people practicing the trances or in adepts on the path of practice (śaikṣa) who have not yet destroyed the impurities”.




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Kavyashastra (science of poetry)

Ālambana (आलम्बन) or Ālambanavibhāva refers to “substantial excitant” and represents one of the two types of  vibhāva (excitants) according to Mammaṭa.—Basing upon which the basic feeling rati etc. are originated, that is called ālambana-vibhāva. In fact the dramatic personae like Duṣyanta and Śakuntala etc. are considred as ālambana-vibhāva respectively.




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Yoga (school of philosophy)

Ālambana (आलम्बन) refers to a “supporting object” (like the empty sky), according to the the Amanaska Yoga treatise dealing with meditation, absorption, yogic powers and liberation.—Accordingly, as Īśvara says to Vāmadeva: “[...] The conquest of the breath can be achieved by means of [reciting] the three types of Om and by various [Haṭhayogic] mudrās, as well as meditation on a fiery light [or meditation] on a supporting object (ālambana) [like] the empty sky [which are done] in the lotus of the inner space [of the heart]. [However,] having abandoned all this [because it is] situated in the body [and therefore limited], and having thought it to be a delusion of the mind, the wise should practise the no-mind state, which is unique, beyond the body and indescribable. [...]”.




The latter would be presumably Analambana, "that [loving-kindness] which has no object" I'm mixing Yoga and Buddhism here.


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Re: The Psychology of Samadhi - Patanjali's Eight Limbs of Yoga [Re: connectedcosmos] * 3
    #28472149 - 09/17/23 09:39 AM (4 months, 9 days ago)

:awemazing::lol:

The CC wielding the awemazing orb as mandala vajra in luminous spontaneity.

Actually I didn't know there were vajra mandalas.





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Re: The Psychology of Samadhi - Patanjali's Eight Limbs of Yoga [Re: syncro] * 1
    #28473525 - 09/18/23 09:40 AM (4 months, 8 days ago)

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syncro said:
:awemazing::lol:

The CC wielding the awemazing orb as mandala vajra in luminous spontaneity.

Actually I didn't know there were vajra mandalas.







These beautiful mandalas reminded me of something I read, but forgot where. With regards to the wheel of dharma, every spoke on the wheel is a different path, teaching, individual. Below is from wiki:

Buddhaghosa
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“It is the beginningless round of rebirths that is called the ’Wheel of the round of rebirths’ (saṃsāracakka). Ignorance (avijjā) is its hub (or nave) because it is its root. Ageing-and-death (jarā-maraṇa) is its rim (or felly) because it terminates it. The remaining ten links [of Dependent Origination] are its spokes [i.e. saṅkhāra up to the process of becoming, bhava].”





Bhagavad Gita - verses 14, 15 and 16, of Chapter 3;
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"From food, the beings are born; from rain, food is produced; rain proceeds from sacrifice (yagnya); yagnya arises out of action; know that from Brahma, action proceeds; Brahma is born of Brahman, the eternal Paramatman. The one who does not follow the wheel thus revolving, leads a sinful, vain life, rejoicing in the senses."




Anyway, it's also in relation with the Trishula (or the Three Jewels from Buddhism), and Mahadevi, and Parashakti within Kashmir Shaivism for example.


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