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    How Could the Body be the Self?

    By Zoë Slatoff

    Most of modern yoga is done with the Advaitic intention of oneness, even if its practitioners don’t know it! And though the boundaries have become so blurry over time that we accept the integration of these two systems without even questioning it, it is important to realize what a huge leap it originally was to incorporate dualistic yoga into the non-dualistic system of Advaita.

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    Advaita Vedānta – Recognizing Nonduality through the Upaniṣads

    By Neil Dalal

    Consume Your Emotions, Before They Consume You

    By Swami Khecaranatha

    On McMindfulness & Frozen Yoga

    By Miles Neale

    The Spiritual Origins of the West: A Lack Perspective

    By David Loy

    The more we learn about other civilizations, the more anomalous the West seems. If we resist the presumption that Western culture is the growing tip of social evolution, to be contrasted with the stagnation of non-Western ones, what becomes highlighted is its dynamism, for better and worse. Rather than trying to account for the “undevelopment” of non-Western societies — why they did not evolve further along our path — it is the apparently self-generated and future-driven “progress” of the West that needs to be explained. What caused it?

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    #Traditions #Yoga

    What is Saṃsāra?

    Saṃsāra refers to the cycle of death and rebirth. It is the natural cycle of creation, maintenance, and dissolution that all material things undergo.

    By Jay Jagannath Das
    #Traditions #Yoga

    Kaṭha Upaniṣad: The Secret Teachings of Death

    There’s something that you will never forget in your life. I know I haven’t. It’s the first time you see a dead body—the first time you meet Death.

    By Dr. Katy Jane
    #Traditions #Yoga

    Beyond Living and Dying

    Death plays a pivotal role in the history of yoga—the original objective of practice was ending rebirth. At some point between the earliest Vedas and the time of the Buddha a thousand years later, the doctrine of karma changed people’s priorities.

    By Daniel Simpson
    #Cultures #MindBody Studies

    At a Planetary Crossroads: Contemplative Wisdom of Black Geographies

    In more than one contemplative tradition, the crossroads signal literal and metaphorical death. They symbolize a crisis or a point where a shift must be made to claim an alternate future.

    By Naya Jones
    #Buddhism

    From Faculty & Friends: Andrew Holecek

    Buddhism has a number of practices that directly prepare you for death. In many ways, the entire path is death in slow motion, where “letting go” in meditation is a euphemism for death.

    By Andrew Holecek
    #Shamanism

    From Faculty & Friends: Isa Gucciardi

    In shamanic practice, there is a deep sense of union with the Earth. Shamans strive to know all her expressions and recognize her as a guide toward wholeness and integration.

    By Isa Gucciardi
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    #Hinduism #Vedanta #Yoga

    An Interview about Death with Vineet Chander

    In the Bhagavad Gītā, Sri Kṛṣṇa offers insights throughout the text and explicitly addresses death in some key passages.

    By Vineet Chander
    #Book Reviews #Buddhism

    In Love With the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying By Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with Helen Tworkov

    In Love With the World (hereafter In Love), was written by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with the help of Tricycle magazine’s…

    By Ross O'Brien
    #Practice #Traditions

    The Bardo: Death as an Opportunity

    The bardo, or “antarābhava” in Sanskrit, is one of the central concepts in Buddhist descriptions of what happens after we die.

    By Stephen Jenkins
    #Practice #Traditions

    Vedic Funeral Rites: The Path of Positive Evolution

    In the Vedic universe, evolution depends upon the habit of our thought. It means that our consciousness can be impressed. It means we construct our reality both present and future by how we routinely think.

    By Katy Jane
    #Practice #Psychology

    What is Grief?

    Grief refers to the emotions we experience around a loss.

    By Samantha Black
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