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    Cultures

    #Cultures#Practice

    Working the Land, Working the Self: Understanding Healing and Embodiment Through Diverse Traditions

    By Chanda Williams

    What is the story you tell yourself about who you are? Is it true? Is it time to change the story you carry within to align with your inner truth?

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    The Spiritual Origins of the West: A Lack Perspective

    By David Loy

    Ancient and Modern Ritual: A Creative Approach to Working with Grief, Loss, and Change

    By Samantha Black

    At a Planetary Crossroads: Contemplative Wisdom of Black Geographies

    By Naya Jones

    #BlackLivesMatter and the Yogic Art of Negation

    By Erin Luhks

    To be a true yoga master, you need to master the art of negation. That’s Patanjali’s idea, from the Yoga Sutras: 2.33 Vitarka badhane pratipaksha bhavanam. The practice of pratipaksha bhanavam prescribes that, when disturbed by negative thoughts, opposite thoughts should be brought into awareness.

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    #Cultures #Yoga

    Yoga, Social Justice, and Healing the Wounds of Violence in Colombia

    Violence has become a structural part of the Colombian psyche perpetuating wounds even in the youngest members of the population. Healing these wounds is now a priority of peace agreements.

    By Natalia Quiñones
    #Cultures #Traditions #Yoga

    Killed by God: A Comparison of the Jaya-Vijaya Story with the Kabbalistic Concept of Gilgul

    In this article, I will focus on the lengthy, convoluted, and symbolically weighty version of the Jaya, Vijaya, and Narasimha story that one can find in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, which I will henceforth refer to as the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam.

    By Patricia Tillman
    #Cultures #Traditions

    Who is Sri Aurobindo?

    Sri Aurobindo was a modern Indian yogi who founded the form of yoga known as Integral Yoga.

    By Debashish Banerji
    #Cultures #Traditions

    Who is Abhinavagupta?

    Abhinavagupta is an enigmatic figure, not because he tells us so little about himself, but because he tells us so much.

    By Ben Williams
    #Cultures #Philosophy

    To Love the World or Leave It – On the Problem of Inauthenticity and How to Respond to It

    Indian traditions can be categorized by the degree to which they proffer a world-denying (via negativa) or a world-affirming (via positiva) perspective. Both world-deniers and world-affirmers see everyday attitudes toward the world as, in important ways, illusory; it is thus their respective responses to the world’s illusions that distinguishes them.

    By Jacob Kyle
    #Cultures #Traditions

    Who is Krishna?

    The Sanskrit word krishna has two meanings. It means the dark one. It also has another root and that is “karsha” which means to entice or enchant.

    By Vanamali Mataji
    #Cultures #Ethics

    Oneika Mays on Privilege and Incarceration (#93)

    Oneika is an activist, yoga and meditation teacher.

    By Jacob Kyle
    #Cultures #Interdisciplinary

    Beacons of Dharma

    As the sun continues along its southern course dakṣināyaṇa and the days get shorter approaching the Winter Solstice, those of us living in the northern hemisphere find ourselves enveloped in increasing darkness.

    By Christopher Miller
    #Cultures #Traditions

    Lakṣmī, Light and Dark

    Here we encounter a vision of Lakṣmī—the central mistress of this “festival of light”—that raises surprising contradictions and cause us to rethink the real significance of Hinduism’s most important celebration.

    By Dr. Katy Jane
    #Cultures #Traditions

    Luminosity and Yoga

    One generally approaches the Yoga tradition by looking at its self-definition: yogaś-citta-vṛtti-nirodha.

    By Christopher Key Chapple
    #Cultures #Traditions

    From Bodhisattva to Goddess: Guanyin and Chinese Buddhism

    Guanyin or Guanshihyin is the Chinese name for Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, who has been worshiped throughout the Buddhist world.

    By Matt Bramble
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