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    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
    #Buddhism #Traditions

    Death: Transforming Obstacle into Opportunity

    Death is one of the most precious experiences in life. It is literally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

    By Andrew Holecek
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    Taboo: On Mixing Life and Death

    Is the ripping open and continuing destruction of the Earth’s life systems with all its extraordinary, abundant life forms, the price we are paying daily for not mixing death into all our seeing?

    By Jean Gardner
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    Death, Acceptance, and Grace: The Opportunity for the Reconciliation of the Shadow in Dying and Bereavement

    If it is true that we take with us from one life to the next all the unresolved issues around our relationship with ourselves, it is important to understand the dynamics in which we reject ourselves.

    By Isa Gucciardi
    #Psychology #Traditions

    Self-care and Selflessness: A Contradiction?

    The nearly half century dialogue between Buddhism and Western psychology has created a potential forum for a mutually enriching exchange.

    By Miles Neale
    #Philosophy #Traditions

    What is Death?

    Death always comes as a surprise even when we know it’s coming. It’s as much a part of life as birth.

    By Hari-kirtana das
    #Traditions #Yoga

    Cheating Death

    What to speak of death, even life is appreciated differently by people with varying values. Seers have stated that those who don’t pursue a spiritual goal are dead while living.

    By Prāṇadā Comtois
    #Traditions #Yoga

    Encounters with Yama, the Deity of Death

    For students of yoga and anyone who inquires into the magnum mysterium, a brush with death through some circumstantial event, in a dream, or standing at a hospital bedside, serves to amplify the experience of living.

    By Tias Little
    #Psychology #Traditions

    Can Embodied Contemplative Practices Accelerate Resilience Training and Trauma Recovery?

    Since meditation research has increasingly focused on methods like mindfulness, we have come to see contemplative practice in general as taking a top-down approach to lowering stress and building resilience.

    By Joe Loizzo
    #Hinduism #Traditions #Yoga

    BOOK REVIEW: Hindu Approaches to Spiritual Care: Chaplaincy in Theory and Practice

    Hindu Approaches to Spiritual Care is a timely and important contribution to the field of chaplaincy, interfaith care, interreligious education, and Hindu life, particularly within diaspora

    By Stephanie Corigliano
    #Practice #Traditions

    Death Meditation as a Means to Realizing Life’s Purpose in Buddhism

    In Buddhism, it is believed that a person’s state of mind at the moment of death can be more decisive than any virtuous deeds.

    By Nadia Pandolfo
    #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
    #Traditions #Yoga

    Death and the Dimensions of Creation in the Eyes of India’s Mystic Saints

    Since the Vedic era, the idea of incarnation has undergone many stages of evolution in order to reach its current interpretation wherein a soul, or an element of a divine consciousness essential to every being requires a physical body in order to grow and evolve through diverse experiences of struggle.

    By Jensen Martin
    #Traditions #Yoga

    Death: An Inside Story: A Book for All Those Who Shall Die by Sadhguru

    Amidst a revelry of dancers, drums, bells, flames in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, a black curtain opened to reveal the cover of the book entitled Death: An Inside Story.

    By Rebecca Jane
    #Interdisciplinary #Traditions

    Religious Studies, Theology & the Scholar-Practitioner

    The voice of the scholar-practitioner emerges from a confluence of well-established disciplines, both inside and outside the academy.

    By Stephanie Corigliano
    #Traditions #Translations

    Two Approaches to Truth

    Though Sanskrit is often called a dead language, the ideas embodied in its texts help to make sense of this in a vibrant, dynamic way.

    By Zoë Slatoff
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