Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Meditation In Context
Most traditions address the integration of mind, body, and spirit (this is a major theme of the Bhagavad-Gita); or that of spiritual prac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Meditation In Context
While meditation focuses on mental or psycho-spiritual activity, this is of course only one of several spheres of human existence; and we...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Frequency And Duration
These vary so much that it is difficult to venture any general comments. On one extreme there exist monks and nuns whose whole lives are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia - Meditation
Meditation like yoga originated in Vedic Hinduism many centuries ago, it was much later adopted into a wide variety of practices of relig...   » Read the article

Article - Work As A Spiritual Practice: Bless Outside For Happiness Inside  
"May all beings be happy" is a beautiful blessing that SN Goenka, a great teacher of the Buddhist Vipassana meditation, expr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shikantaza: Encyclopedia - Shikantaza
Shikantaza (只管打座) is literally translated as "only focused on doing sitting". More often it is called: "just sitting" or "silent ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maharshi: Encyclopedia - Maharshi
A Maharshi (from Sanskrit maha great + rishi) is a Rishi who has mastered many arts and is just before the stage of becoming a Brahmarshi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christian Mysticism: Encyclopedia - Christian Mysticism
Mysticism is the philosophy and practice of a direct experience of God. Although it needs to be born in mind that 'experience' is a hotly...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Passion: Encyclopedia - Passion
The Passion is the technical term for the suffering and Agony of Jesus that led directly to the Crucifixion, a central Christian event. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shikantaza: Encyclopedia Ii - Shikantaza - Meditation Method
Shikantaza is often referred to as the method of no method. While other forms of meditation often have quite clear instructions - such as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yogic Yang Spiral: Encyclopedia Ii - Yogic Yang Spiral - General Context
Yogic Yang Spiral - Group meditations in yoga. The practice of group meditation and prayer is nothing new. From time immemorial in yoga...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Overview
The complex nature of gnostic teaching and the fact that much of the material relating to the schools comprising Gnosticism has tradition...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Etymology And Philosophical Context
Gnosticism - The meaning of 'gnosis'. The word gnosticism is a modern construction, though based on an antiquated linguistic expression...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Sources
Gnosticism - Heresiologists and gnostic detractors. Prior to the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library in 1945 (arguably until its trans...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - History
Gnosticism - The development of the Syrian-Egyptian school. Though the notion of a direct inheritance between the schools described abo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Nature And Structure Of Gnosticism
Gnosticism - A typological model: the main features of gnosticism. Though difficulties have arisen in offering a definitive, categorica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - 'gnosticism' As A Potentially Flawed Category
In 1966 in Messina, Italy, a conference was held concerning systems of gnosis. Among its several aim were the need to incept a program to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Gnosticism In Modern Times
Gnosticism - Scholars of gnosticism and those influenced by it. There follows a list of those figures who are known to have undertaken ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Gnosticism In Pop Culture
Gnosticism has also seen something of a resurgence in popular culture in recent years. This may be related, certainly, to the sudden avai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plane Cosmology: Encyclopedia Ii - Plane Cosmology - History
Directly equivalent concepts in Indian thought are lokas and bhuvanas. In Hindu cosmology, there are traditionally seven lokas or worlds,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rebirth Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Rebirth Buddhism - Rebirth As Cycle Of Consciousness
Buddhist meditation teachers suggest that through careful observation of the mind, it is possible to see consciousness as being a sequenc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Peace: Encyclopedia Ii - Peace - What Is Peace?
Peace is many things: the meaning of the word peace changes with context. Peace may refer specifically to an agreement concluded to end a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mantra: Encyclopedia Ii - Mantra - Mantra In Other Traditions Or Contexts
Transcendental Meditation, also known simply as 'TM', uses simple mantras as a meditative focus. TM was founded by the Maharishi Mahesh Y...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sufism: Encyclopedia Ii - Sufism - Sufi Practices
Sufism - Muraqaba. Main article: Muraqaba Muraqaba is the word used by many Sufis when referring to the practice of meditation. The A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sufism: Encyclopedia Ii - Sufism - Sufi Practices
Sufism - Muraqaba. Main article: Muraqaba Muraqaba is the word used by many Sufis when referring to the practice of meditation. The A...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Lomi Work: Alternative Health Dictionary On Lomi Work
Lomi work (Lomi approach): System of bodywork cofounded by aikidoist Richard Strozzi Heckler, Ph.D.   It is a unique blend of co...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Labyrinths: Holistic Health Dictionary On Labyrinths
LABYRINTHS A labyrinth (pronounced LAB-ear-inth) is an ancient symbol that relates to wholeness. It combines the imagery of the circle...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kashmir Shaivism: Siddha Yoga Dictionary On Kashmir Shaivism
Kashmir shaivism: A branch of the Shaivite philosophical tradition, propounded by Kashmiri sages, that explains how the formless supr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Wands, Rhabdology: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Wands, Rhabdology
WANDS (Or Rhabdology.) The other day I found myself replying in this way to a fairly common request for more information on magic wand...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Magic: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Magic
MAGIC From Latin magi, pl. (Greek magoi, pl. of magos, a Magian, one of the Median tribe; also an enchanter, properly a wise-man who i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Birds: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Various Bird Symbology:
Birds : Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Various Bird Symbology:   Various Bird Symbology:   White Dove: well known symb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Health Applications And Clinical Studies Of Meditation
In the recent years there has been a growing interest within the medical community to study the physiological effects of meditation (Venk...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Health Applications And Clinical Studies Of Meditation
In the recent years there has been a growing interest within the medical community to study the physiological effects of meditation (Venk...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Purposes And Effects Of Meditation
The purposes for which people meditate vary almost as widely as practices. Meditation may serve simply as a means of relaxation from a bu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Overview
The English word meditation comes from the Latin meditatio, which originally indicated every type of physical or intellectual exercise, t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Types Of Meditation
According to Bogart (1991) and Perez-De-Albeniz & Holmes (2000) the different techniques of meditation can be classified according to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Physical Postures
Different spiritual traditions, and different teachers within those traditions, prescribe or suggest different physical postures for medi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Overview
In the late nineteenth century, Theosophists adopted "meditation" to refer to various spiritual practices drawn from Hinduism, Buddhism, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Types Of Meditation
According to Bogart (1991) and Perez-De-Albeniz & Holmes (2000) the different techniques of meditation can be classified according to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Purposes And Effects Of Meditation
The purposes for which people meditate vary almost as widely as practices. Meditation may serve simply as a means of relaxation from a bu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Frequency And Duration
These vary so much that it is difficult to venture any general comments. On one extreme there exist monks and nuns whose whole lives are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Physical Postures
Different spiritual traditions, and different teachers within those traditions, prescribe or suggest different physical postures for medi...   » Read the article