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Nirvana Sutra or Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra (Chinese: Niepan Jing (涅槃經); Japanese: Nehankyō (涅槃経)) is one of the major texts of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Note that this is one of two Buddhist texts having approximately the same title, the other being part of the Pali Canon. However, both for historical reasons and for the sake of clarity, the former is generally referred to by its Sanskrit title, Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra (or simply "Nirvana Sutra"), and the latter by its Pali title, Mahaparinib ... Including:

• Nirvana Sutra - Overview
• Nirvana Sutra - Versions
• Nirvana Sutra - Quotations from the Nirvana Sutra
• Nirvana Sutra - Textual history
• Nirvana Sutra - English edition

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Sahasrara Ajna Vishuddha Anahata Manipura Swadhisthana Muladhara Bindu Bindu is an Indian concept that signifies action (as in worship or prayer) — a concept that can take the meaning of a single dot. The dot that is Bindu signifies the silence into which the sound of Aum leads. Bindu - From the Anata Yoga School speaking as Bindu:. Contemplation upon The Absolute Consciousness also causes the individual Will (after th ... Including:

• Bindu - From the Anata Yoga School speaking as Bindu:
• Bindu - Bindu Chakra

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Archetype is defined as an original model of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated. The term is often used in literature, architecture, and to refer to something that goes back to the fundamental origins of style, method, gold standard, or physical construct. Shakespeare, for example, is epitomized for popularizing many archetypal characters, not because he was the first that we know of to write them, but because he defined those roles amongst the backdrop of a comp ... Including:

• Archetype - Jungian archetypes
• Archetype - Cultural archetypes analysis
• Archetype - Enneagram character archetypes

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Benevolence is a faculty from the discipline of Phrenology. Breaks down from the latin meaning 'Bene' Well willing Benevolence - Definition. Benevolence characterises the true goodness of the mind, the unbiased kindness to do good. It confers thought and regard for the welfare of other people, and finds expression in sympathy and kindly gentleness and compassion, with charitableness and kindness. A weak Benevolence stands for little, if any, thought or regard for others, and a tendency to help onese ... Including:

• Benevolence - Definition
• Benevolence - Interaction with other faculties

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Vasudeva, as named by his parents Shri Madhvacharya, named after attaining sainthood Poornapragna, One who knows everything Anandateertha, One who brings joy through his preachings Hanuman Bhima Madhvacharya (1238-1317) was the chief propounder of the Dvaita or dualistic school of Hindu philosophy, one of the three influential Vedanta philosophies. He was one of t ... Including:

• Madhvacharya - Formative Years
• Madhvacharya - Dvaita Philosophy
• Madhvacharya - Impact of Dvaita Movement
• Madhvacharya - Religious establishments

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Jungian psychology is a theory developed by Carl Gustav Jung, and is central to the Neopsychoanalytic school of psychology. Jungian psychology is geared largely toward the nature of symbolism and the effects of attachment upon the ability of people to live their lives in ignorance of their deeper "symbolic" natures. His ideas center around the understanding that a symbol loses its symbolic power when it is "attached" to a static meaning. The attached, and therefore static meaning renders an amorphous symbol (like the sphere or the our ... Including:

• Jungian psychology - Key terms
• Jungian psychology - Clinical theories

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The mind is the term most commonly used to describe the higher functions of the human brain, particularly those of which humans are subjectively conscious, such as personality, thought, reason, memory, intelligence and emotion. Although other species of animals share some of these mental capacities, the term is usually used only in relation to humans. It is also used in relation to postulated supernatural beings to which human-like qualities are ascribed, as in the expression "the mind of God." Mind - Theories of the min ... Including:

• Mind - Theories of the mind
• Mind - Nature of the mind
• Mind - History of the philosophy of the mind
• Mind - Current research

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Ahankara (Sanskrit). The conception of "I", Self-consciousness or Self- identity; the "I", the egotistical and mayavic principle in man, due to our ignorance which separates our "I" from the Universal ONE-SELF Personality, Egoism.

 
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Adhyatmika duhkha (Sanskrit). The first of the three kinds of pain; lit., "Evil proceeding from Self ", an induced or a generated evil by Self, or man himself.

 
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Svayambhu Sunyata (Sanskrit). Spontaneous self-evolution; self-existence of the real in the unreal, i.e., of the Eternal Sat in the periodical Asat.

 
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Propator (Ancient Greek) Gnostic term. The "Depth" of Bythos, or En-Aior, the unfathomable light. The latter is alone the Self-Existent and the Eternal - Propator is only periodical.

 
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