Hidden Fire: Orthodox Perspectives on Yoga
... Kali is often depicted as a frightful, many-armed goddess with purple skin raising a severed human head, a bloody tongue hanging from her mouth. She wears a necklace of human heads and a belt of arms. I have drank coffee with people instrumental in the movement of yoga, Hinduism and the New Age in A ...
... Kali is often depicted as a frightful, many-armed goddess with purple skin raising a severed human head, a bloody tongue hanging from her mouth. She wears a necklace of human heads and a belt of arms. I have drank coffee with people instrumental in the movement of yoga, Hinduism and the New Age in A ...
existentialist philosophies and political decline
... The interpreters of the crisis situation may be separated into two main jroups. The first, of which Barth and Marcel may be considered representative, agree with Kierkegaard, and have led in a movement toward neo-orthodox Christianity. Barth, who has influenced profoundly Reinhold Niebuhr, is credit ...
... The interpreters of the crisis situation may be separated into two main jroups. The first, of which Barth and Marcel may be considered representative, agree with Kierkegaard, and have led in a movement toward neo-orthodox Christianity. Barth, who has influenced profoundly Reinhold Niebuhr, is credit ...
Brahman of the upanishads, the universal God of Hinduism
... with attributes and qualifications. In this capacity as the formless and the One with form, He becomes all the multiplicity in this vast universe. He becomes everything and also nothing. Thus He is the day and night, light and darkness, knowledge and ignorance, the river and the ocean, the sky and t ...
... with attributes and qualifications. In this capacity as the formless and the One with form, He becomes all the multiplicity in this vast universe. He becomes everything and also nothing. Thus He is the day and night, light and darkness, knowledge and ignorance, the river and the ocean, the sky and t ...
should christians do yoga - Sword of Light and Truth
... strives to free himself from the bondage of karma which is the law of cause and effect which burdens the soul with the effects of sin and keeps it tied with the cycle of rebirth. As Christians, we know that Christ redeemed us by his death, and we die only once as the scriptures state in Hebrews 9:27 ...
... strives to free himself from the bondage of karma which is the law of cause and effect which burdens the soul with the effects of sin and keeps it tied with the cycle of rebirth. As Christians, we know that Christ redeemed us by his death, and we die only once as the scriptures state in Hebrews 9:27 ...
Rationalist Epistemology
... geometrical statements — such as “The area of the circle is πr2” — were true of all circles (universally) and were always true (unchanging). •Math demonstrates that universal and unchanging knowledge exists. For Plato, universal and unchanging knowledge is clearly better (“higher”) than particular a ...
... geometrical statements — such as “The area of the circle is πr2” — were true of all circles (universally) and were always true (unchanging). •Math demonstrates that universal and unchanging knowledge exists. For Plato, universal and unchanging knowledge is clearly better (“higher”) than particular a ...
Advaita Vedanta
... The order of precedance regarding authority of Vedic Scriptures is as follows, Śruti, literally "hearing, listening", are the sacred texts comprising the central canon of Hinduism and is one of the three main sources of dharma and therefore is also influential within Hindu Law.[24] Smṛti, literally ...
... The order of precedance regarding authority of Vedic Scriptures is as follows, Śruti, literally "hearing, listening", are the sacred texts comprising the central canon of Hinduism and is one of the three main sources of dharma and therefore is also influential within Hindu Law.[24] Smṛti, literally ...
MORAL PHILOSOPHY (Philo 12) - Law, Politics, and Philosophy
... Just so we can have a starting point and have a guiding definition, let us adopt Aristotle’s definition of philosophy for reasons of sufficiency and simplicity. According to this great thinker, philosophy is the study of the ultimate principles and causes of things using human reason alone. It is a ...
... Just so we can have a starting point and have a guiding definition, let us adopt Aristotle’s definition of philosophy for reasons of sufficiency and simplicity. According to this great thinker, philosophy is the study of the ultimate principles and causes of things using human reason alone. It is a ...
The Concept Of Soul Or Self In Vedanta
... In the Western view, man consists of body and soul. Here soul is synonymous with mind, ego, and consciousness. In the West, generally, no distinction is made between mind and soul. Soul refers only to the different forms of experience of a normal human being. This is the general idea in all non-Hind ...
... In the Western view, man consists of body and soul. Here soul is synonymous with mind, ego, and consciousness. In the West, generally, no distinction is made between mind and soul. Soul refers only to the different forms of experience of a normal human being. This is the general idea in all non-Hind ...
Approach of Hinduism to Its Scriptures
... great Naiyāyika, has tried to prove that the vedas have originated from God, they are not eternal. For this, the Vedic mantra itself ″Tasmāt yajñāt sarvabhūtā ṛcaḥ sāmāni yajñire″ is cited as an evidence. As the Vedas are produced by God, who is eternal and omniscient, they are the means of valid kn ...
... great Naiyāyika, has tried to prove that the vedas have originated from God, they are not eternal. For this, the Vedic mantra itself ″Tasmāt yajñāt sarvabhūtā ṛcaḥ sāmāni yajñire″ is cited as an evidence. As the Vedas are produced by God, who is eternal and omniscient, they are the means of valid kn ...
Epistemology, introduction
... nervous system of an organism cannot in any absolute way distinguish between a perception (caused by an external phenomenon) and a hallucination (a purely internal event). The only basic criterion is that different mental entities or processes within or between individuals should reach some kind of ...
... nervous system of an organism cannot in any absolute way distinguish between a perception (caused by an external phenomenon) and a hallucination (a purely internal event). The only basic criterion is that different mental entities or processes within or between individuals should reach some kind of ...
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... that which is sacred and secular. Therefore, that which is sacred is that which moves, changes, and transforms – in essence, everything. The Aztecs even had a category of sacred filth associated with the earth/fertility complex and demonstrates an intimate understanding of the role of excrement in ...
... that which is sacred and secular. Therefore, that which is sacred is that which moves, changes, and transforms – in essence, everything. The Aztecs even had a category of sacred filth associated with the earth/fertility complex and demonstrates an intimate understanding of the role of excrement in ...
A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of Hindu Philosophy
... Vedic literature as the ultimate authority. In fact, most Hindus would not recognize the tenets premised on heterodoxy as being part and parcel of Hinduism. In fact, there are mutually exclusive doctrines within the orthodox schools as well. Even within the Vedic tradition, there is a distinction be ...
... Vedic literature as the ultimate authority. In fact, most Hindus would not recognize the tenets premised on heterodoxy as being part and parcel of Hinduism. In fact, there are mutually exclusive doctrines within the orthodox schools as well. Even within the Vedic tradition, there is a distinction be ...
FIVE MAIN REASONS WHY I NO LONGER PRACTICE HATHA YOGA!
... The first five are located along the spine. The sixth is the ‘third eye’ and the seventh is the crown chakra, located at the top of the head. Adherents believe that something called “the kundalini” (the latent ‘serpent power’ supposedly coiled at the base of the spine) rises up through the chakras e ...
... The first five are located along the spine. The sixth is the ‘third eye’ and the seventh is the crown chakra, located at the top of the head. Adherents believe that something called “the kundalini” (the latent ‘serpent power’ supposedly coiled at the base of the spine) rises up through the chakras e ...
PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH SEMINAR, PHILOSOPHY TEA AND
... Location: Z103 – Central Committee Room. This room is in the MacLaurin Building, which is a 2-minute walk from the de Havilland Campus (walk past the Law Court building (on your left) and cross the main road to the first building in sight on your right). 2.00 Research Seminar: ‘Thinking Together: Vi ...
... Location: Z103 – Central Committee Room. This room is in the MacLaurin Building, which is a 2-minute walk from the de Havilland Campus (walk past the Law Court building (on your left) and cross the main road to the first building in sight on your right). 2.00 Research Seminar: ‘Thinking Together: Vi ...
Review: The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation
... who is a professor of “Hindu” Studies at Britain’s Oxford University, spares us the fetters of Orientalism, the bane of Cambridge School scholarship on South Asian history. This translation, which he calls “New,” is really not that new. There are innumerable translations of this well-known Brahmanic ...
... who is a professor of “Hindu” Studies at Britain’s Oxford University, spares us the fetters of Orientalism, the bane of Cambridge School scholarship on South Asian history. This translation, which he calls “New,” is really not that new. There are innumerable translations of this well-known Brahmanic ...
Book Review - Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
... beginning, their theoretical position breaks with the problematic of language, discourse, and text. Each of these thinkers favors the sensible, phenomenal, bodily, and real over linguistic activity. Marion, in accordance with fundamental ideas of phenomenological philosophy, privileges what is given ...
... beginning, their theoretical position breaks with the problematic of language, discourse, and text. Each of these thinkers favors the sensible, phenomenal, bodily, and real over linguistic activity. Marion, in accordance with fundamental ideas of phenomenological philosophy, privileges what is given ...
Q.l (b) Values - Intrinsic and Extrinsic Values Q.l.(c) Ethical Relativism
... Indeterminism: An individual can determine his actions without any motive or cause. Indeterminist insists that some acts of choice are exempt from the operation of causal laws. It stress that there are genuine possibilities in the future. ...
... Indeterminism: An individual can determine his actions without any motive or cause. Indeterminist insists that some acts of choice are exempt from the operation of causal laws. It stress that there are genuine possibilities in the future. ...
Plato and Vedanta
... Logos as a bridge over the gulf that separates man and God, the known and the unknown. The Logos was identified with one or another of the physical elements, according as one or another was thought to be the ultimate substance of the universe. Heraclitus, who lived in the sixth century BC, was the f ...
... Logos as a bridge over the gulf that separates man and God, the known and the unknown. The Logos was identified with one or another of the physical elements, according as one or another was thought to be the ultimate substance of the universe. Heraclitus, who lived in the sixth century BC, was the f ...
Are We Really So Modern - Northampton Community College
... behave in such a way that they seem to be interacting. This “pre-established harmony” is guaranteed by a beneficent God. If philosophy is defiance of common sense, then Leibniz’s ideas are very philosophical indeed—too much so even for most of his fellowphilosophers. (Hegel called them “a metaphysi ...
... behave in such a way that they seem to be interacting. This “pre-established harmony” is guaranteed by a beneficent God. If philosophy is defiance of common sense, then Leibniz’s ideas are very philosophical indeed—too much so even for most of his fellowphilosophers. (Hegel called them “a metaphysi ...
January 30 Reading - Are We Really So Modern
... One of Gottlieb’s central insights is that, as he wrote in his previous volume, “The Dream of Reason,” which covered thought from the Greeks to the Renaissance, “the history of philosophy is more the history of a sharply inquisitive cast of mind than the history of a sharply defined discipline.” You ...
... One of Gottlieb’s central insights is that, as he wrote in his previous volume, “The Dream of Reason,” which covered thought from the Greeks to the Renaissance, “the history of philosophy is more the history of a sharply inquisitive cast of mind than the history of a sharply defined discipline.” You ...
Descartes vision of Philosophy Methodic Doubt and the Cogito
... philosophers abandon the possibility of truly knowing themselves or God—Kant will argue that we can know only what we experience, not things like God or the soul— philosophy is left with justifying science. ...
... philosophers abandon the possibility of truly knowing themselves or God—Kant will argue that we can know only what we experience, not things like God or the soul— philosophy is left with justifying science. ...
Glossary of Sanskrit and Indic terms and phrases
... is difficult to get a clear picture of her nature. she is usually mentioned along with other gods and goddesses, there is no one hymn addressed exclusively to her, and unlike many other vedic deities, she is not obviously related to some natural phenomenon. compared to Usha and Prithvi, her characte ...
... is difficult to get a clear picture of her nature. she is usually mentioned along with other gods and goddesses, there is no one hymn addressed exclusively to her, and unlike many other vedic deities, she is not obviously related to some natural phenomenon. compared to Usha and Prithvi, her characte ...
Asian Philosophy (CH. 1 of AP)
... analysis, that is distinct from, but similar to religious inquiry. Philosophy does inquire into a question by looking at various contributions that are relevant to answering the question, and it does employ a variety of methods. In contemporary philosophy, many, but not all, seek to provide a compre ...
... analysis, that is distinct from, but similar to religious inquiry. Philosophy does inquire into a question by looking at various contributions that are relevant to answering the question, and it does employ a variety of methods. In contemporary philosophy, many, but not all, seek to provide a compre ...
Reviews
... reliable causal route to valid cognition. Indeed, Cabezon himself systematically uses pramàõa in the latter sense of reliable means of producing valid cognition , and not for the cognition that is the product of its exercise. But his discussion of whether scripture is to be counted as a pramàõa is r ...
... reliable causal route to valid cognition. Indeed, Cabezon himself systematically uses pramàõa in the latter sense of reliable means of producing valid cognition , and not for the cognition that is the product of its exercise. But his discussion of whether scripture is to be counted as a pramàõa is r ...
Does Comparative Philosophy have a Fusion Future? Responses
... the Buddhists' ultimate concern, could not be) a philosophical conception about which we may calmly converse in sovereign detachment will indicate that we are at the gateway to an understanding of it." 14 Modern philosophy is decidedly text-centered, but Buddhist texts are not primarily philosophica ...
... the Buddhists' ultimate concern, could not be) a philosophical conception about which we may calmly converse in sovereign detachment will indicate that we are at the gateway to an understanding of it." 14 Modern philosophy is decidedly text-centered, but Buddhist texts are not primarily philosophica ...