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Bhavana derives from the word Bhava meaning becoming or the subjective process of arousing mental states. To explain the cultural context of the historical Buddha's employment of the term, Glenn Wallis emphasizes bhavana ' s sense of cultivation. He writes that a farmer performs bhavana when he or she prepares soil and plants a seed. Wallis ...
The Bhavana Upanishad (Sanskrit: भावन उपनिषद्, IAST: Bhāvana Upaniṣad) is a medieval era minor Upanishad of Hinduism. [8] Composed in Sanskrit, the text is classified as one of the Shakta Upanishads and attached to the Atharvaveda .
In Nyaya school of Hinduism, Bhavana (Sanskrit: भावना) is synonymous with Samskara, a property that manifests as impressions or traces on the soul. [18] It is a key concept in Nyaya philosophy, and it applies the idea to both living and non-living world. For example, the vega (velocity) of vayu (wind) is its samskara, in Nyaya ...
Bhavana is a Sanskrit and Pali word (bhāvana) that means 'development' or 'cultivating' or 'producing'. It (or variant Bhavna) is also a popular girls name and may ...
Bhikkhu Bodhi, an American monk, wrote: . The real meaning of [upekkha] is equanimity, not indifference in the sense of unconcern for others.As a spiritual virtue, upekkha means equanimity in the face of the fluctuations of worldly fortune.
Dhyāna (Sanskrit: ध्यान) in Hinduism means meditation [1] and contemplation. Dhyana is taken up in Yoga practices, and is a means to samadhi and self-knowledge. [2]The various concepts of dhyana and its practice originated in the Sramanic movement of ancient India, [3] [4] which started before the 6th century BCE (pre-Buddha, pre-Mahavira), [5] [6] and the practice has been ...
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Buddha depicted in dhyāna, Amaravati, India. In the oldest texts of Buddhism, dhyāna (Sanskrit: ध्यान) or jhāna (Pali: 𑀛𑀸𑀦) is a component of the training of the mind (), commonly translated as meditation, to withdraw the mind from the automatic responses to sense-impressions and "burn up" the defilements, leading to a "state of perfect equanimity and awareness (upekkhā ...