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Shavasana. Shavasana (Sanskrit: शवासन; IAST: śavāsana), Corpse Pose, or Mritasana, [1] is an asana in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise, often used for relaxation at the end of a session. It is the usual pose for the practice of yoga nidra meditation, and is an important pose in Restorative Yoga.
In doctrine and scriptures. [edit] A musical ensemble with flute and an ancient Indian vina, from Amaravati. A relief depicting musicians at Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa, Hadda, Afghanistan, 1st–2nd century CE. A man playing a stringed instrument (possibly a type of veena), Yusufzai district (near Peshawar), Gandhara. An example of Greco-Buddhist art.
Memento mori (Latin for "remember (that you have) to die") [2] is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. [2] The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity and Christianity, and appeared in funerary art and architecture from the medieval period onwards.
Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique to train attention and awareness and detach from reflexive, "discursive thinking," [note 1] achieving a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state, [1][2][3][4][web 1][web 2] while not judging the meditation process itself. [note 2] Techniques are broadly classified into ...
Yoga in Advaita is a "meditative exercise of withdrawal from the particular and identification with the universal, leading to contemplation of oneself as the most universal, namely, Consciousness". [295] Yoga Vasistha is an influential Advaita text [296] which uses short stories and anecdotes to illustrate its ideas.
The Latin cogito, ergo sum, usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am", [a] is the "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy. He originally published it in French as je pense, donc je suis in his 1637 Discourse on the Method, so as to reach a wider audience than Latin would have allowed. [1]
e. Christian meditation is a form of prayer in which a structured attempt is made to become aware of and reflect upon the revelations of God. [1] The word meditation comes from the Latin word meditārī, which has a range of meanings including to reflect on, to study, and to practice. Christian meditation is the process of deliberately focusing ...
The Ānāpānasati Sutta (Pāli) or Ānāpānasmṛti Sūtra (Sanskrit), "Breath-Mindfulness Discourse," Majjhima Nikaya 118, is a discourse that details the Buddha 's instruction on using awareness of the breath (anapana) as an initial focus for meditation. The sutta includes sixteen steps of practice, and groups them into four tetrads ...