Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The body of light, sometimes called the 'astral body' [a] or the 'subtle body,' [b] is a "quasi material" [1] aspect of the human body, being neither solely physical nor solely spiritual, posited by a number of philosophers, and elaborated on according to various esoteric, occult, and mystical teachings.
Tögal practice may lead to full Buddhahood and the self-liberation of the human body into a rainbow body [note 1] at the moment of death, [67] when all fixation and grasping has been exhausted. [68] Tibetan Buddhism holds that the rainbow body is a nonmaterial body of light with the ability to exist and abide wherever and whenever as pointed ...
The Five Pure Lights (Wylie: 'od lnga) is an essential teaching in the Dzogchen tradition of Bon and Tibetan Buddhism.For the deluded, matter seems to appear. This is due to non-recognition of the five lights.
The Japanese Zen master Dōgen (1200–1253) describes it as follows: “You should stop the intellectual practice of pursuing words and learn the ‘stepping back’ of ‘turning the light around and shining back’ (Jp: ekō henshō); mind and body will naturally ‘drop off,’ and the ‘original face’ will appear.” [23] According to ...
The basic principle of Zen Yoga is that simple breathing, movement and stretching exercises are available to anyone regardless of age, fitness, or health. [ 1 ] Oki-do yoga, which was developed by Japanese master Oki Masahiro (1921–1985) based on "Indian Yoga, the Chinese Yin-Yang principles and the Japanese Zen tradition," is also referred ...
Roots of Yoga. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-241-25304-5. OCLC 928480104. Mead, G. R. S. (1919). The Doctrine of the Subtle Body in Western Tradition. Watkins. Miller, Suki (1995). After Death: How People around the World Map the Journey after Death. Samuel, Geoffrey (2013). Religion and the subtle body in Asia and the West : between mind and body ...
Meditative postures or meditation seats are the body positions or asanas, usually sitting but also sometimes standing or reclining, used to facilitate meditation. Best known in the Buddhist and Hindu traditions are the lotus and kneeling positions; other options include sitting on a chair, with the spine upright.
Luminous mind (Skt: prabhāsvara-citta or ābhāsvara-citta, Pali: pabhassara citta; Tib: འོད་གསལ་གྱི་སེམས་ ’od gsal gyi sems; Ch: 光明心 guangmingxin; Jpn: 清浄心 syōzyōshin) is a Buddhist term which appears only rarely in the Pali Canon, but is common in the Mahayana sūtras [1] [2] and central to the Buddhist tantras.