Now, the Pali word kamma or the Sanskrit word karma (from the root kr to do) 巴利文 Kamma和梵文 Karma (从字根 Kr 做、作而来), literally means 'action', 'doing'. 其字义是「活动」、「作为」。 But in the Buddhist theory of karma i
The word kriya means 'activity' or 'movement' and refers to the activity or movement of consciousness. Kriya also refers to a type of practical or preliminary practice leading to total union, the final result of practice. Kriya Yoga does not curb mental fluctuations but purposely creates activit...
Religious and secular culture come together in the increasing use ofnamaste(pronounced \NAH-muh-stay\) in English: the term is associated with both Hinduism and yoga. The word comes fromSanskritand literally means “bowing to you” or “I bow to you,” and is used as a greeting. Sanskrit...
But the more one knows the secret that the Yoga-Sutra describes, the less he will speak or write. Think about the ultimate goal of yoga! The ultimate goal of Yoga, according to the Yoga-Sutra, is a state calledkaivalya. The word literally means "isolation." The Upanishadic term similar ...
of one’s own life and the good of society. A word that had simply meant “action” settled into notions of good karma, bad karma, neutral karma, and so forth, and continued to develop along these lines. Even so, at this stage, despite its continuing evolution, karmic theory was still...
Karma, as per the Hindus, is not only future-oriented but also past-oriented and present-oriented—meaning that karma (literally, it means work) conducted in the present can also alter the consequences of a particular karma or action of the past, influencing present and future. In other ...
I am not offended, but it’s not…tolerated in society nowadays”; “The PC [i.e., politically correct] crowd has hijacked the word ‘gay’ to mean not what it really means to folks like you and me. Your email could easily be misinterpreted these days as a slur”), whereas in ...
One word—stoicism—one look, bespeaking the same. That afternoon he underwent surgery. The vets all told us the same thing, and it is largely true. Dogs get on fine without the limb, and in fact he hadn’t been using it for the last couple of months. He came home the next day,...
License is not Liberty. Liberty is not license. It's where the word licentious comes from. If you cannot discipline yourself... someone will show up to discipline you. As long as you choose to run around insisting on your right to do as you please... you will be permitted to do so...
This final revelation and only existing literal word of God was revealed to Muhammad over 22 years and written down as the Quran sometime after Muhammad’s death in the year 632 C.E. Quran means “the recitation,” and Muslims believe that the only pure form of the Quran is when it is...