Living Your Karma Through Your Dharma Flashcards
System of medicine that’s based on the belief that dis-ease begins as an imbalance or stress in a person’s consciousness (Johns Hopkins University)
Ayurveda
The application of self-compassion and self-forgiveness when realizing that you have bought into or believed that you are less than whole
Compassionate self forgiveness
In Buddhism, this means one’s path
Dharma
The ability to choose the most appropriate path based on all the factors at hand
Discernment
Suffering of the mind
Dukka
A protocol for reaching enlightenment and liberation through the ancient wisdom of yoga
8 Limb Path of Yoga
The most important and intrinsic values within your being
Essential Values
The energetic forces that affect our lives and take us through the cycles of nature: rajas, tamas, and sattva
Gunas
The art of leveraging the solar and lunar aspects of the human to bring balance
Hatha Yoga
To listen objectively, without judgment, and without projection of your own agenda
Hold Space
Work, actions, or deeds
Karma
Obstacles to our practice; veils of illusion that begin with ignorance (avidya)
Kleshas
A practice of contentment and non-suffering
Liberation
Observation without judgment
Mindfulness
Matter that goes through the cycles of life such as wood, bodies, and food
Prakriti
One’s perspective on reality
Projection
The quality of energy, activity, or passion
Rajas
Royal yoga of devotion and renunciation
Raja yoga
The second book of the yoga sutras, on practice
Sadhana pada
Spiritual path
Sanatana Dharma
Feeling of balanced contentment; one of the gunas
Sattva
The waking state, the dream state, the sleep state, and enlightenment
States of consciousness
Inertia or lethargy; one of the gunas
Tamas
A system of yoga that’s built on four principle pillars: devotion, knowledge, worship, and pleasure
Tantra yoga
The union of spirit and experience; a yoking, coupling, or marriage
Yoga
