Wider Spiritual Beliefs Flashcards
What are the seven main chakras?
Root Chakra: Muladhara
Sacral Chakra: Svadhisthana
Solar Plexus Chakra: Manipura
Heart Chakra: Anahata
Throat Chakra: Vishuddha
Third Eye Chakra: Ajna
Crown Chakra: Sahasrara
Aad Guray Nameh- meaning?
I bow to the primal wisdom.
Aad guray nameh,
Jugaad guray nameh,
Sat guray nameh,
Siree guroo dayv-ah nameh
Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo - meaning?
Calls upon the creator, the divine teacher inside every human being.
Establishes a clear connection so we can receive the highest guidance, energy and inspiration.
Eckhart Tolle - we are so busy getting to the future that…?
The present is reduced to a means of getting there
Eckhart Tolle - Where should part of your attention be focused?
On the inner energy field of your body. Feel the body from within.
“Am I at ease at this moment? What is going on inside me?”
Listen with your whole body.
The three sheaths of the body?
The Physical body - subject to the limits of time, space and gravity.
The Astral body, the energy system for our emotional experience.
The Causal body, carried through countless lives.
Around us is the etheric field, the “aura”. As we interact with others, etheric fields engage.
Why do we meditate?
To get good at life, not to get good at meditation. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
Beautiful anon quote about remaining closed versus the risk to open?
“And the day came when the need to remain closed became more painful than the risk to open”
Beautiful Jim Green quote about softening the walls?
“Softening the walls of our small, over-defended self; letting it at last become permeable; allowing our consciousness, with its temporarily limited capacity to live and to be loved, to unite with the limitless.”
“You give up the intense activity of unrelenting self-creation. You open to the presence of those spaces in you and around you that no one possesses.”
How is meditation universal, positive and natural?
“There is no wisdom tradition that hasn’t led to this common language of stillness, simplicity and silence”
Laurence Freeman: “The only field of medical research that seems to show no negative side effects”
Meditation is as natural to our whole person as breathing is to the body.
Laurence Freeman: “The deeper we go, we find meaning through the paradox that life is not a problem to be solved…”?
But a mystery to be entered
What is wu wei from the Tao Te Ching?
Highly decisive and powerful non-action
What is the Tibetan Rigpa?
The knowledge of knowledge itself. The very nature of mind, it’s innermost essence, absolutely and always untouched by death.
The Tibetan word for Buddhist is nangpa. What does it mean?
Inside-er, someone who seeks the truth not outside but within the nature of the mind.
What should we have learned at the moment of death, according to the Tibetan Book of the Dead?
What will we have learned if, at the moment of our death, we do not know who we really are?
