ReikiFriday, 30 April 2010 12:09
Reiki is a spiritual practice developed in 1922 by Japanese Buddhist Mikao Usui that uses a technique commonly called palm healing as a form of complementary and alternative medicine and is sometimes classified as oriental medicine by some professional bodies. Through the use of this technique, practitioners believe that they are transferring healing energy in the form of ki through the palms.
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Sanatana Dharma - Eternal LawFriday, 30 April 2010 12:06
Sanatana Dharma also known as Sanaatan Dharma is a sanskrit term meaning "eternal law," "eternal religion" or "the eternal unchanging occupation of the soul in its relation to the Supreme Being." Thus one who follows the principles of Sanatana Dharma is led back to a pure state of consciousness of a unified relationship with the Source.
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Woman Saints of the WorldSaturday, 20 March 2010 16:18
To turn common things into items of beauty, to pour grace into the style of service, to be calm where the circumstance calls for the play of anger, to be patient where the occasion demands impatience, to be long-suffering where a quick reaction seems to achieve the end in view, to be kind, helpful, generous, artistic, angelic, graceful, devotional, to bend feeling into an attitude of adoration given to a high and elevating Presence,
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Eight Limbs of YogaFriday, 12 March 2010 11:51
1. Yama (abstentions) –
(1) non-killing, (2) truthfulness, (3) non-stealing, (4) continence, (5) non-receiving of gifts.
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Sanatana Dharma also known as Sanaatan Dharma is a sanskrit term meaning "eternal law," "eternal religion" or "the eternal unchanging occupation of the soul in its relation to the Supreme Being." Thus one who follows the principles of Sanatana Dharma is led back to a pure state of consciousness of a unified relationship with the Source. Many make the mistake of equating Hinduism and Sanatana Dharma as the same concept which isn't necessarily true.
Bindu is a Sanskrit term meaning "point" or "dot". The feminine case ending is Bindi which denotes a small ornamental, devotional and/or mystical dot that is cosmetically applied or affixed to the forehead in Hinduism.
Satsang is the essence of yogic and spiritual life. The word sat means "truth" and sang means "association." Satsang, therefore, means "association with truth," "an encounter with truth" or "association with those who are following the path of truth."