The NLP proposed that a government subsidized group of 7, 000 advanced meditators known as Yogic Flyers would lower nationwide stress, reduce unemployment, raise the gross national product, improve health, reduce crime, and make the country invincible to foreign attack.

The TM-Sidhi program is an advanced form of Transcendental Meditation and includes " Yogic flying ".

Although Patañjali's work does not cover the many types of Yogic practices that have become prevalent, its succinct form and availability caused it to be pressed into service by a variety of schools of Yogic thought.

The TM-Sidhi program is an advanced form of Transcendental Meditation and includes " Yogic flying ".

He “ was struck by the circumstance that, obviously ignorant of Vedantist and Yogic doctrines, yet approximately expressed them, though in a degraded and distorted form .”

Yogic powers called Siddhis are acquired by constant practice of certain yogic disciplines.

Transcendental meditation groups have held annual " Yogic Flying Contests " to see who could hop the farthest or the fastest.

At the stage of pratyahara, the consciousness of the individual is internalized in order that the sensations from the senses of taste, touch, sight, hearing and smell don't reach their respective centers in the brain and takes the sadhaka ( practitioner ) to next stages of Yoga, namely Dharana ( concentration ) and Dhyana ( meditation ), and Samadhi ( mystical absorption ), being the aim of all Yogic practices.

The concept of nirvana comes from the Yogic traditions of the Sramanas whose origins go back to at least the earliest centuries of the first millennium BCE.

* — highlights the main stages of Yogic and Buddhist practice, comparing Yoga-sutra system by Patanjali and the Eightfold Noble Path from Buddhist tradition.

Imagery of " freedom ", and of death to one's old body and rebirth with a new body, occur frequently in Yogic texts, representing escape from the bondage of the temporal human condition.

The Maharishi commissioned plans from a prominent architect for the world's tallest building, a Vedic-style pyramid to be built in São Paulo, Brazil, and to be filled with Yogic Flyers and other TM endeavours.

Yogic marriage is a tradition of Hindu marriage done within Shavite sadhakas and sadhvis, to enable them to get positive energy from yajnas and homas.

Pranayama, or Yogic breath control, is very popular in traditional and modern forms of Yoga.

When praṇā vāyu enters a period of uplifted, intensified activity, the Yogic tradition refers to it as Pranotthana.

* Yogic practices in the Bon tradition by M Alejandro Chaoul

Yogic practices ( rtsarlung ’ phr ul ’ khor ) in the Bon tradition and possible applications as a CIM ( complementary and integrative medicine ) therapy.

He introduces here a description and discussion of five different types of mysticism to be found in Indian tradition: " the sacrificial, the Upanishadic, the Yogic, the Buddhistic, and that of bhakti.

However, in Yogic, and specifically in Kundalini Yoga reference, a " Nardi " can be thought of as a channel ( not an anatomical structure ).

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Academic courses in yoga, such as the 4 month course in Yogic Studies and Diploma in Yogic Studies are conducted by Bihar Yoga Bharati.

He leaves aside the first ( of historic interest ), and the fourth ( due to the definitions of nirvana ), so that as exemplars of mystical experience he presents: ( a ) the Upanishadic " I am this All " which can be subdivided into ( i ) a theistic interpretaion or ( ii ) a monistic ; ( b ) the Yogic " unity " outside space and time, either ( i ) of the eternal monad of the mystic's own individual soul per the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali or ( ii ) of Brahman, the ground of the universe, per the advaita Vedanta of Sankara ; and, ( c ) the bhakti mysticism of love, per the commentary on the Bhagavad Gita by Ramanuja.

An important aspect of temple is the Mool Viraat or the Sanctum Sanatorium where Lord Sri Yoga Narasimha Swamy sits in his Yogic Position, which indeed makes the temple very unique and also to note the fact that this temple is more than 1300 years.

The chief plank in the NLP's platform was funding the Maharishi's plan for thousands of Yogic Flyers who could create the Maharishi Effect and thereby insure invincibility for every nation.

Known in his premonastic life as Suresh Chandra Bhattacharya, the Swami was an initiated disciple of Swami Brahmananda ( the great direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna ), and was widely respected for his high spiritual attainments, Yogic insight and mature wisdom.

They say that there are three stages on Yogic Flying – hopping, floating, and flying – and that they have so far achieved just the first stage.

In 1992, the Maharishi began to send groups of Yogic Flyers to India, America, China and Brazil in an effort to increase global peace through a " coherent world consciousness ".

In India there is a 5½ year degree course offering a Bachelor of Naturopathy and Yogic Sciences ( BNYS ) degree.

Samkhya philosophy, which is sometimes seen as the basis of Yogic thought, adopts a view that matter exists independently of individual minds.

* An interactive map of the Yogic conception of mind.

Kūkai suggests that all sounds are the voice of the Dharmakaya Buddha — i. e. as in Hindu Upanishadic and Yogic thought, these sounds are manifestations of ultimate reality, in the sense of sound symbolism postulating that the vocal sounds of the mantra have inherent meaning independent of the understanding of the person uttering them.

* Human knot ( also called: Yogic sleep ; Head-foot position ; Leg-head position )-A frontward bend with both ankles placed behind the neck.

" Discourse on the Stages of Yogic Practice " is the encyclopaedic and definitive text of the Yogācāra school of Buddhism.

He is also a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation and has engaged in the advanced Yogic Flying technique since 1980.

The panel to the east of the north portico is Shiva in a Yogic position called Yogisvara, Mahayogi, Dharmaraja and Lakulish.

In addition, 16, 000 soldiers and 30, 000 civilians were taught the more advanced technique of Yogic Flying.

Anahata ( Sanskrit: अन ा हत, Anāhata ) is the fourth primary chakra according to the Hindu Yogic, Shakta ) and Buddhist Tantric traditions.

Light on Pranayama: The Yogic Art of Breathing.

The Times suggests potential meditators were put off by Yogic flying, a technique in which practitioners attempt " to lift themselves off the ground.

Tantric meditations do not serve the function of training or practicing extra beliefs or unnatural ways.

" In 1985, David Jasper praised the poem as " one of his greatest meditations on the nature of poetry and poetic creation " and argued " it is through irony, also, as it unsettles and undercuts, that the fragment becomes a Romantic literary form of such importance, nowhere more so than in ' Kubla Khan '.

‘ meditations involve the realization, when the mind reaches its purest state, of an unconditioned “ Dhamma Body ” ( dhammakaya ) in the form of a luminous, radiant and clear Buddha figure free of all defilements and situated within the body of the meditator.

In Buddhism, rūpajhānas ( Sanskrit: rūpadhyāna " meditations of form ", literally " form meditations ") are successive levels of meditation in which the mind is focused on a material or mental object: it is a word frequently used in Pāli scriptures and to a lesser extent in the Mahayana scriptures.

The meditations of form are distinguished from arūpajhāna ( Skt: arūpadhyāna " formless meditations ") which are meditations focused without material or mental objects ( i. e., meditations on infinite space, on infinite consciousness, on nothingness, and beyond perception and non-perception ).

There are eight jhānas in total, out of which the first four are rūpajhānas, meditations of form.

Boyle's Reflections took the form of meditations on everyday subjects, where they were likened to religious themes.

In the original form each retreatant has a guide to help lead him through the meditations of the Exercises.

In contrast with the fixed form prescribed for obligatory prayers, there is no set form for devotions and meditations, though the devotional prayers written by the central figures of the Bahá ' í Faith and collected in prayer books are held in high esteem.