`` What is with this vow jazz ''??

Indelibly entwined with the bodhisattva vow is merit transference ( pariṇāmanā ).

This solemn commitment tends to be referred to as the " Benedictine vow " and is the Benedictine antecedent and equivalent of the evangelical counsels professed by candidates for reception into a religious order.

Some scholars have claimed that the vow formula of the Rule is best translated as " to live in this place as a monk, in obedience to its rule and abbot.

Although Benedictines do not take a vow of silence, hours of strict silence are set, and at other time silence is maintained as much as is practically possible.

In its narrow sense, the term is applied only to those for whom the unmarried state is the result of a sacred vow, act of renunciation, or religious conviction.

" The vow of brahmacarya is meant to help one completely abstain from sex indulgence in work, words, and mind – at all times, under all circumstances and in all places.

( SB 7. 12. 7 ) This is called the brhad-vrata (" great vow "), or naisthika-brahmacarya.

They seek a new understanding of celibacy that is focused on God rather than a future marriage or a lifelong vow to the Church.

On the one hand, there is a principle in Halakha not to overrule a specific law from an earlier era, after it got accepted by the community as a law or vow.

The basic intent of this vow is to conquer passion, thus preventing wastage of energy in the direction of pleasurable desires.

A person taking the vow is bound to it and breaking it is considered to be a bad practice.

The most famous restriction is the cinematic " vow of chastity " of the Dogme95 movement with which he is associated, though only one of his films, The Idiots, is an actual Dogme 95 film.

Another prominent alien race is The Watchers, immortal and wise beings who watch over the Marvel Universe and have taken a sacred vow not to intervene in events, though the Watcher assigned to Earth, Uatu, has violated this oath on several occasions.

The earliest preserved text in the Saxon language is a baptismal vow from the late eighth or early ninth century ; the vernacular was used extensively in an effort to Christianise the lowest castes of Saxon society.

The most important step is saptapadi or saat phere, wherein the bride and the groom, hand-in-hand, encircle the sacred fire seven times, each circle representing a matrimonial vow.

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That he actually does sacrifice her is shown in verse 11: 39 " And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed ".

Harald was therefore induced to take a vow not to cut nor comb his hair until he was sole king of Norway, and that ten years later, he was justified in trimming it ; whereupon he exchanged the epithet " Shockhead " or " Tanglehair " for the one by which he is usually known.

Today, the tradition is that whoever passes the monkey has to touch its head with his left hand for the fulfillment of a vow.

Here she received another oath of allegiance, where Stephen once more made his vow to Matilda.

votum, vow, promise ; see vote ) is a promise or oath.

The vow is a kind of oath, with the deity being both the witness and recipient of the promise.

It is often difficult to distinguish a vow from an oath.

There does not exist any vow, oath, ... or curse.

To swear is to take an oath, to make a solemn vow.

Oaths are also confused with vows, but really, a vow is a special kind of oath.

Professional soldiers and officers of the Bundeswehr have to swear an oath with the same words, but beginning with " Ich schwöre, ..." (" I vow to ...").

In traditional Orthodox countries, when a person takes a vow or oath, he usually does so before a Gospel Book and Cross.

When Louis found out about the oath, he immediately asked the pope to excuse Philip from the vow on the grounds that he himself had not authorized it, and the pope immediately obliged, ending Margaret's attempt to make herself a second Blanche of Castile.

Bhishma means He of the terrible oath, referring to his vow of lifelong celibacy.

Originally named Devavratha, he became known as Bhishma after he took the bhishana pratigya (' terrible oath ') — the vow of lifelong celibacy and of service to whoever sat on the throne of his father ( the throne of Hastinapur ).

Beginning in the 1980s, construction soldiers had to take a vow to increase defense readiness rather than the oath of allegiance required of other soldiers.

The difference is of utmost importance to physicians who have taken and who adhere to the traditional Hippocratic oath, and have thus taken a professional vow that under no circumstances will they " prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause patient's death.

** In The Great Brain Does It Again, Tom has Herbie Sties, the " greedy gut ", take a " sacred oath " on the Bible to " stop eating ice cream and candy and more than one dessert a day ", declaring that " if I break my sacred vow, my soul will belong to the Devil and I'll burn in everlasting Hell ".

Because Max seems to have an emotional " soft spot " for Marissa, the oath he takes to protect the Crystal Heart resembles a Catholic wedding vow, Lavagirl is jealous of her.

However, Psalm 50: 14 is on vows, not oaths, and Matthew changes the word vow to oath.

Alfonso's only brother, Ramiro, had been a Benedictine monk since childhood, and his commitment to the church, his temperament and vow of celibacy made him ill-suited to rule a kingdom under constant military threat and in need of a stable line of succession.

* Termination of the fast: He can break his fast only on the day after the day of fast after at least 48 minutes after sunrise, after taking the vow of Naukaarsi, Porsi, Saadh Porsi, Parimuddhi, etc.

Nor did it fare much better with the high peaks, though the two earliest recorded ascents were due to non-natives, that of the Rocciamelone in 1358 having been undertaken in fulfilment of a vow, and that of the Mont Aiguille in 1492 by order of Charles VIII of France, in order to destroy its immense reputation for inaccessibility – in 1555 Conrad Gesner did not climb Pilatus proper, but only the grassy mound of the Gnepfstein, the lowest and the most westerly of the seven summits.

Consequently, in Henry's view, any act of monastic resistance to royal authority would not only be treasonable, but also a breach of the monastic vow of obedience.

Several founders, in view of their aim, require the members of their institute not only to profess the three Evangelical Counsels of chastity, poverty, obedience, but also to vow or promise stability or loyalty, and maybe certain disciplines, such as self-denial, fasting, silence.

So Achilles consecrated his hair to the river Spercheus and vowed not to cut it until he should return safe from Troy ; and the Hebrew Nazarite, whose strength resided in his flowing locks, only cut them off and burned them on the altar when the days of his vow were ended, and he could return to ordinary life, having achieved his mission.

Also, the invalidation of future vows takes effect only if someone makes the vow without having in mind his previous Kol Nidrei declaration.

Therefore, halakha allowed for the absolution from a vow (' hattarat nedarim ') which might be performed only by a scholar, or an expert on the one hand, or by a board of three Jewish laymen on the other.

The reasons assigned for this change were that an " ex post facto " annulment of a vow was meaningless, and that, furthermore, no one might grant to himself a dispensation, which might be given only by a board of three laymen or by a competent judge.

Then the bragarfull was poured out and when the giver of the feast had drunk this, he was to make a vow, to be also sworn by those present with him, and only then to sit himself on throne of the deceased.

Already old and unhealthy when he came to power, he died on May 22, 1067 and his final act was to demand that only his sons succeed him, forcing his wife Eudokia Makrembolitissa to take a vow not to remarry.

After recovering from a serious wound, he took a vow to " serve only God and the Roman pontiff, His vicar on earth.

The special jubilee season of the Oberammergau Passion Play in 1934, marking the 300-year anniversary of the original vow to reenact Jesus ' Passion and Suffering every ten years thereafter, was the first ( and, it turned out, only ) performance after the Nazi regime's rise to power the year previous.

… I do promise, vow and swear that I will maintain inviolate secrecy about each and every thing brought to my knowledge in the performance of my aforesaid function, excepting only what may happen to be lawfully published when this process is concluded and put into effect … and that I will never directly or indirectly, by gesture, word, writing or in any other way, and under any pretext, even that of a greater good or of a highly urgent and serious reason, do anything against this fidelity to secrecy, unless special permission or dispensation is expressly granted to me by the Supreme Pontiff.

'" Theodosius had made his sister's virginity a tool of war propaganda, and because of her vow to be faithful only to God the hand of God would help Roman troops in battle against Persia.

While there is no vow of silence, many communities have a period of silence lasting from evening until the next morning and some others restrict talking to only when it is necessary for the monks to perform their work and during weekly recreation.

Margaret could only reply that she dared not make such a vow without the king's permission, because when he discovered that she had done so, he would never let her make the pilgrimage.

The Talmud expresses caution in regard to figurative interpretations of this principle, emphasising that the law only really covers those situations where the other individual could not possibly have committed the transgression without the aid of the first person violating the lifnei iver rule ; this is known in the Talmud as two sides to the river ( Trei Ivrah deNaharah )-if, for example, the person who took a nazirite vow had been about to take a glass of wine anyway, then handing them a glass of wine would not transgress lifnei iver.

Simeon the Just ( a High Priest ) was opposed to the nazirite vow and ate of the sacrifice offered by a nazirite on only a single occasion.

Confronting Illyria, he tricks her into transforming into Fred so that he can shoot her, reverting her to her true form in the hope that he can convince her to use her powers to rewind time so that the Fall never occurs, only for Illyria to vow to unmake time itself.

With the aid of Blaquesmith-flashbacks revealing that they discovered various anti-mutant technologies in the Avengers Mansion-Cable manages to fight off the Red Hulk, partially infecting him with the techno-organic virus, only to be interrupted by Hope and Cyclops, who both denounce his actions as unnecessary, culminating in Wolverine and Spider-Man attacking him as they vow to take back the Avengers.