Dhyana, or meditation, is described as the "continuous flow of cognition" toward an object - the object being the one we've been concentrating on from the last limb, dharana. …
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practicing the eight limbs of yoga
The fifth and final niyama, ishvara pranidhana, is the queen mother of all the restraints and observances that serve as the roots of yogs.…
The translation of tapas is literally to heat or burn, by way of practicing discipline or “austerity.” …
The second yama, satya, is translated as truthfulness, and there’s something beautifully simple about it. Many of us were taught some version of it as a first lesson in morality when we were kids: “lying is wrong,” our parents…
The first yama, ahimsa, is usually translated as non-violence or non-harming. Just like the Hippocratic oath instructs fledgling doctors to “do no harm,” this first yama includes the same fundamental idea for the rest of us: In part of…