P
pain
consciousness and, death and, ego and, embodiment and, judgment of, as means to full embodiment, meditation on, resting and, somatic awareness and, Tibetan yoga approach to,
Paleolithic Age
see hunter-gatherers, panic, paranoia,
passion
see also raga, past, letting go of the,
peace
see also shamatha, personal body, the,
personal ego, the
see also personal body, the, personalism, personhood, Pert, Candace, practice experience,
prana
see also breath, pride,
primitive cultures
see also hunter-gatherers; indigenous traditions, protocols,
psychology
Freudian, Jungian, psychotherapy, Pure Land Buddhism, purusha
Q
questioning,
quieting of the mind
see also shamatha
R
raga
see also passion, Rahula, Walpola, Ramaputra, Udraka, Ray, Reginald A., reality, realization of, reality, relative, rebirth, redemption, reincarnation, relationships, relative reality,
relaxation
see also shamatha; tension,
release
see also letting go,
religious traditions
see also specific traditions, repression, resting, Rome, David
S
Samdhinirmocana Sutra, Samkya-Yoga system, samsara, sangha, Saraha, scientific worldview, transcending the,
seeing, clear
see also vipashyana,
self-concept
see self-image, self-expression, difficulties with,
self-image
see also ego, the; self, the, body work and, cosmic body and, letting go of, maintenance of the, search for identity and, the shadow and, unfolding and,
self, the
see also ego the; self-image, dismantling of, embodiment and, emotions and, experience and, individuality and, innermost, see atman, Jungian, mental construct of, narrative of, others and, reformulation of, sensation, sense perception, Seon Buddhism,
shadow, the
the body and, consciousness and, the ego and, encountering, other people and, self-image and,
Shakyamuni Buddha
see also Gautama, shamanic journeying, shamatha, Shepard, Paul, Shiva, Sixteenth Karmapa, sktî, solidity,
somatic awareness
see also somatic awareness practices; somatic understanding, pain and, shift to, spirituality and,
somatic awareness practices
see also body work, accessibility of, addressing repression through, compared to other traditions or practices, discomfort in, embodiment and, personal example of,
repression and
stages of the journey
somatic crisis
see also disembodiment, crisis of, somatic discomfort, somatic disembodiment, somatic meditation, compared to other traditions or practices, ‘somatic protocols’, somatic shamatha,
somatic understanding
see also somatic awareness, Somé, Malidoma, Southern Buddhism, ‘spiritual bypassing’, ‘spiritual materialism’,
spirituality
aboriginal, ego and, embodiment and, experience and the, somatic awareness and, St. John of the Cross,
stillness
see also shamatha, strength, stuckness, suffering, ‘suffering of conditioned states’, sympathy
T
Tao
see also energy, Tarthang,
tension
see also relaxation, awareness of, definitions of, karma and, locating, release and, terror, Theravadin tradition, Thich Nhat Hanh,
thinking mind
see also discursive thinking,
Tibetan Buddhism
see also Tibetan yoga tradition, global crisis and, karma and, Western practitioners of,
Tibetan yoga tradition
see also Tibetan Buddhism; Vajrayana tradition, addressing repression through, breathing in the, embodiment in, empowerment and, on experience, the imagination in the, karma and, meditation in, pain in the, personal body in the, recovery of embodiment through the, on repression, the shadow in, somatic challenge of, stages of the practice, stages of unfolding within the, tightness, timing, touching enlightenment, Trungpa, Chögyam
U
Ugyen Tulku, ‘ultimate positivity’,
unconscious, the
communication with, surfacing of, universal, see also alaya,
understanding, non-conceptual
understanding, somatic,
‘unfinished business’
see also karma,
unfolding
the buddha nature and, buddha nature and, commitment to the path, the crisis, Hinayana stage, the invitation, Mahayana stage, response, stages of, in the Tibetan yoga tradition, Vajrayana stage,
unknowing
see also ignorance; knowing,
unknown, the
see unknowing, ‘unlived life’
V
Vajrayana stage,
Vajrayana tradition
see also Tibetan yoga tradition, Vajrayogini, vana, victimization, vipashyana,
Vipassana movement
see also Theravadin tradition, visions, visualization
W
well-being, Welwood, John, Wilber, Ken, withdrawal
Y
Yahweh, yanas, Yeshe, Lama Thubten,
yoga
Samkya-Yoga system, Tibetan yoga, see also Vajrayana tradition, Yogacara
Z
Zen Buddhism
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