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Awakening and Yoga Glossary
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Awake: the permanent state of Self-realization, of knowing oneself to be free, whole and unbounded Consciousness. No unconscious confusion remains to be triggered by life conditions or situations. All karma and conditioning have been dissolved. Also known as enlightenment or moksha. Awakening: the process of self-realization involving a shift in perspective from a me-centered, insecure and incomplete sense of self, entangled in the world of forms to a recognition of the truth of the Self as wholeness. This shift involves transforming unconscious energetic patterns of thoughts, beliefs and negative emotions that obscure the truth of the Self. Consciousness (with a capital C): one of the three part fundamental expression of wholeness; Sat Cit Ananda. Sat being Absolute Existence, Cit being Absolute Consciousness, and Ananda being Limitlessness, Unboundedness. Also known as fundamental awareness, primordial awareness, or Presence. consciousness (with a small c) The evolving subtle vehicle through which Consciouness functions in the world of forms. ie, an oxygen atom is conscious, in its own way, of other atoms, as it interacts differently with different atoms and molecules emotions emotion: from the Latin root root motere, to move. " a feeling and its distinctive thoughts, psychological and biological states, and range of propensities to act. " (Daniel Goleman, from "Emotional Intelligence") The basic families of emotion (from "Emotional Intelligence") Anger: fury, outrage, resentment, wrath, exasperation, indignation, acrimony, animosity, annoyance, irritability, hostility, and perhaps at the extreme, pathological hatred and violence. Sadness: grief, sorrow, cheerlessness, gloom, melancholy, self-pity, loneliness, dejection, despair, and , when pathological, severe depression. Fear: anxiety, apprehension, nrevousness, concern, consternation, misgiving, wariness, qualm, edginess, dread, fright, terror; as a psychopathology, phobia and panic. Enjoyment: happiness, joy, relief, contentment, bliss, delight, amusement, pride, sensual pleasure, thrill, rapture, gratification, satisfaction, euphoria, whimsy, ecstasy, and at the far edge, mania. Love: acceptance, friendliness, trust, kindness, affinity, devotion, adoration, infatuation, agape Surprise: shock, astonishment, amazement, wonder Disgust: contempt, disdain, scorn, abhorrence, aversion, distaste, revulsion, Shame: guilt, embarrassment, chagrin, remorse, humiliation, regret, mortification, contrition. From Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth" Primordial emotion: an instinctive and direct reaction of an organism to an external event, arising from the innate intelligence of Being. Deeper emotions: not really emotions at all but states of Being. They have no opposite, emanating from within as the love, joy and peace that are your true nature. Ego generated emotion: a body's response to thought derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment. Ego generated negative emotion: an emotion that is toxic to the body and interferes with its balance and harmonious functioning. Unhappiness is a generic term for all negative emotions. Ego generated positive emotion: an emotion that contains within itself the opposite. For example, love to the ego is possessiveness and addicted clinging that can turn to anger and hatred in a second. Excitement or anticipation over an upcoming event, which is really overvaluing the future, can quickly turn to disapointment. Ego: The self that is aware of its distinction from the objects of its thought and perceptions. From Freud: id: the unconscious mind. the seat of desires, impulses, drives, and primary energy or libido. super-ego: the conscience. The controller of impulses, the seat of the managers. ego: the sense of self, mediating between the impulsive id, the repressive super-ego, and the demands of the external world.
mind: The aggregate of processes originating in or associated with the brain, involving thought, interpretation of perception, imagination, etc. (Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary) mind: the seat of reason, rationality, logic, discrimination mind state: a complex of thoughts, feeling and emotion arising simultaneously and sustaining itself in time. mind field: the spaciousness in which mind activity arises, just as the sky is the space in which clouds/weather patterns arise. mind activity; citta vrttis, movements in the mind field, including: (from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, I-6) true perception, (seeing a tree and knowing it is a tree) false perception, (seeing a rope, and mistaking it to be a snake), imagination memory sleep Big Mind: Non dualistic mind, Absolute, Presence, Primordial Awareness self (small 's') dualistic self-sense, limited, incomplete, inadequate, constantly becoming, never at rest thought: that which is conceived in the mind, an intention, a notion, a belief. viveka: discriminative enquiry buddhih: reasoning, intellect, deliberate thought ahamkara: sense of self, self-image, ego manas: mind-doubt, desire, emotion, perception, ego, memory
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