PRANA
[noun]
(प्राण, prāṇa) the Sanskrit word for “vital life” (from the root prā ” to fill”, cognate to Latin: plenus “full”). It is one of the five organs of vitality or sensation, viz. Prana “breath”, vac “speech”, chakshus “sight”, shrotra “hearing”, and manas “thought” (nose, mouth, eyes, ears and mind; ChUp. 2.7.1).
In Vedantic philosophy, prana is the notion of a vital, life-sustaining force of living beings and vital energy, comparable to the Chinese notion of Qi. It is a central concept in Hinduism, particularly in Ayurveda and Yoga, where it is believed to flow through a network of fine subtle channels called nadis. Its most subtle material form is the breath, but it is also to be found in the blood, and its most concentrated form is semen in men and vaginal fluid in women. The Pranamaya-kosha is one of the five Koshas or “sheaths” of the Atman.
Prana was first expounded in the Upanishads, where it is part of the worldly, physical realm, sustaining the body and the mother of thought and thus also of the mind. Prana suffuses all living forms but is not itself the Atman or individual soul. In the Ayurveda, the sun and sunshine are held to be a source of prana. In the Hindu philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism, prana is regarded as an aspect of Shakti (cosmic energy).
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I haven’t been on in awhile due to the article grabbing from reddit (mixed with work and lack of time).
I have been working on my website, and trying to get it all ironed out. I am not sure exactly what i am going to have on it, but it will be some amalgamation of my own thoughts ideas and representations of the world.
It is still FAR from complete, or even presentable, but i figured if anyone feels like poking around. I will probably set up links to links that i have been researching.
if you feel like checking out the pdfs i came across, look in:
Happy hunting.
Dont really agree with the sentiment but I do like the picture
Holy shit. Pokemon would be scary as fuck if they were real. I’d be scared to go outside. I don’t own any artwork.
dude
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I enjoy his takes on crazy, especially the baked potato analogy :D
push crazy (as well as stupid) back on to people
The Fuhrer has appointed his Chief Assassin
Interesting research into mind altering substances.
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This is what America thinks about our current presidential candidates. Google’s search engine algorithms cannot lie.
This is why voting doesn’t matter.
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SEM of a spinal cord sample showing axons, the long, single fibers extending from the soma of the neuron to conduct nerve impulses away from the cell body to propagate an electrical current down the membrane, which will stimulate target cells such as other neurons, glandular tissue, or muscles.
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Giordano Bruno: Bruno was a philosopher, astronomer and Dominican Friar who lived in Italy in the 16th Century. He was burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600. Bruno was well ahead of his time. He believed that not only was the sun not the center of the universe but that it was a mere star like all the others and that other stars with planets with life must exist. Bruno was a pantheist believing as Albert Einstein and Ralph Waldo Emerson did that God was in all things and at the same time transcended all things. His lack of faith in a personal God, his heretical astronomical theories along with his criticism of the corrupt and venal Medici Papacy resulted in his execution at the hands of church authorities.
“All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.
It is manifest that every soul has a certain continuity with the soul of the Universe, so that it must be understood to exist and to be included not only there where it liveth and feeleth, but it is also by its essence and substance diffused throughout immensity. The power of each soul is itself somehow present afar in the Universe. It is not mixed, yet is there in some presence.
Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.”
—Giordano Bruno
So, does this Christian cleric sound like any Buddhas of our acquaintance?
