DHARANA ~ Calm Focusing of the Mind | The WISDOM podcast | S3 E98

2023-04-16

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Dharana ~ Calm Focusing of the Mind The WISDOM podcast Season 3 Episode 98 ~ Concentration is the binding of the mind’s attention (focused awareness) to one particular point (to the exclusion of everything else). ~ Yoga Sutra 3:1 ~ 💜 :: episode timestamps: Lending Us Into Dharana ~ 0-0:31 | Podcast Intro ~ 0:32-2:12 | ...

Dharana ~ Calm Focusing of the Mind

The WISDOM podcast Season 3 Episode 98

~ Concentration is the binding of the mind’s attention (focused awareness) to one particular point (to the exclusion of everything else). ~ Yoga Sutra 3:1 ~

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:: episode timestamps:

If you’ve been joining me in this series on the Yoga Sutras ~ the eight-fold path of classic yoga, we are in this episode here at the sixth limb ~ Dharana.

Classical Yoga is a system of spiritual Knowledge coming from the scriptures (the Vedas), and handed down by a lineage of teachers.

Calmly focusing the full attention of the mind and consciousness on one point to the exclusion of everything else = this is dharana (concentration).

Dharana comes from the word dhri ~ ‘to hold firm’.

This is not generalized attention where the mind is still engaged in thought processes but to the yoga technique of ‘one-pointed’ (ekagrata) concentration: a continuous flow of consciousness inwards either on an internal object (antara-visaya), or an externalized object (bahya-visaya).

Here I share the four ways to Achieve Dharana ~ in daily life.

Please have a listen to any of the previous episodes in this series (the Yoga Sutras) to build the spiritual practices and the teachings of living enlightened.

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Resources: The Yoga Book: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Self-Realization by Stephen Sturgess

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