dhyana
ध्यान dhyānaMeditation, the unbroken flow of attention that follows from dharana, the seventh limb.
Where this term appears
- Meditation and the Eight Limbs Yoga
Dharana , concentration (3.1). Dhyana , meditation (3.2).
- What Are the Yoga Sutras? Yoga
…a , the withdrawal of the senses; and then the inner three, dharana , dhyana and samadhi , concentration deepening into absorption.
- What is Hatha Yoga? Yoga
Hatha Yoga is the yoga of the body and the breath, a medieval system that purifies the physical body, controls the life-force (*prana*), and awakens the dormant…
- What is Yoga? Yoga
…yahara (withdrawal of the senses), and then the inner three, dharana, dhyana, samadhi (concentration, meditation, absorption).
- Bhuta Shuddhi: The Rite That Burns the Body to Ash Lineages
… on the newly divinised body, and only then meditation on the deity ( dhyana ) and the worship proper.
- Hinduism and Buddhism: the difference Essentials
They share technical words and methods: dhyana , meditative absorption, samadhi , deep concentration, the use of mantra , the figure of the renunciant who leaves ordinary life to pursue liberation.
- How to Read a Murti Deities
Hands folded in the lap, one resting in the other, are the dhyana mudra , the posture of meditation.
- The Three Paths to Liberation: Karma, Bhakti and Jnana Essentials
…i's Yoga Sutras , which the Gita also teaches in its sixth chapter as dhyana-yoga .