Here's a list of some philosophical concepts we will discuss in class on tuesday. The numbers in parentheses refer to where the concepts occur in the Yoga Sutras.
Philosophical concepts in HYW 17-24
Practice and detachment
(1.12-1.16)
Attachment to particular modes of thinking that promote attachment. (kleshas-avidya, asmita, raga, dvesa,
abhinivesa)
Please and pain (raga and dvesa)
Interpretation of stilling the fluctuations as seeing things as being what they are in and
of themselves. (1.2)
The mind makes us stuck.
The mind as a mechanism for making us unstuck.
Concept of healing- doesn’t announce itself.
Grasping not grasping
aparigraha (2. 39)
Liking things in the right way and the wrong way. (1.31).
Cultivating upeksa (1.31)
Everything is
suffering (2.15)
Focus dharana ( 2.53 and 3.1)
Fixation Dhyana (3.2)
The tangible benefits
of focus
Pratyahara - withdrawing the senses inward(2.54).
Sauca cleanliness (II.32).
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