Рецензия на «Categories of practical reason» (Олег Старчен)

Thousands of years before Kant, Patangali summarized it in more universal terms in yoga sutras drawing from Vedas and Buddhism. Some of them, five yamas (abstentions) and five niamas (observances)were later reiterated in many other religious texts (e.g., ten commandments) and were used as millenia-old human wisdom that should govern one live to stay healthy and avoid suffering:

The five Yamas are considered codes of restraint, abstinences, self-regulations, and involve our relationship with the external world and other people:
Ahimsa: non-violence, non-harming, non-injury
Satya: truthfulness, honesty
Asteya: non-stealing, abstention from theft
Brahmacharya: walking in awareness of the highest reality, continence, remembering the divine
Aparigraha: non-possessiveness, non-holding through senses, non-greed, non-grasping, non-indulgence, non-acquisitiveness

The five Niyamas are the observances or practices of self-training, and deal with our personal, inner world:
Shaucha: purity of body and mind
Santosha: contentment
Tapah: training the senses, austerities, ascesis
Svadhyaya: self-study, reflection on sacred words
Ishvara pranidhana: surrender; (ishvara = creative source, causal field, God, supreme Guru or teacher; pranidhana = practicing the presence, dedication, devotion, surrender of fruits of practice)

Дина Беляева   02.11.2011 19:39   •   Заявить о нарушении