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 Spiritwalk
- Glossary
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- A Glossary of Spiritual Terms and Concepts
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- Buddha
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- The Awakened; Enlightened One
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- Buddha-nature
- The nature innate in every sentient being. The potential for
attaining Buddhahood.
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- Dukkha
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- Suffering, emptiness, impermanence ~ Disturbance, irritation,
dejection,
- worry, despair, fear, dread, anguish, anxiety, vulnerability,
injury, inability, inferiority,
- sickness, aging, decay of body and faculties, senility,
pain/pleasure, excitement/boredom,
- deprivation/excess, desire/frustration, suppression,
longing/aimlessness,hope/hopelessness,
- effort, activity, striving/repression, loss,
want,insufficiency/satiety, love/lovelessness,
- friendlessness, dislike,aversion/attraction,
parenthood/childlessness, submission/rebellion,
- decision/indecisiveness, vacillation, uncertainty.
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- Kalachakra
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- The Wheel of Time
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- Karma
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- Literally, "deed." A concept that binds its
followers to an endless cycle of
- birth, death, and rebirth and, according to one's deeds in
life, determines the
- condition of one's rebirth.
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- Metta
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- Loving kindness good-will, friendship, unconditional love
for all beings.
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- Namastè is a salutation which essentially means that I greet and acknowledge the
God-Spirit that resides within you. Ram Dass describes it this way [Namaste` means]
"I honor the place in you in which the entire universe dwells. I honor the place in you
which is of love, of truth, of light, and of peace. When you are in that place in you, and
I am in that place in me, we are one." This greeting is usually done with a gesture of
hands held close to the heart in prayer position. It is a recognition of the Atman within,
the acknowledgement of our connection in Spirit and a wonderful way of expressing
love and respect for our fellows.
- Om Mani Padme Hum
- OM MANI PADME HUM is a very old mantra. The words are Sanskrit and
translate
- literally to "OM, jewel in the lotus, hum". This mantra is
associated with
- Avalokiteshvara, who represents compassion it its ultimate
manifestation. There are
- many levels of meaning here and the sequence of sounds really needs
to be studied in
- detail and in light of Vajrayana Buddhist symbology, something I am
not going to
- attempt to do. Simply put, and on the human level, the jewel (mani)
represents
- knowledge or wisdom or research. An example might be studying auto
magazines
- and blue book lists before going out hunting for a car. The lotus
(padme) represents
- the human consciousness and our interaction in the world. It's a
process of reaching
- out and making contact, of taking our knowledge out into the world—the
venturing
- forth to the car dealers. It's a very logical concept of gaining
wisdom or enlightenment
- about the world through research and trial. OM and HUM are called
seed syllables.
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- Spiritwalk
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- The idea of Spiritwalk is that life is a journey, a process; and that
this journey can be
- done with a conscious awareness of being, at once awashed and infused
with the Light
- of Universal Spirit. This Light, within and without,
provides us with direction and
- inspiration along the way. One Spiritwalker ecstatically
remarked: "It feels like I am
- walking in Spirit. How wonderful." Thus Spiritwalk
received its name.
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- Most of the traditions pages have
glossaries of terms specific to those traditions.
- A Glossary of New Age Terms is available at http://mysticplanet.com/8diction.htm
- Check out this Third Age site for Basic Computer and
Internet Terms.
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