Niyamas/Ethics And Values

A Real And Easy Solution To The Ignorance Of Unconscious Bias

Posted by Kidecia King on June 20, 2023 | Featured | No Comments

Why You Can’t See Reality Under The Influence of Ignorance: The Effect of Cognitive Bias/Kleshas (Poisons) on Perception Everyone knows (or should know by now, with the prevalence of, and science on, addiction problems in the United States and abroad), … Read More … Read More

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“None But Ourselves Can Free Our Minds”

Posted by Kidecia King on April 19, 2023 | Featured | No Comments

Liberate Yourself From The Agony Caused By Toxic Influences That Maintain And Perpetuate Destructive Delusions In The World Disconnection from one’s higher Self/expression and from the Truth is the root of all evil and ongoing Karmic entanglement in the world. … Read More … Read More

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You Are Manifested As A Social Being | Avoid Reducing Yourself To A Social Animal

Posted by Kidecia King on February 13, 2023 | Featured | No Comments

You Are Manifested As A Social Being Connected To All In/Of Existence; Do Not Reduce Yourself (or Your Self) To A Social Animal, Dependent On, Or Desperate For, Others To Fulfill Your Inner Needs If healthy connection with other people … Read More … Read More

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Is Your Love Liberating Or Binding?

Posted by Kidecia King on February 22, 2022 | Featured | No Comments

Expectations, ultimatums, attachments, fears, power-plays, abuse, disrespect, and other ego-fueled transactional behaviors represent an absence of Love, not the presence of it. … Read More

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Podcast Ep. 58 [Sutra Studies Week 57: Reflections On What Yamas And Niyamas Give For The “Sacrifice” Of Lower Attachments (Sutras 2.35-2.45) | Excerpt]

Posted by Kidecia King on December 20, 2021 | Featured | No Comments

“Those who truly and fully have a solid foundation in Yama and Niyama practice, integrating these two limbs firmly into their life and personal being (and at their core, beyond the basic physical and social expression of abstinence and duties … Read More … Read More

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Sutra Studies Week 57: What Yamas And Niyamas Give For The “Sacrifice” Of Lower Attachments (Sutras 2.35-2.45)

Posted by Kidecia King on December 14, 2021 | Featured | No Comments

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Tags: Ahiṁsā pratiṣṭhāyām tat saṁnidhau vaira tyāgaḥ, Aparigrahā sthairye janmakathaṁtā saṁbodhaḥ, Asteyapratiṣṭhāyām sarvaratnopasthānam, Brahmacarya pratiṣṭhāyām vīryalābhaḥ, Kāyendriya siddhiraśuddhikṣayāt tapasḥ, meditation, mind, mind mastery, niyama, practice, Saṁtoṣādanuttamḥ sukhalābhḥ, Samādhisiddhir īśvarapraṇidhānāt, Sattvaśuddhi saumanasyaikāgryendriyajayātmadarśana yogyatvāni ca, Satya pratiṣṭhāyām kriyāphalāśrayatvam, Saucāt svāṅgajugupsā parairasaṁsargaḥ, self-realization, Svādhyāyādiṣṭadevatāsaṁprayogḥ, yama, yamas, Yoga, yoga sutra

Podcast Ep. 56 [Sutra Studies Week 55: Reflections On Niyama | Letting Go Of The Ego (Sutra 2.32) | Excerpt]

Posted by Kidecia King on December 6, 2021 | Featured | No Comments

“Aren’t you grateful that no amount of ignorance, delusion, hatred, egoism, fear, attachment, and so forth will change or alter the Truth that is eternal and unchanging?” … Read More

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Sutra Studies Week 55: Check-In | Niyama Practice And The Greater Reality

Posted by Kidecia King on December 5, 2021 | Featured | No Comments

What are Niyamas (duties), and how do they individually, and collectively, support deeper self-purification and higher Self connection? How do they help to solidify the knowledge that we have discussed previously, and continue to build upon in our understanding of … Read More … Read More

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Sutra Studies Week 55: Niyama | Letting Go Of The Ego (Sutra 2.32)

Posted by Kidecia King on November 30, 2021 | Featured | No Comments

“Niyama consists of purity, contentment, accepting but not causing pain, study of spiritual books and worship of God [self-surrender].” –The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Śauca Saṁtoṣa Tapaḥ Svādhyāyeśvarapraṇidhānāni Niyamāḥ Sauca: purity | Samtosa: contentment | Tapah: accepting pain (heat) and … Read More … Read More

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