Concept
Pranayama
Overview
Pranayama (Sanskrit: प्राणायाम, "Prāṇāyāma") is the yogic practice of controlling the breath in Hinduism. It is described in Hindu texts such as the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita; in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, it is one of the eight limbs of yoga. In classical yoga, the breath is associated with the life energy or prana. Later, in Hatha yoga texts, it meant the complete suspension of breathing. The pranayama practices in modern yoga as exercise, such as in Ashtanga (vinyasa) yoga, differ radically from those of the Hatha yoga tradition, often using the breath in synchrony with movements.
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According to what has been said, the denial of the will to live, which is just what is called absolute, entire resignation, or holiness, always proceeds from that quieter of the will which the knowledge of its inner conflict and essential vanity, expressing themselves in the suffering of all living things, becomes. The difference, which we have represented as two paths, consists in whether that knowledge is called…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
States what Pranayama is.
The most extraneous part of the universe is what in modern times we call gross matter. The ancient Hindus called it the _Bhutas_, the external elements. There is one element which according to them is eternal; every other element is produced out of this one, and this eternal element is called _Âkâsa_. It is somewhat similar to the modern idea of ether, though not exactly the same.
Swami Vivekananda, Jnâna Yoga, Part II
States what Pranayama is.
But in the sense of common people, not all the Universe is called Body, but only such parts thereof as they can discern by the sense of Feeling, to resist their force, or by the sense of their Eyes, to hinder them from a farther prospect. Therefore in the common language of men, Aire, and Aeriall Substances, use not to be taken for Bodies, but (as often as men are sensible of their effects) are called Wind, or…
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
States what Pranayama is.
Philosophers who discussed Pranayama
Related ideas
- Princeton University Press
- Hinduism
- Nyingma
- Ajahn Buddhadasa
- Dzogchen
- Ontology
- Oxygen
- Bhagavad Gita
- Patanjali
- Prana
- Sanskrit
- Pali Canon
- Brill Publishers
- Hatha yoga
- Yoga
- Johannes Bronkhorst
- Oxford University Press
- Penguin Books
- Yoga as exercise
- Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga)
- Niyama
- Asana
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
- Upanishads
Place in the tradition
Part of Mysticism.