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In yoga, we call addictive behavior "samskara," or "ruts", and the more you practice the destructive ones, the more entrenched they will become.
Sadie Nardini: Don't Be Like Mike: Bust Your Inner Addict and Be Free! 2009
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The hostels, which will provide 33 per cent reservation to Dalit and backward classes each, will serve the dual purpose of providing children Hindu “dharma samskara” and educational opportunities.
Pejawar math struck with panic as revolutionary movement spreads like wild fire Abhay N 2007
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Asanga states in this text that there are three types of equanimity: an affecting variable ( 'du-byed, Skt. samskara) included in the aggregate of other affecting variables, a feeling (tshor-ba, Skt. vedana), and an immeasurable attitude.
The Four Immeasurable Attitudes in Hinayana, Mahayana, and Bon 2005
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Asanga states in this text that there are three types of equanimity: an affecting variable ( 'du-byed, Skt. samskara) included in the aggregate of other affecting variables, a feeling (tshor-ba, Skt. vedana), and an immeasurable attitude.
The Four Immeasurable Attitudes in Hinayana, Mahayana, and Bon 2005
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Should a desire manifest in the mind and be recognized as unproductive, practise bringing the attention of the mind to something else so that the samskara does not develop.
The Sivananda Companion To Meditation THE SIVANANDA YOGA VEDANTA CENTER 2003
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As we repeat the same thought, the samskara intensifies, and the actual power of the thought increases.
The Sivananda Companion To Meditation THE SIVANANDA YOGA VEDANTA CENTER 2003
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This action, originally just a flash in the mind, has now become a force in our life and a samskara has been formed.
The Sivananda Companion To Meditation THE SIVANANDA YOGA VEDANTA CENTER 2003
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If we constantly think we are, for example, fat, or shy, or not good enough, the samskara deepens and takes a strong hold on the mind.
The Sivananda Companion To Meditation THE SIVANANDA YOGA VEDANTA CENTER 2003
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Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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Both caste and dharma emphasised heredity because ancestry (gotra) was imperative as the spirits of the ancestors had to be invoked in all social sacraments (samskara) to establish the individual's worthiness to receive the sacrament.
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