In yoga, we call addictive behavior "samskara," or "ruts", and the more you practice the destructive ones, the more entrenched they will become. ❋ Unknown (2009)
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. ❋ Abhay N (2007)
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. ❋ Unknown (2005)
As we repeat the same thought, the samskara intensifies, and the actual power of the thought increases. ❋ THE SIVANANDA YOGA VEDANTA CENTER (2003)
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 YOGA VEDANTA CENTER (2003)
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 YOGA VEDANTA CENTER (2003)
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 YOGA VEDANTA CENTER (2003)
Several visitors logging on to the website have already left screaming notes such as "film name not 'samsara' its 'samskara'. pic also wrong … plzzzchange it …." asking the hosts to correct the mistakes, but to no avail. ❋ Unknown (2009)
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. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Astrologer K N Somayaji told STOI it's indeed a bad omen and the CM should perform sarpa samskara as early as possible. ❋ Unknown (2008)
They are both included in the fourth aggregate, the aggregate of other-affecting variables (‘du-byed-kyi phung-po, Skt. samskara skandha). ❋ Unknown (2008)
“Karmic impulses,” here, refers more specifically to the second link of dependent arising – affecting impulses (‘du-byed, Skt. samskara, volitional factors) – and the tenth link – further existence (srid-pa, Skt. bhava, becoming). ❋ Unknown (2006)
We observe their constant changing, and the constant changing of everything they affect, and thus we realize the nonstaticness (mi-rtag-pa, Skt. anitya, Pali: anicca, impermanence) of all affecting variables (‘dus-byas, Skt. samskara, Pali: sankhara, conditioned phenomena). ❋ Unknown (2004)
This brings us to the second link of dependent arising, which I call "affecting impulses" (‘du-byed, Skt. samskara). ❋ Unknown (2000)
When you think and do certain things repeatedly, you create neural pathways that get deeper and deeper over time-it's right in line with the yogic idea of samskara. "
