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22-05-2015, 10:15 PM
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The Yogi doesnt get Elated?
I read awhile back in an Indian Philosophy book that a Yogi doesn't get elated. I'm wondering if anyone has any information on this particular subject.
I know I have posted on 2 areas of the same forum but I'm trying to get both sides of Hinduism and Buddhism on this matter.
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22-05-2015, 11:43 PM
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Are there yogis in Buddhism?
In Hinduism... they can be VERY happy , jovial and elated, blissful!!!
Then you have that 'Happy Buddha' statue!
Sure, there are benefits to be 'of an even temperament'.
But, if you are happy...you are happy! 
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
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Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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22-05-2015, 11:51 PM
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Yogi is usually used for a Hindu adept. However, in Tibetan Buddhism they use the term for the Tantric yogis.
Elated is not a term used normally to describe the meditation experience. The reasoning being that equanimity, balance and clear vision are more important than emotional waves of pleasure that take you off course from the river of dharmic truth.
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23-05-2015, 07:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Tirisilex
I read awhile back in an Indian Philosophy book that a Yogi doesn't get elated.
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Not all yogis, but those yogis who don't get elated practice equanimity.
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23-05-2015, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Tirisilex
I read awhile back in an Indian Philosophy book that a Yogi doesn't get elated. I'm wondering if anyone has any information on this particular subject.
I know I have posted on 2 areas of the same forum but I'm trying to get both sides of Hinduism and Buddhism on this matter.
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Calmness is the ideal state, and the parent of right action. Elations and depressions, and other opposites reduces the state of calmness and increases passion and reactiveness which is the sign of an undisciplined or untrained mind , and which brings along with it misery and suffering.
Equanimity of mind, is necessary to be calm and mindful in all situations and circumstances.
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When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. ~ Swami Satchidananda
Wholesome virtuous behavior progressively leads to the foremost.~ Buddha AN 10.1
If you do right, irrespective of what the other does, it will slow down the (turbulent) mind. ~ Rajini Menon
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26-05-2015, 05:04 PM
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Are there techniques to help keep you from getting elated?
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26-05-2015, 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Tirisilex
Are there techniques to help keep you from getting elated?
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Yes, repeat after me...Nothing is real....Nothing is real...
This is all a dream....This is all a dream....Nothing here lasts ....nothing
here lasts....and on and on. 
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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26-05-2015, 07:46 PM
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The yogi doesn't get elated because there is no yogi to get elated. There is only an experience of elation... no duality between experience and person.
If you shift your perception off of the verbal self and only on the experiential self, then all that exists is now without conceptual thinking. So you may experience elation, but there is no "yogi" there to claim it as theirs.
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28-05-2015, 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Tirisilex
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Try to witness your emotions instead of acting upon them. |
28-05-2015, 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by RyanWind
The yogi doesn't get elated because there is no yogi to get elated.
There is only an experience of elation... no duality between experience and person.
If you shift your perception off of the verbal self and only on the experiential self, then all
that exists is now without conceptual thinking.
So you may experience elation, but there is no "yogi" there to claim it as theirs.
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I like you. 
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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