Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s6.t8: sBor drug
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sBor drug
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Six-Branch Yoga (sbor drug) is practiced by the Jonang School of Tibetan Buddhism. Typically, a Jonang monk will have a three-year meditation retreat. Six-branch Yoga can be divided into six phases including Withdrawal, Meditative Concentration, Harnessing One's Life-Force, Retention, Recollection and Samadhi. Withdrawal is to enable the mind of a practitioner to withdraw from the secular world and completely enter into empty forms. Meditative Concentration is to make the mind abide in joyfulness and calmness. Harnessing One's Life-Force is to draw in and sustain vital winds within the central channel and not flow to the right or the left channel and to obtain natural joy in a calm sitting. Retention is to enable a practitioner to harmonise the nerve system and control the lifeforce. Recollection is to make a practitioner concentrate the mind on a point and connect it with the universe and obtain incessant force while Samadhi is to enable a practitioner to
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*A mural painting in the ancient monastery of Juenangpai.*
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combine body with heart and enter into a state of stabilised bliss and emptiness.
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(*Kalsang gyal)*)