prostration
English Definitions:
collapse, prostration (noun)
an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion
"the commander's prostration demoralized his men"
prostration (noun)
abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body
prostration (noun)
the act of assuming a prostrate position
prostration (Noun)
The act or condition of prostrating (lying flat) oneself, as a sign of humility.
prostration (Noun)
A part of the ordination of Catholic and Orthodox priests.
prostration (Noun)
Being laid face down (prone).
prostration (Noun)
The condition of being prostrated, as from heat.
prostration (Noun)
A reverential bow performed in Middle Eastern cultures.
Prostration
A prostration is a gesture used in Buddhist practice to show reverence to the Triple Gem and other objects of veneration. Among Buddhists prostration is believed to be beneficial for practitioners for several reasons, including: ⁕an experience of giving or veneration ⁕an act to purify defilements, especially conceit ⁕a preparatory act for meditation ⁕an act that accumulates merit In contemporary Western Buddhism, some teachers use prostrations as a practice unto itself, while other teachers relegate prostrations to customary liturgical ritual, ancillary to meditation. Prostrations may also be subsumed within sadhana repetitions of various vinyasa forms of yogic discipline, such as Trul Khor, e.g. Importantly, vinyasa forms were directly influenced from Buddhist 'impermanence' as was the language of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras informed by Buddhist discourse.
Prostration
Prostration is the gesture of placing one's body in a reverentially or submissively prone position. Typically prostration is distinguished from the lesser acts of bowing or kneeling by involving a part of the body above the knee, especially the hands, touching the ground. Major world religions employ prostration as an act of submissiveness or worship to a supreme being or other worshiped entity (i.e. God), as in the metanoia in Christian prayer used in the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches and the sajdah of the Islamic prayer, salat. In various cultures and traditions, prostrations are similarly used to show respect to rulers, civil authorities and social elders or superiors, as in the Chinese kowtow or Ancient Greek proskynesis. The act has often traditionally been an important part of religious, civil and traditional rituals and ceremonies, and remains in use in many cultures.
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