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What does yogi or yogini mean to you?
Jeffrey
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in Philosophy
For me it means to take refuge in your own awareness. Like Christianity I feel a certain faith that in the long run ever pattering effort will yield.... What will it yield? It will yield the suchness of being. From agitation to cool boredom and beyond to the meditation that expresses the dharma.
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Yogi is some kind of bare
muesli dressing.
:thumbsup: really getting good at all these special Buddhist terms . . .
I would consider you as a practitioner, a daka or dakini.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka
Get out your ya yas
shake them all about . . .
http://www.thebuddhagarden.com/blog/buddhist-glossary/
[ahem]
As Buddhists, or almost pure dharma in my case of inherent perfection [I think my rainbow halo slipped a few lifetimes], we are all - if meditators and practitioners -Yogis.
In a sense we practice the highest yoga but those practicing Hatha yoga mindfully may well be more enabled and empowered.
As a yogi Ni
it is inevitable that our practice becomes very serious, focussed and transformative.
http://www.woninstitute.org/?page=board
Traditionally Yogis are represented by wearing pure white, which tells us lay people that they are not monks. They have some different precepts from monks, the essential ones are they aren't celibate, and can get start a family.
In TB, they have more precepts than a monk, so we are not Yogis.
In the pics, you will see the white slash on their robes, altho nowadays a lot of the white can hardly be seen, so therein lies the confusion.
https://www.google.com/search?q=tibetan+yogis&biw=1066&bih=600&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=eY3bUYfGAYmHrAfRxYCIBg&sqi=2&ved=0CFAQsAQ
A forum with Yogi explanation
http://tibetanbuddhism.tribe.net/thread/a5675dec-4f44-4ef8-a89d-18b4ef6fcc39
H. H. the Sakya Tri Dzin is a member of the white sangha.
The name of the tradition is "white skirt, long hair."
It exists mainly in the Nyingma, but to a lesser extent
the Kagyu. In that the Sakyapas are a family lineage,
they cannot be all monastic. Therefore main lineage
holders who must produce children cannot be monastic.
The vows, samayas and rules of practice are quite
different from both the monastic and bodhisattva
precepts.
That said, not every Tibetan Buddhist yogi is
a ngakpa, even if they wear white and have
uncut hair. In the Drukpa, there are togdens who
by tradition are fully ordained monks (gelong)
who live almost exclusively in retreat practicing
the six yogas, and by tradition they wear "go kar
chang lo."
This distinct robe is not a layperson's dress.
It is a separate category with specific symbolism.
Reason being that, for example,
ornament vows such as uncut hair or wearing of specific
rings are incompatible with monastic vows requiring shaved
heads and not wearing ornaments. Some Ngakpa communities
are flexible on these points, others are not.
In the Vinaya, the rules are very strict on the above points, definitely not flexible.
Since the Yogins are very much part & parcel of TB, their followers must understand the difference between them and the Bhikkus. Essential 101.
Yoga is a massive topic, as big as Buddhism itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga