Samaya

…On Tuesday evening, Samaya and Stella, two housemates from Uganda, were at home in West Belfast when they heard some noise outside.…

…It's part of the range of meanings that the word Samaya has these days. And I don't call that a misuse of the word. It's simply using it in the sense of commitment or promise. There is, however, another quite serious misuse of the word as an argumentative ploy. In this case, it often turns up as an attempt to coerce agreement with a certain point of view.…

…For the practitioner, this is going to lead to cognitive dissonance, where they try to think too... incompatible things at the same time. And for the Lama, it paves the way to potential abuse. The word is also used in a lightweight sense. For instance, you might hear people saying something like, Oh, I have a Samaya to say mantra XXX at least 108 times a da…