tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84473456171747092272024-03-05T12:11:15.330-08:00rasa yoga cafe...rasa is the "elixir", the "alchemy", the "taste" or essence of any impression; the aesthetic experience in transcendence; the emotional fulfillment of the soul; the nectar of life:))Ashwin Pittihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16312567520482693349noreply@blogger.comBlogger1208125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447345617174709227.post-64528697299294660802019-10-16T22:52:00.004-07:002019-10-16T22:52:51.685-07:00Ardha Titli Asana (Half Butterfly)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">This asana specifically loosens up the thigh, hip, knee and ankle joints.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></span>Remain sitting with your legs extended out in front of you.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Fold your left leg and place your left foot onto the right thigh.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Place your left hand on top of the left knee.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Relax your whole body.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Now gently push the left knee up and down.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />While performing this movement, mentally repeat to yourself, “<i style="box-sizing: inherit;">I am loosening up my ankle, knee and hip joints and will eventually be able to touch the floor with my folded knee”.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></i>Move your knee up and down 25 times. After completing slowly straighten your bent leg without jerking or twisting the knee.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Then bend your leg, bringing your heel to the buttocks and then straighten it again, to release any muscular tension.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Now fold your right foot onto the left thigh and repeat the same process.</span></div>
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Ashwin Pittihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16312567520482693349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447345617174709227.post-4024233839181394662019-10-10T00:06:00.002-07:002019-10-10T00:06:34.443-07:00 Goolf Ghoornan (Ankle Crank)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first of the premeditative asanas loosen up the ankle joints.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Technique</span>Sit on your yoga mat, stretching both legs out in front of you.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Bend your right leg, placing your foot on the left thigh, as near as possible to the groin.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Hold the right toes with your left hand and your right ankle with the left hand.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Mentally repeat to yourself “<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am loosening up my ankle joints, and with practice, they will become loose”.</em>Simultaneously rotate your ankle 10 times clockwise and 10 times anti-clockwise.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Try to relax your foot as much as possible, rotating your foot about the ankle with your left hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now repeat the whole process, with the left foot folded on the right thigh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sit in siddhasana or Siddha yoni asana. Relax the whole body for a few minutes, bringing it to the point of absolute immobility. Now become aware of the natural abdominal breath. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Center your awareness on the movement of the navel as you inhale and exhale. Continue for some minutes. Now become aware that there are two forces traveling to the navel - prana, and Apana. One force (Apana) is ascending from mooladhara to the navel, while the other (prana), and is descending to the navel from above. They must both reach the navel at the point of full inhalation. When you feel that the two forces are meeting in the navel, perform kumbhaka, retention of breath, and then develop mental awareness of the single central point of force in the navel. Do not strain. Release the breath and continue this practice in your own natural rhythm.<br />The awareness of the two forces traveling and meeting in the navel center must be simultaneous.<br />Now, as the two forces are converging in the navel, gradually allow moolabandha to take place. Go on contracting moolabandha as you heighten your awareness of the force which is centered in the navel. Hold your breath for as long as you can, while centralizing the force in the navel and performing moolabandha. As you release the breath, release moolabandha as well. Do not strain. Go on go on practicing for 3 minutes or more. Practice this Kriya for at least 1 month.</span></div>
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Ashwin Pittihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16312567520482693349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447345617174709227.post-20872191546516380562019-06-10T23:23:00.000-07:002019-06-10T23:23:49.799-07:00a place of infinite silence...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I thought it would be useful to touch on how it begins. Before there is a person. I’ve covered this before in places like Deepest Being, but it can be useful to explore it with a different language.</div>
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Essentially, there is silence. The silence has 2 qualities:<br />
– alertness, which becomes what we call consciousness or the observer<br />
– liveliness, which becomes what we call experiences and the world</div>
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The liveliness stirs the alertness into awareness. Awareness becomes aware of itself, creating a process of observation. This process creates qualities we may call intelligence – direction, attention, and so forth. And that creates existence or the sense of being. (you’ll note from experience there is no sense of being unless there is also an observing)</div>
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In the primary reality, there is no space or time. Just this lively alert intelligence. Everything is experienced concurrently.</div>
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All those separate events you experience, indeed all lifetimes are just layers of attention in a timeless moment. Words are of course inadequate. To say layers implies space and time. They are not separate but rather interlaced shifts in liveliness.</div>
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In a similar way, all beings in a universe are just slight shifts in attention. And we’re not just talking about people, but all life forms. Like moving your eyes from one word to the next as you read this.</div>
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A slight phase shift and you have another universe of beings with a whole different set of experiences. Yes, a literal another universe.</div>
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Everything, everywhere, everyone, all in a moment.</div>
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We might think this is how God sees the world, but God also sees all possible ways of seeing concurrently.</div>
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For you and I, attention collapses to a point, a focus. Infinity becomes focused on a single wave or event. This attention on a point causes time and space to, as if, unfold from a point. The play of life appears on the screen of awareness.</div>
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Another way to see it is that when the observer steps in to see the observed, a “space” is created. When the attention is focused on events in space, we experience time. This awareness can go into detail and experience it fully. Know and feel what it is.</div>
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Some then get “caught” by this experience by forgetting how to disengage. How to step out of the focus. So we journey into the detail, then journey back out into the boundless. This is the evolutionary cycle.</div>
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Some physicists suggest there are other dimensions, rolled up very small. While I don’t agree with this, it is true that space and time themselves are both unfolded and rolled up, which may give the impression of alternate dimensions. The rolled up dimensions are not other dimensions but rather the same ones, seen from a different perspective. Or, seen another way, we are experiencing our current space-time, but all other non-current space-time is rolled up.</div>
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We can also see that people experience overlapping realities or a shared sense of the world because there is only one world. Indeed, there is only one ‘me’.</div>
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One can, of course, explore this from many angles and go into much more detail.</div>
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One interesting one is the idea of subtle memory, Smriti. We are essentially remembering by unfolding what is rolled up. Evolution, even life itself is a process of remembering.</div>
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It’s very fascinating to see that reality isn’t really there. In any way. The mind doesn’t like this much though. (laughs)</div>
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Ashwin Pittihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16312567520482693349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447345617174709227.post-16826148406103290662019-05-17T01:16:00.000-07:002019-05-17T01:16:33.869-07:00Vajra Mudra<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ashwin Pittihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16312567520482693349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447345617174709227.post-36461919697308982082019-04-29T23:50:00.000-07:002019-04-29T23:50:28.168-07:00Kundalini Yoga -- as Envisioned by the Ancient Yogis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One of the things you hear less about is the second thread. There is the white sutra coming in the top of the head, connecting you with the divine. And then there is a second, the more direct thread that enters the heart and joins the Sushumna there in a kind of T. That plexus or meeting of threads is a sort of super chakra, a spirit-driven one we call the soul. Where Shakti meets Shiva, Prakriti meets Purusha.</div>
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This is why devotional and other heart-based practices are so potent. They take advantage of the direct connection through the heart. It is also why the awakening heart is such a profound point on the journey, both the ascending opening of Love and the descending awakening of divine love.</div>
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Compassion dawns from the upper energy flowing into the heart, higher passion from the lower energy flowing up into the heart. Again, these are not practices but experiences when the flow opens.</div>
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Many other practices are mental or sensory (Gyan or karma yogi) or physical.(Hatha) Each has their best use and best times on the journey as the Purushas table illustrates, but don’t neglect that heart. <img alt="😉" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/11.2.0/svg/1f609.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /><br />
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The awakening process includes a number of components. The increasing connection with transcendent spirit, the clearing of those energy knots, the refinement of the energy system to support finer values of energy (higher resolutions), and the movement of energy into higher levels.</div>
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Some describe the energy moving up systematically, but for most, different parts open at different times. “Spiritual experiences” may be related to opening and movement of the upper 3 chakras, especially the third eye and crown.</div>
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The third eye brings us celestial and divine sight. The talents of seers and visionaries. The crown is our connection to the divine. Often prior to or with awakening, the upper 2 make a major connection. If this is sudden, it’s characterized by a brilliant flash of white light that absorbs everything.</div>
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This is the gateway to cognitions and profound knowledge not available through the lower centers. Some equate it with enlightenment, but again, awakening is not experienced. This is secondary to the process. Some people don’t get this stuff clear until much later, long after waking. Also, as a master once said, everybody can realize, not everyone will cognize.</div>
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Once the connection to the divine is established, the divine begins to descend through the centers. Adyashanti talks of Self-moving forward and absorbing the head, heart, and gut. As these are related to the ego, divine, and identity, they are also related to the 3 main higher states of consciousness.</div>
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Thus the evolution of enlightenment runs parallel to the descent of the divine.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“This direct relationship with God is first established on the level of Being and then comes to be on the level of feeling; from there it enters the field of thinking and then finds its way on to the sensory level of experience.”</em><br />
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi</div>
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The upper three are the spiritual centers. However, when the energy descends, it spiritualizes all of them.</div>
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One important detail here that I’ve seen presented a number of ways. Some describe chakras above the head, post crown. When this is first experienced, the divine can seem above the head, like more layers. But when this opens after awakening, the perspective shifts, and the upper chakras as if flip over and turn out to be another mirroring. (see below) The same 7 chakras are mirrored with divine versions, descending. Remember this is non-linear non-physical – it’s all about perspective and perception. How you’re looking.</div>
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So they’re not really separate chakras, but the divine energy is quite different and quite a bit higher resolution. In a way, they’re kind of concurrent spiritual chakras, overlaying the existing ones, like the bodies do above. If you had good experiences with the ascending openings, wait until you see what descending brings. Far more profound.</div>
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This little table illustrates how they might be numbered and how it folds. So we might count 7 or 12, depending on how we wish to look.</div>
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As this process deepens, the whole perception changes several times. The intelligence and intention inherent in anything or event happening becomes increasingly obvious. Events no longer appear as random but rather an orchestrated dance of astonishing complexity and perfection.</div>
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If one perceives this from a personalized perspective, these intelligent laws are perceived as ‘devata’, essentially what a westerner would call angels and fairies. Complete with personalities. (laughs)</div>
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When consciousness evolves, perception evolves with it. The perception of conscious intention shifts from an energy system into the flow or movement of consciousness.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“From the cosmic perspective, they are seen for what they are. The whole body is seen differently. Energy centers are seen as a flow of consciousness. It’s not even energy anymore.”</em><br />
— Lorne Hoff</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Becoming</strong> – <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Why Seven?</strong></div>
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From a place of infinite silence, alertness and liveliness arise. The liveliness stirs alertness into awareness and awareness becomes aware of itself. The observation of Self by itself causes the one to step into Itself, creating an apparent duality and the trinity of the observer, observation, and process of experience. This is the trinity you hear of in many faiths.</div>
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We could call them the first 3 ‘chakras’ of God. There are 2 further principles at work here. As above, so below, and mirroring. In other words, what arises within God is mirrored and repeated at successive levels of resolution.</div>
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This takes place within divinity, within creation, within the universe and within you. Thus when the sutra or intention descends, a bubble of awareness forms we call the universe, the 1 unfolds into 3.</div>
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The 3 are joined by the second thread connection at the heart, creating a fulcrum. The upper 3 principles mirror over the fulcrum into 7.</div>
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The 7 then found the various resolutions of our physicality described above. As mentioned before, the 7 chakras pre-exist the rest of the energy system and are the same ones shared by all life in the universe.</div>
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Again, the layers interpenetrate rather than them being stacked in a physical way. Like electrons, they are areas of probability, or rather a possibility. As they are mirrors, they are not separate either.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Closing</strong></div>
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This is a brief overview of a very large subject. There are a number of ways of seeing this, dictated by where you are standing and what quality of energy you bring. I cannot say my vision is complete or perfect in any way. But this is how I understand it now. I hope it’s shed a bit of light on the nature of your presence in the world.</div>
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Even the description itself here is of several ways of seeing what is not separate. There is only one of us, completely inclusive but expressing always.</div>
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Ashwin Pittihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16312567520482693349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447345617174709227.post-1463567320922224192019-04-24T22:54:00.001-07:002019-04-24T22:54:15.295-07:00Practical Understanding of Subtle Energy System.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Firstly, understand that biology responds to energy and light, not just chemicals. For example, the skin produces Vitamin D and tans when exposed to sunlight. Biologists have discovered individual cells respond to specific energy and light frequencies. Pay attention to the energy you’re feeding yourself mentally, emotionally, and physically.</div>
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If you look at depictions of the subtle body, they tend to show each body out wider than the previous. The physical, the etheric close in, the emotional aura, and the causal glow. But keep in mind the causal infuses all of them. The highest spirit “body” has no limits and interpenetrates all.</div>
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To give you a sense of how different chakras energy feeds a given area of life, here’s a chart. Keep in mind, these are generalizations. Again, this isn’t about doing direct energy work but rather being mindful of your active resistances so you can release them, thus allowing the energy to flow more smoothly.</div>
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<tr style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6</strong></td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;">Third eye</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;">Imagination / Gnosis</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;">Unbounded freedom</td></tr>
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A simple overview of what constitutes healthy functioning energy can be useful. Note that this is not so much about the quantity of energy as may be implied by “low” and “high”. That’s more just how we experience it subjectively. The actual mechanism is a balance of what are known as gunas – sattva, rajas, and tamas.</div>
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There is also no “wrong” energy here. This is about quality and balance, not good and bad.</div>
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A big reason for quality and balance issues is resistance, a need to do some allowing. The key with resistance is seeing it, so this is designed to help with that. If you tend to vacillate back and forth between low and high, perhaps this is an area needing balance. Sometimes, finding a balance is just a matter of shifting attention or focus.</div>
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Please don’t treat these as gospel but rather a general overview to give you a sense of it. Where exactly you hold the resistance can be misleading as acupuncture illustrates. An energy point in one place can affect the body in another. Thus you have a certain experience but store the holding elsewhere. Look to the resistance and let the holding release itself.</div>
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<tr style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;">7</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">connection with divine,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />open-mindedness, presence</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">closed mind, apathy,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />holding onto beliefs,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />spiritual cynicism.</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">disconnect from spirit,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />excessive attachments,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />living in our heads,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />even with spirit.</td></tr>
<tr style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;">6</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">intuition, lucid dreams.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />wisdom, vision,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />imagination.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />spiritual gifts</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">denial, Maya as covering</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">illusion. Maya<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />intellect alone</td></tr>
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<tr style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;">4</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">unconditional love and bliss,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />social and spiritual identity,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />empathy, accepting</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">Fear of intimacy,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />afraid to be vulnerable</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">A people pleaser, not<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />rock the boat, martyr,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />actor in the drama</td></tr>
<tr style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;">3</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">Disciple to stay balanced,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />confident, energetic,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />responsible, reliable,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />the rock.</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">Submissive, not<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />making choices for self.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Follower</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">Controlling,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />over competitive,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />dominating, hyper,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />showing off,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />always right.</td></tr>
<tr style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;">2</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">Passion for life, embrace<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />change, enjoy pleasure.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sexual satisfaction.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Ability to flow with life.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Graceful.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Emotional intelligence.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Spiritual maturity.</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">Avoid pleasure,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />fear of sexuality,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />lack of passion.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Emotional numbness,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Poor social skills,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />uncertainty.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Boredom & depression.</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">Too fast. Addictions<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(substance &<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />relationships),<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />obsessive attachments,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />emotional<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />dependencies.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Large mood swings</td></tr>
<tr style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;">1</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">Feel grounded, strong<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />physical and emotional<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />sense, physical health,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />comfortable in body, solid,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />live in now.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Order, cleanliness,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />prosperous, can sit still</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">Flighty, vague, maybe,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />restlessness, difficulty<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />manifesting</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">obsessing about health<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />and order, lethargic,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />always wanting,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />workaholic, hoarding,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />excess spending,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />resistance to change,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />fear and anxiety<br /></td></tr>
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Ashwin Pittihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16312567520482693349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447345617174709227.post-10630430975547435972019-04-23T22:48:00.000-07:002019-04-23T22:48:36.874-07:00Bhairava Mudra!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ashwin Pittihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16312567520482693349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447345617174709227.post-20641474017760262612019-04-23T00:28:00.001-07:002019-04-23T00:28:19.562-07:00Myths and Resistance.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One of the things you’ll run into is variations in chakra count. Some will suggest 5 or 9 or 14 or even 22. They may include the feet or other centers in the head, for example. This is because there are both major and minor centers, plus different ways of looking. Same reason the meridians are described a little differently than the nadis. It simply depends on how you’re looking and what you’re counting.</div>
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I describe 7 for several reasons. Primarily because this is the way creation becomes and using the principle as above, so below, it’s clear that this fits here. Also, unlike other chakras, the 7 are pre-created and are the ones met by the Ida and Pingala.</div>
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Towards the end, I describe why 7 in more detail. I also talk about how the 7 can be seen as 12 when divinity descends.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Myths</strong></div>
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The biggest issue is the idea that the kundalini energy needs to be pushed. From what I’ve seen, that’s a bad idea as you can cook your nervous system.</div>
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Secondly, it is through the spirit that we awaken, not through energy manipulation. It is perfectly possible to awaken before the kundalini is completely clear.</div>
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The better approach is to work on infusing transcendence and clearing our resistance. The Kundalini will rise naturally when sufficient purification and refinement has taken place. I’ll review that shortly.</div>
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I appreciate that there are whole systems devoted to awakening the kundalini energy. But there’s the big difference between techniques to clear and techniques to push. Kundalini may bring some flashy experiences, but that stuff can be a trap. In the original teaching I studied, these subjects were barely mentioned.</div>
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Some suggest the 7 states of consciousness correspond to the awakening 7 chakras, but this is not true. Self-realization, the 5th state, already involves transcending the 7th chakra. </div>
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Some suggest mind or ego or some other function is associated with a specific chakra. These are effects of a blend of energy, not a specific chakra. See above.</div>
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Some people describe the ascent of kundalini energy as a symptom of awakening. Really it is simply a symptom of awakening kundalini, rising prana in clearing channels. For some people, the clearing will be gentle. For others, there may be some big flash. That just means it cleared more suddenly. Many people will experience only minor energy events. Twitches, warming, and so forth.</div>
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Also, the chakras often don’t “flower” sequentially from the bottom. I know people that were more or less backward. It depends on where you may have been storing your resistance and where you give your attention. Some are clear above and blocked below, some the other way around. I discuss some symptoms or a little of how to tell in Part 4.</div>
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Some people may experience the energy “uncoiling” and rising the spine. Or simply a great deal of ‘fire’ in one area. But this is more about clearing. When the way is clear, it will flow smoothly.</div>
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It’s also important to understand that this is not just about clearing the main line. This is also about clearing the other thousands of energy channels. As with all growth and development, it’s not a tidy linear thing.</div>
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Some will suggest to you that you must conserve your kundalini energy because it’s limited in some way. Have sex, and it won’t rise to divinity. As I outlined prior, Hogwash. For one, kundalini is almost unlimited when it is clear. For another, it will flow easily from one to another use, especially if the channels are fairly clear.</div>
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The issue with sex or food or anything else is quality over quantity. You want to consume with quality and you want to avoid over or under stimulating yourself too much. Moderation in all things.</div>
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Posture is another one. Good posture is healthy for the physiology. But it has nothing to do with subtle energy. Remember, the main line is straight whatever position you’re in. Comfort, not strain is the way to peace.</div>
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Some describe the energy flow as being blocked. This is rarely the case. The flow is simply restricted. Like blood flow in clogged arteries. Has to slow down or go around. Creates friction. Not flowing smoothly and freely through us.</div>
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Some suggest the intersections of the Ida and Pingala created the chakras, similar to the way the others are by the meetings of nadis. And there is a way to see it like this, but the higher view shows the 7 coming in first and the Ida and Pingala twining because of them. I talk about why in Part 5.</div>
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I talk a lot about resistance on this blog. How we hold or push against our experiences. These holdings are stored “physically” in our energy system. Some describe them as literal knots in the nadis. We can even experience them like this, as lump-like knots in places like the shoulders. Those muscles are pulling tight from energy stimulation.</div>
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In Sanskrit, the word for such knots is Granthi. However, this is often used to refer to primary knots in the main sushumna, even to 3 primary places they’re found. As this varies by person and there are many secondary channels to clear also, this approach is an overemphasis on certain experiences. I’ve also found that major blockages are often between chakras, not in the vortexes themselves. No hard and fast rules here. But you may become aware of constriction, a crust, or some general muckiness to be cleared.</div>
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These knots can be formed for any number of reasons:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />– physical injury<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />– emotional traumas<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />– psychological resistance<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />– any kind of incomplete healing<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />– drugs can plug things up<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />– poor diet<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />– pretty much anything excessive<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />– pretty much any kind of avoidance<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />– stress<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />– resistant beliefs<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />– the ego and identity structures<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />– karmic carry-overs, known as samskaras or past impressions.</div>
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In other words, much of our baggage, history, and personhood is stored in our energy body. For most people, the bulk is held in the lower bodies but there are bits scattered all over. Some quite physical, some more subtle, like the identity.</div>
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One of the reasons people recommend meditation is because it offers the experience of transcendence. Another reason, and why I recommend effortless meditation, is that it brings deep rest to the physiology, allowing it to relax, to let go of the holding. This allows the nadis to unblock and the energy to flow freely again.</div>
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At one point, I thought of karma and stress as synonymous. However, karma simply means action. Stress is resistance, its opposite. However, the aspect of stress that causes us to repeat poor habitual behaviors is the mechanism that keeps us on what is known as the “wheel of karma”, the rotating cycle of repeating unresolved, resisted experiences.</div>
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We will have clearing taking place through any sort of healing process. Much of it will be like tiny shifts. But sometimes, we may feel tingling, heating or cooling of a specific area, muscle twitches and jerks, sudden brief intense emotions, and so forth. If a large blockage clears, we can sometimes feel discomfort while the cruddy energy moves out. That’s a good time to lie down for a few minutes to let any off feelings pass.</div>
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If you experience a sudden chakra opening, they can be quite powerful. Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi talks about the awakening 2nd. The heart being the seat of the soul and pure love can also be very profound. I’ll explore this more a little further on. Just be reminded that flash is not necessary and is not the important part. Flash just means contrast. Most flash arises because of a sudden change rather than a more gradual, smooth opening. That’s all.</div>
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After we do some serious clearing, there can be a sense of a lightened load, greater inner light, relief, more energy, and sometimes a sense of peace or happiness.</div>
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Ashwin Pittihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16312567520482693349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447345617174709227.post-73959960224314140472019-04-17T23:30:00.000-07:002019-04-17T23:30:37.558-07:00The Bodies and Energies.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bodies</strong></div>
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While all this energy moves about in subtle and gross channels, it creates what we think of as our “body”. But there is also what one might call field effects that interact with the chakra energies, producing what some call subtle “bodies”. Best way to think about it is that chakras are the roots of the divine in us and the bodies are those roots working at different resolutions. (I avoid using frequencies as that’s misleading)</div>
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The bodies are not the bodies of each chakra but bodies of a general resolution or level of density. The chakra energies work at all resolutions, although lower ones are more prominent at the denser energies and vice versa.</div>
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The Upanishads refer to these bodies or fields as the 7 purushas. The lower ones are sometimes called koshas or sheaths. Purusha is sometimes a term used to describe the one cosmic being or the soul or consciousness. In fact, there is only one purusha. But at different resolutions, it appears to be separate people with separate energy bodies. Simply put, the more consciousness is focused, the more localized it seems to be.</div>
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Sat leads to Sat Chit Ananda, full Self-realization.</div>
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Don’t get the idea that the bodies are separate. They are more like a rainbow of light, gradually shifting energies but with certain distinct qualities like the color bands. Each layer can be sub-divided into sub-layers in various ways, like a vital-mind overlapping mind with emotions. They also interpenetrate, so models calling for things like a physical-mental level as an awareness of the body is unnecessary as the mental body interpenetrates the physical.</div>
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[Update: recently ran into a reference to Chittamaya kosha and Atmamaya Kosha. These would not be recognized by some as they are typically seen as infinite, for example. However, in higher stages, even Atman is recognized as a kosha. ]</div>
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You’ll notice that ideas like “thoughts” and “emotions” occur at several resolutions. If you’ve had much meditation experience, you’ll recognize thoughts can be subtle or gross, as can feelings. What we call “mind” is a blend of energies.</div>
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There are a lot of other names for the subtle bodies, some I’ve used on this blog. A typical model is:</div>
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Physical</div>
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Etheric</div>
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Vital or emotional, sometimes called astral (widely abused term)</div>
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Mental or causal</div>
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Soul</div>
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In the above model, Annamaya includes the Physical and Etheric. Pranamaya is the vital/ emotional, and the higher mind would be the causal. There is clearly a strong relationship between the chakras and purushas, even if it isn’t directly 1:1. The Purushas are the divine flowing into form.</div>
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It’s less useful to call what’s above Anandamaya as a “body” as they’re not local. Bliss is on the edge of the “gap” or transcendent, placing anything beyond that pre-manifest. However, the soul body can be said to be the Purusha of the universe, sometimes called Hiranya Garbha or golden egg.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pranas or Energies</strong></div>
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Prana, life force or chi is another concept that’s almost universal. It is pneuma in Greek, ruah in Hebrew, mana in Polynesian.</div>
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Like the organs of action, pranas arise from the rajas guna of Prakriti. Yet prana itself is the energy that causes the gunas to move. Prana is the movement of Prakriti or nature. Prana is one but subdivides into 5 types. Prakriti itself is Shakti, the feminine aspect of God. Shakti might be defined as divine intention. We could also say prana is stirred by observation of Prakriti by Purusha. Purusha is Shiva, the male aspect of God.</div>
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Thus we can see pranas arise on the observed side whereas the purushas & chakras arise from the observer side. This is not a real difference but is perceived as such until well into unity.</div>
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Pranas are most dense in the Annamaya Purusha but most obvious in the vital body. Yet they operate in more subtle forms through the emotions and mind too. By the bliss body, it’s falling back into the source. It has the quality of air (movement) but can be seen to associate with other elements. Different pranas are also associated with general areas of the body and generally associated with a chakra. When they flow freely enough, they rise in volume up to the Sushumna, and one has “kundalini experiences”.</div>
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<tr style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" width="39"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Prana</strong></td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" width="55"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">function</strong></td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" width="103"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">use</strong></td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" width="90"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">movement</strong></td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" width="53"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">element</strong></td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;" width="46"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">chakra</strong></td></tr>
<tr style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;">Prana</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;">breathing</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;">assimilation, primary life force</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;">forward, inward</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;">air</td><td style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;">heart</td></tr>
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The different pranas create the different organs and aspects of the physical body. There is an association in the table with the mentioned elements and chakras, but this is generalized. Some further differentiate sub-types, such as 7 pranas in the head.</div>
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Some people can see the flow of prana as auras, especially the Samana prana. These are typically aspects of the etheric and vital bodies. Some people can see or “sense” deeper purushas although I’ve not corroborated which sorts of glows (golden, white, etc.) correspond with which purushas.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“A yogi, perfectly understanding Prana, and who can control it, would have control of the universe. All nature would be under his control.”</em><br />
— Charlie Lutes</div>
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We’re built of energy and divine bodies, flowing through a point of observation. Next, we’ll explore how Myths and Resistance fit in.</div>
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Ashwin Pittihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16312567520482693349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447345617174709227.post-51180828560623595812019-04-16T00:32:00.001-07:002019-04-16T00:32:04.203-07:00Understanding your Energy System.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the west, we’re brought up with a conceptual model of ourselves as physical beings who think and have emotions. Mind and feelings are typically seen as effects of physical functions. We are the side effects of a machine, victims of our biology as Bruce Lipton would put it.</div>
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However, if you do any internal exploration, you quickly discover that such a model doesn’t work very well. For example, your thoughts dictate your action and your experience having free will. How could this arise from effects? Soon it becomes apparent that the model is inside out.</div>
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When if you do any browsing for better models of life closer to your experience, you find various models of mind, energy, and spirit. A disjointed jumble of ideas like chakras, kundalini, auras, and astral travel. Not much to build a sense of reality on.</div>
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The most important thing to understand is that we are what observes. This is far more important than what we experience. What we experience arises from who we are, so that is the key. Knowing the container is better than knowing the content. But unless our experiences make some sense, we’re much less likely to relax into the observation of how we experience and see who we are.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Our Energetic System</strong></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“It is from prana (life force) that everything proceeds.”</em><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />— Chandogya Upanishad</div>
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Lifeforce, prana or chi is the energy that drives our expression. That causes our form to become. On the surface, we know this as breath, electro-chemical nervous system impulses, and our heart. Tha-thump. More subtly, this is a movement of subtle energy. More subtly still, a movement of light. And yet more subtly, it is the flow of lively intention, the movement of attention. In other words, prana is the flow of consciousness. Including your very breath.</div>
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Our subtle energy moves through a fundamental structure that is the same for all beings. It begins with intention. We are intended. The intention has the form of direction, what mathematicians would call a line. In ancient Vedic texts, it’s known as a sutra or thread. A perfectly straight white thread.</div>
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On this thread are 7 energy vortexes, essentially 7 values or qualities. Same energy, different functions. These energy vortexes are typically called chakras, a term that means wheels. The main channel between them is known as the Sushumna.</div>
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If you are unfamiliar, the 7 chakras are:</div>
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There are 2 secondary channels that run alongside the Sushumna, looping up the spine and intersecting at the 7 centers. One is called the Pingala and is associated with the male and left brain. The Ida is feminine, right brain.</div>
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The Ida and Pingala are often portrayed as entwined serpents. The Caduceus of Hermes symbol used in Western Medicine (originally Egyptian) illustrates this. Because they loop through the chakras, a correct illustration has 7 points of contact, including the tails and heads. The Sushumna, Pingala, and Ida are the 3 primary nadis or tubes.</div>
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The energy that flows in these channels is called kundalini. Kundalini is a blend of pranas, not a separate thing as is often portrayed. It’s also worth noting that Chakra energy is not prana. Chakra is the divine flow into expression, prana is the flow of nature. Kind of the male and female sides. I’ll touch on this more shortly.</div>
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Some refer to the Pingala as the basis of the parasympathetic and the Ida, the sympathetic nervous system. The Sushumna is the basis of the central nervous system.</div>
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From these primary nadis, a whole series of other channels branch out. The nadis are said to be formed by the flow of energy or prana. At key points of intersection, secondary chakras form – shoulders, elbows, hands, feet, and so forth.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Among all these nadis, 72 thousand are important. Of these, 100 are the principle. And of these, three are particularly significant. Of these three, the most important is the Sushumna, which extends from the base of the spine to the crown of the head.”</em><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />— Swami Muktananda</div>
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Nadi’s are what the Chinese call meridians, although they focus on them slightly differently.</div>
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In western medicine, when nerves, arteries or veins interlace with each other, that point is called a Plexus. Almost a hundred such plexuses have been named in the human body, but the four primary nerve plexuses are the cervical, brachial, lumbar, and the sacral plexus, reflecting the chakras. These are also associated with the endocrine or ductless glands. These physical plexuses have their foundation in the subtle energy system or nadis. The nervous system does not mirror the Nadi system, but rather the energy of the nadis (prana) creates channels that guide the formation of the entire physical body.</div>
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Some of the most misleading information around chakras is all the stylized artwork you see around. Typically, you’ll see each chakra a single tidy color in a progressive rainbow, with the heart green in the middle.</div>
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This is not what the chakras are like. They are whirling vortexes of multicolored light, just like some aura pictures you may have seen. The thread extends up through the chakras and out the top of the head.</div>
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They are also equidistant and in a straight line, irrespective of the position of your body. Remember, we’re not talking about physical objects.</div>
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Another way people describe chakras is as flowers with each center having a progressively larger number of petals, the crown having a thousand. The chakras can be seen as 3 levels. The center is the vortex we’ve been describing. Slightly forward is a very flower-like expression that opens with giving attention. Outward flowing.</div>
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Behind the vortex is a similar structure, but flatter. Like a disc. It balances the flower, connecting to the flow, almost like a root.</div>
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We can also see various other aspects, like a vertical donut around the heart, a descending cone around the 2nd, crusts or caps on the tops of restricted centers, and so forth.</div>
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It’s worth further noting that there is only one set of 7 chakras in our universe. We all share the same 7 centers. Including all other life forms like plants, insects, etc. Each individual is just a personality, a variation on the single expression. I’ve described how we see our lives collapse into the moment and how all beings can collapse into the same. This is shifting to the more divine view where all is concurrent and timeless.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“If one could reach the subtle vibrations, one could see that the whole universe is composed of subtle vibrations; the whole universe is seen as an ocean of thought. In the ocean of thought, we exist as whirlpools of individual thought.”</em><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />— Charlie Lutes</div>
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