04-15-2008, 12:00 AM
Hi Vrill,
"Tumo practices, or inner heat. Tumo is usually given to ascetic yogis and people on retreat. ... To keep the from freezing to death? I haven't been
given any of those practices.. "
My teacher sited these practices and mentioned that they were a matter of opening the spleen chakra for heat.
Not the fire of Kundalini which he was adamant about as an energy from outside our bodies reached far above our heads and which comes down through the body
turns at the base of the spine and rises. Then the fun begins.
Touching with the Serpent Fire is touching with Power. It changes the body. Like a refiner's fire the Bible says. It is not for everyone.
"Means are suited for different people for specific circumstances, but they don't address the root of the problem.
So how do we address the root of the problem, which is the Foreign Installation, Ego, the notion of a separate self?
Many means can lead to this revelation. But in my opinion, in a nutshell, we are separate. If we believe we are, we are.
It is only through seeing reality from a higher perspective do we realize that there is a "place" we can reach where we are not separate.
To reach this "place" is to realize Oneness. In order to reach this place we must separate ourselves from our ego to a certain extent and be still.
No judgement, no pre-concieved notions. It's kind of a catch 22.
That is the Biblical meaning of Repentance or "a changing of the mind." As my teacher used to say, "you must unlearn everything you thought you
knew."
Any spiritual experience however small helps us in this unlearning process. There is more "out there" than what everyone agrees upon.
It is the invisible things that are eternal and so, more real. Contemplating these things is a life time of growing in that direction.
There is no end of the process as far as I can see.
"This book de-constructs the notion that we have a separate Self in a series of visions, dreamings. It uses a number of logical arguments to perform the
deconstruction process."
The Sermon on the Mount is another as are all the teachings of Jesus and the inability of mankind to follow the Old Testament Law. So are Don Juan's
precepts. They all have one thing in common.
They paint you into a corner. In that corner you will find your inability to accomplish what you are trying to accomplish. That is the end of yourself.
True humility,...
..which is what you were trying to reach in the first place, ...isn't it?
A paradox.
"Tumo practices, or inner heat. Tumo is usually given to ascetic yogis and people on retreat. ... To keep the from freezing to death? I haven't been
given any of those practices.. "
My teacher sited these practices and mentioned that they were a matter of opening the spleen chakra for heat.
Not the fire of Kundalini which he was adamant about as an energy from outside our bodies reached far above our heads and which comes down through the body
turns at the base of the spine and rises. Then the fun begins.
Touching with the Serpent Fire is touching with Power. It changes the body. Like a refiner's fire the Bible says. It is not for everyone.
"Means are suited for different people for specific circumstances, but they don't address the root of the problem.
So how do we address the root of the problem, which is the Foreign Installation, Ego, the notion of a separate self?
Many means can lead to this revelation. But in my opinion, in a nutshell, we are separate. If we believe we are, we are.
It is only through seeing reality from a higher perspective do we realize that there is a "place" we can reach where we are not separate.
To reach this "place" is to realize Oneness. In order to reach this place we must separate ourselves from our ego to a certain extent and be still.
No judgement, no pre-concieved notions. It's kind of a catch 22.
That is the Biblical meaning of Repentance or "a changing of the mind." As my teacher used to say, "you must unlearn everything you thought you
knew."
Any spiritual experience however small helps us in this unlearning process. There is more "out there" than what everyone agrees upon.
It is the invisible things that are eternal and so, more real. Contemplating these things is a life time of growing in that direction.
There is no end of the process as far as I can see.
"This book de-constructs the notion that we have a separate Self in a series of visions, dreamings. It uses a number of logical arguments to perform the
deconstruction process."
The Sermon on the Mount is another as are all the teachings of Jesus and the inability of mankind to follow the Old Testament Law. So are Don Juan's
precepts. They all have one thing in common.
They paint you into a corner. In that corner you will find your inability to accomplish what you are trying to accomplish. That is the end of yourself.
True humility,...
..which is what you were trying to reach in the first place, ...isn't it?
A paradox.