Prana, one experience

[Guest guest]

Chris went away to India and came back acting like superman. he had

been a slacker. he went away to india for six weeks and came back --

he could do advanced yoga and seeme dutterly serne, on top of

everything and really balanced. so he taught a class just for friends

in a group apartment, focusing on getting us into a few poses and

basically i imagine having not been to india in thsi life...that he

was taking us through an abreviated version fo what we were being taught.

 

it was cool to watch angie but her forehead down to the floow from a

seated position -- in fact it was breathtaking.

my previous experience had been with nichiren sho shu mantra

meditation. in 1977 the nichiren people were here in philly and there

were a few little temples.

 

i know what the syllables in japanese all mean now. but at age seven i

was just able to get away...i mean it is among the best memories of

life for me PERSONALLY. (need to stress that word...personally.)

 

in meditation i was really able to go to another plave. if i read the

syllablesnow i have to repeat them a few tiomes befiore i feel a

really divine effect like i am climbing an inward, and upward ladder.

 

 

so anyway: that was the seventies. chris taught us these lcasses for

about six weeks in the mid nineties, and oyur little fellowship

scattered as happens. i studied taoist yaga ideas, from Charles Luk's

books and chuangling al huang's embrace tiger, return to moutain. i

still don't feel that i know a lot. but i know there is a great river

that is formed of tributaries all over asia that meets in a central

place where all the energy transcends language and is One.

 

the prana experience was like this

 

sort of napping laying on my side in a foetal position.

 

in daoist yoga there is this idea of an inward infant -- a 'golden

child' or something..standing for youth eternal.

 

i lay there and i felt what was cool and clear and at the base of my

skull.

 

on purpose i describe it at once as

 

teh sound "ooh"

or a blue wind inside my head. it was VERY cool and it was INSIDEmy head.

 

i had been reading that week from caraline myss book about kabala and

chakra theory on Spirit. and i lay there on teh couch and i felt thsi

not cold but definitel cool wind, inside my head. and i know that

itwas prana.

 

i think everyone feels it all tehtime but they tune it off. i have

learned as patanjali teaches that siddhis are something not to worry

about as seeking them can distract one from the seeking and attainment

of bodhi-citta or awakened heart so invaluable for true enliughetend

realisation.

 

 

but...i believe that we are all "attained" and tune it out so that we

can be in the world - teh 'saha' as its called -- the desert of

materialism we all know. but it wa slike i forgot that i was NOT

attained and suddenly there it was.

since then i have studied reiki privately and of course the goal is

healing of self and others -- and being able to do so at will . it

goes on.

 

ja ne

tenji 888