reply to Jan

[Guest guest]

Dear Jan,

 

Thanks for your response ....

> Probably for this reason the Buddha choose to

> describe the accompanying K. phenomena at

attainment of nirvana in such a

> way that it wouldn't make any sense "before",

only "after".

 

As far as I knew, Buddhists very openly and

precisely described such phenomena (ie.

Visuddimagga for instance) and labelled them as

merely preliminary stages caused by increased

power of mental concentration. They seemed to

unequivocally state they are NOT god, self, or

nirvana and do not belong to any god, self, etc.

They seemed to recommend merely noting the arising

and cessation of all such events without further

comment or concern because they are considered to

have nothing to do with nirvana or its attainment

(beyond indicating a certain degree of mental

focus which does not by itself bring liberation).

I have never seen any mention of Kundalini effects

whatsoever in the context of Nirvana. Can you

give me a reference here?

[Guest guest]

The title of the book was something like "Buddhist moral and ethics", the

writer the Ven. Saddhatissa (from Sri Lanka). The chapter of the book where

this is stated is called "the ultimate goal" and what is more, there are two

events where the phenomena occur: nirvana with substratum remaining and

nirvana without substratum. As my interest only concerned removal of the

substratum and the book in no way gave the idea nirvana is rare, Sri Lanka

was visited twenty-five years ago; many monks didn't know Ven. Saddhatissa's

and called the book a heresy because of the remarks concerning nirvana .

Finding the book will be difficult; it was printed during the fifties but

when I bought it, it was from an antiquarian bookseller.

 

The issue was interesting because Rosicrucians make no mystery of the fact

that the mystic union, union of Shiva and Shakti or whatever it is called,

isn't the end from the perspective of K. transformations. The end of

transformations is symbolized by the snake, eating its own tail.

 

Jan