Grounding.. Containment.. Relationship

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Dear everybody,

The real power is in Truth, Compassion and Humor

I like that the Native Americans referred to "GOD" as Wakan Tanka

(sp?) or the "Great Mystery". That really nails it on the head for me.

It's right there in front of me.....no chance of getting too serious. If

I do get too serious then I have created isolation and maybe even

martyrdom (which is false courage). I am now perhaps quite lonely and my

only choice is to be alone. To be truly "alone" and not lonely I need

to rely entirely on the infinite for my support. In that aloneness I am

surrounded by the love of the Great Mystery. It's an unconditional love

with lots of Prana coming in and flowing out. Now can I contain and

sustain that? Is my nervous system capable of such a feat in all it's

complexity and permutations? Our egos may lead us to believe that we can

and GOD is surely laughing out loud (but we don't hear) as He/She/It

always does. Yoga and lots of meditation will help us un-attach by

showing us how attached we are (the truth shall set us free). Sometimes

that's too and maybe that's why falling in love is so much fun.....we

get to let go and be out of ourselves, anyway.

I am reminded how in 1977, I believe, the Salt Lake City ashram was

doing everything perfectly...4am Sadhana, nothing but kitcheree 6 days a

week and only wheat berries on Sunday. Well Yogiji came to town and made

everybody go and have pizza and spaghetti and cokes and stuff. The point

was to shake things up 'cause folks were getting way too serious. It is

such a blessing to have a spiritual teacher like Yogiji. A spiritual

teacher is an emergency brake. We can't be trusted to apply the brakes

ourselves or even know when the proper time is. Maybe that is why the

highest yoga is marriage. We get to learn to speak AND to listen from

our inner reality to our connection externally with the appropriate

amount of energy. Prana in proper proportion. It makes no sense to go

rabbit hunting with an elephant gun. We have to listen through all our

senses and when we are well grounded in them, our intuition (how GOD

speaks to us) kicks in in a balanced way and we are in the flow of the

Great Pranic body beyond out little "tanned, leather bag". Little prana

merging in the Bigger Prana. "Content, Contained and Continuous"

 

Ho,

Jai Wakan Tanka

Dharam

 

 

 

>saurabh gupta <safame20

>Kundaliniyoga

>Kundaliniyoga

>Re: Re: grounding and containment

>Thu, 14 Feb 2002 21:46:42 -0800 (PST)

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>dear preeti,

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>sorry cannot stop myself from replying allthough I

>tried not to but because somehow u r different from

>others in this group. I have to reply to U. U wrote in

>your own words

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> "I'm not alone and not doing too badly for a

> beginner!:"

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>Well first of all U have to know that u r alone. This

>is the truth it may scare u hurt u but truth is not

>affected by your belief or disbelief your emotions or

>feelings. U r alone preeti. Belive me accepting this

>will bring u comfort and peace. Give up the idea that

>any person Whether GK or me or anybody can help u. It

>is u only u who can help u to be free. Because in

>reality u r not bound. It is the mind clinging to the

>walls of concept let go of these walls. Let go of the

>fear that u if u leave these walls u will fall. U will

>fall into eternity itself.

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>Secondly when u think u r doing bad, not bad or good.

>It is not freedom. Freedom does not involve doing or

>anything. Just let your mind fall into silence this is

>enough. When practices starts meditation starts u r

>not really free. To be really free u should be silent

>in what u do (REMEMBER THE SILENCE I TALK ABOUT IS Not

>about talking or not talking or spontaneous activity

>wont harm u) what I mean is do a thing by knowing that

>u r not the dooer. So come out come out of these

>foolish concpets while in this life.

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>love

>saurabh

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