Buddha, heavenly hosts and Sahaja Yoga - why Buddhists monks not practice the same?

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shriadishakti , "francesyfp" <francesyfp> wrote:> > reading your website i came across something in regards to all the > heavenly hosts and deities meditating the exact same way sahaja > yogi's meditate . I was wondering why i haven't heard any > references to meditation at all, much less of this sort in various > religions holy books? IS this something just brought to the earthly > realm in 1970, or has this technique been around for far longer? > I'm assuming since Buddhism was based on the teachings of > meditation by buddha (excuse my ignorance if i am wrong), then so > would the style of meditation practiced by buddhist monks. IF that > is the case and buddha was observed meditating like a sahaja yoga > in the kingdom of God within, then why do the buddhist monks not > practice in

the same fashion and probably know very little about > kundalini awakening or anything taught in sahaja yoga?> > Thanks> > Dear Frances,The Sahasrara Chakra (Kingdom of God, 1000-pettaled Lotus, Dsam Dwar, Niche of Light) was opened by the Adi Shakti on 5 May 1970 to facilitate and rapidly advance the state of Self-realization. For the first time the Shakti has incarnated in the form of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi who has the power to instantly activate the Mother Kundalini (initiate spiritual rebirth). It then rises from the Mooladhara all the way to the Sahasrara.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hundreds testify to feeling the Cool Breeze after Kundalini awakening. This self-verification is the foundation on which the Adi Shakti stands and declares that the Age of the Last Judgment and Resurrection has begun. Sahaja Yoga is a daily experience of the Spirit within.

 

 

 

 

 

The proof of Kundalini awakening or birth by the Spirit that Lord Jesus talks about is the vibrations felt over the Brahmarandhra, hands and feet. Tens of thousands of SYs are experiencing them day and night on a 24/7 basis. But most so-called kundalini gurus will refuse to believe this is possible. As far as they are concerned it takes many rebirths, literally hundreds, for the Kundalini to advance from the Mooladhara to Sahasrara, and achieve enlightenment.

According to Manuel Bauer "Tibetan Buddhists believe it takes millions of rebirths to reach enlightenment. But the Kalachakra-Initiation promises a shorter way. Would one understand the tantric knowledge connected to the God Kalachakra it would be possible to escape the painful circle of birth and death to nirvana within a lifetime. These teachings attract huge numbers of devotees. In deep meditation they try to visualise themselves as an enlightened Buddha. To help with the visualisation monks from the Dalai Lama’s Namgyal Monastery in Dharamsala construct in many days of concentrated work a Mandala made from coloured sand powder. In historical Tibet the secret Kalachakra-Initiation was given only a very limited number of times. But His Holiness the Dalai Lama decided to teach the

knowledge more frequently to help the desperate situation Tibetan Buddhism is facing since the Chinese occupation of its homeland."Even among Buddhists there are different meditation methods. There are many techniques that have been developed over the centuries in different parts of the world to calm and clarify the mind. These methods can be grouped into several categories. You can see that even though Buddhism is based on the teachings of meditation by Buddha, the style of meditation practiced by Buddhist monks differ:

 

 

The Use of a Mandala - Tibetan Buddhists use very elaborate sacred pictures of transcendent Buddhas to overpower their everyday mind and thus encourage the Pure Mind to reveal itself in meditation. Yoga meditation often uses a lighted candle to focus the mind and achieve the same result. A mandala is any sacred image used to invoke the calm deep mind of the practitioner.

 

The Use of a Mantra - Transcendental meditation is based on giving individuals an ancient sacred sound to penetrate through their analytical mind into the Buddha Mind underneath. Mantras are also used in Tibetan Buddhism and yoga as meditation tools.

 

The Use of a Koan - Certain kinds of Zen Buddhism use a paradoxical riddle as a focus for meditation. This koan is an aid to setting aside the logical mind in favour of the deeper intuitive mind that can understand the riddle spontaneously.

 

The Use of Positive Affirmation - Insight Meditation of the Theravadan School of Buddhism uses the repetition of affirmative statements to lull the every day mind to sleep, thus allowing the deep mind to take over consciousness.

 

Watching the breath - A well known type of Zen meditation instructs the person to simply pay attention to their bodily sensation of inhaling and exhaling. By giving the conscious everyday mind such a focus, the underlying Deep Mind of Buddha is experienced.

For enlightenment Tibetans are told to meditate and visualize themselves as Buddhas, with a mandala to aid them to 'see' better. Christian Gnostics meditate differently from Muslim Sufis, Sikh gianis from Hindu sadhus. All have one thing in common - this trial and error to attain enlightenment is all based on conflicting dogma, not a verifiable experience. None were able to enter the Kingdom of God and attain enlightenment till the Shakti incarnated Herself as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi and opened the Sahasrara Chakra on 5th May 1970. Prior to that little was known about this spiritual realm within humans. Even scriptures have mentioned so little about the Sahasrara. Yes, Frances, it is true that this method of meditation is "something just brought to the earthly realm in 1970." That is why you "haven't heard any references to meditation at all, much less of this sort in

various religions holy books."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

 

 

 

 

 

“Today we are celebrating the opening of the Sahasrara. On this day I must say it was a Great Happening that took place on all the humanity. It was such an achievement, which I never realized before. Now I can see that without Self-Realization it would have been impossible to talk to people. Then this happened! I thought that how I will talk to people about it because no one would understand Me and it would be a big mistake on My part to say something about Sahasrara because even about Sahasrara nowhere in the scriptures something was described. It was absolutely an ambiguous description

I would say where people could not even have thought there is a realm beyond Sahasrara, and one has to enter that realm where is the Reality. That time what I saw around Me was darkness and unless and until there are many Lights, people will never realize that how important it is to have Light.”

Shri Puratana DeviYou Dissolve Into The Divine Power Adi Shakti Puja, Cabella, Italy — June 9, 1996

Puratana (801st): Primordial or Ancient.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Today is a great day for us, for all the Sahaja Yogis that on this day . . . the Sahasrara was opened out. It was just a miracle I should say because I didn’t think that I am at a point where it could be done. So I wanted to wait but some things happened that made Me think that it had to be opened. It was in such a situation that I felt if I delayed it anymore now it may help these false gurus to spread their nonsense all over.”

Shri Kundalini DeviTo Achieve Complete Freedom, Sahasrara Puja, Cabella, Italy — May 7, 1995

Sri Kundalini (110th) — Resides in sacrum bone of every human as Divine Energy i.e. Power of Holy Spirit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

 

 

 

 

 

“If one considers the absurdity and the implications and the after-effects of many otherwise apparently rational conclusions, one has to say that rationality, though we are very proud and boast of it, it is not such a responsible vehicle for wisdom. In view of the unreliable results of applied rationality, it is clearly wrong to have such firm ideas and beliefs based solely on rational theories. There is no final answer to fundamental questions through the use of rationality alone, because discussion shows that each view might be partially right. One definitely

cannot say that this one is fully right and the other is fully wrong. In our wisdom, we must understand that the Truth in effect is absolute and not relative or variable as we commonly experience it, like the six blind men (a Jew, Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist and Hindu) describing an elephant from six different angles: one, holding the trunk, says: "It is long like a snake."; another, feeling a leg, says: "It is massive like a tree." Each has a very firm and indeed justified faith in the correctness of what he has found, but each contradicts the other, because each has only a partial and relative view.Shri Saksi-vajrita

Saksi-varjita (385th): None to witness Her. This is the final stage of realisation beyond turiya state called turiyatita. This is the state of complete oneness without any duality.

There are just countless teachers — priests, pastors, reverends, bishops, popes, rabbis, clerics, imams, mullahs, shaikhs, ulema, ayatollahs, gurus, swamis, pandits, brahmins, acaryas, bhagwans, granthis, gianis, lamas, monks, dalai lamas — who have a smorgasbord of methods to meditate, pray, chant, sing and dance to enlightenment.Apparently the Dalai Lama, like his predecessors, have yet to met the Buddha in his own 1000-pettled Lotus within. Neither have any of the priests, pastors, reverends, bishops, popes, rabbis, clerics, imams, mullahs, shaikhs, ulema, ayatollahs, gurus, swamis, pandits, brahmins, acaryas, bhagwans, granthis, gianis, lamas or monks. The Buddhists have as much knowledge of the 1000-pettaled Lotus as Christians have of the Kingdom of God within. Muslims know as much as the Regions within the Souls as Sikhs can tell you of the Dsam Dwar (Tenth

Gate) or Hindus of the Sahasrara Chakra.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Impressed devotees in presence of the Kalachakra sand Mandala

 

 

 

 

 

What i am trying to say is that centuries-old entrenched ignorance prevail and change is not possible in the near future. It is going to be very difficult, especially among the older generation who, indoctrinated over decades, will find it almost impossible to accept change. In the first place the vast majority discard, even disdain, other holy scriptures and their messengers. Take a look at these Tibetan devotees at photo above left who believe the Kalachakra sand Mandala will liberate them in this lifetime, rather than taking millions. Apparently the Dalai Lama has discovered/devised a 21st century short-cut stairway to moksa and this 'discovery' has become an instant hit for obvious reasons. i quote the Buddha Dharma Education Association:"The Kalachakra Initiation is generally given over 12 days. First, there are eight days of preparation rituals, during which

the monks make the mandala. Then the students are initiated, after which they are allowed to see the completed sand mandala. The ceremony ends when the monks release the positive energy of the mandala into the everyday world through a final ritual.

The Tibetan word for initiation is wong-khor, which literally means giving permission, or granting the authority to practice the Tantra. The person conferring the initiation is known as the ritual master or Vajra Master, because the vajra is the ritual implement that cuts through illusion and represents the indestructible mind. Since the tantra itself lives through direct transmission by the Vajra Master, the initiation fulfils the Vajra Master's pledge to pass on the tantra without diminishing it in any way, always for the benefit of all sentient beings.

During the initiation, the student makes a similar pledge to respect and uphold the teachings. In this way the student enters into the lineage. Students may choose to take on different levels of commitment. One who maintains the commitment to a conscientious daily practice will achieve greater results, and the lineage will be strengthened. Or, the initiation may be received simply as a blessing.

The student, by generating himself (or herself) as the deity, is introduced to new mental patterns which help him to abandon old, destructive conditioning, thus bringing him closer to the experience of the bliss consciousness of Kalachakra.

Many beautiful objects are used in the Kalachakra rituals. The thekpu is the special house where the mandala is built. There is a brocade throne where the Vajra Master, in this case His Holiness the Dalai Lama, sits to give the initiation and the altar to the Kalachakra deity contains elaborate offerings and ritual objects. Large silk tapestries of the Buddha, Kalachakra, and various protector deities are hung around the thekpu, the throne, and the altar.

On the first day of the ceremony, a representative of the students requests that the Vajra Master give the initiation, and he consents, showing his great compassion for his students. Next the Vajra Master asks the local spirits for permission to use their home. Usually the spirits at first do not want to cooperate so to appease them, the assisting monks perform the Dance of the Earth, making symbolic gestures with their hands and feet. The prayers, music and dance subdue all interfering spirits.

After the dance, the Dalai Lama receives permission to proceed with the ceremony from Tenma, the earth spirit, on behalf of all the local spirits. The mandala will house many of the thousands of deities found in Tibetan Buddhism during the ceremony. Symbolic daggers are now placed around the mandala site to protect it. All the objects to be used in the many rituals must be blessed by the Dalai Lama, including the string that is used to draw the mandala and the coloured sands.

To begin the drawing, the ceremonial string is dipped into liquid white chalk. Holding one end taut, while an assistant holds the other end, the Vajra Master plucks the string, and the chalk falls onto the platform to make the first lines of the sand mandala. Each time the Vajra Master plucks the string, the snap sounds a blessing from the Buddha for the construction of the sand mandala. It takes two days for all the lines to be drawn, the mandala design at this stage looks like an enormous blueprint, seven feet in diameter.

On the third day, water mixed with a special spice, saffron, is scattered on the lines of the mandala; with it, the Vajra Master rubs out certain lines on the mandala blueprint, opening the entrance ways for the 722 deities who will reside in the mandala during the ceremony. In order to enter our world, they need a clean and pure place to stay. Grains of wheat are also placed on the mandala at this time, representing cushions where the gods and goddesses are invited to sit.

Making three parallel lines, the Dalai Lama then puts the first grains of red, white, and black sand near the centre of the mandala. These three lines represent the body, speech and mind of the Buddha. Then the monks continue to apply the sand. Just memorising the hundreds of symbols in the Kalachakra mandala design and learning how to apply the sand takes at least two years of intense study. Starting in the middle and working outward, they use a long serrated funnel called a chakpu to create the detailed designs. When two chakpus are rasped together, the coloured sand flows out evenly and smoothly in a thin stream onto the mandala. A wooden scraper called a shinga is used to straighten the lines and to fix any errors.

When the mandala is finally completed sacred vases are placed around it. The sides of the thekpu are covered with curtains so that the mandala will not be seen before the proper time. The Dalai Lama thanks the spirits and deities for their cooperation by making offerings to them. The monks play sacred music with bells, gongs, drums, and huge twelve foot horns. They also do a dance of celebration that lasts an hour and a half.

On the ninth day, after the Dalai Lama and the monks finish their morning prayers and meditation, the students arrive for the first time. Those who wish to be initiated into the practice of the Kalachakra teachings take a vow to have compassion toward all living things, to work for the benefit of others, and never to reveal the secrets of the mandala.

The students are each given two stalks of kusha grass, because the Buddha was sitting on kusha grass under the Bodhi tree when he became enlightened. The students are told to put the long stalks of kusha grass under their mattresses and the short stalk under their pillows. This will help the students to remember and study their dreams that night.

The next day after some preliminaries, the actual initiation begins. After the students have made pledges of good behaviour, the Dalai Lama asks Kalachakra to open their eyes. Each student has received a red blindfold to place over his or her forehead as a symbol, since the students are not yet spiritually ready to see the sand mandala, and they now remove their blindfolds, symbolically removing the darkness of ignorance. They are now prepared to 'see' the mandala.

Next, the Vajra Master gives the students what are called the Seven Childhood Initiations. These initiations will help students to be reborn during the ceremony as ideal persons fit to enter the perfect world of the mandala. Each initiation corresponds to a significant event in the life of a child. The seven initiations represent a child's receiving a name, having a first bath, getting a first haircut, first experiencing the five senses, getting pierced ears, saying a first word, and learning to read.

After the students have been 'reborn' by completing the childhood initiations, they may enter the ideal world of the Wheel of Time - the universe of enlightenment, ruled by the deity Kalachakra. They can now view the mandala. The Kalachakra sand mandala shows the 722 gods and goddesses as well as the palace in which they dwell. The four faces of the deity named Kalachakra are also pictured. To represent his faces in the mandala four wedge-shaped areas of colour are used, within the circle. A blue-black wedge, or face, at the bottom of the picture looks east. The red face looks south. The white face looks north. The orange or yellow face at the top looks west.

If you envision what the mandala looks like from the deity's point of view, inside the mandala at its center, the deity's black face looks forward, his red face looks to his right, his white face looks to his left, and his yellow face looks backward. There are representations in the mandala of 721 additional deities, as well as animals, flowers, and jewels. The palace of Kalachakra, where the gods and goddesses live, is the largest square within the circle. This building has five levels, and each level consists of a square with four walls. In the middle of each wall is an entrance. In order to reach the most secret central chambers of the palace, initiates must travel through the maze of squares. Each square represents a different aspect of an enlightened being.

The mandala appears to be flat, but you can use your imagination to picture it rising up three-dimensionally toward its lotus-flower center. To trace the path of enlightenment, you enter the black eastern doorway from the outside of the building. You will find yourself on the first level of the palace. This level is called the mandala of the enlightened body. Halfway inside the body mandala is another set of four walls and an entrance. When you proceed through the entrance, you have reached the enlightened speech mandala. Halfway inside, there is another set of walls and entrances where you will discover an even higher level called the enlightened mind mandala. Halfway inside the mind mandala is a square platform that represents the enlightened wisdom mandala.

Once in the wisdom mandala, you will find another square platform. This is the highest level of the palace, the enlightened great bliss mandala. Within it is the eight-petalled lotus, at the centre of which stands the deity Kalachakra embracing his female counterpart, Vishvamata, the All-Mother. Together they symbolise full enlightenment, the union of wisdom and compassion.

Throughout the mandala there are many other identifiable symbols. Twelve animals, located on the lowest level of the palace, are associated with the twelve months of the year. Each animal supports a lotus flower where thirty deities are represented, symbolising the thirty days of the month. And around the entire palace lie circular bands representing the ancient elements: yellow for earth, a white band with waves representing water, salmon red for fire, gray for wind, and finally the outermost band, representing space and consciousness. With the Vajra Master guiding their minds and inner eyes, the students become authorised to enter into this perfect palace. But to become enlightened, the students will first have to work hard to perfect their techniques of meditation and their compassion toward all living beings.

In the last part of the ceremony, the Dalai Lama says prayers, thanking the 722 deities for their participation and requesting them to leave the mandala and return to their sacred homes. He removes the sand that symbolically represents the deities, then cuts through the mandala along its original wheel-shaped lines with a ritual implement. The sand is brushed toward the centre of the platform and then the monks put it into urns and transport it to a nearby body of water. With chanting and more prayers, a ritual assistant empties the sand into the water, and the perfect peace of Kalachakra flows with it into the everyday world. The mandala, now gone from view, remains forever in the memory of all who entered its perfect realm.

Though the philosophy of the Kalachakra is at the highest level of Buddhism anyone can use it at any time. This philosophy urges us to reach a splendid, pure inner world while still living in our imperfect, earthly one, using Kalachakra as a model. For example, a pure body comes from healthy eating and not smoking, drinking alcohol, or taking drugs. Pure speech means not gossiping or saying unkind things about others. A pure mind is trained away from angry, hateful and selfish thoughts. Once each of us purifies our body, speech and mind, we can find inner peace. When we have inner peace, at last it is possible to experience the state of bliss, or perfect happiness."

Sources: The Wheel of Time Sand Mandala: Visual Scripture of Tibetan Buddhism by Barry Bryant, HarperCollins; Learning from the Dalai Lama: Secrets of the Wheel of Timeby Karen Pandell with Barry Bryant, Dutton.

But who will tell them and the monks that Shri Buddha was observed meditating like a Sahaja Yogi in the kingdom of God within and that they also should practice in the same fashion? Who can tell them that a revolutionary method of Kundalini awakening has enabled the Shakti's devotees to "reach a splendid, pure inner world while still living in our imperfect, earthly one", and www.adishakti.org provides irrefutable proof of this feat for all to cross-examine.But why empower captive devotees to self-liberate themselves in this lifetime when they form the base of your religion that survives by excluding, and being different from, all others? i mean Buddhists are indoctrinated to be liberated by their traditions and not by any other religion, scripture or prophet. The same applies to all priests, pastors, reverends, bishops, popes,

rabbis, clerics, imams, mullahs, shaikhs, ulema, ayatollahs, gurus, swamis, pandits, brahmins, acaryas, bhagwans, granthis and gianis. Salvation is only reserved for their people through their religions and, of course, an exclusive god. That is why the Shakti has arrived to end the vice-like grip of these religious organizations over the masses by announcing the Great Event ordained for all humanity.Then we have SYs trying to promote Sahaja Yoga without linking it to the religious traditions of the seekers. They have been doing so for more than three decades and all their Self-realization have not brought forth wisdom to change their approach. Even Shri Mataji has told them that Sahaja Yoga synthesizes all religions. Yet SY leaders and coordinators just do not have a clue. Hundreds of thousands have left because they see Sahaja Yoga as just another meditation to improve health by balancing chakras. SYs still do not regard that scriptures and traditions are vital to promote

Sahaja Yoga since their overwhelming emphasis is on the subtle system, not the Last Judgment and Resurrection. As far as they are concerned just a few random quotes will be sufficient to attract seekers. And still they wonder why 99% leave almost immediately. Few SYs want to admit that modern internet-age seekers are far more intelligent and demanding, especially when thousands of gurus/professionals sell the same subtle system. Questions are asked on this forum because here you discover that Sahaja Yoga, unlike the official watered-down version, resonates to your religious background and upbringing. Till SY leaders and coordinators understand this simple observation the world will know very little of Shri Mataji's message as to why kundalini awakening (second birth) is absolutely necessary to enter the Kingdom of God (Sahasrara Chakra) to attain eternal life (moksa) during the Last Judgment (Satya Yuga). That, Francis, is why Buddhist monks still do not practice in the same

fashion and probably know very little about kundalini awakening or anything taught in Sahaja Yoga. And neither will any seeker for the matter.i did not become a devotee of the Divine Mother to learn about the subtle system - any guru can teach this mundane stuff. Hope you will slowly understand the Sahaja Yoga of the internal mystical Kingdom of God, not external priestly subtle system rituals.jagbir

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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shriadishakti , jagbir singh

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> Though the philosophy of the Kalachakra is at the highest level of

> Buddhism anyone can use it at any time. This philosophy urges us

> to reach a splendid, pure inner world while still living in our

> imperfect, earthly one.

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" In these Modern Times, in the evolutionary process, we have reached

the state of human awareness. This human awareness can work through

its thinking, rationality or conditioning. Many modern poets have

described them as " the Calls of Freedom of the Self. " But what if

one can rise to a higher dimension of awareness? Why not open our

hearts and minds to the unique discovery that has been revealed for

this vital ascent?

 

The Kingdom of God that we were promised is at hand. This is not a

phrase out of a sermon or a lecture, but it is the actualization of

the experience of the highest Truth which is absolute, now

manifesting itself in ordinary people at this present moment. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi