Origins of Kundalini Yoga

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On 4/19/00 at 9:12 PM Harsha wrote:

 

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¤One of the 24 Jain Tirthankara's (Perfected and Omniscient

Sage in Jainism)

¤who lived around around 3000 years ago is always shown with

several serpents

¤acting as umbrellas and giving shade to his head.

Similarly, the Hindu Deity

¤Shiva is usually shown with a Serpent around his neck.

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¤Harsha

 

To my amazement, there is hardly any mention of a chakra that

could be called the chakra containing all identifications

(including "hard wired" ones like sense of touch and

breathing); I only found it in one book on Buddhism, stating a

"diamond cutter" was required to "cut" it. Anyway, this center

remains active, long after the descent of K. into the Heart.

As the Buddhist text is suggesting, the sensations at this

center can be more painful than at the others.

 

Jan

[Guest guest]

To my amazement, there is hardly any mention of a chakra that

could be called the chakra containing all identifications

(including "hard wired" ones like sense of touch and

breathing); I only found it in one book on Buddhism, stating a

"diamond cutter" was required to "cut" it. Anyway, this center

remains active, long after the descent of K. into the Heart.

As the Buddhist text is suggesting, the sensations at this

center can be more painful than at the others.

 

Jan

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Perhaps Jan you can mention some of your favorite Kundalini texts from

various traditions.

Harsha

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On 4/20/00 at 10:26 PM Harsha wrote:

 

¤To my amazement, there is hardly any mention of a chakra

that

¤could be called the chakra containing all identifications

¤(including "hard wired" ones like sense of touch and

¤breathing); I only found it in one book on Buddhism,

stating a

¤"diamond cutter" was required to "cut" it. Anyway, this

center

¤remains active, long after the descent of K. into the

Heart.

¤As the Buddhist text is suggesting, the sensations at this

¤center can be more painful than at the others.

¤

¤Jan

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¤ Perhaps Jan you can mention some of your favorite

Kundalini texts from

¤various traditions.

¤ Harsha

 

First of all I would have to admit, not having read any text

for the purpose of practice or study but to verify what had

happened to me and, more important, to verify what would be

ahead. In this respect the works of Jan van Reykenborgh on

Gnosis were very clear, not requiring any knowledge of

metaphysics. They are based on the interpretation of the NT as

a veiled story of K. awakening (birth of Jesus), the "death"

of the "I" (celebrated as Good Friday), the pristine awareness

that shines after the death of the "I" (Eastern), the natural

state of unbroken awareness (the ascent to heaven, Ascension

day). Not to mention the healing properties of the Holy Spirit

which today is practiced as Reiki...

 

Also interesting were some Tibetan works on the practice of

dream-yoga, the aim of which is to be aware of "who you are"

in all states of sleep as well, or to lighten even the darkest

corners of the mind.

 

AFAIK even Padma Sambava's biography can be read as a story of

awakening but I lost interest to "decode" it; without fluency

in Tibetan it is next to impossible. The Gilgamesh epic falls

in the same category, without fluency in Sumerian one comes at

a dead end; translations into English inevitably have lost

some of the original meaning.

 

I hope it is clear, from the above perspective the so called

Christian holidays are very intimate and celebrated only once

 

Jan