A transformation of consciousness

Lead me from dreaming to waking. Lead me from opacity to clarity. Lead me from the complicated to the simple. Lead me from the obscure to the obvious. Lead me from intention to attention. Lead me from what I'm told I am to what I see I am. Lead me from confrontation to wide openness. Lead me to the place I never left, Where there is peace, and peace - The Upanishads

*note* every now and then..as cruising the 10 realms of the universe..I find a pearl..shinning..like a thousands sun they shine,this is how I find them..now..this guy is good.His name is Mr. Eric Mitchell(Sukha), Jhana Teacher

(got his name not from his site,but from this link ..he never gives up his name..but I found him..Am I good or what?..love the mahayogi! ..so great and so humble..I love myself!!!)

1. Any way..as I was saying...he is a true pearl. All my life I was waiting for a true buddhist to explain jhana in yogi terms,and in advainta terms...you see..if I do buddhist meditation is useless..since my kundalini is already up,and there is no meaning ..that's why I like this kind of hardcore meditators like Eric Mitchell.This guy meditated for over  40 years...we have to respect that...and that's why I post some wisdom from him(careful..this guy is real...)
2. But I dedicate a song to Eric before I'll post his wisdom...
4. Kisses to him,in the sound of silence...
5. And a poem..Eric my good man/see the shadow,surely you can/it is right between your eyes/you go up..then eat french-fries/
6. So much for my poem..nobody could understand it anyway...kisses:)so spokenth the mahayogi,while kissing Eric between his eyes...(the Sukha..as he wants to be called..why anybody would want to be called Suck-ha is beyond me..but anyway..must be some meaning for Eric Michell..but the name sucks)_added by danny 

Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence.

"Fools" said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach to you."
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
in the words that it was forming.
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets

are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls."
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence

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How to Become a First Stage Arahant

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What is the “Stream”? When you enter the first Jhana several changes occur.  Primarily the gross material form of the body is transformed into it's essential nature, which is felt as bliss and pleasure. There is liberation from the fetters caused by the perception of a gross material body.  The scholars and the believers love the body/mind, and not knowing the “Stream”, only have empty words and methods. The Jhana practitioners experience and know the Stream of bliss and pleasure. They abide there and have no need to quote scriptural references for what they know is happening in their life.  They can feel the Stream in themselves and see the “Stream” in others.  

When the gross  material body is transformed by  First Stage Jhana, the body becomes full of bliss and pleasure. Bliss, or Rapture, is a quick flash of ecstasy somewhere in the body. Pleasure is the steady blissful feelings throughout the body. These feelings are the result of the transformation of the gross material body cognition.

First Stage Jhana is also a transformation of consciousness.  With this transformation the nature of consciousness begins dissolution into it's essential nature. When this happens the light of the essential nature begins to appear within the consciousness of the individual, and the awareness  expands into that light.  Without Jhana transformation there is no light exuded from the body.  With Jhana there is transformation and a corona of light begins to  form around the head.  Sensitive individuals and fellow Jhana practitioners are able to see the presence of the corona, providing the evidence of initial Jhana.  This light is the Stream of divinity, from which all stages of the Arahant depend.

When the awareness expands into the light created by Jhana, the practitioner also experiences changes in the limits of the mind and body.  Sometimes people feel that the edges of the physical body have melted or dissolved into the air. They may feel an energy at the edges of their body, or feel the physical form has expanded into the air. Sometimes people feel that their consciousness has expanded beyond the edges of their head. They may feel themselves outside of their head moving into the air around their head. Many people feel they are behind and above their heads. Because of this expanding light and new awareness, they may get psychic impressions, visions, and experiences.  This are the results of Entering the Stream of Buddha's light.

The First Jhana is relatively easy to enter, but is rarely done. This is because of our complete dependence and attachment to thinking, mental images, and knowledge. The power of delusion created by knowledge and thinking is virtually inexhaustible, and the dream world of the mind is the greatest danger for Jhana Stream Entry.

Whenever you try a meditation method, you will find that they activate thinking, thus enhancing the very thing they say is the problem, so the methods never produce Jhana Stream Entry.  Soon the method devolves into a system of thoughts, images,  and directed day-dreams.  Let me give an example. A Vipassanna teacher says to follow 5 precepts to begin calming the mind, then spend 3 days watching the breath to control an unruly mind.  This immediately shows they are activating the mind with their method. If they experience an unruly mind, and need 3 days of watching breath to help, they are on the wrong path and have activated the mind, mind consciousness.

You can deactivate the mind in a second, if you don't use thinking consciousness. Listen to some soft music carefully, becoming engrossed in it, and you will discover your thinking has gone by the wayside. You are still conscious, but the thinking process is deactivated. Thinking is not unruly! It is only unruly, when you use the mind to calm the mind. Then it is very unruly, because you are forcing the mind into action.  For instance, have you ever been engrossed in a TV program, and found yourself saying, “Oh my mind is so unruly, I cant watch TV”? Has an artist ever said, “My mind is so unruly that I can't paint?”  I think not.

So why is there this passion for thinking.  Within thought is the image of Self, Me. This is the passion, the passion for replaying the image of Me and world, which is embedded in each thought. For the artist, he gets lost in his work. He forgets himself as he creates. As he creates, he does not have an unruly mind. When you are on vacation and see incredible vistas in the distance and feel awe, you are not plagued by an unruly mind, but when you sit down to meditate and activate the mind, suddenly you have an unruly mind. This is not meditation. It is thinking.

So if you are serious about understanding Buddhism and the spiritual results of Buddha Jhana, you will give up this game of the mind trying to overcome the mind, or the ego attaining some altered state.  There are 6 consciousnesses: eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind.  The mind consciousness is the least usable for meditation as it makes images and dreams, is the source of ego, and is too dynamic and changeable. Any other consciousness has less problems. The mind, thinking, can create the delusion that it is conscious of itself. The mind accumulates memories of it's investigations into itself. Then the mind creates a dream, a gestalt, of what meditation is. In that dream of meditation, is created the delusion that you are aware of the mind, have gained and continue to gain knowledge of the mind. This is why this method fails, why it is so popular, and why it always fails to produce any liberation.

Hearing can not create the delusion that you can hear hearing. You simply hear. Seeing is automatic, the eyes function, but there is no seeing your seeing. You simply see. Feeling is just feeling, and does not develop the delusion that feeling is feeling feeling. You simply feel. This is why mental meditation is so dangerous and so popular. The ego is enhanced, nothing is lost, we remain in control, and we feel comfortable with our knowledge, but we are lost in delusion, and nothing changes.

Moreover, what is it that causes the transformation of consciousness back into light?  The artist has stopped thought and become engrossed in eye or ear consciousness, but he does not enter Jhana.  Eye consciousness does not transform eye consciousness. It is light which transforms consciousness, just as a shadow disappears when light is shined upon  it, or the darkness of a room disappears when the light is turned on. It is this light which creates the corona around the head of a person who enters the First Stage Jhana and becomes a First Stage Arahant, as the body image is transformed from materiality into a vapor or cloud, just as the sun's light penetrates the clouds in the sky.

So First Stage Jhana is a simple, natural process when done correctly, when the mind is not activated, and knowledge is not sought. This light is already operating continually, just as the sun is always shining. What creates the shadow of materiality is the mind activating and creating the image of gross materiality. This light would normally illumine the vaporous clouds and penetrate them, but the mental fabrications create a three dimensional dream world and we ignore the light and believe and enhance the dream. It is as if on a cloudy night, a huge searchlight is pointed at the sky and the only clouds are seen everywhere.

Your life is just this process. The light is always illuminating and penetrating the clouds of the world. This illumination is the concept we call life or existence. The cloud of this human machine and it's 6 consciousnesses are made visible by this light.  The five sense consciousnesses are analyzed and evaluated my the mind, which generates a three dimensional dream world vision, in which you  exist as a body/mind individual in a colorful world with space/time. The knowledge of this world vision is so powerful, that we wholeheartedly believe and think we live there. The light allows visibility of the cloud of this human machine, and the mind generates it's own space-time me-world dream. This is life. It is also the dream of death, reincarnation, heaven and hell.

So where is this light, how do we get to it and allow it to vaporize consciousness, and allow us to become a First Stage Arahant? In a seriously real looking dream, it will be difficult to define clearly what is outside the dream world, but there must be some clue.  The clue is very faint but it's result is your attention or focus, but this is still part of the dream. More refined is your ability to witness, and even more refined is your Intent. The words are difficult to find which will allow you to see the exit strategy to the dream world.  But in my experience, Intent is a fairly accurate description. Intent comes first, then illumination or light, which is the ability to witness, which gives visibility to the machine-like world.  These events happen long before consciousness occurs, so don't try to be conscious of them. They happen before the dream world is created.

This is where it gets crazy.  Mara, the meditators and intelligent teachers of meditation, who have mind dream activating techniques, will read this and say to themselves, “Yes, this is what I am already doing and teaching!” They will incorporate these ideas into their dream world as soon as they hear it and agree. They will juxtaposition time so that they think they already see this happening in their meditation in the past. The ideas may become part of their standard teaching jargon. This is the power of delusion, Mara. Yes, I believe Mara, who has destroyed Buddhism before, will again try to destroy Buddha Jhana again.  Luckily the light of Jhana will be visible to those who have entered Jhana, and there is hope.

Recently I saw a meditation teacher speaking incredibly well about meditation and Jhana, as if he had great experience. He had a Phd and was very intelligent.  Then I saw him meditate, and all he did was grind away with his mind until the left side of his head started to bulge out and looked like it might explode.  His students did the same thing.  While he talked Jhana, and quoted the Buddha Suttas well, the game was the same, activating the mind and pressuring the brain for insight and knowledge. Thus no light engulfed his consciousness, and no Jhana developed. First Jhana people can see Jhana light in others, and will know whether a teacher is cleverly parroting ideas or has entered Jhana. The power of Mara and delusion should not be encouraged, I think.

So lets take an example of Intent, witness, and attention so we can get some hint of how it operates. Blankly stare in front of you. Pause and wait, staring blankly. Suddenly one object is chosen  without you doing anything. This is Intent. If you watch closely, at that moment of Intent there is no consciousness of anything. Then illumination occurs creating visibility and witnessing occurs. Consciousness has not yet arrived.  Your eyes move to whatever object is witnessed. Attention and focus occur, and over the next second or two knowledge slowly builds and then consciousness occurs.  You now have the feeling of you seeing an object and you have identified it with knowledge.

First Jhana requires this cycle to break after attention and focus, at a minimum, before knowledge builds and consciousness occurs.  The eyes may move involuntarily and First Jhana will not be disabled. In this example we will use body consciousness to allow Jhana.  This does not exclude ear, eye, nose, tongue consciousnesses in that order of preference, but as the first Jhana described by Buddha is creating ecstasy in the body, he is using body consciousness, or feeling as the doorway.

 1.So completely relax the mind and body, and
 2.Begin witnessing the feeling of the air in the  nostrils.
(a)We are short circuiting everything after the witness.
(b)Your eyes may move in that direction involuntarily, but don't try to look, just witness the feelings blankly.
 3.Relax the breath, and witness the feelings.
(a)The feelings start to change and enhance
(b)The feelings becomes more sensitive. Maybe they are hot, cold, dry, but it becomes more sensitive.
 4.Relax and Witness the pleasure feeling.
(a)Soon the feelings generate a pleasurable feeling. This is the doorway.

When you witness feelings of pleasure or rapture, you have opened the door. The light of illumination has converted some small part of consciousness from materiality into it's true nature. Now we are ready to continue into Jhana.

 1.Witness the head, gently mixing pleasure with the head. (3 times)
 2.Witness the right shoulder, gently mixing pleasure with the right shoulder. (3 times)
 3.Witness the right arm, mixing pleasure with the right arm. (3 times)
 4.Witness the right torso, mixing pleasure with the right torso. (3 times)
 5.Witness the right leg, mixing pleasure with the right leg. (3 times)
 6.Witness the head, gently mixing pleasure with the head. (3 times)
 7.Witness the left shoulder, gently mixing pleasure with the left shoulder. (3 times)
 8.Witness the left arm, mixing pleasure with the left arm. (3 times)
 9.Witness the left torso, mixing pleasure with the left torso. (3 times)
 10.Witness the left leg, mixing pleasure with the left leg. (3 times)
 11.Witness from the head to the base of the spine, mixing pleasure from the head to the base of the spine. (10 or more times)

Each step of this process is to be repeated, until each step produces rapture and pleasure in that part of your body.  The rapture and pleasure experienced should be very extreme, such that you may find it difficult to sit, stand, or keep your eyes open. You may need someone to read it to you.

You should soon feel the edges of the body melt or expand, and you may sense the self just outside the head as the witness expands into the corona of light around the head. Many such feelings can happen. If you get nothing from the technique, you have activated the mind somehow and are thinking, not witnessing. If you followed the instructions carefully, relaxed, and broke the connection after the focus/attention and a spontaneous eye movement, only witnessing the feeling, you will get rapture and pleasure in every part of your body spontaneously.

Now you have entered the First Jhana, and to confirm your accomplishment, you should find a Jhana teacher who can see Jhana and confirm your light of Jhana and to what extent it has expanded.

Now the advanced question needs to be answered. Have you entered the First Jhana or are you a First Stage Arahant. You have Entered the Stream of Buddha Light, but do you have the attainment? Have you graduated?  It is like going to someone's house for dinner. You had great food and feel satisfied. If you left the house after eating, you have visited the First Jhana. If you stay in the house, and can always be satisfied, and never leave, you are a First Stage Arahant.

May everyone find great happiness and success.


My best,

Sukha

How to love Sucka?..nobody knows,but me,the mahayogi!

To us all towns are one, all men our kin. Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill. Man's pains and pains' relief are from within. Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !. - Tamil Poem-

The kripto makes me crinkle my nose:)

Lead me from dreaming to waking.

Lead me from opacity to clarity.

Lead me from the complicated to the simple.

Lead me from the obscure to the obvious.

Lead me from intention to attention.

Lead me from what I'm told I am to what I see I am. Lead me from confrontation to wide openness. Lead me to the place I never left, Where there is peace, and peace - The Upanishads
*note* nice video from Colbie Marie Caillat quote"Colbie Marie Caillat (born May 28, 1985) is an American pop and country singer-songwriter and guitarist from Malibu, California. She debuted in 2007 with Coco, which included hit singles "Bubbly", "Realize", and "The Little Things"."
This song,Bubbly quote""Bubbly" is a song by American singer–songwriter Colbie Caillat from her debut album, Coco (2007). Written by Caillat and Jason Reeves and produced by Colbie's father, Ken Caillat, the song was released as the album's lead single in May 2007. It remains Caillat's biggest hit single in the USA to date, and their only one to reach the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100."

Now..this is a song about the soul meeting the power within..the spirit..and feel it's kripto joy,see?..the problem is that she still THINKS it's something apart from herself,when in fact is the source of herself...this is a serious problem for all the yogis whom discover the Tao...but then..have no fear,kripto's here to explain you...after I bite your nose,of course..kisses:)then you'll realize that the one whom has bitten your nose was you,all the time.

Spoon Matrix - Celebrity bloopers here

Thus spokenth the mahayogi:)

-added by danny-

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Bubbly lyrics


Will you count me in..


I've been awake for a while now
You've got me feelin like a child now
Cause every time I see your bubbly face
I get the tinglies in a silly place


It starts in my toes
And I crinkle my nose
Where ever it goes I always know
That you make me smile
Please stay for a while now
Just take your time
Where ever you go


The rain is fallin on my window pane
But we are hidin in a safer place
Under covers stayin dry and warm
You give me feelins that I adore


It starts in my toes
Make me crinkle my nose
Where ever it goes
I always know
That you make me smile
Please stay for a while now
Just take your time
Where ever you go


What am I gonna say
When you make me feel this way
I just........mmmmmm


It starts in my toes
Make me crinkle my nose
Where ever it goes
I always know
That you make me smile
Please stay for a while now
Just take your time
Where ever you go


I've been asleep for a while now
You tucked me in just like a child now
Cause every time you hold me in your arms
I'm comfortable enough to feel your warmth


It starts in my soul
And I lose all control
When you kiss my nose
The feelin shows
Cause you make me smile
Baby just take your time now
Holdin me tight


Where ever, where ever, where ever you go
Where ever, where ever, where ever you go
Where ever you go, I'll always know..

To us all towns are one, all men our kin. Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill. Man's pains and pains' relief are from within. Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !. - Tamil Poem-

Your mind becomes so crispy clear...beyond beliefs says kripto

Lead me from dreaming to waking.
Lead me from opacity to clarity. 
Lead me from the complicated to the simple. 
Lead me from the obscure to the obvious.
Lead me from intention to attention. 
Lead me from what I'm told I am to what I see I am. 
Lead me from confrontation to wide openness.
Lead me to the place I never left, Where there is peace, and peace - The Upanishads

*note* Just for fun..I tried the random post "Try a random POST...you feel lucky today?..the post will answer your question!!"..guess what I got?..my own beloved poems!..told you I put magick in the process...believe it or not!..and the first poem is this...Beyond Beliefs..I love my poems,because all of them were written for certain persons I met..if you want a poem,write me,and I'll do one just for you...

kisses

-added by danny-

-Beyond Beliefs-

Sahaja yoga is just bliss

The inner joy,the one you miss

Sahaja yoga is above

The petty struggles..it's just love

It doesn't make you drink more beer

Your mind becomes so crispy clear

It is above the confrontation

It is about emancipation

It is your spirit shining though

Your heart,your eyes..your fingers too

It is with self a love affair

You breathe the joy ,not only air

You are a rainbow butterfly

You raise your wings..and go high..high..

You are alone and yet collective

Whatever you do..you're protected

You are reminded who you are

The God Almighty's sparkling star

My dear friend,the life is short

Don't let your soul become too old

Just feel the sunshine..it's not cold!!

Beyond beliefs..open your eyes

To inner kingdom's paradise!!!

To us all towns are one, all men our kin. Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill. Man's pains and pains' relief are from within. Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !. - Tamil Poem-

If I had a million dollars:)

Lead me from dreaming to waking. Lead me from opacity to clarity. Lead me from the complicated to the simple. Lead me from the obscure to the obvious. Lead me from intention to attention. Lead me from what I'm told I am to what I see I am. Lead me from confrontation to wide openness. Lead me to the place I never left, Where there is peace, and peace - The Upanishads

*note* interesting song I found..if I had a million dollars...lovely..listen,I'll explain a couple things here:

1..all are mental projections(the whole universe)

2...the only difference between your mental projections and the universe is that you don't realize the unity of it,otherwise you'll be creating universes also

3...you already ARE creating your universe..on a small scale

4..what YOU believe and imagine and put energy on it..either becomes true,or becomes friction between your truth and the others truth(and here I mean the personal,collective,global,universal,universes,and beyond...)..but is not the conscious ego whom projects,but your subconscious...so if YOU want REALLY..really to know what you've being projecting,just look at your life.Remember that what you don't know inside yourself,not only it manifests outside,but it might bite you.This is what I call ,,division,, in being...if you believe that your life itself depends of your ,,imaginings ,, and,,power of now,, concentrations...think again.Life never needs you,but you need it...really..do NOT confuse the imagination with power.

5..first of all..you are here to experience..experience what?..this is the question I've asked when the truth was revealed to me,the mighty kripto mahayogi...when I went,,poof,,..in the light,and I was the light..and I was everybody..time and space and this and that were gone ...and me and you were gone,baby..gone like the coyote on the god's playground..and only light was..trust me.

This is a true story which completely changed me...when I passed my hand of light thru the tree..and the tree and the forest was me..as light...I started to laugh so hard that the gods trembled in heavens..believe me..THE UNIVERSE TREMBLED

...in awwww..couple weeks after that I could still see the people as shadows...light was inside them,and the shadow was their soul...all empty..you have no idea of the pain I feel when I see shadows ..that time I knew what Jesus was feeling...and I recalled a passage from the bible,,My people are lost for lack of knowledge,,..but imagine that pain when you are everybody...story of my life!!.be aware that I am the only mahayogi in sahaja yoga tradition to report a material de-dublation( yes..I made a double of myself)..and they were so scared(my father) that he called the tv station saying I have appeared in flesh...talked to me..then I was gone...they were really upset about it..what a bunch of empty souls....all I did was energy-matter transfer ...why you ask why?..because I wanted that's why... why ?..you thought you are the body matter?..you ARE the pure spirit I say...believe the mahayogi..and that is a matter of concentration,not realization of your true being..believe me ...when I see masters show powers I want to puke..for none of them did what I did..show me your powers,punks!all are illusions anyway,but do what I did...then we talk...I even met a guy named Bill Bodri (from meditation expert site)and he didn't recognize me..I talked to him in emails and he was really not respectful at all ..I was explaining him about Tao and he was busy explaining me that is Not tao...what was the point of even talking to him,I pondered....not even trying to know..since he knows everything...only one man and woman did...are you the one,my friend?..time will tell,indeed..
Imagine if I can do this in the body,remote or astral is a joke to me..ponder,grasshoppers...kisses:)

6..You are here to experience yourself..remember that the power whom created the universe is in you..to know you are loved is the mark of faith..to know you are the love is the mark of being(realization)..to know you know is the mark of mahayogis..

7..ponder about this..and meditate..you are a speck of dust,but you have the power of creation..you are on earth..that rotates around the sun..that rotates around the galaxy..that rotates around the universe...that universe rotates around other universes..ponder..what can 1 million dollars change the fact that you are not happy..now..in this present ?

8..look inside...inside you...is the spirit..why don't you believe me,the mahayogi?..I tell you the truth..I tell you are a powerful,lovely..beyond imagination being....the idea is that you TOOK the separation as truth...for love is one...and is unity..ponder..grasshoppers....!! .you find your own guru inside ,says the mighty humble kripto!

9..if you know what I'm saying..you figured out the secret of life itself...and I will love you forever..otherwise....I will love you forever in my book  ..is it called,,The love book of kripto sage,written on the year of the Wisdom Muscle,on the 3th day of fasting on carrots,,..long name,but read the book..is on Amazon.com

10..I love you..always did...in the 3 realms(and there is no other realms,other then matter,form,and formless ..believe the mahayogi..I tell you the truth.(well...the 3th realm separates in 10 dimensions..but that should not bother you...stay in this realm for now)

11..there is one more realm,the Nirvana..but I am not there,so I can't explain about it..but I assume is a vibratory consciousness in the 3 realms..when I get there,I'll tell you.But even IF I'd be there I won't tell you,for how many grasshoppers could want it?..all they want is food,survival,power and sex..and a nice coffin when they drop dead...whom wants the Nirvana?..I have busted my wisdom muscles to explain to the grasshoppers in this blog the secrets of the universe..what do I get?..then again,whom SAID that I'd need anything?..maybe I should just close this blog,and leave you all alone..see if you find a wiser guy then me on the net..but for the sake of the grasshoppers I will be here.If it was for me..I'd be gone,baby..gone like the wind..but the secrets must be explained,see?..so I will do my best..ok?

12..kiss..thus spokenth the mahayogi

-added by danny-

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To us all towns are one, all men our kin. Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill. Man's pains and pains' relief are from within. Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !. - Tamil Poem-

Edgar Cayce says ,, Not only God is God, but self is a part of that oneness,,

Lead me from dreaming to waking. Lead me from opacity to clarity. Lead me from the complicated to the simple. Lead me from the obscure to the obvious. Lead me from intention to attention. Lead me from what I'm told I am to what I see I am. Lead me from confrontation to wide openness. Lead me to the place I never left, Where there is peace, and peace - The Upanishads

*note* nice article form John Van Auken,about Edgar Cayce He also wrote a nice article about the 7 churches of revelation of John. . in that post,looks like Van Auken explains that''In Patanjali’s arrangement, the crown chakra is the highest center in the body, the kundalini having risen up the spine, moved through the brain to the brow, and culminated at the opening of the crown. In Revelation 3:11, the Spirit actually mentions the “crown” in reference to this center. In Cayce’s arrangement, the energy flows up the spine to the base of the brain, then to the center of the brain, where the pineal gland is located. Stimulating the pineal opens this crown chakra.''
If we fully awaken this center, then the Self promises to make us “a pillar in the temple of My God” and we will “never go out from it again.” The Spirit will also write the name of God, God’s city, and the Spirit’s new name upon us.
Opening of the crown chakra is also associated with experiencing the Holy Spirit. How did the Holy Spirit appear among the disciples? In the form of tongues of fire on the tops of their heads, above the soft spot. The event is described in Acts 2:2-4: “Suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent, rushing wind, and it filled the whole house. There appeared tongues as of fire and it sat above each one of them. And they were filled with the Holy Spirit.” Prior to this experience, at the Last Supper, Jesus breathed the Holy Spirit upon the disciples and explained, “The Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send ... he will teach you all things.”

In the early times of the Hopi, legend says that some of the people strayed and stopped cooperating with the Creator. Others remained loyal and at-one with the Creator. To these the “Great Nephew” appeared, telling those that were still seeking to cooperate and that they were to be a Chosen People to inhabit a new world that he was about to create. He told them that the center on the tops of their heads would guide them to this new world. This inner wisdom would give them the sight to see a certain cloud which they would follow by day and a certain star which they would follow by night. It is fascinating how similar this part of the Hopi legend is to that of the Israelites. Recall how the Lord told the Israelites that they were to be a Chosen People, and led them out from among the others to a promised land, instructing them that His presence would be with them in a cloud by day and a column of fire by night.

When the great Nephew had finished instructing the Hopi Chosen People, all over the First World the Chosen People disappeared. Their villages were empty. The houses, temples, and fields ­ all empty. Many of those left behind called out to them, “Where are you going?” To which the Chosen Ones replied, “We are following the cloud and the star.” The others laughed and said, “We see no cloud or star.” The Chosen People explained to them, “This is because you have lost your inner vision that came from the tops of your heads.”

The top of the head is the crown chakra, a most important spiritual center. Cayce identifies it with “the mount,” and states that only those who have experienced “the rejuvenation in the mount” may know the truth and enter fully into the Creator’s presence to receive the resulting guidance. He goes on to say that as this center is awakened and our soul’s memories return to consciousness, stating that this event is what is referred to when Jesus said “The Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things....” -John 14:25
Let’s ignite again our crown chakra. Let’s ascend to the mount of higher consciousness. Let’s open the soft spot, through which our soul first entered this body, and receive the inner vision, the inner guidance. The Hopi prophecy says that soon a new stage of life will begin, a stage in which only those who are open at the tops of their heads will be able to hear and see and know the way.(end quote)

What is very curious is that Cayce did NOT take the 7th chakra as the crown(top of the head)..

Let me quote about it.."THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA

Seventh Center ­ Pituitary Gland ­ Third-Eye Chakra

Finally, the Spirit arrives at the highest center in the body. The aspect of our spiritual self that is in this center is “the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the Beginning of the creation of God.” This is the master gland of the body. But the Spirit is upset with this center because it is “neither cold nor hot.” Because it is lukewarm about the spiritualization process, the Spirit is ready to “spit you out of my mouth.” This center says that it is rich and needs nothing, but the spiritual self challenges that it is actually “wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked” (harkening back to the original sin in the Garden, where Adam and Eve hid from God because they were naked). Amazingly, this center has no redeeming qualities and no virtue to acknowledge. The Spirit gives none. This center is stagnant and lukewarm, contributing nothing to the overall spiritualization of the body. The Spirit therefore warns it to get truth forged in the fires of the Spirit, white garments of purity that its nakedness will be clothed, and eye salve to anoint its eyes to see the real truth. However, in a backhanded way, the Spirit acknowledges its love for this center, saying: “Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline.” If this center will rise up and conquer, then “I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I myself conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.”

Cayce’s readings identify this center as the third eye, on the forehead. Almost all yoga books identify the third eye as the sixth chakra and the crown as the seventh. When Cayce was asked about this during a reading, his reply was that he did not care what others were saying, but he was giving the correct arrangement.
But the real importance of this center is that it is lukewarm in most people and needs to be enlivened with a higher ideal with the energy of the life force combined with the Holy Spirit. The Egyptians considered the eye, the single all-seeing eye, to be one of the highest images of God. To awaken this center’s true nature and bring illumination to the whole of the body and mind, this center must again find enthusiasm for the quest. It is like a dying ember and needs the breath of the Holy Spirit upon it to re-ignite its fire."(click here for the full post about it) from Van Auken.

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ONENESS

ONENESS

by John Van Auken

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When we look around, we see multiplicity, diversity, and separateness. You are there. I am here. Your thoughts are yours; mine are mine. Oneness is not evident. Yet, from Edgar Cayce’s trance-like connection to the Universal Consciousness, he saw and taught oneness: “The first lesson ... should be ONE - One - One - ONE; Oneness of God, oneness of man’s relations, oneness of force, oneness of time, oneness of purpose, ONENESS in every effort -- Oneness - Oneness!” For Cayce, our thoughts were not just ours! In fact, he could tell exactly what we had been thinking because our thoughts left an impression upon the Universal Consciousness. And he could “read” these impressions. Thoughts for him were “things.” During a reading he had difficulty determining if you or I had actually done something or just thought about doing it, because our thoughts made as strong an impression upon the Collective Consciousness as our actions! That’s a scary thought -- oops, I just made another impression upon the Collective Consciousness! Cayce was concerned that we all grasp the implications of this unavoidable oneness.

Is it possible that everyone and everything is a part of some unseen Collective, some indivisible Whole within which all the multiplicity exists, and each affects the composition of this Collective? Cayce says yes: “Not only God is God, but self is a part of that oneness.” In several readings Cayce pressed us to simply believe this and live as if it were true! In this way we would come to know that it is indeed true. “Let this, my children, be the lesson for you: The intent in relating to each and every individual should be to bring forth that best element in each, in ONENESS of purpose, in oneness of spirit, in oneness of mind, towards each and every one that you contact -- for the individuals, in the final analysis, are one.” In some manner that we don’t readily perceive, all the individuals we meet and interact with each day, including ourselves, are one.

These are hard teachings to understand and harder to live by. We’ve all heard the admonition, “think before we speak,” but this level of oneness would suggest that we need to “think before we think!” Does thinking negative thoughts about another person actually affect that person at some unseen level? Do these negative thoughts make a recording upon a Collective Consciousness, a recording that someone like Cayce can read? Ancient Hinduism included the concept of an Akasha, an etheric film that records all thoughts, all words, all actions from the first OM of creation until the last OM of silence again. Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. Nothing is unknowable. Watching Cayce give readings on the activities of celestial godlings who lived before the Earth even existed certainly suggests that nothing is forgotten or lost or unknowable. While his body was on the couch and his conscious mind was for all intents and purposes asleep, his deeper mind could tell us about a long forgotten event in our early childhood that still affects us today, or an ancient past life of our soul that influences our outer self’s feelings in this present life. In some readings he could see a person’s house and what they were doing as the reading was about to begin, such as: “Yes, we have the red mail box. We are entering the house. She is in the bedroom praying.”

In the 1960s and ‘70s, when meditation was taking hold in this country, meditators began to speak of experiencing a sense of oneness with all of life when they reached deeper levels in their meditation. When questioned about this, all they could say was that at some moment in their meditation all life seemed connected. But the gap between this inner meditative feeling and our outer sensory perception is a chasm. There is simply no outer sensory corroboration for such a position. Oneness is an inner perception that defies outer evidence. Apparently, oneness has to be experienced firsthand in order to overcome all the outer contradictions to its existence. And short of rare miraculous epiphanies, meditation appears to be the best way to perceive the unseen oneness. Even Jesus had trouble making the oneness argument with his disciple Philip at the Last Supper; finally conceding that if he could not believe Jesus’ oneness with the Father and that Philip had therefore known the Father by knowing Jesus, then let the outer miracles act as evidence of this oneness with God.

But let’s press this oneness idea a little further. How can selfish or evil people still be in oneness with the Collective? And if they are, simply because there is no way to be outside of the Whole, then why are they allowed to do so much harm to others in the Collective? In a very complex discussion between one of the greatest questioners of Edgar Cayce, Morton Blumenthal, #900, and the “sleeping” Edgar Cayce, attuned to the Collective, we can find some insights to these hard questions. Since the discussion is so complex, I’ll paraphrase here:

Mort: On Oct. 15, Thursday, at home I had this dream: It seemed my mother and I were in a hotel where many people were passing by. Then there was a typewriter with a sheet of blank paper in it, waiting to be used by one of the many applicants for the position of stenographer. The typewriter also seemed to be waiting for my more perfect understanding of something else - some final thing - the first 3 prin-ciples of which I had two. In the midst of all of this, a voice said: ‘ALL of these are GOD!’

Cayce: This dream is presenting to the entity the oneness of purpose, of intent, of the WHOLE BEING AS ONE. For ALL is of God, see? And as the entity gains knowledge from living the various phases of oneness, he gains that first principle of which the other two he already has. That first principle is this: God is in you manifesting to other individuals through every phenomenized situation that is presented in a physical world. For, every force which may not be separated or produced by man is of God and of the Universal Forces. These are the three forces in man: (1) Spiritual - of God; (2) Cosmic - the forces made by man; and (3) Subconscious - the force that bridges the Spiritual and the Cosmic, connecting the spiritual with the cosmic.

Mort: It seems to me that this dream imagery tries again and again to drive home to my dense physical mind that God is One....

Cayce: (Interrupting) Correct.

Mort: God is all of these people passing in the hotel and all of the applicants for the stenographer job....

Cayce: (Interrupting) Correct.

Mort: All these people are phenomen-ized forms of God. Also God is all of these consciousnesses....

Cayce: (Interrupting) Except that God is not the cosmic forces made by free-will man. These are not related to spiritual forces. These are earth made.

In many of his readings Cayce explained that evil is man’s misuse of the gift of free will. The Creator allows this because free will is the only way for any soul to reach its original purpose for existence: to know itself to be itself yet choose to be one with the Whole, with the Creator and the creation. If free will is taken away, then the soul no longer has the potential to become an eternal companion with its creator. As the theological concept goes, man was made a little less than the angels but with the potential to judge even the angels. This is why souls misusing free will are allowed more time to discover their true purpose, even if they do much harm along the way. Eventually, as recorded in the Revelation, God will stop time, separate misusers from those who have tried to fulfill their purpose. He/She will then “wipe the tears from everyone’s eyes” and set up “a new heaven and a new earth” for the companionable souls to enjoy with God.

According to Cayce’s readings and many other classic sources, before anything was created there existed something that caused the creation to begin. The potential for the creation was latent in pre-creation emptiness. Cayce often referred to it as “the first impulse, the first cause.” A good way for us to grasp how there could be anything before the creation is to think of the infinite emptiness as a consciousness, much like our own, except that this consciousness was infinite and perfectly still, no thoughts, quiet. Imagining this with our own minds is one of the states of meditation: a clear, quiet mind -- hard to do for even a few minutes. At some moment this infinite mind began to move, to conceive, and the creation began. Imagine how the idea of light awoke, and playing with this idea, the infinite mind conceived of stars and galaxies of all shapes, sizes, and colors. At some moment in this conception process, Cayce says, the Universal Consciousness conceived of companions to itself, companions made in its own image: minds, with life, creativity, and free will. Countless little minds were conceived in the one, infinite mind. At first we all remained consciously connected to the One Mind. But as we began to use our free wills to experience individual consciousness, we focused more on our own consciousness and gradually lost our connection with the Infinite Mind. We did not go anywhere. There was nowhere to go beyond the Whole. We simply lost consistent consciousness of our oneness with the Infinite Consciousness. Today, billions of years after it all began, we struggle to regain and retain conscious awareness of the One Mind within which we all exist and with which we are all destined to consciously companion forever -- if we choose to.

Just as this is all getting clearer, Cayce tosses a brick into our thinking when he says such mind-boggling things as “there is no time, no space.” He explains that at a deep level there actually is no beginning, no end, all time is one. 

He explains that there actually is no here and no there. As demonstrated by his own readings, he could tell us what we (our deeper selves) thought eons ago, as if it were yesterday, and could physically be in Virginia Beach while viewing a person in San Diego! During his reading, there was indeed no time, no space. All was one.

Cayce said it this way: “Learn these lessons well: First, the continuity of life. There is no time; it is one time. There is no space; it is one space. There is no force, other than all force in its various phases and applications. The individual is such a part of God that one’s thoughts may become crimes or miracles, for thoughts are deeds. That that one metes must be met again. That one applies will be applied again and again until that oneness of time, space, force are learned and the individual is one with the whole.”

Fortunately for our three-dimensional selves, he did instruct that time and space were helpful tools for developing souls to use in our day-to-day, step-by-step process of application and enlightenment. But his deeper mind did not want us to get lost in the limitations of time and space, encouraging us to budget some time and space for experiencing the timelessness and spaceless-ness; in other words, the oneness.

He also instructed seekers to watch themselves go by, watch themselves interact with others, watch their minds thinking about situations and people, and see if our words, actions, and thoughts reflect the truth of the oneness or the illusion of separateness, multiplicity, and diversity.

From Cayce’s trance perspective, the greatest evil in the earth and in the hearts and minds of individuals is contention, fault-finding, lovers of self, and lovers of praise, because these forces separate. The greatest good in the world is love, patience, kindness, forgiveness, and understanding, because these forces unite.

“These are times when every effort should be made to preserve the universality of love....” He instructed one person to “study the truths about oneness, whether Jewish, Gentile, Greek, or heathen!” 

Among religions, Cayce said that wherever the principle of one God and one people is taught, there is truth. Cayce stated that, in many of the world’s great religions, the principle of oneness is there, but men have “turned this aside to meet their own immediate needs, as a moralist or the head of any independent power, but ‘Know the Lord thy God is One!’ whether this is directing one of the Confucius thought, Brahman thought, Buddha thought, Mohammedan thought ... there is only one. The whole law and gospel of every age has said, ‘There is ONE God!’”

As with all of these concepts, they begin within our individual minds and hearts, and since there is oneness, the more individuals believe in the oneness and live it in their lives, the more it makes an impression upon the Collective Consciousness and finds its way into other individual minds and hearts. We are the leaven that can leaven the whole loaf of humanity. Let’s budget time to experience the oneness in meditation. Let’s practice oneness in our thoughts about others and interactions with others. Ultimately, despite all the indications to the contrary, the world and humanity will be one.
To us all towns are one, all men our kin. Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill. Man's pains and pains' relief are from within. Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !. - Tamil Poem-

Meditation in action..tough stuff

Lead me from dreaming to waking.

Lead me from opacity to clarity.

Lead me from the complicated to the simple.

Lead me from the obscure to the obvious.

Lead me from intention to attention. Lead me from what I'm told I am to what I see I am. Lead me from confrontation to wide openness. Lead me to the place I never left, Where there is peace, and peace - The Upanishads

*note* Nice comments from Tan Kheng Khoo..long name anyway...actually the full name is Doctor like By Dr. Tan Kheng Khoo (see what I mean...why not put in front of his name JN.(as Janitor Tan Kheng Khoo?..not good for his reputation????.looks like is good to be a doctor when you talk about spirituality..but Jesus was a carpenter..does it count?..or he should have said..CarP (Carpenter..the woods smashing..the tree demolisher Jesus of Nazaret?..)

Have you even seen this insanity of it?..people put the name ,,Doctor,, in this and that..these days..we have Doctors of all kinds..doctor in science(they know it all) doctor in anything..is a DOCTOR!!..

I say forget the doctors..because the main reason was about healing,not about anything else...a doctor is someone whom heals,and everybody knows there is ONLY one doctor for all..and THAT is the humble Kripto...everybody knows it..

Born from an egg..he ran like a coyote..then he flew up in the sky screaming...halleluyah!!.then he came back developing his wisdom muscles..but that is other story..kiss:)

The only power is in yourself..that is it..is the kripto spirit within you...believe me.

I am an old mahayogi..and growing older every full moon..then I get younger again..good for me,the immortal..but what about you,punks??..what about your suffering I witness?!!!

You must grow the wisdom..so the wisdom mushroom muscle becomes big enough to comprehend the essence of existence..

AND CRY OUT...I always loved you..my KRIPTO inside..then you become ONE!..but IF you seek outside,in saviors and images,and everything..you'll miss the gentle kripto spirit inside you,saying..hello..I love you..I always did..

Thus spokenth the mahayogi-

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Mindfulness is the path to the deathless;
Heedlessness is the path to death.
The mindful do not die;
But the heedless are as if dead already.
Dhammapada 21


THE Dhammapada also says:


(1) Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draw it.
(2) Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
From these two verses we know we have to be aware of our thoughts as they arise, and then control them and finally master them so that the action that follows is pure and wholesome. In the essay on Insight Meditation, we learned to merely look at our thoughts by (1) observing (2) watching them. By looking at our thoughts head on they become fewer and slower in their appearances. This is a way of (3) controlling them. Now that one is dealing with meditation in action, one should also (4) master them as well by allowing only wholesome thoughts to arise and then, if necessary act upon them. In sitting meditation the thoughts that arise must be choiceless, but now that we are out of formal sitting, we should exercise control. That means these 4 actions of observing, watching, controlling and mastering should be done simultaneously in our meditation in action.


Awareness


Awareness means " bare attention" or "passive observation" without judgement, comment or interpretation of the facts with our intellectual knowledge. This means that we simply look with a quiet mind. If the mind has thoughts we look at these. If there are emotions, we again merely feel them. In "bare attention", we "look at" and not "look for" or "look into". When we look for something, we are expecting to find it, and when we do not we are sorely disappointed. We then lose energy and balance.


Mindfulness


When a thought or an object first comes into our awareness that fleeting moment of pure awareness is uncontaminated by identification or label. This brief moment of mindfulness may last only a fraction of a second. It is before your cognizance of the perception, before naming of the object and judgement of the same. This is the moment of pure awareness. This pure quality of mindfulness vanishes before the chain of memories can arise to remind one of the pleasant or unpleasant object or incident. It is this unfocussed moment of pure awareness that we want to prolong in Insight (Vipassana) meditation. It is a very difficult but not impossible task.
In mindfulness, the mind merely mirrors what is seen or heard at the very moment of occurrence. It does not take sides. It does not judge or condemn. It merely watches impartially. It should not affect the observer. There should not be any enchantment, pleasure or displeasure engendered by what is seen or heard. In the seen, it is only the process of seeing. Similarly, in the heard it is only the hearing. It is only the process and not the object. There should not be any thought or concept accompanying the seeing, hearing, touching and tasting. Thoughts arise merely as mental pictures or running verbal commentary with no reflection or analysis or categorization. We merely register what is happening now not a minute ago or the future. It is always in the present. There is no emotional or intellectual reflection, no analysis, no selection. It is totally passive and impartial. The perception does not pertain to self: it is purely third party. The "I" is not involved. There is no accent on any topic or scene: they are all the same. It is only the white screen accepting every picture projecting onto it by the projector. It does not discard or distort any frame of the film.
Finally, the wisdom to be gleaned from this practice is that everything arises must pass away. Those who cling to this compounded ‘thing’, wishing that it would remain the same, will suffer discontent and conflict.


Four Foundations of Mindfulness


In Buddha’s Discourse on Mindfulness---Satipatthana Sutra, four distinct subjects were enumerated for the Vipassana practice. They are (i) the body, (ii) feelings or sensations, (iii) states of mind including emotions, and (iv) objects of the mind. The latter two topics have been dealt with in the essay on Insight Meditation (Vipassana), and they can be practiced during the sitting sessions. The practice in these two topics is entirely based on choiceless awareness. In formal sitting this is feasible. However, once you are out of formal sitting, you have to make a choice. In these two areas of meditation in action, we have to comprehend clearly four fundamental facts. They are (1) Purpose of our Action, (2) Suitability of the action and our own capability to do it, (3) The action must be within the Domain of Meditation, (4) The real state of things (reality) as they appear and the true nature of these phenomena.


(1) Purpose of the Action: Every action or reaction must have a purpose. Otherwise we end up aimlessly in our activities. We may also be distracted from our original purpose. Therefore, our purpose must be held tenaciously till the end of that action. Needless to say, the purpose must be a wholesome one and it could be included into the domain of our meditation practice. Say, for instance, one is on the way to pay for one’s TV license on the last day. Half way there one meets a friend whom one has not seen for some time. So one stops to chitchat over a cup of coffee until alas the post office is shut for business for the day! One has to go over to the post office again the next day and pay a fine for being late. All this bother because one did not mindfully stick to one’s purpose.


(2) Suitability: Before embarking on the task, we must ask ourselves whether the task is suitable in the ethical sense. Is evading income tax or parking along double yellow lines an appropriate act for a Vipassana practitioner? Is it a skillful act to queue up for dole when one is a millionaire? We must also realize the extent or limitations of our own capabilities for a certain project. Is the goal of the project set too high? Are we capable of raising such a large sum of money? If it is too ambitious we must fail. If it is not in our power to choose the course of action then we must exercise skillful means in the choice of our actions.
(3) Domain of Meditation: In the Buddha’s days, some of the monks were given meditation subjects to hold on to throughout the day. However, when they are entering into any discourse with other people, the subject must be dropped temporarily. However, in our scheme of things, it is our intention to be mindful of every movement in our daily life. In this practice, we do not have to drop the subject matter. This method will be described in detail below.


(4) The True State of Reality: In this comprehension, we have to bear in mind the delusional character of our minds. We are constantly deluded that desirable things are permanent or unchanging; we are deluded to think we can escape from suffering if we continue to chase after desirable things. We are also deluded by the seeming permanence of our body and mind, which we tenaciously hold onto as the "self". These 3 main delusions must be repeatedly broken by meditative wisdom.

THE SIX CONTEMPLATIONS OF THE BODY


Buddha suggested six ways of looking at the body. The last 3 categories will not be discussed in this paper. They are (iv) the body in decomposition, (v) analysis of the body in 32 parts, (vi) the four elements that make up the body—earth, heat, water and air. However the other 3 categories need some elaboration. These are (i) breathing, (ii) bodily postures, and (iii) every bodily action.


(i) Breathing: We should simply be aware and mindful of our breathing as an arising and falling phenomenon from moment to moment. The breathing is not controlled and it should be allowed to be an automatic movement. We simply notice and register that there are pauses after each inhalation and exhalation. The arising and falling of the breath must be seen as a process of change and impermanence. This flow cannot be stopped; if it ceases we expire. This is the reality of life.


(ii) Bodily Postures: We must be fully aware of our postures, as in sitting, standing, lying, and walking. The mindfulness must include details like, what is the texture of the carpet we are standing on? Is the floor we are sitting on hard or soft? What is the material we are lying on? All these details must be recognized at that moment in that particular posture. We must be mindfully aware of the surfaces and consistency of the chair, the bed or the ground that we are in contact with. We have to notice the postures we like best and the aches and pains that are attendant to each posture. Then we must also realize that the changing of the posture also relieves the pain. This is a relief of suffering. So we keep on changing our positions to cure the pain. So the reality to be gleaned here is that living incurs pain and constant change. The true self does not suffer, but body and mind do. This is the Anatta doctrine.


(iii) Every Bodily Activity: This is the practice recommended here. From the time we wake up to the minute we fall asleep, we must be mindfully aware of every bodily activity from moment to moment. While the action is being enacted, there should not be any thoughts of other matters in our mind. There should be full concentration on what we are doing with an empty and silent mind. Of course, for a beginner one cannot perform this awareness for any length of time. For the first day, start with five minutes. Then one may increase the duration day after day until at least half an hour. Then one can further stretch it to an hour, and then to hours on end. When one wakes up in the morning, first notice the bed sheets covering the mattress. Also notice the blankets covering one self. Then register the desire to get out of bed to go to the bathroom. Walk mindfully to the bathroom to relieve one self. Then with full awareness brush the teeth, wash the face and complete all the other chores like shaving or powdering the face etc Whatever has to be done it is done with full concentration and mindfulness. Then we have to change our clothes, put on our shoes, etc until we arrive at the breakfast table for our food. The process goes on until one cannot continue to be mindful anymore for that morning. There should not be any absentmindedness. The awareness is applied moment to moment.


Walking Meditation


Walking meditation is an essential component of all Buddhist, monastic practice. The principle here is the same as in the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. Moment to moment mindfulness in our walking without thoughts is the practice. Choose a straight path of ten to twenty spaces in either a secluded or unobstructed area, preferably amongst trees. Start at one end of the path. Stand straight with a relaxed body especially the neck. Both hands may be kept either in front or the back or at the sides: which is the most comfortable to the meditator. Stand still for half a minute. Then start walking. The pace is ever so slightly slower than one’s usual pace. Do not try to analyze or break the steps into separate movements like ‘lift, forward, and down’. Just walk normally. Do not walk in rhythm with your breath. This is a mistake. You cannot concentrate on two things at one time. Just mindfully walk and be aware of the sensations of the soles and feet. Do not walk too slowly, as this artificial pace brings out tension. Look ahead and straight, but do not look at anything in particular. Don’t look at your feet. Flowers, trees and people must be passed over with no interest spent on them. The mind must be empty and silent. Do not allow tension to arise in the body. Do not try to look good or appear graceful. Just be aware of the walking experience and the sensations arising thereof. Enjoy the feeling of walking. No problems and anxiety are allowed in one’s mind.
Now having arrived at the other end of the path, stop and slowly turn around to face the other way. Again stop for half a minute, and continue your walking meditation as before. After some time, your walking meditation will develop into a nice swinging exercise to be relished. There is now no more strain or jerks. The pace can now be increased to your normal walking speed. Then a time will arrive when a ‘high’ can be achieved. There is this flowing to make one feel as if one is walking on air! At this point nothing distracts us. It is only the "walking". There is no ‘I’ or the ‘body’ walking. It is just "walking".


Feelings and Sensations


In Buddhism, there are six sense organs and not five. They are the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, skin, and the brain. These organs see, hear, smell, taste, touch and conceive sense objects. When the eyes see an object, the eye consciousness must rise simultaneously for the contact to arouse a feeling or sensation. The sensation may be one of three varieties: pleasant, unpleasant or indifferent.


EYE + EYE-CONSCIOUSNESS + OBJECT = SENSATION


Sensation-----------> Pleasant--------------> Desire


(reaction) ---------> Indifference---------> Dullness


---------> Unpleasant-----------> Aversion or Repulsion


DESIRE leads to GRASPING or CRAVINGS


REPULSION leads to ILL-WILL or HATRED


INDIFFERENCE leads to IGNORANCE

Similarly, other sensations are being elicited with noise, food, fragrances, surfaces and concepts. They can arise only if the person is conscious. If the person is in a coma, although his sense organs are intact, no sensation can be elicited.


The most important point in this exercise is to be aware of the sensation as it arises. At that moment, we notice whether it is pleasant, unpleasant or indifferent not later or before the event. More often than not, we jump straight into the action of going towards or away from what we see or hear without being fully aware of the pleasant or unpleasant sensation. This type of action is without awareness and therefore unmindful. We must also use effort to register the neutral indifferent sensation; this is essential, otherwise we become dull. The object is there. It is neither attractive nor odious. Note it. We pause to be fully aware of the sensations and then purposefully act in a wholesome manner. This technique requires severe discipline because it is the action that seals our fate, as it is karma productive. If we simply realise our pleasant sensation and our tendency to be attracted by it and do not act, then no karma is produced. If we meet a person we do not like, we do not run away from him. We, instead, stay to converse with him with courtesy, love and compassion. This requires discipline and determination. A certain amount of forgiveness must accompany this act. Forgiveness is the erasure of bad karma. Therefore, this moment to moment awareness of our sensations is vital in our practice, but it is extremely difficult, as we have to interact spontaneously at that moment. However, if we have no other thoughts in our mind (preferably empty), then the action is simpler. The lesson to be gleaned here is that circumstances change very rapidly (anicca), and moments of emotional difficulty often crop up (dukkha). So if one is not identified with one’s body and mind (anatta), then the situation is not alarming at all. The action then becomes smooth and spontaneous as no ego is involved.


Mistakes in Vipassana


Although many teachers are very fond of teaching Vipassana, there are many errors committed by these teachers. The most common error is using Samatha objects for Vipassana. These are some of the examples:
1) Repeating mantras, visualisation, counting of breaths and chanting of sutras. These are all Samatha objects and not Vipassana.
2) Mentally focusing on the words and their meaning, like ‘rise and fall’ rather than observing the actual abdominal movement. Instead of just feeling the sensations in the legs, do not focus on the words of ‘raising, forward and stepping down’.
3) One should not focus the mind on the walking movement and simultaneously try to co-ordinate the breath with each step. It is not possible to focus on two objects in the consciousness at the same time. When walking, simply observe and feel the walking movement only.
4) It is not correct to be vaguely aware of the abdominal movement or air striking the nostrils without focusing on the ‘rising and falling’ aspect of the movements.
5) It is not Vipassana practice when you are ‘thinking about’ the rise and fall of the abdominal movement, or ‘thinking about’ the air striking the nostrils, or ‘thinking about’ walking without actually focusing on the present movement.
6) Neither is it Vipassana, when one acknowledges the ‘rise and fall’ of an object after it has fallen away. Mindfulness has to know the present object ‘now’.
7) It is impossible to catch the mind moving, due to its rapid flux. Abhidharma says "There are 17 thought-moments in one second!’ It is somewhat easier to slow one’s thoughts in theta wave, and then merely watch the pictures at the third eye or listen to the mental chatter head on.


Conclusions


According to Buddha, practicing Vipassana on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness is the only way to enlightenment. In the first two foundations one can practice in sitting meditation. In this instance the method is choiceless awareness: to observe, to watch and to control one’s thoughts and states of mind. The controlling is indirect in the sense that when you see your thoughts head on they diminish in number until your ‘thoughts come to an end’. This is the way of practice by Krishnamurti who surprisingly advocates no meditation. It is not known how one’s thoughts can come to an end without meditation.
Then when one is practicing meditation in action, outside of formal sitting, the observing, watching and controlling must have another element of mastering. To master is to see that all thoughts, speech and action are wholesome. That means a certain amount of control and sieving is required in the planning for action. In the activities of the body, there is just the pure awareness of the movements with no thoughts in the mind. In perceiving the sensations resulting from the contact of the six sense organs, whether the feeling is pleasant, unpleasant or indifferent is noted right away, not one moment later. Of course, this act is very hard to follow. Of all the four foundations this act is the most difficult one. And that is why Buddha said: "this is the only way".
One is able to realise that thoughts and emotions are not self with sitting meditation, when one arrived at Silence, Stillness and Emptiness of thoughts. One can intellectually know that the body is not self when one sees a corpse. But to fully realise that the body is not self, one must practice the four foundations diligently until the full impact of that wisdom suddenly appears.
And it is only when the realisation of no self in the body coincides with that of the mind, can one claim to have entered the stream. This means in the Theravada lineage, one becomes a Stream Enterer. This is the first of four stages of Sainthood. At this point, one has the most 7 more lives to go, and every life is at least a human being (not in hell, not a hungry ghost and not an animal). This is the best breakthrough in the Theravada practice.

To us all towns are one, all men our kin. Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill. Man's pains and pains' relief are from within. Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !. - Tamil Poem-

John C. Lilly law...The Center of the Cyclone

Lead me from dreaming to waking.

Lead me from opacity to clarity.

Lead me from the complicated to the simple.

Lead me from the obscure to the obvious.

Lead me from intention to attention. Lead me from what I'm told I am to what I see I am. Lead me from confrontation to wide openness. Lead me to the place I never left, Where there is peace, and peace - The Upanishads
*note* John C. Lilly  John Cunningham Lilly quote: (January 6, 1915 – September 30, 2001) was an American physician, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher and writer.
He was a pioneer researcher into the nature of consciousness using as his principal tools the isolation tank^[1], dolphin communication, and psychedelic drugs, sometimes in combination. He was a member of the Californian counterculture of scientists, mystics and thinkers that arose in the late 1960s and early 70s.(end quote)
  He talks about The Center of the Cyclone...marvelous individual...he invented the isolation tank quote"In 1953, he took a post studying neurophysiology with the US Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Corps. At the NIMH in 1954,following the desire to strip away outside stimuli from the mind/brain, he devised the first isolation tank, a dark soundproof tank of warm salt water in which subjects could float for long periods in sensory isolation. Lilly and a research colleague were the first to act as subjects in this research" . As I posted here on http://kriptodanny.blogspot.com/2007/12/from-virus-to-buddha.html For a contemporary shamanic image of what this eternal warfare looks like out in hyperspace, here is how John Lilly perceived the situation from his isolation tank in the 1970s. Note that he couches his observations in the form of a third-person belief system to assert some degree of scientific objectivity over his empirical observations:

Those beings which were close to the subject in complexity-size-time were dichotomized into the evil ones and the good ones. The evil ones … were busy with purposes so foreign to his own that he had many near misses and almost fatal accidents in encounters with them; they were almost totally unaware of his existence and hence almost wiped him out, apparently without knowing it. The subject says that the good ones thought good thoughts to him, through him, and to one another. They were at least conceivably human and humane. He interpreted them as alien yet friendly. They were not so alien as to be completely removed from human beings in regard to their purposes and activities.


Some of these beings … are programming us in the long term. They nurture us. They experiment on us. They control the probability of our discovering and exploiting new science … Discoveries such as nuclear energy, LSD-25, RNA, DNA, etc., are under probability control by these beings. Further, humans are tested by some of these beings and cared for by others. Some of them have programs which include our survival and progress. Others have programs which include oppositions to these good programs and include our ultimate demise as a species. Thus the subject interpreted the evil ones as willing to sacrifice us in their experiments; hence they are alien and removed from us. The subject reported with this set of beliefs that only limited choices are still available to us as a species. We are an ant colony in their laboratory..No more comments..kisses to him...but he forgot to add that we are ants only if not self-realized...if we are...then we became our own masters.and...then,we can too poke them in their eyeballs,the Buddha way..trust me..10 fingers at the time...thus spokenth the mahayogi!..ok..I'll explain more,for the sake of deluded grasshoppers rooming around the wilderness, and munching on cactus wisdom,like coyotes..here is the DEAL..we are part of a complex inter-conditioning thing,which means that NOTHING is apart from a cause/effect..see?..so,we..as species ..believe that we are the paramount of existence..while we are just a bunch of some made up OTHER creatures(like microbes,viruses,worms,etc.)..depending on others(other creatures I mean we need to even digest the food) we eat alot..like fruits ,vegetables and meat..well..GROW a brain..somebody eats on us too,but you don't see it...get realized ,awaken your kundalini,and you'll know my point..Kisses to the grasshoppers!..My love for you will be forever,in the 3 realms..just ask yourself..whom is the one looking thru your body?..and you'll know is me..the loving kripto...and if you don't understand me,then learn italian..kiss:)..In other words..you are not this body,my friends..and you are not your thoughts either..nore your emotions..what you are is this:
THE MASTERY OF YOUR ATTENTION WILL COME WHEN YOU WILL START SEEING THAT IT IS ALL A MYTH THAT UPSETS YOU.JUST THROW IT AWAY..AND UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE THE ETERNAL LIFE.ONLY THEN YOU WILL FULLY ENJOY YOURSELF BECAUSE YOUR ATTENTION WOULD BE COMPLETELY DRENCHED IN THE BLISS OF YOUR TRUE SELF.-SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI-..but then you have to discover that by your own experience,don't you?..kisses:)

Spoon Matrix - More bloopers are a click away

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The Center of the Cyclone

"The center of the cyclone is that rising quiet central low-pressure place in which one can learn to live eternally. Just outside of this Center is the rotating storm of one's own ego, competing with other egos in a furious high-velocity circular dance. As one leaves center, the roar of rotating wind deafens on more and more as one joins this dance. One's centered thinking-feeling-being, one's own Satoris, are in the center only, not outside. One's pushed-pulled driven states, one's anti-Satori modes of functioning, one's self-created hells, are outside the center. In the center of the cyclone one is off the wheel of Karma, of life, rising to join the Creators of the Universe, the Creators of us.

Here we find that we have created Them who are Us." -- John C. Lilly

Published by The Julian Press, Inc., New York
Copyright 1972 by John C. Lilly, M.D.


Summary


In this new-age classic of scientific research, Dr. John C. Lilly shares his ground-breaking theory of the interaction between the mind and the brain. Using his personal experiments in solitude, isolation, and confinement, he combines these states with LSD, mysticism, and other catalysts to gain a new understanding into the inner spaces of the human consciousness.
Dr. Lilly details his experiences in researching the far-out spaces and demonstrates how he programs such spaces and experiences through his method of self-metaprogramming.
Displaying a frankness that is refreshingly objective, The Center of the Cyclone offers a rational scientific explanation of how the mind works in those special states of consciousness.


Quotes


Lilly's Law
"In the province of the mind, what is believed to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind, there are no limits."

Spoon Matrix - More bloopers are a click away

-added by danny-

"The center of the cyclone is that rising quiet central low-pressure place in which one can learn to live eternally. Just outside of this Center is the rotating storm of one's own ego, competing with other egos in a furious high-velocity circular dance. As one leaves center, the roar of rotating wind deafens on more and more as one joins this dance. One's centered thinking-feeling-being, one's own Satoris, are in the center only, not outside. One's pushed-pulled driven states, one's anti-Satori modes of functioning, one's self-created hells, are outside the center. In the center of the cyclone one is off the wheel of Karma, of life, rising to join the Creators of the Universe, the Creators of us.

Here we find that we have created Them who are Us." -- John C. Lilly

Chapter 04: Following Instructions and Going with the Flow

To us all towns are one, all men our kin. Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill. Man's pains and pains' relief are from within. Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !. - Tamil Poem-