“Nasrudin, is your religion orthodox?” “It all depends,” said Nasrudin, “on which bunch of heretics is in power.”
Awareness of Death
There was once a dervish who embarked upon a sea journey. As the other passengers in the ship came aboard one by one, they saw him and – as is the custom – asked him for a piece of advice. What he advised was: ‘Try to be aware of death, until you know what death is.’ Few of the travelers felt particularly attracted to this admonition.
While at sea a terrible storm blew up. The crew and the passengers alike fell upon their knees, imploring God to save the ship. They alternately screamed in terror, gave themselves up for lost, hoped wildly for deliverance. The dervish sat quietly, reflective, not reacting.
Eventually the buffeting stopped, the sea and sky were calm, and the passengers remembered how serene the dervish had been throughout the episode. One of them asked him: ‘ Did you not realize that during this frightful tempest that there was nothing more solid than a plank between us all and death?’
‘Oh, yes, indeed,’ answered the dervish. ‘I knew that it is like that at sea. I also realize, however, that in living day to day there is even less between us and death. In that moment of dread you were aware of death because you thought it was immanent. Will you hold that awareness as you live this day?
Meditation: M0512-19890312 – For Mastery of Time and Space
Meditation: Summaries from Perugia 2012 – Courtesy of Sandro
Meditation: LA769-19930415 – Development of Self Control
LA769 930415 Self Control
Pranayama(3 minutes): breath of the dog’s breath
Eyes: the tip of the nose
Mudra: open and close with powerful fists, twisting wrists from outside
inside:
“Open your mouth and look at this breath (start breathing quickly in and
out through the mouth) the breath of the dog, as dogs do. You do not
have to go to a doctor tonight, you should care for yourself. Eyes at the
tip of the nose. This is the reason why dogs never get sick. Breathe fast
and powerful, with all your strength. If you have cancer, do it, see what
happens. You can, use the power. Pull your fingers in hard. Keep your
mouth like an “O”. When you are in a hospital and you feel miserable, that one ‘becomes’ O’ and when you feel even more miserable, it becomes “Q”, your tongue comes out, remember? So, only “O”.
Finally breathe and tighten and squeeze, squeeze, the whole body like steel. Like a cannon, exhale. 3 times.
Pranayama (3 minutes) : breath of the dog’s mouth to O
Eyes: closed
Mudra: Push to turn your arms forward with the palms flat facing
outwards. (When an arm is to go as fast as strength to push off with
your blocks. Others instead returns to his chest and back). This
exercise and very unique, and a bit ‘difficult because will work on your
block and you know we’re all stuck. Same “O”. the breath begins in the
same way the previous one. Quick, quick alternately push out his arms.
Push, Push the dirt off of you hit strong, strong, swim, swim go push,
stronger stronger, whatever you release will be gone for good, you will
not have any new sense around you, stronger than most strong push, push, the hair will grow, push, push, push, push, push all that there is’ killing, push, stronger, with the “O” breath.
continue ……. Finally Breathe? Stay where you are …….. stretch, shake your body shake your whole body…shake … exhale. (3 times by changing the position of the hands) If you do these exercises, you can not have bleeding, you can not have an attack (cardiac), because you are a stress test, this is a stress test.
Pranayama (3 minutes): breathing dog’s mouth in an O
Eyes: the tip of the nose
Mudra: hands open as shown and rotate the palms of your hands
quickly. You see now look, there is an absolute angle of the hand, look
at this. You have to do it exactly that way because the prana must
pass, and and this. (Start breathing of the dog), you see I’m dancing,
the whole thing moves
Come on, come on, move people, you should be at least 20 cm. above
the floor with every move, move, move.
Finally inspired!, And stick out your tongue, and squeeze, squeeze, tongue out, do it like iron and hammer. Squeeze your entire body, exhale. 3 times
Put the tape (Punjabi drum music) and dance with your hands above your head (3 minutes)
Get up and continue dancing with arms up (3 minutes).
Musashi’s Nine Principles of Strategy
1. Do not think dishonestly
2. The way is in the training
3. Become acquainted with every art.
4. Know the ways of all professions.
5. Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters.
6. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything.
7. Perceive those things which cannot be seen.
8. Pay attention even to trifles.
9. Do nothing which is of no use.
— Miyamoto Musashi
The Book of Five Rings
Timing in Strategy
There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a great deal of practice.
Timing is important in dancing and pipe and string music, for they are in rhythm only if timing is good. Timing and rhythm are also involved in the military arts, shooting bows and guns, and riding horses. In all skills and abilities there is timing.
There is also timing in the Void.
There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Ways of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this. In strategy there are various timing considerations. From the outset you must know the applicable timing and the inapplicable timing. and from among the large and small things and the fast and slow timings find the relevant timing, first seeing the distance timing and the background timing. This is the main thing in strategy. It is especially important to know the background timing, otherwise your strategy will become uncertain.
You will win battles with the timing in the Void born of the timing of cunning by knowing the enemies’ timing, and thus using a timing which the enemy does not expect.
–Miyamoto Musashi
The Book of Five Rings
I wish to express my gratitude to my teacher of many years in the Art of Aikido, Bobby Ishibashi, who explained to me the most important aspects of relating with an attacker: distance and blending. — HNS
The Five Sutras of the Aquarian Age
1. Recognize that the other person is you.
2. There is a way through every block.
3. When the time is on you, start, and the pressure will be off.
4. Understand through compassion or you will misunderstand the times.
5. Vibrate the Cosmos. Cosmos shall clear the path.
— Siri Singh Sahib Ji
In the Name of the Cosmos
You Didn’t Build That
Nasrudin (during his age, there was no car) has been looking for a parking place for twenty minutes already. He turns around, he waits, he drives a bit further, but finds nothing.
He has an important business meeting and he’s going to be late, but nothing, no parking space. Filled with despair he raises his eyes up to the sky and says:
“My God, if you get me a parking space in five minutes, I promise to you that I’ll eat kosher (halal) food for the rest of my life…”
And suddenly – O miracle! – right next to him a car drives away leaving an ideal parking spot.
So Nasrudin turns his eyes to the sky and says: “God, stop searching, I found one!”
Nasrudin Tells a Lie
One day Nasrudin and his friends decided to play a joke on the people in a village. So Nasrudin drew a crowd, and lied to them about a gold mine in a certain place. When everybody ran to get their hands on the gold, Nasruddin started running with them. When asked by his friends why he was following them, he said “So many people believed it, that I think it may be true!”
Meditation: Notes from the Sat Nam Rasayan® Conference in Perugia, December 3-9, 2012.
We do not warrant the completeness nor the accuracy of the notes published here. They are meant to remind the student of the meditations performed at the conference, not to serve as a definitive description of the meditations. As the resources for the descriptions are researched links to those resources will be supplied here.
Perugia 2012-12-03
Kriya – fingertips together left hand, elbow out. Right hand contains left, don’t touch.
Eyes closed. Focus on forehead. Ldb. 11 min. Each side. Opens flow in. Chest.
Kriya– gyan mudra hands extended, palms up. Tip of tongue. Humee hum. Ton 11 min.
Throat chakra is the bridge. Chest out, point to self with straight fingers. Elbows out. Pressure on chest. Oscillate hands up and down in front if solar plexus. Har.inhale, hold, fast. 3x
Kriya – hands over ears, whistle areas bhaee.
Evening
Fix relation with active earth. Grasp hands quickly in front, twisting. “o” breath. Inhale, vibrate, exhale 3x. Push hands flat forward. “o” breath. Alternate. Inhale, vibrate 3x
Tongue out, mouth breathing. Rotate open hands outward
Mercury fingertips touch, sun fingertips touch. Saturn, Jupiter touch very lightly. Thumbs don’t touch. Balances parasympathetic nervous system with the earth. Controlled breathing. Inhale, squeeze, exhale. 3x
LA667
Alternate fists forward and back, Cannon “o” breath. Eyes closed. 5 1/2 min
Hands Venus lock in back. Eyes closed. Look at forehead. 11 min
Hands in front of face. . Look between the hands. 30 sec
Rotate arms at shoulders above. 2 1/2
arms up overhead, fingers spread. Breath. 1 1/2
Inhale,stretch, exhale 3x.
Perugia 2012-12-04
Kriya – touch Mercury,saturn, Jupiter, Mercury. humee hum brum hum. Move knees up and down. T.o.n. 11 min.
Hands face forward at sides. Touch thumb to palm, close hand, open… Har on open. 1 min.
Kriya – Surya mudra on knees. T.o.n. ang sang whaheguru. Aquarian march. Listen. 31 min.
Grab elbows above head. Hari (navel) ommmm. (Focus on center of brain)
When you go into the frame of your nastiness. This uplifts your onsciousness and changes the perception of the relation. 11 min.
Kriya – jupiter, Saturn up at sides. Eyes 9/10 closed, t.o.n. Har sing nar sing. Listen. Disappear.
Kriya – swing arms in big circle outwards, up and down. Har
Genie pose. Suck Prana in through navel, exhale. Ldb.
Inhale left, then twist right, exhale. 3x.
Evening meditation
Control spaciness. Hands face upwards, elbows on ribs. Satnamx7 waheguru. Inhale 8, hold 16exhale 8, hold out 16. For parasympathetic nervous system.
Kriya – make fists, hold left hand thumb inside and lft hand inside right hand at heart. Squeeze both hands. Sing harinam,sat am…Hari 3x per breath. T.o.n.11 min
Perugia 2012-12-05
Detachment comes when the natural flow and your Prana are integrated. That’s what KY does. We come here
1. To develop the teachings together. Refine the projective meditative mind, by moving the elements in an integrative way.
2. The intensity of the experience revolves our dysfunctionality. We don’t need to repeat the experience.
Kriya – swimming.
Palms together right up 60 deg
Palms together left up 60 deg
Inhale, fingers interlocked, push up hard, exhale 3x
Kriya – asking posture, hands upward, elbows at sides. Thumb on mercury. See through the occipital. T.o.n. singh kaur guru ram Das
Kriya – right arm up 50 deg. Move thumb to mound of mercury and open. Then, pump navel, then b.o.f.
Talk
Right thumb on mound of mercury, make fist. Move in circles at side. Left hand open, move left and right. Fast. Inhale, hold, move faster, 3 x.
Kriya – tongue out, dog pant. Thumb on mercury. Toc. 11 min
Open the diaphragm. Affects central nervous system.
Kriya – jupiters touch ground, then each other at the chin. Eyes t.o.c.
Sat nam sat nam waheguru waheguru.
jupiters touch ground, then each other above the head. T.o.c.
Golden chain – relate with the subtle body of the teaching lineage
Kriya – Har Harray haree waheguru. Hands together at chin.
Kriya – interlace fingers at navel. B.o.f. For toxicity. Can be done lying down. 22 min.
Evening – hands clasped in front. Eyes closed t.o.n. hold hands tightly. Ldb. 31 min.
Perugia 2012-12-06
Kriya – palms together pointing forward at navel. Pressure on fingertips, not on palms. Right thumb over left. Ad such…bay such 2x/breath. T.o.n. Then 3x, 4x,5x. 31 min.
Kriya – grab left thum, left Jupiter, place other three left hand fingers over right hand fingers. Over heart. Eyes closed, breathe. Sing Harinam sat nam …sat nam haree.
Kriya – Har haray haree waheguru. Palms together at chin.
Kriya – left hand gyan mudra up at side. Right arm across chest parallel to floor. Har Har Har Har haree haree. ton.
Stabilizes arc line. Stabilizes meditative mind. Prevents influence by others. Level of perception of patient.
Kriya – jupiters interlocked at throat. Ra ma da sa . For irritation in the brain.
Perugia 2011-12-07
There is a point in the occipital that stabilizes the inner vision.
Kriya – Gyan mudra up at sides, t.o.n. inhale mouth, exhale nose. 3 min.
“o” mouth b.o.f. 3 min. Tongue out b.o.f. 3 min.
Inhale, exhale very slowly 4x
Close eyes, hands down, hold silence. 3 min.
Sip in and out through mouth.
We need to see who is looking. No one. We need to erase our identification. We don’t want to identify what we assume to be our self.
Kriya – inhale mouth, exhale nose. Hands crossed, right on top of left. t.o.n.
Connects perceptive system.
To connect the perceptive system in someone. They make spider hands. Press cheeks aside nose. 22 min. Squeeze 3x.
Kriya – hands face your face. t.o.n. see through eyes in back of head. Control the breathing. Guru ram Das. 31 min. Squeeze heart, navel, ribs.
Do this every day.
Exercise: move vision from 3rd eye to navel or heart.
Kriya – right Jupiter over left, right thumb over left. Thumbs press up against nose. Har har gobinde… Eyes closed. 3rd eye. 11 min.
Kriya – hold arms above elbows, right arm over left. Ajai Alai. For 3rd eye. Relax the elbows. t.o.c. 62 min.
Give you a sense of control of your development.
Kriya – interlace fingers at solar plexus. Interlock knuckles, Touch thumbs.
Sing ra ma da sa__Sa. Se. So. Hung. LA018 (1982)
Continue Sadhana for another 2weeks.
Don’t try to reproduce the mental state we arrived at. It is there, it will come.
Evening meditation –
Prayer pose. l.d.b. eyes closed. (gong)
Perugia 2012-12-08
The phenomenon of “position”. We will work with the position of the system.
Evolution does not exist. We don’t evolve into a more perfect being. We are. Things happen to us, but we are the same.
Our essential discipline is not to be distracted.
Localize the position of objects in the system. We cant express it. We have to experience it. We have to experience it as a nonlinear process.
Kriya – Jupiter, Saturn up as sides. “o” mouth. Breathe. Eyes closed. 11 min. Tiger claws.
Kriya – left hand heart, right over ear. Long Ek ONG Kar. Go out of time and space.
Ek – affirmation
ONG – infinite
Kar – release
Sat nam – the manifest one
Siri
Waheguru – beyond the beyond. 31 min.
Ek ONG Kar sat nam siri waheguru
Ek ONG Kar sat nam siri waheguru
Siri waheguru Ji Siri waheguru
Siri waheguru Ji Siri waheguru
Inhale, squeeze,pull the spine up. 3x
Kriya – right hand holds left thumb. Left fingers overlap right hand. Look at bridge of nose, silently reciting sa ta na ma. Reverse nose. Ldb. 7-31 min
Breaks the limitation of the mind.
Kriya – break the identification. Right hand at heart, palm facing left. Left hand palm down, moving up and down, elbow at rib. Ajai Alai. Ton. 31 min. Then whisper 31 min.
Kriya – gyan mudra on knees. T.o.n. chant waheguru. Water, air, fire. Then silently do the same with the lips and mouth.
Perugia 2012-12-09
SNR we née ability to sustain shuniya and sustain relation.
Kriya – Jupiter Saturn intertwined up at sides. T.o.c. Har. 11 min. Tiger claws.
Shuniya.
Kriya – to integrate,focus. Palms forward up at sides. Spread fingers,close thumbs, close fingers, open fingers. Punjabi drums, chant Har on open. 18 min.
Kriya – power of self engagement. If life makes no sense, dont try to fire it out. It doesn’t.
Jupiter Saturn up at sides. Aad such…bay such. 7 min. Interconnects neurosystem.
When you wake up, feel where the flow is blocked.
Engage the event, produce a phrase that resolves the resistance. Perceive how the subtle bodies are interacting with the elements. Propse a change in the e-m field somethingwith a phrase.
God is the only self stimulated entity. There is no other reason for existence.
Kriya – inerrelate the hypothalamus with the nervous system. Right palm up, left down,loose. Arms 45 deg to floor. Palms parallel to floor. Eyes on nose. Inhale slowly and controlled with nose, exhale slowly through mouth. 22 min. Inhale press palms together. 3x. 6/30/97. Kwtc03.
Kriya – palms together, right a little higher than left. Bof into mudra. Stabilizes your gains.
Kriya – fi gets interlaced, palms forward arms straight in front. 1 min breath. 3 min. Inhale nose, exhale mouth. 3 min. Inhale, hold, pump navel as long as you can. 3 min. up at sides, “helicopter” 2 min.
No Superstition and the Vagus Nerve – HNS Class Golden Bridge 2012-12-12
Meditation: Breath to Conquer Time Space and Destiny
Breath to Conquer Time, Space and Destiny
“Practice this kriya with and empty stomach. This is a special meditation through which a juman has the power to halt time and space an destiny. Do you understand to what vastness you can reach if you want? One who loves God can twist around even God. That is why we say love is God. The organization of God is timeless, but one who loves God has the power to bring this timelessness into time and space.
“This kriya neutralizes the energy and gives a wider horizon to anyone of limited nature. It is very simple, highly psychological, vey healing and most powerful. It neutralizes the energy and gives a wider horizon to an individual. Left side of the body (Ida) represents time, right side of the body (Pingala) represents space, and the central self (Shushmana) is infinity.
“It is not very complicated, but it does a very computerized , complicated job for any human mind and body. Previously, it was only taught to those who were gifted in the spiritual world. Old Christian mystics used to do it to gain Crist consciousness.
How to do Reverse Prayer Pose Mudra
Roll your shoulders inward toward your chest, stretching your shoulder blades apart. Bring your hands into traditional Prayer Pose and then roll you r wrists so that your palms face your chest. Continue rolling your wrists until the backs of your hands are touching from the wrists to the tips of the fingers (be sure that backs of your Jupiter (index) fingers are touching each other with the same amount of pressure as the backs of the other fingers are touching each other).
This puts a great deal of pressure on meridian points in the shoulders. Maintain the stretch in the shoulder area so that you do not put too much pressure on the wrists. The angle of the forearm is sixty degrees from elbow to wrist.
This mudra puts pressure on the area that controls the secretion of the pancreas. It blocks the sugar flow in the blood stream and gives powerful alertness to the mind. When our mind is alert, it can defend our spirit and we can live spiritually amid the challenges of life.
1. Sit in Easy Pose with a straight spine, chin in, and chest lifted. Balance your weight on your sit bones. Your eyes are nine-tenths closed. Bring your hands into Reverse Prayer Pose in the center of your chest. Hold the posture for 2 1⁄2 minutes to let your aura adjust. Then inhale in four slow. Powerful strokes through the nose and exhale all the breath our with a continuous whistle. 8 1⁄2 minutes (11 minutes total time)
2. Inhale, exhale, and stretch your arms straight up, spreading the fingers wide apart. Stretch all the way up. 30 seconds.
3. Come back into Reverse Prayer Pose and calmly begin long deep breathing. Inhale, mentally chanting “Wha-hay”. Exhale mentally chanting “Guroo”.
9 1⁄2 minutes
4. Stay in position and continue long, deep breathing. Slow the breath down to 30 seconds for the inhalation and 30 seconds for the exhalation (one breath a minute, or as slowly as you comfortably can, up to on breath a minute). Mentally vibrate Wha-hay Guroo with your heartbeat (75-80 times per minute). 13 1⁄2 minutes.
5. Inhale, stretch the hands upward briefly, exhale, and relax.
“This exercise can be given in cases where there is a breakdown in a drug hallucination and the patient doesn’t want to control himself any way other than be controlling his own system, This can save a lot of suffering.”
HNS Class Golden Bridge Hollywood – 2012-11-21 – Healing in the Aspect of Remembering
Tune-in. Ong Namo….
Let’s do this Meditation For Deep Intuition (SSSji Lecture M074 — 920423)
Part 1. Hold hands out forwards; elbows bent and in at the sides, Fingers are straight. Right hand, palm faces slightly up (60 deg from horizontal); left palm down but slightly up (30 deg from horizontal).
Eyes are focused at the tip of the nose. Hold this posture.
Breathe very slowly. Inhale as long as you can, hold as long as you can, exhale as long as you can.
Time: 11 min.
To Finish: Inhale, hold, squeeze. Synchronize the body. Stiff as steel. Feel Shuniya. Exhale. Relax. — 3x
Part 2. Arms out straight at sides, 60 deg, stiff, fingers spread.
Move arms in big circles, backwards. Keep arms and fingers stiff.
Eyes are focused at the tip of the nose.
Time: 2.5 min.
Part 3. Continue moving the arms in big circles, backwards.
Stick the tongue as far out as it will go. Put pressure on the throat by holding out the tongue.
Breathe through the mouth.
Do it hard and fast.
Time: 5 min.
Part 4. Arms up straight, palms together.
Powerful Breath of Fire.
Time: 3.5 min.
To Finish: Inhale, hold, stretch tight, exhale — 3x
Part 5. Arms straight, flat out in front, palms up.
Close the eyes.
Breathe long and deep.
Listen to or sing Bountiful, Blissful & Beautiful.
Time: 3 min.
Inhale, hold the breath, exhale, relax.
That Meditation changes the chemistry of the brain. It separates the functions of the pituitary and the pineal glands, which has an effect of giving you deep intuition.
Okay. Let’s put our intuition to work. Let’s do something that we haven’t done for quite a long time. Let’s try to heal something from the past. The past is a relative thing. Sometimes something that happened that seemed that it was in the past is still with us; right? Especially a traumatic event or something you just don’t get over: It feels present. Well, let’s work on healing something like that in the past.
We’re going to place our awareness in a particular aspect. We’re going to access our memory. As the healer we’re not going to remember anything; however, we’re going to access our memory as though we are remembering something. We all do it. When you try to remember something, you go to where your memory is. We’re going to go to where our memory is. We’re going to open the space, and we’re going to sit in that place where we remember. We don’t usually do it without a purpose, object, or focus; however, we’re not going to have any object or focus here, except to heal.
You’ll relate with your partner to heal. We’re going to heal through that aspect of our awareness. We’d like to heal something in our partner’s past.
Okay. Let’s try it.
Round One : Open the space. Feel the sounds as they manifest inside you. Merge with that experience of the sounds inside you. Be aware of what is being produced by your mind. Just observe it. Watch the flow. Now go to that place in your mind where you can remember, as though you’re trying to remember something. Don’t try to remember anything in particular. Just go to where your memory is. Relate with your partner from that place of memory where you remember, with the intention of healing something that is recalled by your partner in your partner’s memory. Find some place in the memory that’s a point of irritation. Give space to those memories, and release their attachment. Come to conclusion.
What seems to be the nature of the attachment to a memory that keeps it present? In general it’s emotional.
Okay. Switch.
Round Two : Open the space. Feel the sounds as they’re expressed inside you. Be aware of how the sounds are stimulating the thoughts. Observe the thoughts as they flow. Continue to feel the sounds as they’re expressed inside you. Observe the flow in the mind. Go to that place in your mind where you remember just in general. Don’t try to remember anything in particular, just where you go when you remember something. Only go to that place where you remember. Still feel the sounds inside you, and how they affect your experience of that place where you remember. From this place relate with your partner in this space of remembering with the intention of healing something that’s present in your partner’s memory. Feel how it’s affecting you. Give space to that. Don’t resist the thoughts. Give space to them. As the resistances resolve, go further and deeper back into your partner’s memory. Go to the First Chakra. Memories are stored there. Relate with that. Go to the darkest place in the space, and dwell there. Heal the memories that come from the First Chakra. Release the resistance. Come to conclusion.
That was an interesting journey. That could be very effective to go to the deepest root of some things that just are bugging somebody that become compulsions, maybe some things that happened a long time ago — maybe an event or maybe not, some experience, something that affected the person’s patterns of thought, behavior, perception.
You can go through all these layers, very emotional at first. You go through all the emotions. Then the emotions start to settle down. Then you can go to the really tough stuff.
Most of the emotional baggage is fear-based in people, motivating them to do things in ways that are just expressions of their fear.
Anything else?
Darkness is a perception. Since we were already Dreaming, I thought we would go through that Gate that goes into the Earth.
That felt pretty good for the Tiny Pets. Yeah, it was pleasant. The space was really nice, free, easy, and open. There wasn’t a lot of conflict in in it. That’s a nice approach.
Okay then. We’ll finish.
Sat Nam. Sat Nam. Sat Nam. (silent prayer….)
A pretty major component of the subconscious is old pattens of memory of the Soul.
These are Warrior Days, too. There’s still a lot of violence perpetrated on people in very grotesque ways. It’s not always in a dungeon with physical instruments of torture; however, there are a lot of pressures that are put on people in a way that is like torture: psychological pressures, pressures of feeling helpless in fulfilling their Destiny. They can’t accomplish what they know they have to do. Just a regular person who has a family may have a lot of trouble providing for that family. That’s torture. Watching people hungry and exposed to the elements is violence. That’s violence.
We should try to heal anything that we can relate with, have an experience, and contain that. In some way we’ll have an experience of it. If we can contain that without imagining what we think that is, then it will have a big effect and an impact: maybe make the person stronger in the way that person needs to be stronger, or however it will work. We don’t have to understand the mechanics of how it will work necessarily. We may be given the knowledge of that at some point in doing that; however, we don’t start with that. Just contemplate it.
Very often when you deal with things that are really different, or dealing with people’s attitudes, or dealing with really ingrained patterns of behavior, it could feel very uncomfortable and feel wrong — that that’s not what this is that you’re experiencing; however, it is what you’re experiencing, without going to the imagination of what you think it is. Sometimes it gets very uncomfortable relating with conditions in healing. We just need to contain it though, no matter how uncomfortable it is, or even if we doubt it and think that it’s not right, that this couldn’t be it; however, it is it. Whatever the experience you’re having is it. Maybe it’s producing a lot of thoughts or a lot of doubts, or you want to reject it. That is what it is. We just allow that experience, however it manifests. Because we picked something that seems a little unusual and you wouldn’t really know how that could be fixed, it’s still okay. Go there. Relate with it. Contain it.
I’ve contemplated a lot on the positions that people take who are very firm, strident, unyielding, intractable, and they say, “I’m never going to change.” The things that brings up are those kinds of feelings: “This is impossible. How will this ever be different? How can this change?” As long as we ourselves don’t hold a position about it, a belief that it must be this or it must be that, then we’ll be okay. We’ll be able to heal something. We’ll be able to have an impact on it — just not taking a position and not holding any particular belief about it: “This is because of that. What these guys are doing is wrong.” That really isn’t a useful part of our healing process.
You can relate and see what happens. Maybe there will be some effect; however, we don’t need to expect any particular outcome, such as, “Oh, he’s finally going to change in a perceptible way, or in a way that we expect him to change.” That may not happen. I don’t think we should expect that. It doesn’t matter. If you’re healing, you’re just healing.
You have to see how you can be effective in any situation. If you find an opportunity where confronting him with it will shed light on it in some way that matters, then maybe that’s a good thing to do. Just confronting him and saying, “You’re bad” probably won’t work. There could be risks.
We don’t need to know the particular mechanics of how things resolve or what trajectory it’s going to take because it’s really complicated; so we contemplate. That’s the answer to everything. Just contemplate. Give it space. Try not to get too upset. Don’t react. Just be watchful for where there’s some opening. There has to be an opening for something to happen. That’s where you apply intensity.
Applying intensity, saying, “I saw you do that. You’re really bad,” you’re pushing directly against and opposite to the way this person is already pushing; and so that doesn’t have a big effect. The person pushes harder. “No. I’m not bad. You’re bad.” Then maybe they set you up to look really bad if they have a lot of power. If there’s an opening somewhere that goes in-between or perpendicular to what they’re doing and the direction they’re pushing, then maybe you can have some effect on something.
It’s how the U.S. Government put Al Capone in jail. They were trying to get him for all those people he had killed and all of the mayhem that he caused in his life. They could never do it because he was so protected and so insulated from the people who were doing all these things for him. They went sideways. They said, “Oh, yeah. Look at this, man, your books, your accounting.” It’s just as good. They got him on his accounting. It was just as valid at the time for whatever happened there to put this guy in jail for accounting fraud, manipulation, and bad reporting. That was how they got him to go to jail. They could never get him for the really bad stuff. That was an opening.
Sometimes that’s what being really clever is: just waiting, watching, and finding when there’s an opening to do something and be effective in something. They’ll change, or something will make them change, or there will be pressure on them that you’re not putting on them directly because they’ll just resist that.
When you’re healing and you find resistance, you don’t push the resistance. You expand that experience. We make it Silent. There’s no pushing. Then something can happen. That’s when you’re effective as a healer.
Okay then. We’re finished.
HNS Class Golden Bridge Hollywood – 2012-11-14 – Stillness and Peace
Tune-in. Ong Namo….
Let’s do this Meditation:
The right hand wraps around and holds the left thumb. The hands rest in the lap. Close the eyes. Focus your eyes downward to the tip of the chin. Silently recite to yourself, “Wa… he… Gu… ru….” Contemplate the space between each syllable: “Wa… he… Gu… ru….”
Time: 11 minutes
To Finish: Inhale deeply, and relax.
Okay. Take your partner.
Round 1: Open the space. Feel the sounds as they resonate inside you. Feel how the sounds are interacting with all of your perceptions. Find the Silence in your space, and expand your experience into the Silence. In your experience of the sounds find the emotional component. See what stimulates emotion. Use that emotional component of your experience to bring your awareness to your Third Chakra. Allow that emotional sensation to remind you to hold your awareness there in the Third Chakra. Go beyond the forms of your mind. Experience the Silence, beginning in the Third Chakra, and then let it expand. Research that relationship between the sounds and the emotions, and experience it in the Third Chakra. Let it expand. Now choose to relate with your partner. Relate with the Third Chakra of your partner with the intention of moving the awareness of your partner to the Third Chakra. Relate with the Third Chakra of your partner with the intention of clarifying the mind. Keep sitting in your Third Chakra. Observe the relationship between the sounds and the emotions. Relate with your partner in a way to clarify the mind with the awareness in the Third Chakra. Use the Silence to expand the experience. Keep going beyond the forms of the mind, and just allow it to clarify. Bring the entire space of the relation with the Third Chakra of your partner to neutral, observing the effect on the mind. Come to conclusion.
Comfortable?
Round Two : Open the space. Allow the sounds to begin to affect your entire Field of Perception, and to penetrate inside you. Feel the sounds inside you. Feel how the sounds are affecting the emotional component of your Field. Set the intention to move your awareness to your Third Chakra. Perceive the sounds, emotions, and everything in your Third Chakra. Choose to relate with your partner and your partner’s Third Chakra. You need to move your partner’s experience to the Third Chakra. Research how your relation in the space of your partner’s Third Chakra is affecting the mind and how it’s working. Find how you can relate with the space in the Third Chakra, in that Field, to clarify the mind. Expand the space in the Third Chakra. Use the Silence. Bring the space to neutral. Expand the space in the Third Chakra. Expand the space in the mind. If you think it’s too abstract, you can continue to be aware of the sounds and their effect on the emotions. Come to conclusion. Switch.
We’re not done.
Round Three : Open the space. Be aware of the sounds in the space. Feel the sounds inside you. Move your awareness to the Throat Chakra. Feel the sounds inside your Throat Chakra. Feel how the sounds affect the part of your Field that’s the emotions. Relate with your partner. Relate with your partner’s Throat Chakra. In the space of the relation with your partner’s Throat Chakra, modify that relation in a way that will adjust your partner’s spine. Adjust the neck. Adjust the cranium. Release the pressure in the vagus nerve. Release the pressure, beginning in the face. Release all the places where there’s pressure. Come to conclusion. Switch.
Round Four: Open the space. Open your Field. Relate with the sounds inside you. Relate with the sounds’ connecting with emotions. Observe your Perceptive Field in the Throat Chakra. Keep the connection with the sounds. Relate with your partner’s Throat Chakra. Relate with the Throat Chakra in a way that will adjust your partner’s spine, neck, and cranium. Release any pressure and swelling in the vagus nerve, and any irritation in the face, or wherever there’s any pressure. Come to conclusion. Switch.
Round Five : Healers, as you approach your partners, put yourselves into a position where you’ll be able to touch your partners’ heads with your right hands. Open the space. Relate with the Field of the Sound inside you. Put your hands into the Mahan Gyan Mudra. (The elbows are bent and into the sides. The left palm faces up to the ceiling, and the right palm faces down to the floor. On both hands the Jupiter fingers are straight, and the thumbs hold down the other fingers. The top section of the right Jupiter Finger sits on the top section of the left Jupiter Finger. The two Jupiter Fingers form a 90-degree angle.) Place your awareness in your Crown Chakra. Relate with your partner’s Crown Chakra. Don’t do anything. Just contemplate the relation. Feel the resistances. Feel everything that is movement away from Stillness. Go more deeply into Stillness. Continue to contemplate and feel the resistance, allowing the Stillness to amplify the perception. Bring your mind into Absolute Stillness. Don’t move from that Stillness; however, do move your right Jupiter Finger, and touch the top of your partner’s head. Release all resistance. Okay. Switch.
Round Six: Open the space. Feel the sounds inside you. Move your awareness to your Crown Chakra. Relate with your partner. Place your hands into the Maha Gyan Mudra. Relate with your partner’s Crown Chakra. Bring your mind to Stillness. Feel the resistances. Let the Stillness amplify the resistance. Don’t change anything. Stay in that Stillness. Don’t move from it; however, move your right Jupiter Finger, and touch the top of your partner’s head, releasing the resistance. Okay.
Sat Nam. Sat Nam. Sat Nam. (silent prayer….)
“Lincoln” the Movie (and a healing workshop)
“Lincoln”, the movie produced by Steven Spielberg, is a story for our time. It portrays how a relatively small group of people, known as the House of Representatives, who held the public trust during Lincoln’s administration, were consigned the task of deliberating a very large question. The situation that they contemplated manifested as the largest storm that has ever enveloped the land and the consciousness of the people of the United States, the War Between the States. They deliberated whether to abolish slavery. Lincoln’s vision of governance was simple. He stated in perhaps his most famous speech that his prayer and firm intention was “…that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”. Under Lincoln’s leadership they resolved that the Constitution was to be amended to abolish slavery for all time, the Thirteenth Amendment. That legislation has had profound and far reaching social, political and economic consequences to this day.
It’s not too big of a stretch to compare this scenario with what we are facing today in the United States. We have witnessed one of the largest political storms in memory that was the election held last week. The hurricane Sandy physically devastated a region of the country. Record numbers of people are living in poverty, in the richest country on the planet. The list of such factors contributing to our situation is long. Exacerbating the problem is that there has been a growing pressure on the nation’s psyche to continue to produce these conditions using instruments of fear, intimidation, and subjugation. And the collective psyche has permitted and accommodated this pressure. Why?
It’s easy to point to two obvious motivators, greed and fear. Greed is a dominant quality of oppressors and fear tends to keep the oppressed where they are. Underlying these, however, is ignorance. It isn’t just that there is no sense of fairness or justice. These are principles that an enlightened people will employ in their governance, but they are still relative. The declaration “…that all men are created equal” is really preceded by “we are all the same”.
The lack of that realization was a root cause of the Civil War. The assumption that there is some fundamental defining difference between individuals produced contempt. It produced a perception of superior and inferior. It produced slavery. It produced economies that were based on slavery. When those closely held perceptions and economies were challenged, it produced hatred. The challenge also produced some form of that realization in those people who were consigned the task of deciding the slavery issue. There were intense forces that resisted any change in the status quo. The political battle that ensued reflected the war that was being waged on the battlefield. As in the war, courage prevailed and the law became an embodiment of that realization. Still, after 150 years, some hatred has persisted.
We have come to the point where that battle is being litigated again. The same contempt born of the same assumption of difference has produced the same perceptions of superior and inferior. This time, instead of just race, it is based also on the status resulting from one’s relative accumulation of material wealth. A new economic subjugation has been evolving where wage earners do not make a living wage, even if they are fully employed. The social “safety net” is under attack, leaving a majority of people more vulnerable to financial ruin, and some, even death in the face of catastrophic events. Shared participation has given way to purchased representation. A new civil war has broken out that is being waged in the channels of communication. It is a war whose major weapon is chaos. The very language used to describe this war has been a casualty. The so-called makers are becoming the new takers.
Fortunately, the structure that saved the nation from the first Civil War still exists in some fashion. We have the same governing body whose members will be consigned the task to deliberate pretty much the same question. And, again, we have a President who understands the big question, even if he personally does not have the definitive answer. In his own words, President Obama has distilled the words of Lincoln to their essence: “We are all in this together”.
What can we do about any of this? This Saturday, we will research how to heal this situation at the Healing Workshop at the Healing Heart Center. To heal something of this magnitude, or anything, for that matter, it is important not to take a position. Politics is sometimes useful as a social tool to describe a situation or to litigate it as a participant in the process. We have already voted, so our political role has been fulfilled. What can we do as healers?