love the longing

counting-sanskrit

: ekam (yekum) - Inhale
2: dve (dway) - Exhale
3: trini (treeny) - Inhale
4: catvari (chatwary) - Exhale
5: panca (pancha) - Inhale
6: sat (sut) - Exhale
7: sapta (supta) - Inhale
8: astau (ashtow) - Exhale
9: nava (nawa) - Inhale
10: dasa (dasha) - Exhale




hipp openers are good...

...all is a sadhana!

baby bird

to love
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"By broadening the river of life we expand our capacity to experience pleasure and pain without getting so involved in it. We can expand who we are so that problems can arise such as frustrations, fears, anxiety, what we call negative feelings and emotions and allow them to be there without making a big deal about it. We let them move through knowing that they will move through. Similarly, we also can allow ourselves to experiences more refined and even intense and sublime forms of pleasure without getting concerned about attachment. One way to begin to broaden the river of life, is by saying YES to whatever it is what is arising so we do not resist our pains and our pleasures. We welcome whatever is arising because it is simply happening. We simply say,"YES, I accept this, I welcome this, whatever it is". We welcome whatever is arising because it is happening at this moment." by Peter

BREATHING EXERCISE

A Breathing Exercise from Robert S.
BREATHING EXERCISE - for developing awareness of and cleansing the subtle channels...

The subtle channels called the 2 NADIS and central channel (Shushumna) begin about 4 finger widths below the navel. The right or RED channel, representative of the female energy (i.e. menstrual blood) starts here, moves at a distance of one "tsun" from the right side of the spine (neither to the front or back, but deep within). It passes through the neck, over the brain, but underneath the skull bones, drops down from the right side of the central fontanelle, ending at the outside tip of the right nostril. The WHITE channel, representative of male energy (i.e. semen) mirrors the RED channel pathway on the left side. Although these two channels wrap and bind the central channel at various points to form what we call the chakras, in this exercise we visualize them as straight, tinted, but transparent hollow tubes, the thickness of our little finger. The Central (also called spiritual, neither male, nor female) channel is visualized as a straight tube that is two little finger widths in diameter. It is often visualized as of a yellow tint, but in this exercise we see it as a transparent blue tube that starts 4 finger widths below the navel and goes up through the body anteriorly to the spine. It goes through the neck and head to the central fontanelle point where it makes a tight turn downwards to the area of the "third eye" and hooks inwards (or posteriorly) towards the pineal gland.

As mentioned, the RED and WHITE channels are wrapped around the Central Channel forming constrictive knot, known as chakras. The purpose of Tantric practice is to release the pressure of these outer channels so that energy moves freely through the Central Channel. The number of chakras there are varies in accordance with the mastery of the adept. As one becomes more aware of subtleties, the number of chakras can be as many as 9.

The practice:
1. Visualize that the beginning of the WHITE channel inserts into the beginning of the RED channel below the navel. (The RED tube opening is seen as larger and capable of accepting the smaller WHITE tube end.)

2. Block your right nostril with your right index finger and inhale through your left nostril. Imagine that the air you are breathing in to your left nostril is pure and fresh and that this pure and fresh air is being carried through the WHITE channel to where the WHITE channel is inserted into the RED channel below the navel.

3. At the point where you are visualizing that the pure, fresh air is at the beginning of the RED, let go of the right nostril and with your left index finger, block the left nostril. As you exhale, visualize that the pure, fresh air is pushing out what is unclean, contaminated, polluted, like wind that blows away dust. Especially see that as you breathe out you are releasing the defilement or poison of ATTACHMENT or clinging. These negativities are seen as smoke leaving the right nostril.

4. Repeat this two more times. After this, allow yourself to breathe through both nostrils and visualize the right, RED, channel as being luminous and purified of all negativities.

5. Now repeat 1 through 4 for the cleansing of the WHITE channel. See the RED channel end fitting inside the end of the WHITE tube end. Start with blocking the left nostril. As the fresh, pure air goes from the RED channel into the WHITE channel, you breathe out the impurities and the defilement of AGGRESSION. Do this three times and then breath in and out normally a few times, seeing the WHITE channel now as luminous and pure.

6. Now visualize Shushumna, the Central, spiritual, Channel. It is blue and the thickness of 2 small finger widths. Visualize that both the end of the WHITE and RED channels are inserted into the end of the Central Channel. Once you see this in your mind's eye, place your hands in your lap. Allow the back of the right hand to rest in the palm of the upturned left hand. The thumbs then touch to form a triangle. With your hands in this configuration, raise them enough to make it so that your navel is in the center of this triangle.

7. Breath in through both nostrils so that the pure, fresh air goes up through the nostrils, down through the RED and WHITE channels to the bottom entrance to the Central Channel.

8. As you exhale, feel this pure air cleansing the Central Channel and with it the defilement of IGNORANCE. You visualize that IGNORANCE and all of the impurities are pouring out of the region of your third eye.

9. Repeat this two more times. Then lower the hands into the lap and breath normally, experiencing the Central Channel as luminously blue, supple, and purified.

interesting

Thank you!

She talks about shame, empathy, vulnerability, fear, judgments, and courage. We could fond these on the chakra wheel and see what chakras is weak and do certain asanas to cope better. We are meant to tell our stories and in a culture of separation and judgment it does not fly well, hence people move into shame. Some move via vulnerability back and forth between empathy and shame. One could deconstruct this as well and be free but for the sake of pattern watching and learning to do things differently it is wise to be with all of these emotions, and embrace them. Invite them for tea just as Lord Buddha did with his demons.

love

not empty... but full we are when one

tonight, I simply love you too much
I can't even talk about YOU
to nobody -
who would understand this love
when I talk about you
you become less
in my longing for you
right now
I will soon merge with you
when you want - I have no I
in my non-dual stance
I do not mind a little separation
for then I love you even more
when we merge there will be
that bliss and joy which is the
base of the entire cosmological order
we are not empty together
but filled and full of love
here, all beings become lasting bliss
and all suffering goes forever
we are 1-love

tell

when you feel/hear/see something you like
you can embrace it and share it
write it into the sky
send it everywhere

free

we look at things
and wonder what we really see
engage with the given
deconstruct to be free
devotion opens
to hold you dear
and wherever we are
that is where we are to be

loving thoughts are for free

gentle songs
come to heal pain
they carry breath
as you rest
with no doubt and no trust
opposites vanish
thoughts filled with love and kindness
flow on and on to be shared and given
freely

totality of Being

"This is the eternal non existing present in which everything is happening..." says Peter

Please listen to the paradox of life, spirituality, energy
Peace!
We are all we have...

love

By day the sun shines,
And the warrior in his armor shines.
By night the moon shines,
And the master shines in meditation.
But day and night
The one who is awake
Shines in the radiance of the spirit.
-Dhammapada

Since everything is but an illusion,
Perfect in being what it is,
Having nothing to do with good or bad,
Acceptance or rejection,
One might as well burst out laughing!
~"The Great Perfection’s Self-Liberation in the Nature of Mind"