龙Dragon龍 Posted June 27, 2012 Can someone explain what is a kundalini exactly? Is it like a religion? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
konchog uma Posted June 28, 2012 Can someone explain what is a kundalini exactly? Is it like a religion? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Foote Posted June 28, 2012 At any time we are where we are supposed to be in our journey. To get caught up in whether ourselves or others are not moving fast enough or too fast does us all a dis-service. To be concerned about the location of where we are on our journey means we are living in the past or the future which neither one exists right now. We will miss those teaching opportunities if we don't remain in the present. I read what you said about your experience with a sacramental plant, and I was immediately put in mind of something I wrote this morning on another site, where someone asked about sickness, old age, and death. I thought you might like it: "I still grapple with Gautama the Buddha's equating sickness, old age, and death with the five groups of grasping, but I think it does make sense in that my consciousness is not my own, not mine. When consciousness takes place spontaneously with regard to the six senses, that awareness from moment to moment is free, is not conditioned in the place of occurrence by ignorance, desire, or becoming. "That being, this is so", yet there is no doer, no sense of a do-er in control of that with respect to which consciousness takes place, no sense of a do-er in the placement of consciousness. This is just the way I experience consciousness falling asleep, when I attend to my sense of location in space as I fall asleep. When I'm waking up, the breath in, the breath out has no length except in the free occurrence of mind. Grasping after self, after a do-er in the five groups follows ignorance of the experience of consciousness taking place spontaneously, ignorance of the impact of consciousness, ignorance of the feeling that occurs as consciousness takes place. The sense of self connected with the do-er in the five groups knows old age, illness, and death as suffering, yet that sense of self is identically grasping in the five groups." Same song, and my descriptions of waking up and falling asleep are an effort to help myself (and maybe others) identify what is present all along. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
