Monday, April 25, 2016

TOSS


Toss a coin up. If it returns, it is a cycle of births and deaths. If it does not, it is Nirvana.

Our goal is to give you a Taste Of Samadhi and Stabilize it.


What is Samadhi? It is a state of pure awareness with no thoughts or feelings. Reaching it takes only three steps 1. Without naming them, feel the energies flowing in your body (Kundalini) 2. Without feeling the body, float away in thoughts (Yoganidra) 3. Stop both feelings and thoughts to taste Samadhi.

(animate: symbol  goes left, right, left , right, up, down, bounce up, down, bounce up, vanish while eye slowly closes and face dissolves leaving only the curve)

If you are observing, but there is nothing to observe, you return to thinking and feeling, which we have called Taste Of Samadhi. Stabilizing it is the next goal. Here even the observer is absent.  All energies of space, time and matter are gone. There is no need to return; that is the second, deeper state of Samadhi. This has been often called moksha, meaning a release from cycles of time.

Deleting the seer in I-see-but-there-is-nothing-to-see is not easy. It demands lifelong practice and detachment. Here the paths and the teachers are indeed many, depending upon the region and culture. We can only offer what we know a little about. What we know and offer is based on the ancient Indian wisdom of the 10 great female deities starting with Kali. The third of them is Sundari. Her path affirms life, light and love. Enjoying beauty, harmony, and abundance are seen to be routes to moksha. Kali’s path  has the potential to convert  even the unknown dark energies creating and destroying time, space and matter  into utter creativity. Some day we have to confront and befriend fear and death to realize that there can be no death. Then only aggression can cease and love, and harmony can flourish. It is appropriate to modern times which is steeped in violence and love takes the back seat, driven by aggression. We teach all of them, but with a focus on Sundari, an embodiment of power disguised in beauty and geometry.

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