Potential
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Post by Potential on Jun 11, 2005 15:32:36 GMT -5
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Potential
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Post by Potential on Jun 11, 2005 15:33:14 GMT -5
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Post by ~¤LilacSky¤~ on Jun 11, 2005 15:56:22 GMT -5
wow this is sure alot of information, Ill have to go over them when I have a bit more time, thanks potential..
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Potential
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Post by Potential on Jun 11, 2005 23:29:25 GMT -5
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Post by ~¤LilacSky¤~ on Jun 11, 2005 23:31:51 GMT -5
Potential read your pms please at the top of the forum, at the menu.. and write me back, okay ..thank you..
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Post by Potential on Jun 11, 2005 23:35:13 GMT -5
THE SIX YOGAS OF NAROPA
1. Yoga of Psychic Heat, better known as Tumo. The foundation and ongoing support of the Path of Means, Tumo is the only one of the Six Yogas which is practiced throughout its entirety. It depends on the absolute retention of generative fluids -- sexual, endocrinological, and psychic -- for the conscious redirection and transmutation of subtle energies for spiritual purposes. In its most subtle and transcendent form, Tumo is known as the primordial energy at the very core of all manifestation.
2. Yoga of the Illusory Body. This practice begins as a powerful psychological technique. Through studying his mirror reflection and then visualized images of his own body, the aspirant comes to understand the arbitrary and illusory nature of perception. Next, he projects all his subliminal self-imagery, positive and negative, onto this image and thus disentangles himself from the web of identification with these things. Then he visualizes his Yidam, his personal Patron Buddha, and identifies his consciousness with it. He must transform his mundane life into the archetypal realm or body of the Buddha: his friends become Bodhisattvas, the outer world becomes a Mandala, and all incidents resonate with the Self-Illuminating Void.
3. Yoga of the Dream State. By maintaining waking consciousness during the nocturnal dream state, the yogi comes to realize the equally illusory nature of both the waking and dreaming conditions. Not only must he remain conscious while asleep, but he must also learn to dictate the incidents of his dreams, eventually performing heroic magical feats in his dreams. Through this practice the psyche is purged of many of its habitual limited assumptions about the nature of the manifest worlds.
4. Yoga of the Clear Light. According to the Tantric tradition, everyone experiences the Clear Light of the Void shortly after death. Its brilliance, however, is so overwhelming that the departing consciousness usually recoils in fear and is drawn instead into another samsaric rebirth. By learning to recognize the transcendent Light of the Nirvanic Buddha Consciousness during his lifetime, an adept may return to it without difficulty when the shock of death threatens to disorient him.
5. Yoga of the Bardo. The Bardo is the "nowhere" realm between death and rebirth. It is also the "nowhere" of the present moment. Whichever way you look at it, this yoga confronts the adept with his own naked and unmodified karmas. If he has not been sufficiently strengthened by his previous sadhana, he may easily become entangled in this display and fall into a realm corresponding to some aspect of his own karmic destiny.
6. Yoga of Consciousness Transference. Mastery of this yoga enables the adept to direct his consciousness at death through an aperture in the crown of the head to a chosen incarnation or a realm of light. This is his means of transcending the mechanics of karma and rebirth when he dies. The most desirable realm, of course, is the Dharmata, the Buddha realm of pure luminosity, the transcendent Light of Buddha Consciousness.
Buddhi(Sanskrit) means intellect, so Buddha means Intelligent One.
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Post by Potential on Jun 12, 2005 0:23:32 GMT -5
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Post by ~¤LilacSky¤~ on Jun 12, 2005 8:32:33 GMT -5
Potential in your own words can you explain what your getting at here??that way we can understand more fully... thanks...
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Post by nani on Jun 13, 2005 13:17:17 GMT -5
Potential, Me too I want to say that I truly appreciated your first posts, cause you did explain very well with your own words your believes and the sources of it. I also do appreciate to have some links of the basics, but I would propose one thing: Post a link and then wait - untill the contents of this link will be discussed and exchanged about with the people here - then you could post another link. Because like this you get a much better reflection of it in reference to the people here - and I think thats what you want and what you appreciate finally more also. Im not the admin of this forum, but I would propose that you can leave the links now, but dont post more of them, untill.. like I`ve said above. I dont want to offend you, but also I think the links deserve respect and attention, and thats only possible if there are not too many at once. Thats just my opinion. love_growth nani
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Post by ~¤LilacSky¤~ on Jun 13, 2005 13:38:40 GMT -5
yeah I agree, because lol I don't understand alot of this... and I think Potential it would be great if you could elaborate a bit for us... thanks!
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Post by Potential on Jun 13, 2005 16:12:03 GMT -5
It's for quick reference, that's all. I don't expect any feedback on this stuff, just something I can look at real fast while logged on and make a response to unkown inquiries. Validation.
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Post by ~¤LilacSky¤~ on Jun 13, 2005 16:14:54 GMT -5
oh I see well you know you have a notepad in your profile?? you could use that too if you wanted..
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Post by Potential on Jun 13, 2005 16:26:40 GMT -5
Somebody may find something more interesting than what I've found and want to share it by using one of these links, something that instigates research, promotes usage of this forum.
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Post by ~¤LilacSky¤~ on Jun 13, 2005 17:33:01 GMT -5
True enough, will you check you pm's again please?? thank you! and I used to have a library for links and stuff but I had to take it off because I couldn't find a way to put the link on the menu bar, you will see astral abyss is not the right type of text button so I have to fix that too..I might or might not bring back the library, I have to bring back the links page though..so well see.
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Post by Potential on Jun 20, 2005 17:27:21 GMT -5
I was originally trying to find info on Wisdom Channels found in the ear, according to Acupuncture the ear lobes are associated with the brain area, but the exact location of the wisdom channel I've been trying to find. Basically it looks like a baby inside a pregnant woman, upside down, the ear lobe being the brain, and the top part of the ear being where the lower half of the body is found. According to the portraits of Buddhas, and Siddhas, all these enlightened masters had large earrings that pulled their ear lobes very long, I'm supposing to stimulate the Wisdom Channels. So I do a search for earring in Sanskrit, and what I get is Avatamsa, the weird thing is that it sounded way too much like the Avatamsaka Sutra. So I break the words down, and the "ka" acts in the same way as in Japanese and Korean to indicate a question. So it basically says. The Sutra of the Mysterious Earring. However, the popular translations have titled it as, Sutra of the Garland of Buddhas or The Flower Adornment Sutra. I like my research results better, and will have to study the Avatamsaka Sutra to see if it makes reference to the art of piercing the ears. Here's a link to the Sutra. www.buddhistinformation.com/ida_b_wells_memorial_sutra_library/avatamsaka_sutra.htm
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Post by ~¤LilacSky¤~ on Jun 20, 2005 18:29:51 GMT -5
thats interesting potential, I would like to hear more about this wisdom channel, also what do you know about sound? and how it relavates to obe's?? also what do you think of those that have exceptinaly advanced hearing...
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Post by Potential on Jul 11, 2005 1:27:25 GMT -5
There are 10 winds(prana/chi/ki/consciousnesses), 5 branch and 5 root winds. The first 5 branch winds are associated with the 5 sense organ consciousnesses, namely sight, hearing, taste, smell, and to be able to feel. The 5 root winds: 1.support and maintain life (can be increased)life supporting wind 2.defecation, release of urine, semen, blood, and farting.downward-voiding wind 3.speak, spit, swallow, cough, burp, hiccup. upward-moving wind 4.metabolism, equally abiding wind 5.movement, pervading wind.
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Potential
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Post by Potential on Aug 9, 2005 6:59:19 GMT -5
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