WHAT IS MEDITATION? (BUDDHISM)

 

                                  THE BUDDHA SPEECH 

                                       ABOUT NIRVANA

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                          NO CORRECTION IS NEEDED, JUST AWARENESS IS NEEDED. BECOME MORE ALERT. NO CHARACTER IS NEEDED, BECAUSE ALL CHARACTER IS FALSE IF YOU ARE NOT CONSCIOUS, AND ALL CHARACTERIS A BONDAGE IF YOU ARE NOT CONSCIOUS. AND ALL CHARACTER IS NOTHING BUT CHAINS IT DOESN'T BRING FREEDOM. ALL MORALITY IS HYPOCRISY IF YOU ARE NOT AWARE, IF YOU ARE NOT CONSCIOUS.

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                    SO, TO ME, RELIGION MEANS ONLY ONE THING, TO BE MORE CONSCIOUS, TO LIVE MORE CONSCIOUSLY.

                        DOES ANYMORE OR ANYTHING NEED CORRECTION? IT                                          PUZZLES  ME.

                       IT HAS PUZZLED EVERYBODY DOWN THE AGES. FORGET ABOUT CORRECTION. PUT YOUR TOTAL ENERGY INTO AWAKENING. THERE ARE ONLY TWO WAYS TO BE UNCONSCIOUS OR CONSCIOUS. CHOOSE ....

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                        "ENLIGHTENMENT IS MY TRUE NATURE, THERE IS NO 

                         NEED TO DO ANYTHING".

                       "ONLY WHEN EFFORT IS COMPLETELY EXHAUSTED AND ONE

                          FEELS UTTERLY USELESS DOES GRACE COME".

 

                       " WHAT IS ALL THIS? I AM CONFUSED. WHAT SHOULD I DO?

                         SHOULD I CONTINUE WITH MEDITATION OR SHOULD I JUST

                         SIT AND LET THINGS HAPPEN?

                       

                         PLEASE GUIDE ME.

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                        SHIV-PRIYANAND, IF YOU ARE CONFUSED THEN YOU WILL HAVE TO CONTINUE MEDITATIONS. CONFUSION IS THE ILLNESS, MEDITATION IS MEDICINAL.BOTH THE WORDS MEDITATION AND MEDICINE COME FROM THE SAME ROOT. IF YOU ARE CONFUSED, YOU WILL HAVE TO GO ON MEDIATATING. WHEN YOU SEE THE POINT WITHOUT ANY CONFUSION, THEN THERE IS NO NEED. BUT MEDITATION WILL PREPARE YOU, MEDITATION WILL FORCE YOU TO SEE THE POINT THAT THERE IS NO NEED TO DO ANYTHING. ONLY MEDITATION CAN DO THAT.

                    JUST LISTENING TO ME... I HAVE TOLD YOU THAT TO BE NATURAL IS TO BE ENLIGHTENED. NOW YOU THINK, SO, THAT IS GREAT! I CAN SIT SILENTLY AND DO NOTHING:. BUT CAN YOU REALLY SIT SILENTLY AND DO NOTHING? IF YOU CAN REALLY SIT SILENTLY AND DO NOTHING, THEN THIS QUESTION WOULD NOT HAVE ARISEN. YOU WOULD HAVE SAT AND KNOWN AND YOU WOULD HAVE BOWED BEFORE ME AND THANKED ME. THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO QUESTION. YOU WOULD HAVE COME DANCING TO ME, NOT WITH QUESTION AND A CONFUSED MIND.

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                            THAT'S  WHAT BUDDHA WAS DOING UNDER THE BODHI TREE SITTING SILENTLY DOING NOTHING.. AND THEN IT HAPPENED. THAT'S HOW IT HAPPENED TO ME! THAT'S HOW IT ALWAYS HAPPENS!

                         BUT NOT TO DO IS NOT SO EASY. BECAUSE YOU HAVE BECOME SO ACCUSTOMED TO DOING SOMETHING OR OTHER, EVEN SITTING WILL BE A DOING TO YOU. YOU WILL HAVE TO FORCE YOURSELF IN A YOGA POSTURE AND YOU WILL SIT STRAINED, STILL, IN CONTROL, HOLDING, TRYING TO SIT SILENTLY AND NOT DO ANYTHING AND BOILING WITHIN, TO DO A THOUSAND AND ONE THINGS, AND THOUSANDS OF THOUGHTS WILL CLAMOUR AROUND, WILL DISTRACT YOU.

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                       CAN YOU JUST SIT AND DO ANYTHING? THAT IS THE ULTIMATE. THAT'S WHAT NIRVANA IS, SAMADHI IS.

                      QUESTION: YESTERDAY YOU SAID THAT THERE IS NO GOAL, NO PATH, NO ONE TO LEAD AND NO ONE TO FOLLOW. IS THIS STATEMENT A LIE AGAIN? WERE YOU KIDDING US YESTERDAY?

                 THAT'S WHAT I AM DOING EVERY DAY. THAT'S THE ONLY POSSIBLE THING TO DO. ALL STATEMENTS ARE LIES. TRUTH REMAINS UNSTATED. TRUTH CANNOT BE REDUCED  TO A STATEMENT, IT CANNOT BE REDUCED TO A FORMULA. IT IS VAST! HOW CAN YOU REDUCE IT TO A STATEMENT? THE MOMENT YOU STATE ANYTHING ABOUT TRUTH, THE VERY EXPRESSION BECOMES A BARRIER. WORDS CLING AROUND TRUTH LIKE CHAINS.

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                    TRUTH CAN BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN SILENCE. SO THOSE WHO REALLY LISTEN ME, THEY DONT' LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY, THEY LISTEN TO WHAT I AM. THEY LISTEN TO THE GAPS, THEY LISTEN TO THE INTERVALS, WORDS ARE NOT IMPORTANT, BUT THERE ARE SMALL GAPS BETWEEN WORDS AND THE MEETING BETWEEN YOU AND ME HAPPENS IN THOSE GAPS.

                     THOSE GAPS ARE OF MEDITATION. SLOWLY SLOWLY, WORDS MOVE ON THE PERIPHERY AND MY MEETING, MY COMMUNION WITH YOU BECOMES THE CENTER PHENOMENON. WORDS ARE THERE, JUST DISTANT, ON THE PERIPHERY. SILENCE STARTS HAPPENING.

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                       IF YOU FALL SILENT LISTENING TO ME, THEN YOU HAVE LISTENED TO ME. IF LISTENING TO ME YOUR MIND STOPS AD THERE ARE MOMENTS WHEN THERE ARE NO THOUGHTS, ALL IS STILL AND QUIET, THEN YOU HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO ME.

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THE TIPS TO FACE THE FEAR

 

                           HOW TO FACE THE FEAR

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                           THE BUDHIST APPROACH

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                            THE BUDDHIST APPROACH HAS BEE TO LOOK INTO REALITY WITHOUT ANY IDEA SO THAT REALITY CAN REVEAL ITSELF. ALLOW REALITY TO REVEAL ITSELF, DON'T ENFORCE ANYTHING UPON IT. ALL OTHER RELIGIONS HAVE BEEN ENFORCING SOMETHING OR OTHER HENCE THEY GO ON MISSION. THEIR WORK BECOMES METAPHYSICAL, INFACT, THEIR WORK BECOMES A KIND OF AUTOHYPNOSIS. BUDDHISM DE-HYPNOTIZES MAN. BUDDHA'S WORK IS DEHYPNOSIS. BUDDHISM DE-HYPNOTIZES MAN. BUDDHA'S WORK IS DEHYPNOSIS, HOW TO DROP ALL KINDS OF HYPNOSIS, ALL KINDS OF SUGGESTIONS GIVEN BY THE SOCIETY, BY THE PEOPLE. AND WHEN YOU ARE UTTERLY SILENT, WITH NO CONDITIONING, TRUTH BECOMES KNOWN. THAT TRUTH LIBERATES.

                      IF IT RAIN, LET IT RAIN,

                                   IF IT RAIN NOT, LET IT NOT RAIN,

                       BUT EVEN SHOULD IT NOT RAIN,

                                     YOU MUST TRAVEL

                         WITH WET SLEEVES.

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                        ONE  VERY PRECIOUS WORD IN BUDDHA'S APPROACH TOWARDS LIFE IS SAMATA. SAMATA MEANS EQUANIMITY, EQUILIBRIUM, BALANCE, CHOICELESSNESS. DON'T MOVE TO THE EXTREMES, AVOID EXTREMES, PAIN AND PLEASURE ARE TWO EXTREMES DON'T CHOOSE. DON'T AVOID EITHER AND DON'T CLING TO EITHER. JUST REMAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF IT, WATCHING, LOOKING AT IT, UNATTACHED.

                       PAIN COMES, LET IT COME YOU JUST BE A WATCHFUL CONSCIOUSNESS. YOU JUST BE A AWARENESS. THERE IS A HEADACHE, YOU JUST WATCH IT. DON'T SAY NO TO IT, DON'T START FIGHTING WITH IT, DON'T DENY IT, DON'T AVOID IT. DONT TRY TO ENGAGE YOURSELF SOMEWHERE ELSE SO YOU ARE DISTRACTED FROM IT. LET IT BE THERE, YOU SIMPLY WATCH. AND IN WATCHING IT, A GREAT REVOLUTION HAPPENS.

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                     IF YOU CAN WATCH IT WITHOUT LIKE AND DISLIKE, SUDDENLY IT IS THERE BUT YOU ARE OUT OF IT, YOU ARE NO MORE IN IT. YOU ARE STANDING THERE UNBRIDGED TO IT. CHOICELESSNESS UNBRIDGES YOU FROM ALL KINDS OF MOODS, FROM ALL KINDS OF MINDS. THAT IS SAMATA. 

                     PLEASURE COMES, LET IT COME. DON'T CLING TO IT. DON'T SAY, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOU FOR EVER AND EVER". IF YOU CLING TO PLEASURE, THEN  YOU WILL AVOID PAIN. AND DON'T GO TO THE OTHER EXTREME. DON'T START DENYING PLEASURE, DON'T START ESCAPING FROM PLEASURE, BECAUSE THAT IS THE SAME. IF YOU START ESCAPING FROM PLEASURE, YOU WILL START CLINGING TO PAIN. THAT'S WHAT ASCETICS DO.

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                   THE INDULGENT PERSON CLINGS TO PLEASURE, AVOIDS PAIN. AND THE ASCETIC PERSON AVOIDS PLEASURE AND CLINGS TO PAIN. BOTH APPROACHES ARE WRONG, IN BOTH YOU LOSE BALANCE. BUDDHISM IS NEITHER INDULGENCE NOR ASCETICISM. IT DOES NOT TEACH ANYTHING IT SIMPLY SAYS WATCH!

                          AND THAT'S WHAT JESUS GOES ON REPEATING AGAIN AND AGAIN WATCH! KEEP ALERT, KEEP AWAKE.

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                           YOU TRY IT! THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT IN PSYCHOLOGY NOTHING TO DO WITH GOD. AND YOU WILL BE SURPRISED AND IMMENSELY BEBEFITTED. THE DAY YOU CAN SEE THAT YOU ARE NEITHER PAIN NOR PLEASURE IS A GREAT DAY, IS THE GREATEST DAY BECAUSE FROM THEN ONWARDS THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT.

                            IT IT RAIN, LET IT RAIN....

                                    OF THERE IS PAIN, LET IT BE SO.

                           IF IT RAIN NOT, LET IT RAIN NOT.....

                             IF THERE IS NO PAIN, LET IT BE SO. IF THERE IS PLEASURE, LET IT BE SO. BUT YOU DON'T GET IDENTIFIED WITH ANYTHING.

                           BUT EVEN SHOULD IT NOT RAIN,

                               YOU MUST TRAVEL

                            WITH WET SLEEVES.

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                           BUT REMEMBER ONE THING, EVEN IF YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN OF CONVENIENCE, COMFORT, PLEASURE, AND THERE HAVE BEEN GREAT PAINS, GREAT MISERIES, THEN TOO YOU MUST TRAVEL WITH WET SLEEVES. WHY? BECAUSE STILL YOU WILL BECOME OLD, STILL YOU WILL HAVE TO DIE TO DAY,. DO ON CAN LIVE A VERY PLEASANT LIFE, BUT OLD AGE IS COMING, AND DEATH IS COMING. DEATH CANNOT BE AVOIDED, THERE IS NO WAY TO ESCAPE FROM IT, IT IS EVITABLE. SO WHETHER YOU LIVED A PAINFUL LIFE OR YOU LIVED A PLEASANT LIFE WILL NOT MAKE MUCH DIFFERENCE WHEN DEATH COMES. AND DEATH IS COMING.

THE BUDDHA'S SAYS IS !

                         

                           WHAT IS THE MEANING OF

                                    MIND FULLNESS

   

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                              THE MIND REMAINING

                                   JUST AS IT WAS BORN

                          WITHOUT ANY PRAYER

                                    IT BECOMES THE BUDDHA

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                               THEN THERE IS NO NEED TO PRAY, NO NEED TO DO ANYTHING , NO NETHODOLOGY, NO TECHNIQUE IS NEEDED. JUST GO DOWN AND SEE THE ORGINAL MIND, THE CONTENTLESS MIND, THE MIRROR WITHOUT DUST, THE MIND WITHOUT THOUGHTS, WITHOUT CLOUDS AND YOU HAVE ARRIVED, AND YOU ARE A BUDDHA.

                     THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND A BUDDHA IS ONLY THIS, YOU HAVE MORE THAN BUDDHA. BUDDHA HAS LESS THAN YOU, BECAUSE BUDDHA IS JUST A PURE MIND YOU ARE A THOUSAND AND ONE THINGS ADDED TO THAT PURITY. SO REMEMBER, BUDDHA IS POORER THAN YOU, I AM POORER THAN YOU. YOU ARE FAR RICHER THAN ME. I AM LACKING MANY THINGS, MISSING MANY THINGS, MISERY, MEANINGLESSNESS, FRUSTRATION, ANGER, PASSION, GREED,.... AND A THOUSAND AND ONE THINGS YOU CAN COUNT. YOU ARE REALLY RICH.

                      WHEN BUDDHA ATTAINED ENLIGHTENMENT, SOMEBODY ASKED HIM, WHAT HAVE A GAINED?

                    HE LAUGHED. HE SAID, "I HAVE NOT GAINED, I HAVE LOST MUCH. I AM FAR POORER THAN I USED TO BE. I HAVE LOST ALL IGNORANCE, ALL ILLUSIONS, ALL DREAMS. NOW I AM JUST MY ORGINALITY.

  

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                               TELL A LIE,

                                    AND YOU FALL INTO HELL.

                            THEN WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO BUDDHA

                                     WHO CONTRIVED

                             THINGS THAT DON'T EXIST?

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                            A VERY REVOLUTIONARY STATEMENT, THE MIND REMAINING JUST AS IT WAS BORN.IF THE MIND REMAINS JUST A MIRROR AND REFLECTS NOTHING, IT NOT CONDITIONED BY ANYTHING, HAS NO CONTENT... THE CONTENTLESS MIND IS THE ONLY REALITY WE CAN BE CERTAIN ABOUT THE CERTIAN OF.

                      THAT'S WHY ZEN PEOPLE SAY, LOOK INTO THE ORIGINAL MIND, "ORIGINAL MIND" MEANS WHEN THERE WAS NO IMPACT OF ANYTHING ON THE MIND, BEFORE CONDITIONING STARTED, BEFORE YOU WERE TOLD WHO YOU ARE, BEFORE YOU WERE TAUGHT, BEFORE YOU LEARNT, BEFORE YOUR MIND STARTED COLLECTING CONTENTS, JUST GO DEEP DOWN INTO THAT FIRST MOMENT WHERE THERE WAS NO CONTENT BUT ONLY THE CONTAINER, JUST THE MIRROR REFLECTING NOTHING, THAT IS REAL. THE WITNESS IS REAL.

                           AND MILLIONS AND MILLION OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING BUDDHA. THEY HAVE NOT UNDERSTOOD. IF THEY HAD UNDERSTOOD THEY WOULD HAVE BECOME BUDDHAS, NOT FOLLOWERS.

                           AND, BEING WITH ME, YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT. BECOME ENLIGHTENED DON'T TRY TO BECOME ENLIGHTENED. TRYING IS MISSING THE WHOLE POINT. I AM NOT HERE TO GUIDE YOU. I AM HERE TO TAKE ALL GUIDANCE AWAY. I AM NOT HERE TO LEAD YOU INTO SOME OTHER WORLD I AM HERE TO MAKE YOU AWARE THAT THERE IS NOWHERE TO GO AND THERE IS NOBODY TO LEAD AND NOBODY TO BE LED.

                     SEEING THE POINT, A LAUGHTER ARISES, AND THAT LAUGHTER IS ENLIGHTENMENT. SEEING THE POINT, ONE RELAXES THAT RELAXATION IS ENLIGHTENMENT.

THE NATURE OF THE HUMAN'S BIRTH

 

                     WHERE WE ARE CAME FROM?

                              WHAT IS THE NATURE?

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                        NATURE MEANS YOU ARE NOT TO DO ANYTHING. IT IS ALREADY HAPPENING. THE RIVERS ARE FLOWING NOT THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING. AND THE TREES ARE GROWING NOT THEY HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT. NOT THAT THEY HAVE TO CONSULT ANY GUIDE FOR IT. THE TREES ARE BLOOMING NOT THEY HAVE TO THINK AND PLAN ABOUT THE FLOWERS, OF WHAT COLOUR, OF WHAT SHAPE. IT IS ALL HAPPENING.

                        THE TREE IS BLOOMING IN A THOUSAND FLOWERS WITHOUT A SINGLE WORRY, WITHOUT A SINGLE THOUGHT, WITHOUT A SINGLE PROJECTION, WITHOUT ANY BLUEPRINT. IT IS SIMPLY BLOOMING! JUST AS FIRE IS HOT, THE TREE GROWS. IT IS NATURAL. IT IS IN THE VERY NATURE OF THINGS.

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                         THE SEED BECOMES THE SPROUT, AND THE SPROUT BECOMES A PLANT, AND THE PLANT BECOMES THE TREE, AND THE TREE ONE DAY IS FULL OF FOLIAGE, AND THEN ANOTHER DAY BUDS HAVE STARTED APPEARING AND THE FLOWERING AND THE FRUITS , AND ALL IS SIMPLY HAPPENING!

                      THE CHILD GROWING IN THE MOTHER'S WOMB IS NOT DOING ANYTHING. HE IS IN WE-WEI. BUT IT IS NOT THAT NOTHING IS HAPPENING. IN FACT, SO MUCH IS HAPPENING THAT NEVER AGAIN IN LIFE WILL SO MUCH EVER HAPPEN. THOSE NINE MONTHS IN THE MOTHER'S SO MUCH EVER HAPPEN. THOSE NINE MONTHS IN THE MOTHER'S WOMB CONTAIN SO MUCH HAPPENING THAT IF YOU LIVE NINETY YEARS THAT MUCH HAPPENING WON'T BE CONTAINED BY YOU.

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                    MILLIONS OF THINGS ARE HAPPENING. THE CHILD IS CONCEIVED ONLY AS AN INVISIBLE CELL, AND THEN THINGS START HAPPENING, THINGS START EXPLODING. THE CHILD IS NOT SITTING THERE IN THAT SMALL CELL LIKE A LITTLE SMALL MAN AND THINKING AND PLANNING AND WORRYING, AND SUFFEREING FROM INSOMNIA. THERE IS NOBODY!

                         TO UNDERTAND THIS IS TO UNDERSTAND BUDDHA THAT THINGS CAN HAPPEN WITHOUT YOUR EVER BEING WORRIED ABOUT THEM. THINGS HAVE ALWAYS ALREADY BEEN HAPPENING. AND EVEN WHEN YOU BECOME A DOER, YOU BECOME A DOER ONLY ON THE SURFACE. DEEP DOWN, THINGS GO ON HAPPENING.

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                      WHEN YOU ARE FAST ASLEEP, DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TRYING TO BREATHE? IT IS HAPPENING . IF MAN HAD TO BREATHE, HAD TO REMAIN CONSTANTLY AWARE TO BREATHE, NOBODY WOULD EVER BE ABLE TO LIVE, NOT EVEN FOR A SINGLE DAY. ONE MOMENT AND YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN AND IT IS GONE. YOU FORGET TO BREATHE IN, AND YOU ARE FINISHED. AND HOW WILL YOU GO TO SLEEP THEN? YOU WILL HAVE TO BE CONSTANTLY ALERT, YOU WILL HAVE TO WAKE YOURSELF UP MANY TIMES IN THE NIGHT FO SEE WHATEVER YOU ARE STILL BREATHING OR NOT.

                   AND YOU EAT FOOD, AND THEN YOU FORGET ALL ABOUT IT. AND MILLIONS OF THINGS ARE HAPPENING, THE FOOD IS BEING DIGESTED, BROKEN DOWN, DESTROYED, CHANGED, TRANSFORMED CHEMICALLY. IT WILL BECOME YOUR BLOOD, YOU BONES YOUR MARROW. GREAT WORK GOES ON. THE BLOOD IS CIRCULATING CONTINOUSLY, THROWING ALL THE DEAD CELLS OUT OF THE BODY.

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                           DOING REMAINS ON THE SURFACE. MAN CAN LIVE ON THE SURFACE IN AN ARTIFICIAL WAY, BUT DEEP DOWN IN THE INNERMOST CORE YOU ARE ALWAYS NATURAL. YOUR ARTIFICIALLY BECOMES SIMPLY A LAYER UPON YOUR NATURE. BUT THE LAYER THICKENS EVERY DAY MORE THOUGHTS, MORE PLANS, MORE ACTIVITY, MORE DOING. MORE OF THE DOER, THE EGO... AND A CRUST GROWS. AND THAT IS THE CRUST BUDDHA CALLS SAMSARA THE WORLD.

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                       THE PHENOMENON OF THE DOER, OF THE EGO, THIS IS LOSING NATURE, GOING AGAINST NATURE, GOING AWAY FROM NATURE. ONE DAY YOU HAVE GONE SO FAR THAT YOU START FEELING SUFFOCATED. YOU HAVE GONE SO FAR THAT SCHIZOPHRENIA ARISES IN YOUR BEING. YOUR CIRCUMFERENCE STARTS FALLING APART FROM THE CENTER. THAT IS THE POINT OF CONVERSATION, THE POINT WHEN RELIGION BECOMES RELEVANT. THE POINT WHEN YOU START SEARCHING FOR A WAY OUT. THE POINT WHERE YOU START THINKING "WHO AM I" THE POINT WHERE YOU START LOOKING BACK. FROM WHERE AM I COMING? WHAT IS MY ORIGINAL FACE? WHAT IS MY NATURE? I HAVE GON TOO FAR AND NOW IT IS GIME TO GO BACK. ONE STEP MORE AND I WILL FAR APART.  I HAVE BROKEN ALL THE LINKS, ONLY A SMALL BRIDGE HAS REMAINED."

THE THREE TYPES OF NADIS

 

                       LIBERATION FROM ALL MISERIES

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                                    THE TYPES OF NADIS

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                                  ALL THREE OF THE MAJOR NADIS ORIGINATE AT THE BASE OF THE SPINE AND TRAVEL UPWARD. THE SUSHUMNA NADI IS CENTRALLY LOCATED AND TRAVELS ALONG THE SPINAL CANAL. AT THE LEVEL OF THE LARYNX IT DIVIDED INTO AN ANTERIOR AND A POSTERIOR POSTION, BOTH OF WHICH TERMINATE IN THE BRAHMARANDRA (CAVITY OF BRAHMA) WHICH CORRESPONDS TO THE VENTICULAR CAVITY IN THE PHYSICAL BODY. THE IDA AND PINGALA NADIS ALSO TRAVEL UPWARD ALONG THE SPINAL COLUMN, BUT THEY CRISSCROSS EACH OTHER AND THE SUSHUMNA BEFORE TERMINATING IN THE LEFT AND RIGHT NOSTRILS, RESPECTIVELY.

                     THE JUNCTIONS WHERE THE IDA, PINGALA, SUSHUMNA NADIS MEET ALONG THE SPINAL COLUMN ARE CALLED CHAKRAS (WHEELS). JUST AS THE SPOKES OF A WHEEL RADIATE OUTWARD FROM A CENTRAL HUB, SO DO THE OTHER NADIS RADIATE OUTWARD FROM THE CHAKRAS TO  OTHER PARTS OF THE BODY. THERE ARE SEVEN PRINCIPLE CHAKRAS, THE MULADHARA CHAKRA AT THE BASE OF THE SPINE AT THE LEVEL OF THE PELVIC PLEXUS IN THE PHYSICAL BODY, THE SVADHISHTHANA CHAKRA AT THE LEVEL OF THE HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS, THE MANIPURA CHAKRA AT THE LEVEL OF THE SOLAR PLEXUS, THE VISHUDDHA CHAKRA AT THE LEVEL OF THE PHARANGEAL PLEXUS, THE AJNA CHAKRA AT THE LEVEL OF THE NASOCILIARY PLEXUS, AND THE SAHASRARA CHAKRA AT THE TOP OF THE HEAD. THE ANTERIOR PORTION OF THE SUSHUMNA PASSES THROUGH THE AJNA CHAKRA, AND THE POSTERIOR PORTION PASSESS BEHIND THE SKULL, THE TWO PORTIONS UNITING IN THE BRAHMARANDRA.

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                      YOGA ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY ARE CLEAR AND ACCURATE TO THOSE WHO SYSTEMATICALLY STUDY AND PRACTICE THE SCIENCE OF YOGA, AND THEY FIND THAT IT REVEALS MORE ABOUT THE INTERNAL FUNCTIONINGS OF THE HUMAN BODY THAN ANY MODERN SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT OR EXPLANATION. IT IS TRUE, HOWEVER, THAT THE ANCIENT DESCRIPTIONS OF NADIS AND CHAKRAS BEAR A REMARKABLE RESEMBLANCE TO MODERN ANATOMICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF NERVES AND PLEXUSES, RESPECTIVELY. SOME SCIENTISTS HAVE TRIED TO ESTABLISH A CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE TWO SYSTEMS, BUT THE ASSUPTION BEHIND SUCH AN ATTEMPT IS THAT THE NERVES AND PLEXUSES BELONG TO THE PHYSICAL BODY WHILE THE NADIS AND CHAKRAS BELONG TO WHAT IS KNOW IN YOGA SCIENCE AS THE SUKSHMA SHARIRA (SUBTLE BODY). IN OTHER WORDS, THEY ARE THE SUBTLE COUNTERPARTS OF THE NERVES AND PLEXUSES, RESPECTIVELY. THE CURRENTS OF PRANA FLOWING THROUGH THESE NADIS ARE THE SUBTLE COUNTERPARTS OF THE NERVE IMPULSES. THE YOGIS DID NOT DISSECT THE PHYSICAL BODY IN ORDER TO LEARN ABOUT ITS SUBTLE CROSSCURRENTS - DISSECTING THE PHYSICAL BODY TO LOOK FOR SUBTLE ENERGIES WOULD BE FUTILE. THEY DISCOVERED THE NETWORK OF NADIS AND CHAKRAS BY MAPPING THE FLOW OF PRANA THROUGH THIS NETWORK, AND THEY DEVELOPED THIS MAPPING ABILITY THROUGH INTROSPECTIVE EXPERIMENTATION.

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                           THE PHYSICAL BODY S BUILT AROUND THE SUBTLE FRAMEWORK OF THE NADIS AND IS SUSTAINED BY THE FLOW OF PRANIC ENERGY THROUGH THIS NETWORK. IN THE AVERAGE INDIVIDUAL, THE DYNAMIC AND CREATIVE ASPECT OF PRANA IS ONLY AN INFINITESIMAL FRACTION OF THE TOTAL ENERGY OF PRANA, THE MAJOR PART OF IT REMAINING IN A POTENTIAL, OR SEED, STATE. YOGA MANUALS REFER TO THIS LATENT, STORED ENERGY AS KUNDALINI. WHICH IS SYMBOLICALLY REPRESENTED AS A SLEEPING SERPENT COILED IN THE MULADHARA CHAKRA AT THE BASE OF THE SPINE. FURTHER, IN THE AVERAGE INDIVIDUAL, PRANA FLOWS THROUGH IDA AND PINGALA, BUT NOT THROUGH SUSHUMNA, THIS NADIS ORDINARILY BEING BLOCKED AT THE BASE OF THE SPINAL COLUMN.

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                       THE TECHNIQUE OF PRANAYAMA ARE AIMED AT DEVITALIZING IDA AND PINGALA AND AT THE SAME TIME OPENING UP SUSHUMNA, THUS ALLOWIG THE PRANA TO FLOW THROUGH THIS MIDDLE CHANNEL. THE YOGI THEN EXPERIENCES GREAT JOY AND IS FREED FROM THE BONDAGE OF TIME, SPACE, AND CAUSATION. THEN, HAVING OPENED UP THE SUSHUMNA NADI, THE YOGI ROUSES THE SLEEPING SERPENT AT THE MULADHARA CHAKRA AND GUIDES THIS TREMENDOUS ENERG UPWARD ALONG SUSHUMNA, PIERCING THE SIX CHAKRAS, TO THE SEVENTH CHAKRA, CALLED THE SAHASRA WHICH IS REPRESENTED AS A THOUSAND-PETALED LOTUS AT THE CROWN OF THE HEAD. THIS AROUSAL AND ASCENT OF THE LATENT KUNDALINI ENERGY AND ITS MERGING IN THE SAHASRA IS SYNONYMOUS WITH THE UNION OF SHAKTI (COSMIC POTENCY) WITH SHIVA (COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS). WITH THIS UNION THE YOGI  ACHIVES LIBERATION FROM ALL MISERIES AND BONDAGE. HE THUS MERGES HIS INDIVIDUAL SOUL, ATMAN, WITH THE COSMIC SOUL, BRAHMAN.

THE BREATHING EXERCISES (NADI SHODHANAM)

 

                                   NADI SHODHANAM

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                          TO BEGIN THIS TECHNIQUE, SIT STRAIGHT AS THOUGHT FOR MEDITATION, IN WHATEVER  POSITION IS COMFORTABLE, BUT WITH THE HEAD, NECK AND TRUNK RELATIVELY ERECT. USUALLY THE THUMB OF THE RIGHT HAND IS USED TO CLOSE OFF THE RIGHT NOSTRIL WHILE THE RING FINGER OF THE SAME HAND IS USED TO CLOSE OFF LEFT NOSTRIL. IF YOU FIND IT HELPFUL, YOU CAN BRACE THE HAND BY PLACING THE INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGERS ON THE BRIDGE OF THE NOSE BETWEEN THE EYES (IF YOU DON'T FIND THAT TO BE A DISTRATION).

                       FIRST, EXHALE THROUGH THE SAME NOSTRIL. AT THE END OF THE INHALATION, CLOSE OFF THAT NOSTRIL WITH THE FINGER, ALLOWING THE EXHALATION TO BEGIN ON THE OTHER SIDE. AT THE END OF THAT EXHALATION, TO BEGIN ON THE OTHER SIDE. AT THE END OF THAT EXHALATION, INHALE THROUGH THE SAME NOSTRIL, THUS STARTING THE PROCESS AGAIN. REPEAT THIS ALTERNATION THREE TIMES SO THAT YOU BREATHE A COMPLETE CYCLE THROUGH EACH NOSTRIL THREE TIMES, FOR A TOTAL OF SIX BREATHS. THIS IS ORDINARILY CALLED A "ROUND". IT IS CUSTOMARY TO PERFORM A SECOND AND THEN A THIRD SUCH ROUND SO THAT YOU COMPLETE A TOTAL OF NINE INHALATIONS AND NINE EXHALATIONS THROUGH EACH NOSTRIL. BETWEEN ROUNDS, YOU ORDINARILY TAKE THREE BREATHS THROUGH BOTH NOSTRILS.

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                    IN DOING THE EXERCISE, YOU SHOULD REMEMBER TWO THINGS, TO BREATHE SLOWLY AND GENTLY, BUT NOT SO SLOWLY THAT IT IS A STRAIN OR THAT YOU RUN OUT OF BREATH, AND TO BREATHE SILENTLY. IF THE  BREATH IS CREATED, AND NO SOUND VIBRATION SHOULD RESULT. TO ACCOMPLISH THESE TWO GOALS, YOU MUST  CONCENTRATE COMPLETELY ON THE BREATHING ITSELF. IF THE MIND IS ALLOWED TO WANDER TO OTHER SUBJECTS DURING THE PROCESS, THE BREATHING WILL BECOME IRREGULAR, JERKY, NOISY, OR OTHERWISE DISRUPTIVE. IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO REMAIN RELAXED AND CALM DURING THE EXERCISE.

                      THIS IS ONLY ONCE OF THREE VARIANTS. THE SECOND (WHICH IS EXPLAINED IN CHAPTER FOUR) INVOLVES EXHALATION THROUGH ONE SIDE WITH INHALATION THROUGH THE OTHER, AND THE THIRD INVOLVES THREE COMPLETE CYCLES THROUGH ONE NOSTRIL BEFORE CHANGING TO THE OTHER SIDE. SOME STUDENTS CHOOSE TO DO ONE VARIANT FOR THE FULL THREE ROUNDS, WHILE OTHER PEOPLE DO A ROUND OF EACH VARIANT. CONSISTENCY IS PROBABLY HELPFUL, AND THE VARIANT DESCRIBED IN THE TEXTS IS QUITE SUITABLE FOR THE BEGINNER TO USE EXCLUSIVELY.

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                      PRACTICING THIS TECHNIQUE ENABLES PEOPLE TO APPRECIATE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE EXPERIENCE OF BREATHING THROUGH ONE SIDE AND BREATHING THROUGH THE OTHER, AND THEY ALSO INCREASE THEIR AWARENESS OF THE NATURE OF LATERALITY. NADI SHODHANAM IS A STUDY RATHER THAN SIMPLY A MECHANICAL EXERCISE. IT IS BOTH EDUCATIONAL AND COORDINATING. IT BRINGS A DIMENSION OF EXISTENCE WHICH HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN BACK INTO AWARENESS, AND IT HELPS TO RESTORE COORDINATION BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES OF THE BODY. WE WOULD BE MOST EMBARRASED TO ADMIT THAT WE DIDN'T APPRECIATE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFTING THE LEFT ARM AND THE RIGHT ARM, BUT MOST PEOPLE, WHEN ASKED, CANNOT SAY WHICH NOSTRIL THEY'RE BREATHIG THROUGH AT THE MOMENT. IF IT IS TRUE THAT THE RIGHT SIDE ACTIVATES A WHOLE SET OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS AND THE LEFT SIDE BRINGS INTO PLAY A DIFFERENT SET, THEN IT WOULD CERTAINLY BE VALUABLE TO HAVE ACCESS TO AN AWARENESS OF WHICH NOSTRL IS FLOWING AT AY GIVEN MOMENT.

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                        THE IMPORTANT OF THIS AWARENESS BECOMES ESPECIALLY OBVIOUS WHEN WE DISCOVER TECHNIQUE WHICH ENABLE US TO CHANGE VOLUNTARILY THE FLOW OF AIR FROM ONE SIDE TO THE OTHER. FOR EXAMPLE, IF I LIE ON MY LEFT SIDE, THEN THE RIGHT NOSTRIL WILL OPEN. IT WAS LONG THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS BECAUSE GRAVITY PULLED THE BLOOD INTO THE LOWER NOSTRIL, ENGORGING THE LINING, CAUSING THE TURBINATES TO SWELL, AND CLOSIN OFF THE "DOWN" SIDE. MORE RECENTLY, RESEARCH HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT IT IS NOT ACTUALLY GRAVITY WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS SHIFT, RATHER, IT IS THE PRESSURE EXERTED BETWEEN THE DOWN ARM AND THE SIDE OF THE CHEST ON WHICH ONE IS LYIG . THIS APPARENTLY SETS UP A REFLEX WHICH AUTOMATICALLY DILATES THE NOSTRIL THAT IS HIGHER AND CLOSES OFF THE ONE WHICH IS LOWER, ON THE SIDE WHERE THE PRESSURE IS. IN ANY CASE, IF I STAY ON ONE SIDE FOR A WHILE, THE OPPOSITE NOSTRIL WILL OPEN. IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT THE YOGA MANUALS RECOMMEND THAT ONE LIE ON THE LEFT SIDE AFTER MEALS, OPENING THE RIGHT NOSTRIL AND STIMULATING AND DIGESTIVE PROCESS. TRADITIONALLY, TOO, IT IS SAID THAT WHEN INDIVIDUALS GO TO BED, THEY SHOULD LIE ON THE LEFT SIDE FOR FIVE OR TEN MINUTES, ACTIVATING THE RIGHT NOSTRIL TO CREATE INCREASED BODY HEAT. AS SOON AS THEY ARE WARM AND COMFORTABLE, THEY SHOULD TURN TO THE RIGHT, ALLOWING THE LEFT NOSTRIL TO OPEN. DOING SO RELAXES, CALMS, AND PREPARES THEM FOR SLEEP.

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                        WHILE A RYTHMIC ALTERNATION OF AIRFLOW BETWEEN ONE SIDE AND THE OTHER IS CONSIDERED NATURAL AND HEALTHY, AND PERSISTENT CLOSURE OF ONE NOSTRIL AND FLOW OF AIR THROUGH THE OTHER FOR MORE THAN A FEW HOURS IS THOUGHT TO BE A HARBINGER OF DISEASE. IF THE BREATH STAYS IN ONE SIDE FOR SIX OR EIGHT HOURS, SOME ILLNESS IS THOUGHT TO BE ON ITS WAY, AND IF THE CONDITION LASTS FOR A DAY OR MORE, THE SITUATION IS SAID TO BE GRAVE. THEN BREATH IS THOUGHT TO BE RELATED TO THE PRANA (FLOW OF ENERGY) IN THE SUBTLE PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL TOTALITY, THE IMBALANCES OF WHICH ARE SEEN AS PRECEDING THE OUTWARD MANIFESTATION OF DISEASE.

WHAT IS THE NATURE OF OUR MIND

 

                     

                       HOW TO HANDLE OUR MIND'S?

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                         TANTRA DOES NOT BELIEVE IN CREATING WHAT YOU WANT IN TERMS OF THE PHYSICAL EXISTENCE AROUND YOU, BUT IS FOCUSED ON CREATING FORMS AND IDENTITIES WHICH WILL FUNCTION WAY BEYOND YOUR OWN INTELLIGENCE. TANTRA IS ESSNTIALLY FOCUSED ON CREATING A MIND HIGHER THAN ONESELF, MAKING AN INTELLIGENCE BEYOND ONE'S PRESENT CAPABILTIES BECOME AVAILABLE. THE TECHNOLOGY OF MAKNG THIS HAPPEN WAS WHAT WAS KNOWN AS TANTRIC METHODS. THAT IS, LEARNING TO USE YOUR BODY, YOUR MIND, AND YOUR ENERGIES JUST AS INSTRUMENTS OF LIFE, SO THAT YOU BECOME AVAILABLE TO A MUCH HIGHER POSSIBILITY, AN INTELLIGENCE WHICH IS WAY BEYOND HUMAN CAPABILITIES.

                         THERE ARE CERTAIN ELABORATE TANTRIC DESIGNS WHICH ARE MADE TO TRAIN THE MIND TO INTRICATELY DESIGN SOMETHING STEP BY STEP. EVEN IN THE YOGA PROGRAMS, WE STARY BY SAYING, "DO IT MENTALLY". THIS IS THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS TANTRA. YOU SIT HERE AND GO ON DOING IT MENTALLY, AFTER SOME TIME YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO IT PHYSICALLY. EVERYTHING THAT YOU CAN GET BY DOING IT PHYSICALLY, YOU CAN GET BY DOING IT MENTALLY, MENTALLY, YOU CAN EXERCISE THE BODY. IF YOU REALLY APPLY YOURSELF. AFTER SOME TIME YOU WILL SEE, YOU CAN REALLY APPLY YOURSELF, AFTER SOME TIME YOU WILL SEE, YOU CAN IMPROVE YOUR MUSCLE TONE JUST BY DOING IT MENTALLY, BECAUSE ONCE YOUR IMAGINATION CAN BE COUPLED WITH YOUR LIFE ENERGIES, BECOMES A LIVING REALITY, IT IS NO MORE JUST IMAGINATION.

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                     THIS FUNDAMENTALLY INVOLVES TWO BASIC STEPS. ONE IS TO HAVE THE ABILTY TO VIVIDLY CREATE EVERY DETAIL OF WHAT YOU WANT IN YOUR MIND, AND OF TRULY BEING ABLE TO CREATE AS THE CREATOR DID. THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL THING IS TO BE ABLE TO KEEP YOUR PERSOBNALITY OUT OF YOUR IMAGINATION, WHICH TAKES A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TRAINING AND DISPASSION ABOUT YOURSELF. THAT IS, YOU DO NOT THINK MUCH OF YOURSELF. IT TAKES A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF SADHANA AND PREPARATON FOR A PERSON TO BE LKE, THAT HE CAN EXTENSIVELY USE HIS MIND WITHOUT IMPOSING HIS PERSONALITY UPON IT.

                       IF YOU THINK HUNDRED PERCENT LOGIALLY, THERE IS REALLY NO POSSIBILITY OF LIFE. ONLY IF YOU KNOW TO WHAT EXTENT YOUR LOGIC SHOULD GO AND WHERE IS SHOULD NOT GO, YOUR LIFE WILL BE BEAUTIFUL. IF YOU BECOME ABSOLUTELY LOGICAL, THERE IS NO BEAUTY TO YOUR LIFE. EVERYTHING BECOMES BARE AND NO GOOD.

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                       LOGIC IS ESSENTIAL ONLY TO HANDLE THE MATERIAL ASPECT OF LIFE. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE EXPERIENTIAL DIMENSIONS OF LIFE, YOU WILL NEVER KNOW IT WITH YOUR PETTY THOUGHT. EVEN IF YOU HAVE EINSTEIN'S BRAIN, IT IS STILL A PETTY THOUGHT BECAUSE THOUGHT CANNOT BE BIGGER THAN LIFE. THOUGHT CAN ONLY BE LOGICAL, FUNCTIONING BETWEEN TWO POLARITIES. THAT IS TOO SMALL. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW LIFE IN ITS IMMENSITY, YOU NEED SOMETHING MORE THAN YOUR THOUGHTS, YOUR LOGIC, OR YOUR INTELLECT, ONLY IF YOU OPEN UP THAT DIMENSION, YOU WILL TASTE LIFE IN ITS LARGER PROPORTION. OTHERWISE, YOU WILL TASTE LIFE IN ITS LARGER PROPORTION. OTHERWISE, YOU WILL  KNOW ONLY THE PHYSICALLY OF LIFE. WITH THOUGHTS, YOU CAN KNOW THE PHYSICAL AND USE THE PHYSICAL, BUT YOU WILL NOT PENETRATE ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE PHYSICAL.

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                       IT ISBECAUSE THE WORLD HAS GIVEN SO MUCH SIGNIFICANCE TO ARISTOTLE AND HIS TRIBE THAT ALL THE SCIENCES HAVE DEVELOPED IN THE PHYSICAL DIMENSION. WITH THIS, MUCH COMFORT HAS COME. YOU MAY BE THRILLED ABOUT HOW MANY THINGS YOUR COMPUTER OR THE INTERNET CAN DO, BUT IF YOU REALLY LOOK AT IT, IT HAS NOT DONE ANYTHING TO YOUR LIFE. IT HAS BROUGHT COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE, BUT ULTIMATELY, IT HAS NOT BROUGHT YOU ANY JOY, IT HAS NOT TAKEN YOU TO ANY HIGHER DIMENSION OF EXPERIENCE OR EXISTENCE. YOU ARE IN THE SAME PLACE.  INSTEAD OF RIDING A BULLOCK CART, MAYBE YOU ARE DRIVING A MERCEDES OR DREAMING OF ONE. WHICHEVER WAY, YOU ARE STILL ONLY MOVING FROM POINT A TO POINT B. YOU HAVE NOT GONE TO ANOTHER POINT. WHETHER YOU FLY A JET PLANE OR A BULLOCK CART, IT IS ONLY LATERAL MOVEMENT. EVEN IF YOU TAKE A SPACECRAFT, IT IS STILL ONLY FROM POINT A TO POINT B.

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                        IN SPITE OF ALL THIS EXPLORATION, NO NEW DIMENSON HAS OCCURED TO YOU BECAUSE THE INSTRUMENTS OF EXPLORATION THAT YOU ARE USING ARE TOO LIMITED. THEY ARE JUST LOGICAL AND INTELLECTUAL, SO THERE IS NO WAY YOU WILL TOUCH ANY OTHER DIMENSION OF LIFE. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE. I APPRECIATE THE ENTHUSIAM. BUT IT IS AS IF YOU WERE TYRING TO GET TO THE MOON WILL A BULLOCK CART. IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW HARD YOU BEAT THE BULLS, IT IS NOT GOING TO GET THERE. IF YOU BEAT THE BULLS REALLY HARD, MAY BE YOU CAN CLIMB A MOUNTAIN ON THE BULLOCK CART, BUT YOU CANNOT GO TO THE MOON. EITHER YOU LEARN THIS OUT OF YOUR INTELLIGENCE, OR LIFE WILL MAUL YOU AND TEACH YOU A LESSON SLOWLY. THE CHOICE IS YOURS.