1997/04/19  15:00  
 kundalini-l-d Digest V97 #178 
  
kundalini-l-d Digest				Volume 97 : Issue 178
 
Today's Topics: 
  Re: letting go, picking up, dissolution of labels and attachments 
  harmless... 
  Re: letting go, picking up, dissolution of labels and attachments 
  harmless...Spirit.....? 
  Re: Beloved 
  Re: kundalini conception is the problem 
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:32:28 -0400 (EST) 
From: Nancy Kar <nkarATnospamfreenet.npiec.on.ca> 
To: Tom Aston <yogi.tomATnospamtantrictom.demon.co.uk> 
cc: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com, E Jason <vv60ATnospamdial.pipex.com> 
Subject: Re: letting go, picking up, dissolution of labels and attachments 
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.93.970419141258.16639C-100000ATnospamfreenet.npiec.on.ca> 
 
You are not alone, at all. 
I feel like I am continually being picked up in the snakes jaws, rattled 
and thrown into the air.. leaving me to fall in a different space of 
conciousness and self.
 
My parents were everything to me. I was over at their house every day. For 
all of my life. Now I am having a hard time going over once a week. I need 
my space. I have let go... even of my children. Strip away every 
attatchment until all that is left is the bare self... and the self that I 
am finding has all the layers, like that of an onion. I strip away from 
myself layer by layer... when will it end? or should I say when will I 
find my beginning and end? 
 
Sometimes I wonder where it all will lead. Sometimes I feel like running 
away into the unconciousness of again being a houswife, only dedicated to 
her family... but I resist and plunder on.
 
I feel like so many things of myself are dying, I have a hard time 
recognizing my self, at times but knowing that this 'new' self is more 
truer to me than I have ever been. ..and in that there is rebirth.
 
With my family I share my new self with them. Last night my friend 
(who is also on the same path) and I went over there and candled their 
ears. My family has so much physical pain... we also do Reiki on them.   
I have a large family and every week more of them want some treatment:) 
.... I am finding that they are all starting to change in ways. Without my 
even trying to explain to them what's happening to me. They seem to be 
effected.... It's interesting how the intelligent, energy effects changes 
in people, without you having to speak a word to them. They are effected.
 
So Tom... you're not alone.  
Keep in faith, that the pureness of the truth will light your and your 
loved ones ways.
 
WaterFall
 
  
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Tom Aston wrote:
 
> am i alone in having found tremendous need to let go of friends and 
> family and childhood and parents for a while, only to pick up all these 
> relationships again later on, but with a feeling of non-attachment that 
> took quite a while to get used to.... 
>  
> classic dilemma of the nice normal mystic - how to let go and yet 
> maintain appearance of normality at same time ? how to avoid offending 
> others by letting this letting go show ? 
>  
> inner secret process of letting go can require periods of seclusion and 
> medittion which are not always easy to come by if working..... 
>  
> sometimes one may even need to GO FORTH Buddha style and just walk away 
> from the old life if it won't provide an environment for you to grow and 
> develop spiritually.....but Western culture not keen on this, seen as 
> asocial.... 
>  
> soemtimes something has to die for something new to grow, so am wary of 
> laying down the law on whether one should retain conventional 
> relationships...... 
>  
> i know a Buddhist family therapist and you should hear what she says 
> about families even though she spends her time trying to heal them and 
> keep them together...... 
>  
> conditioned existence is not all its cracked up to be sometimes, and 
> Bardo account of  running from the Clear Light to a new body is 
> intrinsically related to the relationship with father and mother..... 
>  
 > everything has to go in the end...nothing is worth holding onto, but 
> that doesn't mean it is still not possible to love or nurture 
> others....it may just mean one does not necessarily fulfill all that is 
> expected of us by others in fulfilling conditioned behaviour 
>  
> letting go is no sin even when it's the ones we love we're letting go 
> of.... 
>  
> sometimes the mystic will face a clearcut choice between the light and 
> obeying family and social conventions, and i would say, go to the light 
> every time and have faith, but do it as gently as possible, like a ship 
> slipping its moorings for the open sea, which takes faith in one's own 
> experience and respect and tolerance  for others too...... 
>  
> in the long run, you may find everyone comes back to you anyway on a 
> completely new level if you are patient and consistent..... 
>  
> done the right way, letting go can even bring respect from others who 
> may not really understand what's going on because mysticism is beyond 
> their realms of experience.... 
>  
> in the end, one can only live in truth, and with shakti, that comes from 
> within, initially at least.....and one ignores her at your peril.... 
>  
> (it took a long time to learn this on my part...) 
>  
> Mystic Tom (who chatted with Dad on phone only this morning.....) 
> --  
> Tom Aston 
> 
 
     * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " *  
    Looking through Lightworking eyes,  
      Living through a Loveworking heart. 
'Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows' -H. Keller 
     In lak'ech  Nancy...WaterFall in spirit   nkarATnospamfreenet.npiec.on.ca 
 
     
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:48:07 -0400 (EST) 
From: Nancy Kar <nkarATnospamfreenet.npiec.on.ca> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: harmless... 
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.93.970419143619.16639D-100000ATnospamfreenet.npiec.on.ca> 
 
 
It's not a big deal to me...
 
If the need to react bubbles up and the silly ramblings of others effect 
you in a negative way then maybe it's bringing up some issues that you 
need to deal with. 
 
I have to admit that some of it did bring a rise up in myself but I 
realized that I was just reacting and tried to figure out why it bothered 
me.... understand it and let it go.
 
I liken it to... 
 
...them finding the need to run totally naked through a crowded place 
screaming insanely :)
 
why....? 
need for attention? 
trying to get some garbage out of their systems? 
trying to shock and get reactions from others on the list? 
simply just letting it all go?
 
I dunno' why people need to do this, 
but I do know that kundalini and Tantra awkening sometimes has us doing 
some really strange stuff... haivning to do with getting to the core of 
who we are. I think like partaking in a primal scream.... just letting it 
all hang out:)
 
but I try to have respect for what others feel the need to do... 
maybe someday I'll be doing it too?
 
hehehe who knows..
 
WaterFall
 
 
 On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Pamela wrote:
 
> Lissette said: 
> <snip> 
> This list is for people interested in kundalini and spiritual awakening, 
>  
> <snip> 
> spiritual sharings of sincere people's feelings. I guess we love games, 
> but these are not very entertaining to me.. 
> <snip> 
>  
> I have to agree. Lately I have been deleting without really reading this 
> stuff. I hope that the postings begin to change and we get back to the 
> subject of Kundalini. I am no expert by far but I do know lately some of 
> the things being posted are not on subject. 
> Pamela 
> 
 
     * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " *  
    Looking through Lightworking eyes,  
      Living through a Loveworking heart. 
'Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows' -H. Keller 
     In lak'ech  Nancy...WaterFall in spirit   nkarATnospamfreenet.npiec.on.ca 
 
     
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:05:41 -0700 
From: E Jason <vv60ATnospamdial.pipex.com> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Re: letting go, picking up, dissolution of labels and attachments 
Message-ID: <335933A5.70D6ATnospamdial.pipex.com> 
 
 
Tom Aston wrote: 
>  
> am i alone in having found tremendous need to let go of friends and 
> family and childhood and parents for a while, only to pick up all these 
> relationships again later on, but with a feeling of non-attachment that 
> took quite a while to get used to....
 
On this Tom, I hope very much you are alone . . . 
Non-attachment is inhuman. It is a lack of involvement  
- it is a position of superiority. 
(I should know this is a Lobsterian position) 
I believe non involvement - egoic distancing is temporary. 
It is very much part of a particular Vedantic-Buddhist tradition of 
emotional independence and detachment. 
However it is a question of degree and maturity. 
In Jewish Kabbalah - mysticism was only taught to mature 
well balanced family men (sadly rarely women - if at all  
- though this is different today in some circles). 
In Sufism family life and social integration of men and women  
is fundamental to genuine growth. 
Pagan spirituality is grounded in involment with people and life. 
We have an emotional body, we are emotional creatures and if this denied 
it will come out in abhorrent attachments. 
You will never see the Gods and Goddesses better than in other people. 
 
  
> classic dilemma of the nice normal mystic - how to let go and yet 
> maintain appearance of normality at same time ? how to avoid offending 
> others by letting this letting go show ?
 
If you are abnormal - do not blame mysticism - you are abnormal - there 
is something abnormal in you or the practise. (I should know I have 
ended up a lobster . . .) 
 
> inner secret process of letting go can require periods of seclusion and 
> medittion which are not always easy to come by if working.....
 
Get up earlier - go to bed later. Go on retreats - you have weekends 
and evenings - work shorter hours - come on . . .
 
> sometimes one may even need to GO FORTH Buddha style and just walk away 
> from the old life if it won't provide an environment for you to grow and 
> develop spiritually.....but Western culture not keen on this, seen as 
> asocial....
 
Tom - if you walk away you are walking the easy path  
- back in there. (I know - I spend a lot of time running away)
 
  
> soemtimes something has to die for something new to grow, so am wary of 
> laying down the law on whether one should retain conventional 
> relationships......
 
Law? 
Celibacy does not make you spiritual and sexual expression as you know 
is no lack of sacredness. My guess is that you have not quite overcome 
your sexual nature as you believe. I have not mine - and I see little 
merit apart from Siddhas in doing so. 
Incidentally these abilities come anyway, celibate or not . . . 
As for conventional relatioships are you now advocating a hermit 
existence? 
   
> everything has to go in the end...nothing is worth holding onto, but 
> that doesn't mean it is still not possible to love or nurture 
> others....it may just mean one does not necessarily fulfil all that is 
> expected of us by others in fulfilling conditioned behaviour
 
My dear Friend I believe we should overfill others expectations where 
this is not 
destructive to either party or the relationship.
 
  
> letting go is no sin even when it's the ones we love we're letting go 
> of....
 
Sin? 
Who is interested in sin . . . 
If you Love someone you do not let go of them 
you just do not try to keep them . . .
 
  
> sometimes the mystic will face a clearcut choice between the light and 
> obeying family and social conventions, and i would say, go to the light 
> every time and have faith, but do it as gently as possible, like a ship 
> slipping its moorings for the open sea, which takes faith in one's own 
> experience and respect and tolerance  for others too......
 
You will never be presented with the choice 
Maybe it is time to become more involved with the path of Sufism . . . 
"Be IN the world - not of it" (though I would advocate being in, of and 
beyond)
 
  
> in the long run, you may find everyone comes back to you anyway on a 
> completely new level if you are patient and consistent..... 
>  
> done the right way, letting go can even bring respect from others who 
> may not really understand what's going on because mysticism is beyond 
> their realms of experience....
 
Everybody is sacred Tom, everyone is on a path of growth 
"The First shall be Last and the Last shall be first" 
 
 
> in the end, one can only live in truth, and with shakti, that comes from 
> within, initially at least.....and one ignores her at your peril....
 
Do not beat your wife with one hand 
whilst offering alms to the Goddess with the other 
Rather beat the Goddess :0
 
> Mystic Tom (who chatted with Dad on phone only this morning.....)
 
Our parents have more to teach us then Shakti ever can 
- they are the very embodiment of darkness and light  
and the complete range in between. 
We may hate or Love them, ignore or whatever but we are  
an expression of their Love and however twisted or supportive 
they are the most important people we will ever know . . .  
despite the Guru-Chela sanctity.
 
Most Kind Regards, 
Lobster 
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 15:15:51 +0100 
From: vic bonds <wildwingsATnospampeconic.net> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: harmless...Spirit.....? 
Message-Id: <19155142809246ATnospampeconic.net> 
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Dear Nancy,
 
I really, really loved your below statement, 
 because it reminds me of Spirit. 
Spirit"s nature seems to be free, 
 and does let things, all sorts of things 
hang out in a Big Way on, 
 the physical Reality Clotheslines, so, it is not 
embarassed if it's underwear, that is 20 years old, 
 is hanging in the breeze, 
flapping, clapping, madly at your face, 
when you walk in it's Gate, 
 so, remember me, in your dreams, 
 that's where I'd be, 
 a mad, mad, Spirit with nothing 
 to lose but God's gleam in my eyes, 
 soft ramblings, and bubbles, rising up through 
 naked crowds with a primal scream, 
 just letting it all hang out, so, I, 
 the Spirit can be Free.                                       ~V~
 
>It's not a big deal to me...
 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
--------------------------------------------
 
If the need to react bubbles up and the silly ramblings of others effect 
>you in a negative way then maybe it's bringing up some issues that you 
>need to deal with.  
> 
>I have to admit that some of it did bring a rise up in myself but I 
>realized that I was just reacting and tried to figure out why it bothered 
>me.... understand it and let it go. 
> 
>I liken it to...  
> 
>...them finding the need to run totally naked through a crowded place 
>screaming insanely :) 
> 
>why....? 
>need for attention? 
>trying to get some garbage out of their systems? 
>trying to shock and get reactions from others on the list? 
>simply just letting it all go? 
> 
>I dunno' why people need to do this, 
>but I do know that kundalini and Tantra awkening sometimes has us doing 
>some really strange stuff... haivning to do with getting to the core of 
>who we are. I think like partaking in a primal scream.... just letting it 
>all hang out:) 
> 
>but I try to have respect for what others feel the need to do... 
>maybe someday I'll be doing it too? 
> 
>hehehe who knows.. 
> 
>WaterFall 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Pamela wrote: 
> 
>> Lissette said: 
>> <snip> 
>> This list is for people interested in kundalini and spiritual awakening, 
>>  
>> <snip> 
>> spiritual sharings of sincere people's feelings. I guess we love games, 
>> but these are not very entertaining to me.. 
>> <snip> 
>>  
>> I have to agree. Lately I have been deleting without really reading this 
>> stuff. I hope that the postings begin to change and we get back to the 
>> subject of Kundalini. I am no expert by far but I do know lately some of 
>> the things being posted are not on subject. 
>> Pamela 
>>  
> 
>     * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " * " *  
>           Looking through Lightworking eyes,  
>                    Living through a Loveworking heart. 
>'Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows' -H. Keller 
>     In lak'ech  Nancy...WaterFall in spirit   nkarATnospamfreenet.npiec.on.ca 
>                             
>     
> 
> 
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 15:39:04 -0400 
From: "Larry Killen" <mosiahATnospammindspring.com> 
To: "Marco Antonio Galvan Ph.D" <magj1ATnospamibm.net>, <kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com> 
Subject: Re: Beloved 
Message-Id: <199704191938.PAA11422ATnospambrickbat9.mindspring.com> 
 
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Thank You.  That came at a time when I needed much.
 
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From: Marco Antonio Galvan Ph.D <magj1ATnospamibm.net> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Beloved 
Date: Friday, April 18, 1997 9:40 PM
 
Beloved K-friends:
 
Nothing has ever happened, Nothing have ever existed! 
This Nothingness you are. 
Only Self is.
 
Self is what you are, You are That 
Fathomlessness   in which experience and concepts appear. 
Self is the Moment  which has no coming or going. It is the Heart, the 
Atman, Emptiness. 
It shines to Itself, by Itself, in Itself 
You are what gives breath to life, 
You need not   search it, IT IS HERE. 
You are That  through which you would search. 
You are what you are looking for! 
And That is All it is. 
Only Self Is.
 
You simply cannot deny that you are Consciousness. 
You dwell in the Lotus of the Heart as Joy in Bliss.
 
This very process, Self Knowledge is that  which is worth sacrificing 
anything for, 
because  everything else is just a mirage rising out  of Consciousness.
 
You are the indweller of all Beings 
You are the greatest Love and the dearest of all Lovers. 
Love is attraction of Self to Self in Self. 
There is nothing besides this Love, this source of Joy. 
See your own Beauty and you are the Indweller, this Love, 
and the Beauty Itself.
 
Neti, Neti; but what you Are cannot be rejected. 
It is Now only. 
It is still the Now which only is. 
Only Self is.
 
The present Moment is Light, is Self. 
This Moment is not bondage or freedom. 
It is the most precious beyond ideation. 
This Moment is the screen on which all projects.
 
It is always Still and Untouched and it is out of time. 
There is no difference between the Ultimate and this Presence. 
To be in this moment abandon all desires, 
Including the desire to be in it.
 
That which has no name or form 
Has millions of names: 
Being, Awareness, Bliss, Isness, Atman, Truth, Self, 
Beaty, Freedom, Divine Love, Fullness, Emptiness, Nowness, Hereness, 
Silence.
 
BEFORE NOTIONS AND CREATIONS YOU EXIST, SO THERE ARE NO WORDS FOR THAT 
Beyond words and language. Self does not need to understand Itself, 
Freedom is before the concept of  freedom. You are what remains when 
The concepts of "I", mind, and past disappear. Nothingness is no concept.
 
Identify as Peace-Beauty-Love, do no experience it. 
Know "I am inactive,  the activity takes place in me, 
I am That, I am the screen, I never come and never go."
 
Identify as Consciousness Itself. 
If you do not forget who you are, 
this appearance of activity is the Cosmic Dance.
 
Stay as "I am", not what comes and goes 
The individual I-sense is mind, but Being has no frontiers. 
It is aware of Itself Itself. Identify as Being.
 
When mind is pure you will see Self in all Beings. 
Purify the mind by removing all concepts, 
Especially the concept of purity. 
The Self reveals itself to the Empty mind 
Which is Consciousness.
 
Even the ugliest of doubts and the most separate of differences 
Rise from the Beautiful Source as Isness 
In Self there are no do´s and don´ts. 
If there is unhappiness you are not unhappy, 
You are Untouched Awareness of this unhappiness. 
As waves are not separate from the Ocean, nor rays from the sun, 
You are not separate  from Existence. 
You are the Moment in which all is.
 
You are not different from Existence, than Being. 
See Being everywhere by not looking. 
The Seeing is Being, not the objects seen.
 
Consciousness is the original Mother. 
If you Know this she will take care of you 
And give you Happiness, Peace, and Deathlessness. 
This Mother we do not  recognise and this gets us into trouble. 
This Unknown is your Nature, return to That 
Because the known will give no lasting Peace, 
No lasting Love.
 
Bliss is Eternal, 
even though it appears to arise when the mind dies. 
Bliss is not an experience, It is your Nature.
 
This is the Heart 
This Gift is always calling to everyone, 
"You are seated in the Heart of all Beings." 
This is the Truth: Your face shines.
 
Nothing ever happened or ever will. 
You have always been perfect Love and Peace. 
What changes is not real and what is Real can not change.
 
You are that Secret, that Purity beyond change and description. 
Love to You, by You, in You.
 
I am the Ocean and all forms seen are my waves dancing on me.
 
In Grace-Peace-Beauty-Love
 
Om Tat Sat 
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 20:34:28 +0100 
From: Tom Aston <yogi.tomATnospamtantrictom.demon.co.uk> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com, M <chooseagainATnospamthegrid.net> 
Subject: Re: kundalini conception is the problem 
Message-ID: <8lcaDTAE5RWzEwxpATnospamtantrictom.demon.co.uk> 
 
In message <199704191740.KAA03345ATnospamgridsat.thegrid.net>, M 
<chooseagainATnospamthegrid.net> writes 
>Tom, 
> 
>I am loving your posts today.  The one on letting go gently was a softly lit 
>mirror for me, and it was very comforting to peer into it again.  Thank you. 
> 
>Could you explain the following a bit more please. I think you are a step 
>before me on this path and I'd like to hear what you have to say about that 
>part of the journey.  Others probably would too.  Here's the part I'd like 
>to see  
>expanded upon: 
> 
>>i had a similar problem in that i had tons of material, and nothing to 
>>do with it...in the end i've done/am doing most  of the things listed 
>>above...i found that i had to start "living" with whatever i said or 
>>wrote for it to feel right..... 
> 
>TIA 
> 
>M 
> 
>Yep, no problem......well. obviously there's the classic point of 
living from a true centre so the foundation of one's life becomes built 
on rock and an expression of shakti rather than other people's 
conditioning....i think of the unbreakable entwined knot of Tibetan 
Buddhism...holistic consciousness at its very deepest.....
 
then there's the shedding of skins as shakti expands and contracts and 
transmutes....i found basically i had to just stop, knock everything 
down, clean the site up and start all over again, many many times as i 
just had not gone deep enough into integrating the conscious with the 
subconscious and the transcendental...
 
and even then, once integrated there was all kinds of karma to clean up 
from the past lives built on weak foundations....so there was an 
important role for intuitively knowing when to start and stop with 
various activities and ways of being
 
i guess you could sum this up as "LIVE SHAKTI, EAT SHAKTI, BREATHE 
SHAKTI, SLEEP SHAKTI", no way can one compartmentalise the experience, 
it's everything or nothing.......
 
and once the energy was right and the body and mind right too, i could 
use all the things i had uprooted and disgarded to refine the energy and 
direct it and use it in skillful ways..."things come back to you tenfold 
with shakti" could be a good line to remember
 
one of them being able, over several years to gradually understand what 
had been going on all these years....
 
and then simply pick up my disgarded intellectual and media skills and 
start to use them to refine this raw material.....
 
as i knew that there was a crying need for something like this....
 
which explains what i'm doing on the list, apart from having fun with 
some great yogis and seekers, that is
 
found the concept of planting buddha seeds deep within very useful in 
faithful belief that things would come round karmically sooner or later 
if i kept on doing the right things as they came to mind....
 
a kind of cosmic faith that everything would eventually reach critical 
mass and light would begin to dawn
 
like a little prayer in the heart...a silent mantra in the head or heart 
or feet or wherever it felt right....thanks to the guru...saying the 
names of God silently on the tube....a silent and gentle commitment to 
the spiritual goal, especially when people were challenging my 
priorities in life...
 
just dipping into books could be useful too, an entry in a notebook or 
diary.....it all adds up with shakti.....
 
and simply being a tiny bit ruthless at times in terms of not scattering 
energy, wasting words or initiating chains of events that i knew i would 
regret....
 
a little stretch or mindful breath now and then just to centre the 
energy....rather than unbalancing things by trying to impose fixed 
patterns or activities on her
 
have to be careful with this though, as too many seeds and the field can 
get overgrown very rapidly and all kinds of energy can stand coming up 
from the unconscious and overwhelm somewhat !
 
classic kundalini dualistic dilemma as to how to relax yet remain tense 
enough to function, be orderly yet remain anarchically creative, follow 
the teachings yet be intuitive to shakti's needs, control yet let it 
flow, kind but also insightful and speaker of spiritual truths which 
some people do not welcome necessarily, generous yet not scattered, 
ethical but not woodenly following rules for their own sake, having fun 
but clearly set on mystical path that takes one away from even the 
closest of friends at times etc etc etc 
 
so it's a tightrope that gets harder and harder as get closer to the 
goal...although in other ways it gets easier too as one has built up 
understanding and faith and a sense of no return by taking lots of small 
steps over time....
 
all the great images of the spiritual journey are there for a reason, no 
matter how misused and abused they may have become over the years, and 
they really do make sense when shakti gets an appetite to evolve one's 
being.....but she don't like anything too formal or fixed so stay fluid, 
but remember the need for foundations, initially at least, until even 
foundations and houses and spiral paths do not help much and can become 
a hindrance or even a liability....can often be disgarded as existential 
inner pressure or sense of blockage or dilemma builds up...worht 
remebering the long night of the soul of the mystics...the darkest hour 
is just before dawn (or that's what they say although i never noticed it 
any darker before dawn)
 
and gradually one begins to find ways of using one's experience and 
energy in subtle ways for helping others....
 
tese ar generally effortless or a natural outcome of one's best aspects 
rather than some kind of willful mission although good intentions can 
help too....stay in the centre....
 
and the need for introspection and nurturing the inner process  begins 
to share more and more with the needs of others although these needs may 
not necessarily coincide with other fixed ideas of what people need so 
it's probably best to listen and wait at times than volunteer to help 
all the time....although with people who have spiritual experiences 
things can be very different as they tend to be much more receptive to 
positive approaches...
 
and as the Tibetans say "The greatest gift is a spiritual friend in the 
form of an ordinary human being" (or words to that effect) and i guess 
if we yogis have a vocation it's to reach down when appropriate and pull 
fellow climbers up the cruel rockface of samsara to where the air is 
clearer and the view is great and it's hard to remember what all the 
fuss and gnashing of teeth was about....
 
until one opens up and understands what life really means for so many, 
as shakti tends to cut away one's illusions sooner or later....and life 
down in ego land is not exactly a bundle of laughs....
 
and i guess that's when the journey begins in earnest, since the inner 
alchemy is almost complete in terms of benefiting oneself...
 
and it may pay to be a little more methodical and utilitarian in making 
the most of one's spiritual resources for others given there are some 
desperate people out there and a big world...even if the heart remains 
free....
 
so one just uses whatever's available and off we go again...only this 
time we do it right and hopefully, some people will be eternally 
grateful to you and shakti for your help which will be unusually 
profound in turning people's lives around even with the smallest 
gestures........
 
Zen says all this in a sentence - climb the mountain, drop one's 
rucksack (conditioning), admire the view, pick up the rucksack and 
return down the mountain....resuming normal service...or words to that 
effect
 
it is possible that no one will ever know what one has experienced 
unless one says something as people are not always very observant of 
spiritual changes...especially when shakti's involved and one might be 
climbing the mountain in the most mundane settings...
 
even an office or public transport or apparently lowkey relationship....
 
and here endeth the lesson according to Yogi Tom....
 
who instead of climbing the mountain decided to explore the bottomless 
chasm  within, which is not recommended to the fainthearted and those 
who value their sanity.....but can be interesting nevertheless.....if 
you enjoy freefall without a parachute into vats of boiling oil.....
 
until, just in time he noticed there was a free upwards elevator back to 
the Light with the name Tantric guru on it, and the power supply was 
Divine Grace and mystical teachings.....
 
hope this helps empower one's journey a little, 
 
Freefall "Going up" Tom xxxxxx 
--  
Tom Aston
 
 
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