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Recieved: 2003/06/08 23:58
Subject: [K-list] Kundalini is the obstacle
From: Rick Mayweather
On 2003/06/08 23:58, Rick Mayweather posted thus to the K-list:
Having starting to plough through Ramana Maharshi in more detail, i'm
starting to think that focus solely on the Kundalini is one of the obstacles
to be overcome. I've spent a long time looking at the Chakras, Kundalini
and meditation and am starting to see that these are becoming the obstacles,
I looked at nothing else.
Instead the focus would be better placed on the source of the self so as to
awaken the witness and to transfer consciousness from body consciousness to
the Self. More specifically Ramana's whole teaching uses a system of
self-enquiry to untie the knot that is the ego.
"The body consciousness is the wrong 'I'. Give up this body-consciousness.
It is done by seeking the source of the 'I'. The body does not say 'I am'.
It is you who say, 'I am the body'. Find out who this 'I' is. Seeking its
source it will vanish."
In many ways, associating ourselves with the Kundalini process is like
associating ourselves with the body-consciousness. Of course by meditiating
we're disassociating with body consciousness by quietening the mind which is
nothing but a collection of thoughts, and awakening the witness. This is
what is happening all the time, but he advocates the most direct approach to
self realisation that seems to exist. In short, associate with
consciousness itself and many things will happen.
I'm formulating a view that seekers are all going about it in the wrong
direction, Kundalini is not the goal or something to be obtained or
achieved, nor are opening the Chakras, merely the Self is to be known, to be
sought and then every lock opens.
It's a little dry reading for the Western mind, but I do recommend people
delving into his works and perservering if their interested, their quite
original, even after 50 years, few teachers have been as direct or as
rewarding except Osho.
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