Thursday, March 31, 2005
Desperate Quotient
How fast and well you achieve something is dependent on your DQ or Desperate Quotient. The more desperate your are, the faster you achieve the thing. The fact that if you have not achieve your goal yet is because you fail to realize the urgency of it.
Ulcers and spirits
To this day, Western science is still unable to explain ulcer or what causes it. Nevertheless, everyone has had experienced it before. Despite it has no scientific explanation, we know that ulcer is a real biological phenomena. It is a situation where technology and research is not advanced enough to give us a clue. Using the same logical reasoning, modern science is unable to give a satisfactory explanation to the existence of spirits. Therefore we cannot deny the possibility of it being factual since it is highly probable that, like the case above, it can also be attributed to the lack of breakthrough in science.
While the so-called sciences of yesteryears had became the superstitions of today. So too may our modern sciences become the superstitions of tomorrow.
While the so-called sciences of yesteryears had became the superstitions of today. So too may our modern sciences become the superstitions of tomorrow.
Laksmi Mantra
The word ''Lakshmi'' is derived from the Sanskrit word Laksme, meaning "goal." Lakshmi, therefore, represents the goal of life, which includes worldly as well as spiritual prosperity.
There's three methods of chanting mantra:
1. Mansika- Chanting of mantra in mind.
2. Upansu-Whispering of mantra so softly that no one can hear you. Only lips move in this kind of chanting.
3. Vachika-Chanting of Mantra loudly.
I chanted 41670 times of the Lakshmi bija mantra.
What is Fate?
Fate can be changed since it is simply our karma. Karma is the latent potential of something happening in a particular way. It is a seed brought forth to this present existence. It will grow and manifest itself when the time and conditions allow. Our luck, which is our energy level (whether high or low) interacting with the cosmos energy, provides the conditions for these karmic seeds to sprout along our lifetime. Thus, to change fate, we must know our karmic tendencies (the seeds) that are innate and make conscious effort to create (good tendencies) or prevent (bad tendencies) the conditions in our life that allow their manifestations.
There's three methods of chanting mantra:
1. Mansika- Chanting of mantra in mind.
2. Upansu-Whispering of mantra so softly that no one can hear you. Only lips move in this kind of chanting.
3. Vachika-Chanting of Mantra loudly.
I chanted 41670 times of the Lakshmi bija mantra.
What is Fate?
Fate can be changed since it is simply our karma. Karma is the latent potential of something happening in a particular way. It is a seed brought forth to this present existence. It will grow and manifest itself when the time and conditions allow. Our luck, which is our energy level (whether high or low) interacting with the cosmos energy, provides the conditions for these karmic seeds to sprout along our lifetime. Thus, to change fate, we must know our karmic tendencies (the seeds) that are innate and make conscious effort to create (good tendencies) or prevent (bad tendencies) the conditions in our life that allow their manifestations.
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Dreamt of the Gayatri mantra
Had a bad dream a few days ago. Dreamt that I was in a shopping mall and someone handed to me a baby. Mysteriously, I came to realize that the baby is possessed by some malignant spirit. I began reciting the Gayatri mantra to exorcise the spirit as the baby writhes in pain in my arms. The Gayatri mantra did not seem to work well for exorcism purpose and I was contemplating to use the Lakshmi bija mantra or Durga bija mantra. Then suddenly I was awaked before I can change to another mantra. I read somewhere before that if one is able to recite a mantra in dreams, especially nightmares for protection, it means one has achieved some level of siddhi with the mantra. The imageries in the dream will also reveal the specific level of mantra siddhi one has reached. Hope this is true. The Tibetan Buddhist monks believe that dreams are creations and effects of our Karma.
Friday, March 11, 2005
Stop my meditation class
i stopped going for my Qi-meditation class already coz there's nothing much to learn. In fact, with the yoga fad around recently, meditation classes are blooming like mushrooms and all the leotards-claded poseurs are rushing to attend them. But what do these people really know about yoga? They think that Yoga is a mere exercise and people of different religions can join without any conflict with their original faith. Wrong! In sanskrit, yoga means union with God, so if you are atheist, forget about yoga. For the poseurs, they only come in contact with the basics and knew nothing about the spiritual aspects. As for Christians and Muslims, the Vedic concept of God may be too different for them to assimilate. Asanas (the physical postures in yoga) are designed to strengthen the body so as to enable it to handle the energy involved during advanced training. It is a mere prerequisite. Most of the poseurs don't even know what kind of yoga they are learning, whether it is Bhakti yoga, Kriya Yoga, Raja Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Karma Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Tantric Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Mantra Yoga, or even Swara Yoga. The highest form of yoga is not the physical sorts but yoga of the mind, which is meditation. But can these pseudo practitioners sit down and meditate? No way, they will be too busy shopping around in their modern yoga gear and gym bag with a embroidered Om symbol on it, hah.
Back to the issue of meditation classes, the schools that conduct these classes are highly commercialised and are mere leeches out to suck your bank account dry. And they hardly teach any real stuffs. They play a tape or you follow the instructor's verbal instructions: "Breathe in, and chant So..........Breathe out and chant Ham...........". Bloody hell, the verbal instructions is in itself an obstacle for you to dive deep into the abyss depths of your mind. Serenity and sharpness of the mind cannot be bought with the money in your hand. Maybe that's why the commercial yoga schools come into the picture. To help get rid of yor money and put it in their safe hands.
Back to the issue of meditation classes, the schools that conduct these classes are highly commercialised and are mere leeches out to suck your bank account dry. And they hardly teach any real stuffs. They play a tape or you follow the instructor's verbal instructions: "Breathe in, and chant So..........Breathe out and chant Ham...........". Bloody hell, the verbal instructions is in itself an obstacle for you to dive deep into the abyss depths of your mind. Serenity and sharpness of the mind cannot be bought with the money in your hand. Maybe that's why the commercial yoga schools come into the picture. To help get rid of yor money and put it in their safe hands.
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Teachings of Harish Johari
Harish Johari is a painter, sculptor, composer, gemologist, chef, educator, author, and Renaissance man of ayurveda:
“Ayurveda says the universe is made of five elements. In the beginning, there was one absolute God, from whom came akasha, or ether, then air, fire, water, and earth. The whole world and the whole body are made of these elements, which we call tattvas. Because these elements are everywhere, we have them in our body as the three temperaments, or humors, which ayurveda calls doshas.”
Like most Yankee dairy farmers in the vicinity, Johari gets up very early, about 4:00 a.m. The predawn hour of morning is traditionally called amrit-bela, which means "time of nectar" and refers to a surfeit of rejuvenating atmospheric prana, says Johari.
"The prana available at 4:00 a.m. is completely detoxified and pure. Ayurveda says the divine energy descends on us before dawn. The gods come and give energy to whatever is needed, then leave. I learned about dawn from the saints who came to my house in my childhood. No spiritual life is possible, they said, without waking up before dawn."
Not only does Johari get up before the sun, he doesn't spend a lot of time in bed either. He says he sleeps about three hours maximum. "People who sleep seven to nine hours aren't sleeping. They dream and waste energy. When you start dreaming, it means the rest period is over and the mind starts its flirtations." One way to sleep less, says Johari, is to eat a more sattvic diet and do less "fantasizing" before going to sleep.
“We are made of sound. The first thing that came out in Creation was sound, then from sound came akasha. There is a sound essence, or tanmatra, behind each of the five elements. But inappropriate music can cause all kinds of problems, can even make people go crazy. Good and bad music directly and profoundly affects the body's seven subtle psychic energy centers, called chakras, which are spinning energy wheels arranged vertically up the spine from sacrum to crown.”
"Yantra is a visual tool of tantra that serves either as a centering device or as a symbolic composition of the energy pattern of a deity such as Lakshmi, Durga, or Kamla, as seen by tantric seers in their visions. A yantra is a geometrical pattern made of universal abstract symbols that both preserves or contains the essence of a thought or object and liberates us from bondage. As a tool, yantra is used to withdraw consciousness from the outer world and direct it to the inner world.
"Durga, for example, is the invincible wife of Shiva, with all manner of weapons and decorations - the unified symbol of all divine force. Meditation on the saffron color of Durga's yantra produces a calming complementary blue color, which fills the aspirant with serenity and purity."
"Usually people don't know what they want. If you want 200 things at the same time, your energy goes off in 200 directions and you can't do anything. You have to want just one thing. When they know their single desire, then we can work with that energy, then the bodymind is free to attain it."
"Whether you write, sing, cook, or paint, the breath is always there. Your breath will not be taken care of by any of the other tools of tantra. You must work on breath directly. The nostril breathing patterns serve as indicators of cerebral dominance and may help you anticipate your response to given circumstances. Swara yoga clearly states that certain activities are best performed when a particular nostril is operating. The nostrils should be checked around dawn before getting out of bed. In the event of wrong nostril dominance, one should not leave bed until the correct nostril starts operating. You can change nostrils by forced breathing on your side through the congested nostril."
“Ayurveda says the universe is made of five elements. In the beginning, there was one absolute God, from whom came akasha, or ether, then air, fire, water, and earth. The whole world and the whole body are made of these elements, which we call tattvas. Because these elements are everywhere, we have them in our body as the three temperaments, or humors, which ayurveda calls doshas.”
Like most Yankee dairy farmers in the vicinity, Johari gets up very early, about 4:00 a.m. The predawn hour of morning is traditionally called amrit-bela, which means "time of nectar" and refers to a surfeit of rejuvenating atmospheric prana, says Johari.
"The prana available at 4:00 a.m. is completely detoxified and pure. Ayurveda says the divine energy descends on us before dawn. The gods come and give energy to whatever is needed, then leave. I learned about dawn from the saints who came to my house in my childhood. No spiritual life is possible, they said, without waking up before dawn."
Not only does Johari get up before the sun, he doesn't spend a lot of time in bed either. He says he sleeps about three hours maximum. "People who sleep seven to nine hours aren't sleeping. They dream and waste energy. When you start dreaming, it means the rest period is over and the mind starts its flirtations." One way to sleep less, says Johari, is to eat a more sattvic diet and do less "fantasizing" before going to sleep.
“We are made of sound. The first thing that came out in Creation was sound, then from sound came akasha. There is a sound essence, or tanmatra, behind each of the five elements. But inappropriate music can cause all kinds of problems, can even make people go crazy. Good and bad music directly and profoundly affects the body's seven subtle psychic energy centers, called chakras, which are spinning energy wheels arranged vertically up the spine from sacrum to crown.”
"Yantra is a visual tool of tantra that serves either as a centering device or as a symbolic composition of the energy pattern of a deity such as Lakshmi, Durga, or Kamla, as seen by tantric seers in their visions. A yantra is a geometrical pattern made of universal abstract symbols that both preserves or contains the essence of a thought or object and liberates us from bondage. As a tool, yantra is used to withdraw consciousness from the outer world and direct it to the inner world.
"Durga, for example, is the invincible wife of Shiva, with all manner of weapons and decorations - the unified symbol of all divine force. Meditation on the saffron color of Durga's yantra produces a calming complementary blue color, which fills the aspirant with serenity and purity."
"Usually people don't know what they want. If you want 200 things at the same time, your energy goes off in 200 directions and you can't do anything. You have to want just one thing. When they know their single desire, then we can work with that energy, then the bodymind is free to attain it."
"Whether you write, sing, cook, or paint, the breath is always there. Your breath will not be taken care of by any of the other tools of tantra. You must work on breath directly. The nostril breathing patterns serve as indicators of cerebral dominance and may help you anticipate your response to given circumstances. Swara yoga clearly states that certain activities are best performed when a particular nostril is operating. The nostrils should be checked around dawn before getting out of bed. In the event of wrong nostril dominance, one should not leave bed until the correct nostril starts operating. You can change nostrils by forced breathing on your side through the congested nostril."
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