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Recieved: 2000/08/14 23:57
Subject: Re: [K-list] K Energy and Meditation : LOL :-)) what a post !
From: Wim Borsboom
On 2000/08/14 23:57, Wim Borsboom posted thus to the K-list:
Dear Horia.
The following was part of a post that I was preparing to fire off to you to
see if I could somehow *force* you to move into a wider and more
comprehensive understanding of the meaning of 'meditation'. Much of what I
write will not be new to you I'm sure, but in the heat of your argument you
were biting too hard on your "bone of contention", showing a rather limited
view (teeth marks all over) of what meditation in all its richness entails.
Sorry about my 'teachy' tone in this post, I cannot help that, such is me,
and if I need to apologize for that I will.
Anyway the tone of this post is much better than what I originally intended
to post to you...
Over the last 1900 years, in the near eastern and the western traditions of
religious and spiritual observances the word 'meditation' has taken on many
different meanings. Nowadays it is generally considered to be a *practice*
to still or empty the mind. One *practices meditation* usually to reach a
state of enlightenment, realization, satori, etc. Currently we tend to link
the word meditation to the mind, but that connection has not always been the
case. In Christian monastic traditions, starting with the Desert Fathers in
Egypt and later formalized under Benedictine (and Jesuit) rule, the intent
behind meditation was to focus or concentrate one's attention (which is NOT
the same as mind) on a certain topic, e.g. the Holy Host or the suffering of
Jesus on the cross. (Theresa of Avila used this method when she reached her
frequent states of utmost ecstacy.) The intention of such focussing was to
reach identification, at-one-ment (vereenzelviging in Dutch) with the vision
or the topic meditated upon. This approach is comparable to the more
Buddhist and Hindu tradition of the recitation of a mantra. The idea of
reciting a mantra during meditation is NOT primarily the stilling of the
mind (which nevertheless is a bonus result) but again unification and
identification with the contents (often very visual) and meaning (often
pictoresquely symbolical) of a mantra, e.g. "Om Mani Padme Um." For
occidentals though, the effectiveness of this approach is not the same as
for orientals, as our western views are culturally not wholly congruent with
oriental views. Reciting a simple syllable mantra (such as om, aum, lam,
vam, etc.) and letting the vibration of the sound itself do its work is
comparable to focussing one's attention on a specific colour, such as is
currently used in 'chakra balancing meditational techniques' as frequently
found in contemporary kundalini yoga and aura / chakra literature.
All the above is about meditative *techniques* or *practices*.
What is the original meaning of meditation though? Not meditation as a
practice but as a 'state of being': "S/he is in meditation."
The original word derives from the Latin "meditari", a transitive verb and
therefore quite hard to translate. (That is why we use the Latin word ;-)
The root of the word 'medi', is closely linked to the Sanskrit 'madya' or
'midya'. The English 'middle', 'midst', 'medium', the German 'mit' (with)
originate from the same Sanskrit root. When we see the word 'meditation' in
that light then the meaning would be something like "being been (transitive
of to be) in the middle of things", "being centered", "being here now". As
such it does not have the meaning of "practice" or "doing",........ it
simply means "BEING", "I AM".
To say it differently and to paraphrase some sayings of Jesus (especially
Jesus's answer to Pilate who asked him who he was: "I AM THE BEING" or "I AM
THAT I AM"), "I am the source and result of myself", "I am the alpha and
omega", "I am cause and effect". Krishna said similar things: "I am the
beginning and also the end.)
Meditari simply means: "Being here now." It does not mean: "Doing something
to get there."
To Kundalites the practice of meditation can be extremely painful,
physically hurtful and damaging to healing brain cells, brain cells healing
themselves through direct energy "Chi" or "Ki" or "Holy Spirit"
reconstruction. The scientific discovery that brain cells can regrow
themselves was disclosed about half a year ago (played a part in the
development of that discovery). The practice of meditational techniques in a
kundalini active person can conflict with the natural reconstruction of
brain and nerve cells. Many meditational techniques differ not much from the
usual *allopathic* approaches as applied in certain (dubious?) psychiatric
and psychological counselling practices, treating the symptoms of
pshycho-pathology.
A kundalini active person is slowly but steadily and in a rather authentic
and peculiar way :-) or :-( or ;-) reconstructing his or her own
original being. Such a person needs to be left alone, needs to be left to
their own devices, needs to let the chips fall where they may. Kundalini's
*autopathic* (to coin a word) healing process is a kind of reversed regrowth
procedure (can we say retroactive?). Meditational *techniques* interfere all
too often with this *autopathic* and *holopathic* process. (I have even seen
homeopathic treatments with traumatic and hurtful results.)
A kundalini *accomplished* person has no difficulty "just being." Such a
person, when all is said and done, only meditates - not as practice but
(sine qua non) meditating a realized steady state of being, in the sense of
"Be NowHere, permanently actualized and actualizing, realized and
realizing... manifesting divine humanity..."
Love,
Wim
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