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Recieved: 2002/03/12 15:53
Subject: Re: [K-list] Kundalini: Destination or Scenery?
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent
On 2002/03/12 15:53, Mystress Angelique Serpent posted thus to the K-list:
At 08:20 AM 20/02/02, copithorneATnospamacninc.net wrote:
>"Well, I think all religious traditions are based originally on Kundalini
>experiences."
I agree. Partly because the experience of Kundalini gives insights into
the deeper unity of all religions.
>Thank you very much for responding, Hillary. This is a big idea and it is
>definitely one way of looking at things. I will continue to ponder it. It is
>like what Gopi Krishna says: Kundalini is the evolutionary force in the
>universe animating people towards the spiritual life. It is like the grace of
>God.
I think so...
>At the same time, my gut reaction is that Buddhism is based on the
>experience of suffering, not the experience of Kundalini.
For a lot of people, it is the same thing... especially in the middle
part of the process. Trying to bring the higher insights down into daily
life and see perfection there.
>It makes a difference whether we understand Kundalini as the destination
>or as
>just more scenery along the way.
Is Kundalini a verb or a noun? A thing, or a process? I think Kundalini
as we experience it, is the process and the scenery... but the deeper
experience of nothingness is the destination... and that too is a face of
Kundalini.
> In theistic traditions, Kundalini can become
>the goal and the aim is to get higher and higher and higher. In Buddhism,
>whatever experience arises passes away and cultivating Kundalini is simply
>creating more karma, more bondage.
I think that it can be... I have seen people who worked too hard to
stoke the fire and got burned. Yet... I like to live on all levels. Being
nothingness is blissful, but it is not creative. Creativity requires
duality, destruction and creation the wheel. The K. is creative energy and
it pokes me to express it in art and writing, and it is the dark that
inspires. Necessity the mother of invention. Illusions of need... or a gift.
Like this evening, I made a decision that sometime this spring, I am
going to transport some cement to my favorite beach, and sculpt several
shell shaped water vessels.
This is a very unusual beach, it is clothing optional, provincially
owned but mostly managed by a volunteer committee of devoted nude beach
lovers. It is hard to get to, being at the bottom of a high cliff. It has
its own culture, and is shaped ever year by the beachgoers, who use sand
and the many logs washed up from the log booms to erect posts for hammocks,
make platforms and carvings and small rocky flower gardens. It mostly
falls down from the storms of winter and the chainsaws of city workers over
winter, to be biult again anew the following summer. Sand castle building
for adults.
There are buckets near the gardens for people to dump their leftover
ice in, so it can thaw and be safe for watering the plants. The buckets are
ugly, and get stolen.
I see instead, a 30 inch wide clam shell, sculpted of cement and beach
sand. Too heavy to be easily stolen. Deeper than a birdbath and smaller
than a trough, serving the purpose and blending in with the natural colours
and shapes. I can see three of them along the beach. It is functional,
elegant and do-able. It would be lovely... fun to make, and a practical
offering of art, to the beach. Wheeeee!!!
So, I have made an attachment to seeing it happen. Is this karma?
Feels like divine inspiration to me...
Blessings!
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