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Recieved: 2002/12/08 08:48
Subject: [K-list] Requested introduction
From: Pieter Schoonheim Samara
On 2002/12/08 08:48, Pieter Schoonheim Samara posted thus to the K-list:
Dear Rich,
I've been a subscriber to this list for maybe 2 years. Occasionally I post
something. Mostly I skim for interesting comments. I posted the website,
mostly so that the moderators can keep some tabs on who is actively
subscribed and reading the material posted at least from time to time.
Also, I wanted to be sure that I wasn't dropped from the list by accident
that happens when people don't post for a long time or yahoo changes it's
venue.
I've been practicing yoga since 1968, as a result of a quest to realize god,
that it seemed at the time, everyone was on.
Then in April 1970, I met with Yogi Bhajan, who told the group that was
there that, if we practiced this yoga, that in time there would be a
tremendous transformation, and I would realize what I was seeking. I took
up this practice and his words turned out to be true.
This yoga is the ancient yoga that was brought to the US from India by Yogi
Bhajan, the founder of the 3ho Foundation www.3ho.org. This yoga combines
postures and movements with various forms of powerful breathing, and
numerous mantras and Laya meditations, practiced with a complete mindfulness
as one comes into the posture/movement/kriya, during and after. In this
yoga, the blood becomes alkali and supercharged with the vitality of the air
and prana flowing in and around the body. the postures and movements put
certain areas of the body under pressure (organs, glands, systems), which
causes the blood to super saturate these areas, which open more and more
under the pressure of time. The principally vitalized blood is then able to
penetrate
these areas, which begin to absorb and assimilate and charge up the energy
during equally as long periods of rest in between each kundalini yoga
exercise of which several make up a specific set with a specific intention.
Certain meditations and mantras follow that allow these areas that have
become packed with energy, so to speak, to dissolve and diffuse the
energy/prana throughout the body, illuminating the mind with light.
Gradually, over time, practicing many different sets, on one's own and at
kundalini yoga classes of Yogi Bhajan's student teachers, the whole body
comes into an electromagnetic balance. The mind becomes utterly pure and
radiant, as though one was watching a movie and the light in the projector
was turned up to a greater and greater power, such that the picture on the
screen would fade to white, only here one sees with the eyes, but the light
in the mind pervades inside and outside. At this stage, the pranic voltage
is even throughout the body and mind, and the Kundalini begins to awaken,
and one has experiences of transformation.
As these meditations in motion progress, the mind begins to turn inwards.
The prana having done it's work in purifying the cells of the body and the
nerves, the voltage can now begin to increase, so that gradually, one will
become awake at the subconscious levels, as the subconscious begins to also
dissolve in light. It's at this stage that the Kundalini will begin to
manifest. The Kundalini is the Self Itself, and turns the mind inwards to
experience pure being/consciousness, the "I as I" without an object. This is
called "hearing" (or sravana or sunia in the Sikh Dharma). It is the
moment, when for the first time, and thereafter the student realizes the
possibility that his/her sense of "I" is single. The Yoga Sutras call this
"Isolation of the Seer" which is the sole purpose of Yoga. As meditation
progresses, the discovery and earnest quest that takes possession of the
mind, turns into "remembrance" or inner contemplation of the recognized Self
(or manana). It's as though the student is awakening from an amnesia, now
realizing that the earlier discovery heard from within and everywhere, is
actually his/her own True Self, single and pervasive. The sensation of
remembrance is like a pulling from within and a blazing out from behind at
the same time. Thoughts and images cannot arise and the attachment to
subconscious thoughts and impressions and sensations simply drops away,
until one comes into perfect repose (or niddidyasana). This process of
hearing, remembrance (or recollection) and perfect abiding is the
manifestation of Kundalini, which is simply another word for Awareness. It
is the single simple awareness of one's True Being, but with it comes
Knowledge, what in Christianity is called the Advocate or the Holy Spirit,
the knowledge that one is single and all pervasive Being, that one is the
light and life of everything, and the moment by moment force of creation,
yet single, undifferentiated, absolute, unconditioned, uncaused (non-dual)
consciousness.
Pieter
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich" <rich4444ATnospamhotmail.com>
To: <K-list >; <pietersaATnospamloxinfo.co.th>
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 8:00 PM
Subject: RE: [K-list] Digest Number 1286 Dear Pieter,
I just saw your post here. I thought you might introduce yourself!
:)
Rich
-----Original Message-----
From: Pieter Schoonheim Samara [mailto:pietersaATnospamloxinfo.co.th]
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 8:18 PM
To: K-list
Subject: Re: [K-list] Digest Number 1286
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