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Recieved: 2003/07/14 15:50
Subject: Re: [K-list] Kundalini rising entry 2
From: Druout
On 2003/07/14 15:50, Druout posted thus to the K-list:
People are strangely quiet the last couple of days! Strange since it's the
full moon, and usually energy is very strong.
Rick writes:
<So we overcome them by accepting them through love. We're accepting ourself
<through ourself. If we fight them, we're reinforcing our ego, or false sense
<of Self. Else we're judging them with the mind, whereas we should accept
<them with the heart.
<I now see the beast as the repressed part of ourselves.
Dear Rick,
I'm inclined to agree, but it's hard to know whether embracing them or asking
them politely to leave is the better plan! The key may be simply in
accepting and not fearing them. The Buddha certainly seems to have rejected the
temptations of Mara:
"But Mara, the personification of evil, tried to usurp his plans by sending
his three daughters Tanha (desire), Raga (lust), and Arati (aversion), to
seduce him and break his concentration. However, the coming Buddha was too strong
for Mara. "
"In India, prior to the advent of Buddhism, Mara was a God of Love in Vedic
mythology. His name is in the language of Sanskrit and literally means death.
He is a God of both Sex and Death. "
From: http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/bodhidharma/mara.html
Interesting that Mara represents desire, lust *and* aversion!
Here is a lovely relevant story about the Buddha and Mara:
www.buddhistinformation.com/mara_and_the_buddha
(These dharma talk transcriptions are of teachings given by the Venerable
Thich Nhat Hanh in Plum Village or in various retreats around the world)
"The Buddha stood up, and guess what? The Buddha did hugging meditation with
Mara. Ãnanda did not understand. The Buddha invited Mara to sit on the best
place in the cave‒a stone bench. And he turned to his beloved disciple and said,
"Ãnanda, please make tea for us."
See also http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/resources/Maps/mara.html
" In earlier sculptural examples of this event, Mara's challenge was
generally presented as an attack by demons. By the eighth century, however, the event
was presented in terms of a Buddha figure making the gesture of touching the
earth."
Rick writes:
>It requires the greatest courage, strength and fight to see and accept
>ourselves, to fight is folly.
Yeah! :)) and paradoxically the fight is in the surrendering.
>>I heard a tone of some sort and experienced a terrific explosion and my
>>brain was full of symbols of various sorts.
>I'm sure there is a lot of exploration here, i've read very little about
>this. Sounds like the note was a tuning fork for the Soul. The explosion was
>Samadhi. The K pouring out of Sahasrara.
I've never been quite sure. Most of my experiences have been very cryptic!
Or at least all that I recall. I haven't had the explicit visions that
Kathleen and many others have had, with the exception of LSD trips in the 60's.
I'm not sure why, as I am usually a fairly visual person.
>I've wrote some down, but it's difficult to look up a symbol to research it.
> Any good books?
Can you describe them?
Love, Hillary
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