We’ve recently been assigned our first 40 day meditation as part of Teacher Training.

I randomly selected the Meditation to Conquer Self Animosity.  Upon selection I thought to myself, huh, that’s an interesting item to focus on, animosity towards myself.  I thought, now come on, I love myself, I certainly don’t have animosity for myself.

Well turns out my ego, has some animosity towards my expanding Self.  This meditation has been brining up all kinds of stuff I didn’t realize was so deeply seeded within.  Then my ego (little e) starts throwing up all kinds of road blocks to confuse me on this path.  I’ll just have to keep  up and see what the 40 days brings.

I do have to say that I love the pranayama, associated with this meditation.  One inhales through the nose, exhales through the mouth, then inhales through the mouth and exhales through the nose.  Following this breath puts the mind into a sublime state.

I’ll be sure to update ya on my experience post 40 days.

Sat Nam

For those of you who have been keepin up, I was recently granted the Spiritual Name, of Krishan Singh. Upon receipt of the Spiritual Name one is told to meditate on this name in order to gain deeper understanding of its meaning, including the more subtle meanings.

The other day while meditating on the name, an image came to mind. It was the image of a being floating near to me, one leg was up in easy posture, while the other was facing down towards the earth. I felt at peace with this vision.

Now me being the intellectual type, I figure I could track down some insights to the name Krishan by searching for the name. I came across this page on Guru Har Krishan.

Upon seeing the image there I was immediately drawn into the entry.

I found this line to be of much interest:

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Particularly, the local Muslim population was much impressed with the purely humanitarian deeds of the Guru Sahib and nicknamed him Bala Pir (child prophet).

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People that cross social and religious barriers in the interest of healing and Spirit are grand indeed.
This note was also interesting, as I love walking sticks and used to have a great stick collection as a child

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The Guru was always carrying a stick with him.

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Now I am not specifically versed in the process of Spiritual Name giving, but I am lead to believe that I am tied into the energy of Guru Har Krishan.

I look forward to becoming closer to this energy. Meditate upon it I will.
Krishan Singh

Buddhist Tum-mo Meditation

I came across this very interesting article from the Harvard Gazette on Buddhist Meditation. Its actually an older article and the results of the study have been around for some time.

The skinny on the article is that a Buddhist monk is able to place himself into a meditative state that allows him to heat up his body to a point where he can make 3X6 foot sheets that were soaked in cold water (49 degrees) produce steam, instead of making him freeze to death.

This specific type of meditation is called Tum-mo or Tummo meditation. Tummo is another word for Kundalini energy, for it is the fire within.  By focusing the mind and tapping into the power of Tum-mo (Kundalini) the monk is able to heat his body beyond normal levels.
The doctrine of the Buddha teaches that sufferings comes from attachments to impermanent objects. And that one can work to free themselves from attachment by following the Middle Way. From this space thoughts pass, events occur positive or negative, yet the mind remains free.  The Buddha follows the path of Wisdom, while Christ follows the path of love, yet they are two perspectives on the same energetic source.

As those of you that follow this site may know I have been proposing some interesting experiments on how to test the validity of chakra energy healing. Such as:

• Thyroid Disease healing
• Reiki Experiments

But here we have a real live scientific example on how the subtle realms and meditation can be brought into physical reality and measured. (I think the scanning insturments used in the study have several additional implication for testing.)

Over the course of the next few years, more and more studies such as these will be done in order to satisfy the Western scientific brain.  Which is all honesty has a right to be satisfied.  These will be only the beginning of this line of scientific discovery and will lay the foundation for the true science of the soul, Raja Yoga, to test its validity and value.  The energies of Aquarius carry with them the conditioning required to create proof of the human soul.  What an exciting time we live in

Gotta give a shout out to make money, for the article forward.  He located the article via,a Super Article.

Note to Daniel Tynski (author of the super article) While the ability to create steam from cold sheets drapped around ones body, may seem like a Super Power, to quote B.K.S. Iyengar and Patanjali, “these are simply the finest powers of nature.”  In truth the ability to create the steam is a by product of the level of attainment a specific unit of consciousness has achieved.  Levitation is another naturally occuring power in nature once a certain level of consciousness is reached,  most people know this power to be walking on water.