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kevincann
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 Posted - May 19 2011 : 5:25:39 PM
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The psychology of the path can be very interesting and illuminating. All of us at one time or another, have fallen in love with one chakra or another.
Some of us fall in love with the chakra (energy distribution point) at the base of the spine, known as the root chakra or Muladhara. This is because it is a governor for what we take from the Earth, and collect in our Sacral area, that giant reservoir of what people call Kundalini.
By becoming obsessed with Kundalini, we cause enormous problems for ourselves. The negative traits assocaited with the root chakra become obvious: obsession with life and death, primal fear, and a host of other problems.
The root chakra will open on schedule, and without pain or melodrama, if done correctly, like with a full program of self-paced AYP practice.
Many of us fall in love with the crown chakra (straddling from an inch or two down to a bit upwards above the crown of the head), because we hear the stories about how powerful it is, and we think that by opening it, we will become liberated from life and death and enlightened.
Sorry. It doesn't work that way. A fully awakened and purified crown chakra is just another stepping stone, on a long journey.
By becoming obsessed with the Crown, we cause enormous problems for ourselves. The negative traits assocaited with the crown chakra include: brain damage, mental disease, melodrama, overactivation of mental traits at the expense of "human" traits, an overactivation of every mental-type chakra, such as the throat and navel type chakras, leading to a "me vs the world" type of critical ass-hattery. I know one person who typified that very well recently.
When the Crown chakra opens like a flower (it actually looks like a flower when open), due to careful self-pacing, self-sacrifice, honesty, and much steady practice--without any playing of spiritual games or one-upmansship, then a Crown-awakening is a most beautiful thing. A vast sense of peace fills us, as our brains are now plugged into the the very structure of everything in this universe. We intuitively understand the order of things, at a certain level anyway. A fully-opened and purified crown makes one a Sage, at least after much study in the silence is done, to root out bad knowledge that has accumulated, or has not been properly learned.
But nobody has ever been enlightened, by the opening and purification of the Crown chakra alone. When the Crown chakra is fully developed and clear, the path may indeed be open for the next step, the outpouring of love, but not necessarily. Many so revel in knowledge and perception, that they are unwilling to throw that all away, as must be done, if the Heart is to open fully, and the Outpouring of Love to become a reality.
There are several stages beyond the Outpouring of Love, that lead to paths not often taken by human beings. However these further baby steps will increasingly be taken by us, as the human genone is evolving, to better support undifferentiated awareness within our very fragile human forms.
After the Outpouring of Love, things like Chakras and Energy mean little. If you do Sambhavi mudra, you are as likely to feel your buttox as your third eye. Everything becomes one giant web of love, without our artificial boundaries.
The only reason I mention these things, is to demonstrate that becoming obsessed with any chakra is pointless and holds us all back. Even the mighty Crown, is but a minor waystation, on our path back home.
Our one goal is ever the same; stop chasing after rainbows, in the past, future, or in some other "dimension". Being fully alive in the here and now. Not even Buddha would be enlightnended if he did not observe this, our fundamental practice. The big bad word "enlightenment" is just another thing to stumble over; loving each other this very moment, without any bullsh*t--that is true enlightenment. That is what AYP practice leads to.
We love each other so very much,
Kevin Cann
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Edited by - kevincann on May 19 2011 5:51:54 PM |
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Delara
Lebanon
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Posted - May 20 2011 : 04:16:17 AM
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Love is the message,all else is nothing but mind.Actually,there's no God without Love 
Namaste
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Pipedream
Bangladesh
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Posted - Nov 26 2011 : 06:55:10 AM
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| I am sorry Delara, but you seem to have it backwards. There is no love without GOD. |
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nirmal
Germany
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Posted - Nov 27 2011 : 05:04:52 AM
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Hello,
It seems to me that the two of you are saying the same thing and abstract notions thereof.
Words are products of the mind. Illusion. Oerhaps what's left is love. God is love, but there again are words, illusion.
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