I'd love to know too.
I think a step towards purifying the body is recognizing body and mind are inseparable. Every thought has a feeling. But we have been educated to master thought. Use that - it's somewhere to start from. Cleanse the mind. Focus, don't recreate images of the past, try to be inspired without putting hope in the future. Inspiration fires everything at once. The body grows and evolves from use, so use inspiration to use your body. How to be inspired? Find that you are a process and not an object. Thus realize you can flow... learn to let your feelings do this. For some reason, accepting and living in low undesirable states makes them disappear from your life. It's all about doing something artful with the situations and emotions presented to you on a daily basis. When you see the sun and what it's doing to the earth without your educational beer goggles, you will be inspired by that alone. Make sure life is a mystery. Become comfortable with the mystery and don't grip to the soil you're standing on. Let it go. Make every day a new blind corner. If you can do that, you'll be inspired! And what a respectable way to live, relying only on your intelligence...
Realize that bad news, ie. 'global conflicts', may or may not be real but they are JUST THOUGHTS YOU ARE HAVING. Same goes for theories, natural selection, materalizm etc. May or may not be true, but if you don't think them into existence, they are powerless things.
I guess in short, coming alive will purify you.
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I suggest Ken Keyes' book Handbook to Higher Consciousness, if only to give you a basic idea about the motivations that are symbolized by each of the Hindu Tantric chakras (other systems have additional levels of experience attributed to the centers, after a Peak at the Sahasrara). So, briefly, from the bottom up, at the Muladhara, you have to be able to survive, without turning into a survivalist. Dependency and extreme independence are both out-of-balance.
The Swadhisthana, the sexual chakra, enjoins more than sex, it is also unconscious processes. In the Tibetan chakra system this is considered joined as one with the 1st center, becoming Freud's 'anal-genital' complex. But I digress. Extreme abstinence from normal sexual release is, despite some yogic and Taoist arguments in favor of conservation of semen, out-of-balance. Chronic masturbation is out-of-balance. Sex with many individuals, requiring any deception of them draws the motive-energy from the next center, Manipura (with the Indo-European root for Manipu-lation). That would amount to sex in the service of the ego, which is also out-of-balance. Just as the Kabbalistic sphere of Yesod (Loins, Moon) has a special relationship with Tiphereth (Heart, Sun), loving kindness and compassion need to enter into Svadhithana to make it pure and giving instead of the Manipura's egoic need for conquest and expansion.
Manipura is about power. It has 3 swastikas around a triangle of fire. The description according to Sir Arthur Avalon (John Woodruff) is that through it, the world is destroyed by fire (holocaust) and rebuilt in the conquerer's image. I am convinced that Hitler, now known to have been influenced by Aryan philosophies, vegetarianism, etc., took the symbol of Nazism from this source. A certain amount of personal power, confidence, social interest, social status, marks a healthy-functioning Manipura (I have some weakness in this center. It is sometimes strengthened by martial arts or other warrior pursuits). All tyrants, megalomaniacs, egotists have their personality dominated by this center. This is why the Heart Center is usually the place to begin in meditation.
Below the Heart, we are all symbolized by centaurs and satyrs of Greek mythology. Our animal bodies dominate our interests - instinct and social status, just like the behavior of any other group of alpha males among mammals, some more social like wolves, some more independent like lions, etc. The Terrestrial forces lie in the lower 3 centers, the Heavenly forces from the Throat Center to the Head Center[s]. The Heart Center characterizes the interpenetration of these two reals in the Human Realm. This is why there is a hexagram of 2 interlaced triangles at the Anahata Heart. Alchemically as well, fire below, water above, the Philosopher's Stone manifests here, in the 'seat of mind' at the Heart. It is made pure by serving, by becoming a needed task w/o self-interest in reward. It is the nature of a helper vs. one who helps him/herself. Acting in this way reveals one's petty needs for recognition, payment, etc., thereby revealing the impurities of one's Heart. The discipline for puriication is truth. Tell only the truth. Truth=Reality. One begins to seel the Ultimately Real, beginning often with whether someone REALLY loves us. Is it an act, fake, an agenda, or genuine?
The Throat Center Visshudha deals with seeking, and the meaning of life on the ascending path to a Peak Unifying experience, and becomes the center for Enlightened Speech (or writing) on the descending path. It is the place of Knowledge-Holding deities in Vajrayana, of Jnana or Gnosis. It corresponds with the Kabbalistic sphere Da'ath - Knowledge, but in the form of Gnosis - Knowledge of Being. Beginning with development of the Heart, truth-telling means the vocal expression of Reality, translated through symbols, words, mantric syllables which refer to experiences. One is drawing compassion from the Heart, and Supernal consciousness from the Head Centers. Not only speaking the truth, by creating ways to communicate higher consciousness through speech/writing, is the means for purifying this motive-center.
Wisdom associated with the Ajna can be Luciferian if divorced from compassion and love. It becomes corrupted by lower forces and is worldly, political wisdom, not transcendental. Its insight is geared through the Manipura to manipulate people or even nations. Wisdom come by Illumination, but there is a cold Luciferian light element that needs to be warmed, else one can get a visionary leader like Hitler, with a purely Manipuric portal into which the very fires of Hell stream.
Sahasrara, strictly speaking, is not a chakra. The Thousand-Petalled Lotus is the locus of Unification, the seed syllable OM, and an experience of the Infinite. Once this has occurred, the awareness is forced to descend from the 'Peak,' like Moses with the Commandments, figuratively speaking. One needs to ground the Infinite in the finitude of the Heart Center the locus of Realization, the Infinite in the finite. This is the esoteric meaning of the biblical John 1:14 - "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." The Word, or Logos, demythologized from the man Jesus, is that Light ("glory") of which mystics speak in all religious traditions. The Father, or King, or Crown, descends from Crown (Head) to Heart, like the crown of thorns in Catholic iconography to encircle the Heart, which is 'pierced' with "Unbearable Compassion" (as BE HERE NOW puts it). This is the meaning of OM MANI PADME HUM - The Infinite is a Jewel in the Lotus of the Heart. Then, as Paul reps wrote: "Head and Heart are not apart."
Edited by MarkostheGnostic (08/10/11 05:51 PM)
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