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The Secret Wisdom of Kundalini
This is my third blog post on the subject of Kuṇḍalinī. If you haven’t yet read or listened to the first one, please do. In the second one (which you need not read before this one), I presented excerpts from the original Sanskrit work composed by Swami Lakshman Joo (SLJ), the last living Trika guru of Kashmīr (1907-1991), entitled Kuṇḍalinī-vijñāna-rahasya, translatable as “The Secret Wisdom of Ku
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“The great master Abhinava Gupta suggests to us that if you practice yoga from the perspective that you are not good enough as you are, or that there is something wrong with you that needs fixing, then your yoga cannot fulfill its ultimate purpose because it is a practice founded on wrong understanding. It can only go as far as fulfilling the limited purpose that has been conceived by your limited ego-mind. However, if you undertake the practice of yoga with the right View of yourself, that you already are a perfect and whole expression of the Divine and that you are doing yoga to realize and then fully express what is already true, then you have empowered your practice to take you all the way.”
― Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition
― Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” — Thomas Merton”
― Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition
― Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition
“The mind sees reality through the lens of māyā (that is, it sees things as fundamentally separate and differentiated) because its primary function is to produce discursive thought-forms, or vikalpas. Vikalpas are mental constructs or interpretive filters that divide up (vi-kḷp) the world into discrete chunks for analysis (e.g., “Dangerous to me or not?” “Source of food or not?” “Potential mate or not?”). This function of the mind was very useful and important in our evolution, but has led to a problematic situation in which our interpretive lenses are constantly interposed between awareness and the rest of reality, such that it’s very easy to mistake the lens for reality. (To be more precise, we take the modified image that appears in the lens or filter as being accurate, when in fact it’s distorted to an unknown degree, until you learn how to remove the lens, at least temporarily). This is one definition of the ‘unawake’ state or dreamstate.”
― The Recognition Sutras: Illuminating a 1,000-Year-Old Spiritual Masterpiece
― The Recognition Sutras: Illuminating a 1,000-Year-Old Spiritual Masterpiece
