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“ONE OF the traditional applications of Chöd in Tibet was working with outer demons of disease and epidemics. Those practicing Chöd would give form to demons by practicing the ritual in frightening places where there were diseased corpses, such as cemeteries and charnel grounds. Once they felt the terrifying demons had arrived, instead of fighting them, the practitioners would imagine their own bodies transformed into nectar that fed the demons until they were completely sated.”
― Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
― Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
“Machig merged the two into a single word, god-demon, indicating that gods and demons are two sides of the same coin, that our hopes and fears are inextricably locked together.”
― Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
― Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
“Our hopes are our gods. Gods create struggles similar to our battles with demons, except they are attempts to get something rather than get away from something. Gods are involved with struggles of desire and longing rather than aversion. It is important to distinguish between an inspiration, which triggers positive energy and optimism without great attachment or tension involved, and a god, which is connected to longing for something, or being obsessed with a certain outcome.”
― Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
― Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
“Our bodies operate most efficiently in a state of balance, pivoting between action and relaxation, daydreaming and reasoned thought.”
― Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
― Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
“Thirteen hundred years ago, an ancient Tantric text, the Shiva Swarodaya, described how one nostril will open to let breath in as the other will softly close throughout the day. Some days, the right nostril yawns awake to greet the sun; other days, the left awakens to the fullness of the moon. According to the text, these rhythms are the same throughout every month and they’re shared by all humanity. It’s a method our bodies use to stay balanced and grounded to the rhythms of the cosmos, and each other. In 2004, an Indian surgeon named Dr. Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani attempted to scientifically test the Shiva Swarodaya patterns on an international group of subjects. Over the course of a month, he found that when the influence of the sun and moon on the Earth was at its strongest—during a full or new moon—the students consistently shared the Shiva Swarodaya pattern. Bhavanani admitted the data were anecdotal and much more research would be needed to prove that all humans shared in this pattern. Still, scientists have known for more than a century that the nostrils do pulse to their own beat, that they do open and close like flowers throughout the day and night.”
― Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
― Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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