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duminică, 22 martie 2026
sâmbătă, 5 aprilie 2025
Flow
Naturally human-beings learn through opposites. One needs to experience the opposites in order to see what one really wants and decide accordingly. That’s our innate freedom that we receive as a gift. A gift implies freedom and with freedom comes responsability. As at the end of our lives there is no finger pointing …
For some this decision comes in an instant of spontaneous rememberance which reorganizes all one’s life energies toward health and wholeness. This is how it happened to Jesus when he was a boy in Jerusalem when he went in one of the three prescribed pilgrimages for the jews during Pascha. When he saw the blood of lambs on the slats of the porches he realized in an instant that that’s not what God wants from the jews, to slain lambs and he understood his destiny which was actualized as the Tamid the perpetual offering of two lambs at the Temple in Jerusalem which happened at the exact hours (halachic hours, which is the time of the day divided into 12 equal parts, 9 and 3) with the crucifixion and transition of Jesus (OSHO says he didn’t died on the cross but that he was taken and then went to the jews in Kashmir where he lived in Pahalgam to old age). It is recorded in the Gospels that he uttered the first line of Psalm 22 (the numbering after Masoretic text) Eloi, Eloi, Lema Sabachthani and people nearby who were speaking the southern dialect of Aramaic thought he was calling Prophet Elijah when in fact Jesus was speaking the northern dialect of Aramaic which was spoken in Galilea and which would have translated into Listen, listen to my heart, this is my destiny!
The orthodox jews do not go to Jerusalem on the Pesach and Pesach Scheni because they can’t bring the Tamid offerings due to the fact that the Temple is no more.
What happened with Jesus that day in Jerusalem is explained in a book called the Homiliary from Prislop by Saint Father Arsenie Boca. Jesus after he understood his purpose he went into the Temple and stood near the Masorets where the kids were and begun asking the Rabbis from Isaiah’s prophecies about his coming. The Rabbis were amazed by his wisdom but they didn’t realized that they were talking with a human-being who understood his destiny. God knewing that the rabbis wouldn’t accept anyone to teach them made it so a kid would enligthen them. But they didn’t understood even to this day, I’ve talked with a Hassid Rabbi and finally he accepted Jesus as a jew.
Destiny as Saint Father Arsenie writes is “God’s intention which becomes Creation through the work of the human-being.”
Intention in Sanskrit in called Saṅkalpa. There is a saying in the Upanishads: “As is your desire so is your will, as is your will so is your deed, as is your deed so is your destiny and You are what your deep driving desire is.”
In the west where consumerism of goods and content took over the desires of many, people are less familiar with Saṅkalpa and the freedom and power to create their own destiny. Once such a human-being is met which is unflinching a decision is prompted that many cannot bear. When the ex-Pope Razinger met with Mawlana Sheikh Nazim, said Mawlana Sheik Mehmed Adil, he saw the Living Truth and he realized he was living a lie and he resigned.
Our consciousness according to an answer that the founder of Chabad Chassidism, Shneour Zalman of Liadl gave to a high ranking russian official while he was emprisoned is asking us (Adam) “Where are you ?” that is what have you done with the gift of life ?
Saṅkalpa has not to come from belief which is imposed from outside and it supresses doubt which can resurface any moment but by a deep reflection which can come from practices such as Ngondro (preliminary practices) which invites one to contemplate on the four thoughts that turn the mind to Dharma. Atiśa’s 1st Lojong slogan is the preliminary practice.
Once Saṅkalpa than one’s life’s energies align with your life purpose, that’s the first limb of Yoga: Yama or Sīla
Then one needs to bring regularity to the practice, discipline, that’s the second limb of Yoga: Niyama.
Then the body can sit in the posture that is required to meditating for 48 minutes (or two Ghaṭikas which is the time prana circulates the body one complete time) which is what is needed for Nirvāṇa or Mokṣa or Mukti or Kaivalya. For many consumerism have spoiled the desires, have turned them into passions and cravings that are controling one’s life. This is the third limb of Yoga: Asana
Then there comes rhythm what is called Ṛtam. That’s the rhythm of breath. What Eckhart says take one conscious breath, he is referring to align your Prana, your life force with the rhytm of the Universe, with Dharma, the cosmic order Ṛtam. Phùng Xuân (Thich Nhat Hanh) clicked with Anapanasati (https://plumvillage.org/library/sutras/discourse-on-the-full-awareness-of-breathing) but it may be also to align with a lunar or solar calendar, meditate within the Sandhya Kalas or Abhijit Muhurta or Amṛt Kala. That’s the fourth limb of Yoga: Pranayama. (OSHO says that it cannot be taught, one has to discover it).
Than coming back home, what christians call repentance and jews call Teshuva. That’s the fifth limb of Yoga: Pratyahara (interoception).
Than concentration, Śamatha. Here japa can help, meditating with a mantra. If one looks for an oral transmission of a mantra, one needs to prepare and contemplate the practice before hand, to be prepared when the transmission comes. Nowadays many transmissions are online but there are masters who do initiations only in person. Once one has received the initiation that is one is able to respond to the call of the master during transmission and repeat the mantra (with the exact Sanskrit pronuniciation) one need to water the seed. Keeping the practice without skeeping a day. Some mantra transmissions such as White Tara require one to be vegetarian which is more conducive to meditation. Some mantras like Green Tara and Avalokiteśvara I have heard it to be said that they don’t require a transmission as such. Completion of a mantra is repeating the mantra until a day comes and the mantra drops by itself that is subject and object merge in pure awareness. The mantras need to be counted and for that is helpful to have a Rudrakṣa mala. Rudra is one of the names for Śiva and if one takes one from seeds of Rudrakṣa that is usually blessed. Sadhguru says that taking a Rudrakṣa mala moves ones toward Mukti. That is a Saṅkalpa. That would be the 6th limb of Yoga: Dharana.
Then there is meditation. What is called Dhyan or Chan or Zen. What Buddha teaches. That is the 7th limb of Yoga: Dhyan. One needs to be aware not to fall from Dhyan, that’s why the previous limbs are necessary.
For Sahasrar one can meditate with the mantra I know from Deepak which is
Sahasrara Īṁ
while holding the Maṇḍala offering mudra.
sâmbătă, 8 februarie 2025
How I brewed Russian Caravan tea ?
Today I brewed my own version of Russian Caravan (for those who don't know Russian Caravan is a smokey black tea known as such it seems because at some point a caravan that was carrying black tea from China to Russia got the tea smoked without them intending that and they saw it was good).
The mixture I used is based on three varieties of Chinese tea:
Pu Erh (fermented black tea)
Keemun Congou (has a slightly plumy taste)
and
Lapsang Souchong (that's a taiwanese smokey black tea, it's smoked because it's made of the bigger leafs (the smaller leafs are said to be better quality)).
I started with mixing around half Pu Erh with Keemun and Lapsang Souchong in roughly equal proportions.
joi, 6 februarie 2025
A few reflections on marriage and divorce
Let me start with a quote from Shunmyo Masuno's book "Don't worry": "Love is beautiful misunderstanding. Marriage is cruel understanding."
It is widely acknowledged including spiritual teachers and enlightened masters that divorce is a trauma.
What is the root cause of the trauma of divorce ? Marriage
If baptism is a sacrament that makes people whole why is there a need for the Sacrament of marriage if they are already one ? And if they aren't already what did the Sacrament of baptism actually accomplish ?
Do you know that people who support marriage and officiate marriage don't have a remedy for the trauma of divorce ?
Healing from trauma is a work one has to do on oneself ... it can't be done by other people and it is to reclaim the connection between cognitive and affective memory. That is done by writing a letter to your younger self. In case of divorce the letter can only have this line:
"Do not marry!"
Universe, if I am before marriage, I want to be me before I was born.
miercuri, 15 ianuarie 2025
Maha Kumbh Mela
On
the auspicious occasion of Maha Kumbh Mela which occurs every 12 Kumbh
Melas that is every 12x12 or 144 years which is basically unique in our
lifetime I thought to share with you a few insights on practice which I
hope would benefit you:
The
event in itself makes the case for what Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev said
that India is the only culture that still worships the Divine Feminine,
because in no other culture such astrological
computations for the purpose of inner work have been kept.
On
the Maha Kumbh Mela Hindus go to take a dip in the Triveni Sangham
which is a confluence of three rivers: Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati which on
a deeper level signify Ida, Pingala and Sushumna in order to achieve
Mukti or Moksha or Nirvana or as Yogis call it Kaivalya.
Why
is this significant for Vajrayana practitioners is that basically that
is the purpose of Secret Mantra and Yogic practices to bring the sun
(Surya) energy (Ha) of the right energy channel Pingala and the moon
(Chandra) energy (Tha) of the left channel Ida into the central energy
channel Sushumna.
One
of the practices we are all familiar with is the 9 purification
breathes also known in India as Nadi Shuddhi that is Purification of the
Nadis. The deeper reason behind the practice as I have read from the
jews at least as is more commonly known of forceful exhalation is to
touch the deeper layers of energy. As it is knows by the Sufis one of
the names of Allah is Hu which essentially is very similar with HŪṂ
or HUNG and is heard at a forced exhale. Also Jews do not utter the
name of G-d because is breathed. In their prayer Hu Elokeinu basically
the sound is the same but it is used to denote 3rd person singular.
Thought to share a few variants of the 9 purification breathes:
By Dorji Damdul from Tibet House:
By Dalai Lama:
By Sheila Patel:
By Isha:
an explanation of the activation of one of the three main nadis:
As
Maha Kumbh Mela already started and Hindus celebrate a harvesting
festival called Pongal the next important dates to keep an eye on are
Mauni Amavasya (new moon), Basant Panchami (first day of spring), Maghi
Purnima (full moon) si Maha Shivratri (13th day after Maghi Purnima).
Taking a dip in the water literally is a celebration which is common to many traditions, Jews bath in a Mikvha (https://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/1541/jewish/The-Mikvah.htm)
which being central to family life is always considered to be more
important than a Synagogue and the poorer communities when they start
and do not have money for both a Synagogue and a Mikvha, Christians dip
in the Holy Water, Japanese Shinto bath in Water at the beginning of New
Year. If one doesn't find a river to dip into here is a Vedic Ritual (https://youtu.be/Jbv-uRoSd6g)
which can be done if one finds a spring. The reason to go to a spring
instead of using bottled water or water from the sink is that flowing
bodies of water have an energy which is in sync with the rhythm of Earth
and which fades when the water is carried away from the spring.
If one wishes to practice meditation with mantras, one can try Primordial Sound Meditation mantras which is formed by Pranava (Oṃ) + Bija according to the Nakshatra Pada at the time of birth with an added ṁ + Namaḥ.
To compute the Nakṣatra Pada:
https://agasthiar.org/AUMzine/0019-rasi.htm
To count the Position according to the 27 Nakṣatras and the 4 Padas:
https://worldyogaforum.com/nakshatras/padas/?amp=1
To check out the Bija:
https://choprapsm.com/images/PSM%20Pronunciation%20Guide.Revisedv2.pdf
The
most effective hours to practice are during Sandhya Kalas which are 20
minutes before and 20 minutes after sunrise, noon, sunset, midnight
(Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev says that the midnight Sandhya is not
appropriate for pregnant women) when the energy is shifting very rapidly
between Ida and Pingala making it easier to enter meditation and Brahma
Muhurta which is a period of 48 minutes (a muhurta or two Ghatikas (as I
have heard from Lopon Chandra a Ghaktika is the interval of time it
takes the prana to circulate the body one complete time)) with 96
minutes before sunrise when the Universe is mating, that is it is the
most fertile time to set intentions. Essentially according to OSHO if
one manages to meditate for 48 minutes, that is to be in the gap between
two thoughts for 48 minutes, attains Moksha, Nirvana, Kaivalya.
Externally,
during the three days of the eighth, fourteenth, and fifteenth of the
waxing period and during the twenty-fifth, twenty-ninth, and new moon
days of the waning period the ḍākinīs circulate to the three external
places. Internally, these are times when there is a special circulation
of energies in the channels. In particular, on the tenth during the day
and on the twenty-fifth during the night the accomplished ḍākinīs
convene at the places of practitioners. Thus, in order to accomplish
whatever ritual you initiate, exert yourself at those times.
(and a more comprehensive explanation of the 10th day https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/gonpo-tseten-rinpoche/bouquet-of-udumbara-flowers)
miercuri, 8 ianuarie 2025
An honest (to the best of my abilities) review of the spiritual journey in the last 9 years
There are almost 9 years since I first started to bring more clarity to my life's purpose and almost 7 years since I somehow got more into the spiritual journey and off the day to day organized religion.
I believe that finding a daily rhythm and regularity to the practice near a community and a teacher of a spiritual path would probably yield results that would bring one's individuality to dissolve into the ocean of existence and with that success would also come whatever that means for everyone, probably that would include enough money to pay the bills and lead a decent lifestyle and a partner and close friends that would provide for the close emotional connections everyone needs.
With that said I have to say there is a lot of hype around what the spiritual teachings would deliver right off the bat. That's kind of moving from the magical to the intellectual and from the intellectual to religiousness (a classification that I know from OSHO's transcripts).
In my case after 7+ years I haven't been able to find a partner, get to speak to close and dear ones or to casual acquaintances about what drives most, apart from writing on the blog. On a more lucid note, prayers for finding a partner, including blessings and affirmations didn't yielded. And the procedure is not clear and wasn't the absolute focus of enlightened beings up to very recently when at least if didn't grew in importance at least it was brought into focus and certain affirmations have been given in that direction (even though as I said they haven't worked for me as such in the actual, because in the potential we are told that what we ask is given right away provided that there are no limiting beliefs and the desires align with love and what the Universe wants). Certain aspects have indeed manifested, some quicker, some after steady and focused involvement and overall I feel that the law of attraction is not biased and would deliver anything provided one is free of limiting beliefs, including I would say religious ones which encapsulate one in a particular spiritual body and cultural and religious conditioning attached to it (like repressed sex in Christianity and so on).
I think that people are slow to follow, provided that most expect to see manifestations quicker and the ones that most expect and want like meeting someone manifest much quicker with the innate intelligence than what the prayers would deliver. Not that they don't ... but to get the depth one would require consistency, regularity, rhythm of which the innate intelligence of human beings has enough of to start with and the incentive to get into consistent prayer is ousted by what can manifest right away without formal prayer so to speak.
There would undoubtedly be benefits in praying as to provide a common ground of understanding and communion but because one cannot get convinced by talk but by what one live, the depth needs to be there at first ... and thus they years I have spoke of ... If one doesn't put the 9 years ... and than surrender and let existence take course ... the results are shallow.
There are undoubtedly enlightened beings in existence embodied and souls of enlightened beings that assist one if help is requested but then again ... without the depth of the 9+ years of rhythm, regularity the results are shallow ... synchronicities in response to prayer do occur but at least in my experience they didn't quite delivered in terms of relationships for example. I wouldn't say that they can't because that's not in line with how existence works ...
Then there are obvious limits of culture conditioning that have shaped a certain social reality over millennia which even though impermanent and subject to dissolution, might sometime take years or even tens or hundreds of years to pass away and in the meantime getting past them sometimes could be more effective to move in a new place and combine contemplative practices, meditation, conscious manifestation with what one can do to get past certain common beliefs.
luni, 23 decembrie 2024
Rhythm - the one wise counsel that brings rhythm back into life
One key ingredient in aligning with the evolutionary impulse of the Universe is rhythm. There are many rhythms but the one that resets all the other according to Ayurveda (as taught by Deepak Chopra) is the circadian rhythm.
Bringing rhythm to one's own life needs to start with the body.
To center oneself life energies in the body (Yama) and to bring regularity (Niyam) sound sleep is necessary. Sound sleep helps the body regenerate. Sleeping closer to the earth energy that recharges and replenishes the body or in a consecrated space is necessary to revitalize and rejuvenate as the bindu chakra, the manipura where all the 72 nadis meet and marma points maintain the body and the subtle body.
For sound sleep the body needs to be free of the effort to digest food. For the body to be free of the effort to digest food, food shouldn't be taken for a a few good hours before going to sleep. As I have heard from a Jain girl in a video on YouTube her family had the habit of not taking food later than 6.30 PM. With this simple and essential point, the body can take the time to digest then go to sleep and regenerate the body so that one feels rested in the morning and can wake up easily even in the Brahma Muhurta or during the morning Sandhya Kala for meditation.
Like this after meditation one can eat because there will be already 11 to 12 hours since the last meal and one can now eat the first meal of the day with gusto. And through this the body can brought without much effort to sit for the meditation if it is a sitting or moving meditation.
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