Clairvoyance mantra - liberation by seeing

 

From a jpg from a picture of a painting of Lama Zopa Rinpoche with the sylables: 

A AH SHA SA MA HA

A AH ŚA SA MA HA

in Tibetan script:

Prayer book with prayers from Hazrat Inayat Khan

"It is according to the extent of our consciousness of prayer that our prayer reaches God." - Hazrat Inayat Khan

https://www.petama.ch/Ebooks/Ebook-Prayers/Ebook-Prayers.html

1001 nights. The value of a night of prayer

 

The sufi say there is great Adab for praying at night, more so than praying during the day, that is to pray before sunrise at the specific hour designated for prayer.

However there are three nights that muslims keep as sacred: 

Laylatul Isra'wa-l-Mi'raj 27th night of the month of Rajab - the night journey of Prophet Muhammad from Makka to Jerusalem on donkey Buraq where Allah ascended Prophet Muhammad to heavens (Mi'raj) 

Laylatul Bara'ah 15th night of the month of Sha'ban - The night of destiny when what happens for the next year is written including who is destined to die in the next year.  

Laylatul l-Qadr - The night of power which is in one of the last 10 nights of the month of Ramadan, some say odd nights and the 7th night of the last 10 nights is also mentioned as the night when The Quran, as a perpetual revelation, is sent down from the heavens.

It is said that Laylatul l-Qadr has the Adab of 1000 months. 1000 months is the equivalent of about 84 years or the duration in which the karmic imprint of a person who reaches that age exhausts. The thing is that the Adab of a prayer is said to be roughly 80 years. So basically being prayerful on Laylatul l-Qadr is to make up for a life of prayer. But in order to do so one needs to be prayerful each and every night. It might not look like it but if one looks from a non-transactional mind, being prayerful here and now makes one prayerful to receive revelation on Laylatul l-Qadr with each occurrence.

Teachings of the Buddha, Other Indian Masters, Gyalsay Thogmey Sangpo's Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas and Three Principles of the path by Lama Tsongkhapa (prayer book from Tibet House)

 https://drive.proton.me/urls/PX3V3XBV3C#5Px-eXJsvG2R

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.

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.

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.