Thoughts to read once more later

I post here some quotes that I had not time to read and understand good. So I don't want to lose them and I can reread them later with quiet.



When impurities dissolve into vastness, then the clarity radiates as
light.
When the veil of the intellect is removed, then rigpa nakedly arises.
When the clouds of thoughts are dispersed, then there is no
obscuration to primordial wisdom. (...)

The nature of the mind is already a kind of construct or concept
to explain that this thing, mind, has its characteristic, its quality
or nature.
Rig-pa is the
knowledge, the perceiving of condition of things as they really are. (ChNN)

Since ancient times meditative practices from a variety of spiritual
traditions have used sound and its vibration as an essential tool for
healing. ... Through singing and chanting sacred syllables and mantras, ... can purify and
restore harmony to a wide range of physical, emotional, psychological
and spiritual dimensions. Guided by the mind and carried by the breath
through subtle channels, the sound has the power to heal illness and
dissolve energetic disturbances.

Mudras that help us to open the heart chakra

Many practices and exercises go better if you have the sence of openess, connection.

Our life makes us suffer very often and we close ouselves inside. This is bad behaviour for those who want to be, to feel connected to Universal Conscious. Because this BC can't reach your heart.

So one of the most important practices is open the heart chakra. There are different exercises to learn it, but I found very useful and easy to use in different situations mudras. Here are those I used to facilitate this practice.

First is I used very often.
You open your hands and with this gesture, eyes and movement of your soul you help heart chakra to open and to connect.

Other mudra wants to remember fragility of the life, reincarnation, continuity.
This is the life of lotus.
You take your hands as for prayer, but "with a ball" under the closed fingers. This is a lotus-bud. Then you open your fingers -the lotus-flower - and this is the phase we are interested in, with this gesture we try to open the heart chakra.


Close fingers and turn them down together with the hands. Our lotus-life is finished. But now we turn the hands up once more and create the bud of the new life, new reincarnation. The circle of the existence begins.

If you want to read more about these and other mudras (I wrote about only one specific use) you can see my post Fingeryoga or mudras with necessary addresses of sites and titles of books.

About use of mantras

There are many articles in the last time (some years) about healing by chanting mantras,special sounds.
I think it's very important and powerful practice.Specialy if you do it together with observing your or others ill points and/or sending your energy to these points.

In my practise mudras + mantras + energy helped to avoid aches even in persons befor death.You know,the aches do us made.Unfortunately I'm not a great healer.But when I saw it, I did that 2 ancient persons learn mudras and chanting mantras. Oh,how were they angree with me:they,orthodox,never will do this buddhist practises!!! ecc ecc) Now they understood I don't speak about religion.Every pupil knows,sound is not religion and energy is not religion... Today this 2 old ladies tell me how mudras save them the life,what have i do if I have headaches ecc.I smile.


This thoughts about chanting mantras I found on this site
http://www.saraswatiriveryoga.com/mantrathoughrts.htm
I found this site not very useful,but this page is interesting.Here are some quotations from there

"...Chanting a mantra opens the body and stabilizes the mind, bringing it to a place of stillness.
Mantras are sound vibrations that purify the mind and return it to its innate stillness and brilliance. The natural mind is skillful, quiet and alert.
on a practical level we are interested in it because it will give us a deep baseline breath.
Nothing attunes body, mind and breath like sound pulsation.
Chanting practiced regularly will help everything from regulating breath to cultivating a lack of self- consciousness...."

If you want to try
you don't need a mantra you find here or there.It's enough a little prayer from your own religion.Like "pater noster".The only problem can be when you understand every word and you can be distract to the sense of these words.So is good if you repeat a mantra.

The other help for you can be mala.

Here I have one with 7+7+7 pieces and other with 108 (27x4 times to repeat) pieses.
It's my antideperssant.No chemistry,no allergy,no indigestion and no prize too.Gratis.
in my post "how I do meditation" -Bon-page -My Interests Site
http://interests.page.tl/B.oe.n.htm I described the technic.

Take mala so as I take it in my hand and pass to other piece with every new breath if you observe you breathing or to the next time you repeat your mantra.
Relax muscels and concentrate on observing or repeating.Your breath becomes slowlier ecc Don't move (hands,tongue,eyes,feet...)

It's goog for other psychological technics like repeating sentences - see about it "Diary" post "how to do meditation" and others

Mama Yogini

This film is specially for women that practice yoga.

Webpark: ВИДЕО: Занимательная йога (1.61Mb)

If your husband don't approve you do yoga,show him this film

When you're in deep shit...

One more great story I wanted to have here. I like it very much but I was too lazy to translate it in english.Today I was happy to find it translated in the most great e-course I had ever seen - 5-minute-management-course. I'm sure to turn back soon to enjoy all the stories but this story I wanted it soo much...


A little bird was flying south for the Winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground into a large field. While he was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on him. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, he began to realize how warm he was. The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy. A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him.

Morals of the story:
(1) Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy.
(2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
(3) And when you're in deep shit, it's best to keep your mouth shut!

Beautiful buddhist stories

It has to be because buddhismus has not written documents for many times and monks and believers had to learn texts by heart, or maybe the stories are easyer to understand and to remember - I don't know. But I think buddhist stories are very interesting and wise. I like them really very much. And here I wanted to post one of them.

THE WORM
Ajahn Brahmavamso

There is a wonderful little story about two monks who lived together in a monastery for many years; they were great friends. Then they died within a few months of one another. One of them got reborn in the heaven realms, the other monk got reborn as a worm in a dung pile. The one up in the heaven realms was having a wonderful time, enjoying all the heavenly pleasures. But he started thinking about his friend, "I wonder where my old mate has gone?" So he scanned all of the heaven realms, but could not find a trace of his friend. Then he scanned the realm of human beings, but he could not see any trace of his friend there, so he looked in the realm of animals and then of insects. Finally he found him, reborn as a worm in a dung pile... Wow! He thought: "I am going to help my friend. I am going to go down there to that dung pile and take him up to the heavenly realm so he too can enjoy the heavenly pleasures and bliss of living in these wonderful realms."
So he went down to the dung pile and called his mate. And the little worm wriggled out and said: "Who are you?", "I am your friend. We used to be monks together in a past life, and I have come up to take you to the heaven realms where life is wonderful and blissful." But the worm said: "Go away, get lost!" "But I am your friend, and I live in the heaven realms," and he described the heaven realms to him. But the worm said: "No thank you, I am quite happy here in my dung pile. Please go away." Then the heavenly being thought: "Well if I could only just grab hold of him and take him up to the heaven realms, he could see for himself." So he grabbed hold of the worm and started tugging at him; and the harder he tugged, the harder that worm clung to his pile of dung.
Do you get the moral of the story? How many of us are attached to our pile of dung?

For others you have to read this site. I hope you find it very useful.

Bhagavad Ghita about prayer

I read a very interesting story today.
The blog where I found it is in russian
but the link to the sourse says, the story comes from Bhagavad Ghita. (in german)
(The site I post here and other sites about buddhismus you can find in My Interests Site)
Unfortunately I had no time to read all this text. But one day I'll do it.
Now, to the story.

One man tryed to pray for many years but had no effect. So decided to visit an important master. Went to him and ask him to explain the situation.
The monk said
-Take that very dirty sieve and bring me water.
The man went to the river but could not bring water. Come to the monk and said him about it.
-Try again, repeat the monk.
The man went to the river second time but could not bring water.
-Patience. Try again.
Nothing.
-It's unpossible to bring water with the sieve, said the man to the monk.
-You are right, answered the wise man, it's unpossible to bring water,but the sieve was dirty first and now it's clean.