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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Yin Yang Symbol and Tai-Chi

During my "vacation" without computer I could finally open a book I bought different months ago. "The Tao of Tai-Chi Chuan" written by Jou Tsung Hwa. And I was surprised to find very clear and comprehensive explanation of the philosophy of Yin Yang there.

I thought always, I understood this symbol more or less. Nothing complicated: male and female -in all their manifestations. But it's about very different thing.

It's about creation of everything.
Inside Nothing -Emptiness (Wu-Chi) -appears circular Movement (Tai-Chi)
And with movement they separate. But every of them contain the seed of other. Because every circular movement at the end creates an "eye" in the center. More fast is the movement, more similar to 2 fishes is the diagram: it was a circle devided in 2 equal parts first, did you know it?

I loved 2 things in this Chapter.
1/ There are a man and a piano. And there is not relation between them. It's Wu-Chi, Emptiness.
Than the intention to play passes through the head of the man, a movement began. And it's Tai-Chi. Every relation can be described in this way.

2/ Normally the sportsmen think to develop only external muscles of the body -and their internal parts suffer from this. The development is not harmonious.

So, if there are problems, it means, these 2 parts have abnormal relation. Too much Yin or too much Yang.

And if you can maintain Yin and Yang harmonious and in good relation, you will be able to live in eternity.

Related posts:
Understanding "I Ching" or "Book of Changes"
Duality
Thomas and Tai Chi
Total Global Balance by Zubli Zainordin

Related story:
-From today you have not to drink wines, to eat sweeties and meat and sourses and others things like these, you have not to smoke and to go out with women...
-And if I'll do all this, I'll live in eternity?
-Maybe not, but you will feel it so.

Monday, February 18, 2008

Healing chakra chant

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." Buddha

Personally I like Vajrasattva Mantra and Heart Sutta chanting by Dalai Lama. I think that reading sutras helps me in my life. Golden Light Sutra and The Names of 35 Buddhas.

Today I found some very interesting videos about chakra healing with sillables and mantras and wanted to show them to you too.

The first video is interesting not only because you can learn how to chant mantra but you can see how to take mala when you chant, too.



This other video is first from the serie of videos that you will see when open YouTube. Open and read descriptions near the videos.
I don't know, what school is this technique from and will be very great if you will help me.
The video is really made good.



Related techniques
Tibetan Sound Healing Part 4
Tenzin Wangial Rinpoche - in YuoTube!!!
Opening your chakras
Mudras that help us to open the heart chakra

Friday, February 8, 2008

Hatred and attraction, the most dark clouds


Like a lotus growing from the mud
delightes the mind when appears in front of it,
but later this pleasure disappears
in the same way delightes us the pleasure of attachment. (v.1.136)

In the same way as bees
begin to sting when are disturbed
similarly appears suffering in the heart
when hatred emerges (v.1.137)

It's difficult to recognise own state of the mind when it's covered by the clouds of attachment or hatred. But if we are able to look at our mind in this moment, we can understand, that we exagerate the qualities of other person. Those we like and those that we don't like. And more the mind is stinged, more dark are the clouds covering the mind.

How can we prove that our love is not so as we thought in the first moment? Simply. More we stay/live with the object of our desire, love, less is the attraction for it. So we can understand that the initially we have seen the object of our love with exagerated qualities.

But when we have an object of our attraction, there is a seed of the hatred in our heart.

The hatred in the other way becomes greater and greater with attention that we give to the object of it.

To stop the hatred we can speak with us about it's bad sides after it's happend to us. Find arguments we have/look for to maintain it. We look always for arguments that justify hatred. So, find what arguments invents your mind to maintain this cloud more and more dark.

When we do it, we will find that we don't like somebody's behaviour. But this is not a valid reason to become angry and as conseguence to act negatively.

(source Rol mtsho by Jetsun Cioghi Ghieltsen)

Thursday, February 7, 2008

"Alternative communication"


Time ago I found an interesting site in Italian "Istituto di Ricerca della Coscienza" ("Institute of the research of the Conscience"). One of the articles of Umberto Di Grazia tells about "alternative communication" (Il Filo Sottile).

What is it about?
Some examples from this article:
Infatti nel momento stesso in cui, in una delle battaglie del Piave della prima guerra mondiale, il mio parente morì per un proiettile di mortaio, il cane, che si trovava a Messina, emise un urlo di dolore e cadde privo di vita.

Infact, in the same moment, when in one of the battles near Piave of the First World War my relative was dead for the bullet of a mortar, his dog, that was in Messina, howled from the pain and fall dead.
There are some other similar stories in this article. Other examples tell about persons that feel their pets are suffering and about a sort of meditative exercises that makes Umberto and other persons try with their pets. When he sees his cat maks like wants to sleep, he closes his eyes, concentrates on the image of the cat for him and trys to call the cat. And the cat answers him and they have a sort of "meditative" communication.

So, the question of Umberto is: why we don't want to accept the idea that there are "alternative" modes of communication? Everybody knows many of the examples like he describes in his article...

Why I write about it?
First I tell you some stories from my life.
Only to explain you what I'm speaking about here.
Once I had an Airedale. Our strange relation began when I went to buy her. There were about 7 puppies and I did not know which I have to take. When I took her in my hands, I felt like "Take me!" -and I bought her, because she wanted it.

About one year later I went in Italy to my friends that invited me to them for a summer. Bessy remain at home. One month later I became to dream terrible things about her. She wanted I come home and she threatened me with death ecc. I called my mother and asked her if Bessy feels good. Yes, I think, my mother answered. I asked her to take the dog to the veterinarian, when I had to call her the second time. And imagin, Bessy had bad insects that ate her under the skin.

Later, when I married in Italy, I could not take her with me. But she could communicate with me and she waited for me next 4 years. I am sure about it, because I had always messages from her. I don't know about her life. My parents gave her to a young couple that had to be very good with her.

Once I was trying to meditate and my dogs were near me. It had to be a simple meditation, I think, I don't remember WHAT it was, but I was very surprised when my dogs come nearer to me and began to look at me astonished and with some strange sounds. I understood, they "hear" what I do in my meditation state, they did not wait I'm able to do something like this. From that time I saw that they "hear" it every time, they stop their actions, try to not disturb me and wait that I finish my meditation.

I know,
you are not amazed by my stories and will say -it's normal, nothing special. We speak -and in this blog too- about all our "paranormal" possibilities. We are able to these sorts of communication ecc ecc.
I wrote this post pratically to ask your help.
Could somebody give me PRATICAL advises how to connect?
I know, I'm not stable in Natural State. It's only for my lazy nature. And I have periods, when I feel the connection very strongly, but I never could feel the connection with other persons.

Except one case when I felt the connection to Dalai Lama (Through one monk that had a meeting with him. D.L. said them (it was a group of european monks): now, think about your friends, whom you want, because all them will receive this benediction. She remembered all our group of students. In that moment I did not know about it, but that day was so absolutely special for me, that I could not forget it. I can't understand: how great is the power of this man, that could influence unknown persons through middlemen! Incredibly!)

Can you feel this connection?