Pranayama Technique for Kundalini Awakening (Yoga Sutras 101) Nithyananda Satsang 23 Jan 11
Living incarnation Paramahamsa Nithyananda continued where he left off on yesterday's Patanjali sutra, Pranayama. Whatever may be the movement of the ...
29:55 "Whatever may be the breathing, accept the thought 'you are
breathing.' You see, you are breathing, the breathing movement will create
a certain thought: 'I am breathing, going in, coming out'-those thoughts
are allowed. Other than that, any thought, stop the breathing. This is what
I call 'surrendering to prana.'" 30:38 "Surrendering to prana straight away
leads to savikalpa samadhi. And naturally from savikalpa samadhi you will
melt down into nirvikalpa samadhi." Thanks Swami and LBF
Secara biologis dan logika jantung tidak bisa dihentikkan begitu saja! So
gue rasa joe 'gak mati' cuma pingsan sesaat, Tapi ini bukan pingsan biasa!
Mungkin Aliran darah yg menuju ke Otak melewati saluran medula oblongata.
Dihambat, dan otak tidak mendapat suplai darah secara maksimal dan joe pun
mulai lemas dan Pingsan. Mengenai kenapa Denyut nadinya yg terasa berhenti,
menurut gue itu gak berhenti namun 'kontraksinya melambat' sampai2 tangan
orang lain tidak dapat merasakannya!
Haha, kalaupun Deddy di awal memang set up atau acting, itu bukan urusan
penonton. Dan jika Anda berfikir ada benda yang dijepit di ketiak atau siku
Joe, Anda wajib menonton video Joe saat membuktikan teknik yang ia gunakan
bukan teknik "murahan" seperti itu. Video dengan judul "Joe Sandy - Stoping
heartbeat vs Mask Magician". :)
This is NOT how you deal with fear. You have to deal with the psychological
beliefs behind the fears. All fear - at core - is a fear of death. And just
to intellectually know that is not enough. Similarly, just to do excercises
like this with your body completely misses the point. Generally speaking,
training your mind to forgive and to love your Self no matter what
"happens" and what the world "thinks" of you is key.
I am experiencing this pressure on my 6th and 7th chakras on a daily bases
about 4 years already but thanks to this video and your advices Daniel it
is less painful now than it used to be, every day I have a funny sensation
of an invisible energy hat on my head but since recently a few months
already, the pressure has become more left sided I mean I feel it more
strong from left side of the skull now and on my forehead I about
constantly feel cool breeze... I have one question, sometimes in the middle
of the night in the moment of awakening I see big black spiders and they
usually disappear within a few seconds and to tell you the truth it is not
very pleasant visions, how do you think, with what this may be related?
Thank you in advance and sorry for my English).
+libraguy777 Hello Friend, I am so happy that my video has been useful for you. I can't tell you what the spider visions are but I am certain they are not real, some projection of your unconscious no doubt. Best wishes to you, Daniel
Thank you for the video. Very, very informative.
I wanted to get your opinion on a common alternate view of the head
pressure. That is, the head pressure is a nimitta that leads to 1st
jhana/samadhi. I have head pressure that has arisen in the past few months
purely based from my samatha practice, and the pressure aids concentration
while being somewhat uncomfortable, never painful. I would describe it as a
heaviness that can get quite intense. I allow it to be, and never become
frustrated by it. Every meditation period I have results in deeper and
deeper concentration. I'll be going on retreat tomorrow where I will
further explore deep meditation states.
My problem with the technique you bring forward is that it will may
disperse concentration, taking me away from my meditation's
purpose...jhana. While it probably does release the head pressure, it will
result in more of a total body concentration rather than the finely pointed
concentration required for jhana.
There are many different opinions on how to deal with this pressure. No one
seems to agree. What do you think about these other views?
+Nathan Perkins I'm glad to hear that your retreat was a success! As to kriyas, the teaching I have received is that they are the result of imbalances such as insufficient tranquility and relaxation, over much focus on sensations of energy. They occur in the lower vipassana nyanas. My experience is that they tend to multiply when given attention, and tend to go away when regarded with equanimity, and attention redirected. These two measures plus an emphasis on tranquility and equanimity should stop them, if that is what you want to do. They are a form of drama and entertainment, a coarse manifestation of piti.
Daniel,Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with me on this subject. I do use anapanasati so I don't find the pressure abnormal, but a little annoying sometimes during everyday life.My retreat was a success as I am now able to cultivate what I believe to be 1st jhana (more meditations need to confirm). The pressure is still strong, but not unpleasant. As I'm able to concentrate more deeply during meditation the pressure kind of goes away and I'm let with a blissful and cool sensation, plenty of piti and sukha. When I end meditation the pressure comes back very strongly though which is sort of irritating. I just figure it's part of the process.There are so many different opinions on what to do, and the best course of action for me has always been to just go with the flow, be equanimous to anything that comes up, and not freak out about anything.You are also absolutely right about the expansion of consciousness that occurs after hitting jhana, I just hadn't experienced that level yet, and now I can see what your saying. When I was in access concentration my focus was on a very distinct point, which of course, expanded when in jhana. Also, began having some kriya experiences. Very interesting stuff that I will lightly and carefully experiment with.
+Nathan Perkins Hello Nathan,Thanks for taking the time to bring up this subject. In this video on head pressure, I dealt with it as an "energy" phenomena because it is so common and most people would not understand the Theravada view point. But since you are bringing it up here, I would say that these fall into two categories: tension generated (very common) and mind created ugaha-nimitta (first stage nimitta, learning sign). Obviously we do not want to pursue a tension generated sensation, as this is a dysfunction and will lead to more suffering. this should be dealt with by relaxation in the mode that I have described, or something similar in your case that would better fit the Theravada paradign. If the sensation is mind created, a nimitta, then you should still be cautious. Not all nimittas are useful. I would say that any nimitta tha is an unpleasant sensation is not taking you in the right direction, since the generation of sukha, pleasure, is essential to the process. In my experience and in my reading, the only meditation subjects in Theravada Buddhism that generate physical sensations for ugaha nimittas would be anapana sati, and possibly meditation on the four elements (if these are apprehended through bodily touch). If you anapana at the nose, then you might get a fixed "sensation" at the end of the nose, or between the eyegbrows, or "feel" a mass of "air" as a soft cool miasm before the face. This last one is the most useful in that you can them move it around. You can feel it in your head, fill the head with it, fill the torso and limbs with it, fill the whole body with it, and even extend it around the body as if one where sitting in a cool soft cloud. This fills the body and mind with ease, softness, coolness and tranquility, all the qualities that are most pronounced in anapana. All this is still "ugaha nimitta" or learning sign. The patibhagga nimitta arises from this in time. The mastery of this level of the nimitta is in my experience an excellent foundation for jhana, regardless of the depth of the jhana you are seeking to cultivate. I would disagree with your statement that jhana requires a finely pointed concentration. In fact, this nimitta when properly mastered leads to an experience in which the entire mental space of the body, the field of vedana, the nimitta, the luminosity, the joy and the mind, all fuse as it were and become one experience. This in my experience is unification of mind. I hope these reflection are helpful to you in some way. If you receive this message before you leave for retreat then please accept my warmest good wishes for a fruitful and easeful retreat! If you get it when you come back, well then I trust that you learned a lot on the subject of jhana!with metta,Daniel