Сhakras and energy channels
talk by Prakasha, notes taken by Suvannavira
Sadhana has a development and completion phase
Completion is formless liberation And skilful means
Using channels chakras breathing
Five bodies, kayas, dimensions
We need embodiment: physical and emotional
Especially in our societies
Embodiment on many levels
Simultaneously
Horizontal and vertical integration
Every meditation
Good posture
Sensations feelings emotions thoughts
Drop conceptual identification
Embodiment in five kayas
Body, dimension
It’s the capacity to function in a particular way
1/ physical body
Bones flesh blood
Tactile sensations
Root chakra, red
2/ energy body
It animates the physical body
Prana chi
Flows through us
Can flow or be stuck
Navel chakra orange
3/ emotional body
Feelings emotions fantasies
Allow them to introduce themselves
Heart chakra green
4/ mental body
Thought memory will imagination rational mind
Express thoughts by voice
Throat chakra blue
5/ psychic body
Holistic: personal memory and collective human history
Embodies myths and symbols
Personal and collective unconscious
Stores cultural resources
Brow turquoise
Physical animated by energy
Animated by emotions
By mental
By psychic
Four bodies surrounding physical
Extending outwards
Like auras
Which have colours
Can sense quality and energy of auras
Expansive or depleated
Other possible auras
Solar plexus
Crown chakra
For the seven chakra model
Model to help us come into relation with them
We function on all levels
Need horizontal and vertical integration on all levels
Each chakra is energetically different
Different associations for each
Practice, awareness gives doorways to each dimension
Deeper and wider awareness
Being more aware of chakras
Resolves tensions and conflicts
Bring them into harmony
Resolves compulsions
Leads to tranquility and insight
Indian tradition
Five elements linked to five chakras
Stupa of five elements
Root and navel is earth and yellow
Solar plexus is water and white
Heart is fire and red
Throat is sir and green
Space all around is space
Brown is the flaming drop
Which radiates rainbow light or consciousness
The central channel is blue
From crown of the head to the base of the spine
Two side channels
To left and right
Red and white
Channels of energy or prana
Can imagine colour light energy movement
Energy can move upwards or downwards
Can imagine auras as patterns of colours
Breathing in fundamental
Can use breathing techniques at start of meditation like
Ninefold Pacification of breathing
It balances the channels
And purifies energy
Or two in and out breaths per minute Relaxed the body
Or breath into root chakra
Energy Up the channel on in-breath Pause
Energy crown to root on out-breath
Awareness of central channel animates it
And attention animates it
Feel more focus, more alive
Imagine central and side channels to bring them into being
Need progress on work of descent
Purification of lower unconscious energies
Biases and compulsions resolved
So energy flows
So karmic knots are untied
And blockages released
In the chakras and channels
So energy flows from the root and navel chakra
To the heart
From the lower unconscious
From a reservoir even below the body
Where the nagas dwell
Images like serpent biting its tail
The cave of the heart opens up
Becomes an enormous cavern
Not only if our physical body
But our psychic body too
Cave of the heart stretches back behind us
If we open the heart chakra
Other higher chakras open too
Subtle energy descends from above
Rein of blessings from the crown chakra
Inner alchemy Integration Union of opposites Higher and lower Masculine and feminine Awareness and energy
Love and war Red king and white queen
We discover the secret guru
In expanded cave of the heart
Crystal cave radiating light
Deep core at centre
Inner guru embodies deep core
Deep core illumined by insight
Inner guru becomes the secret guru
The illumined secret guru
Illumined heart centre
Secret guru embodies how things really are
Not in sense of I know
Not self referential
Complete confidence in that knowing
No doubt at all
Knowing the citta-ta
Vajracitta
Indestructible mind essence
It’s not there all the time
It comes and goes
I lose it
But something to come back to
Open spacious awareness
Marvelling at the dharmadhatu wisdom
Awareness of secret guru = arising of the bodhicitta
Sadhana’s function is to embody the bodhicitta
Using deepest energies
And most subtle awareness
Jewel in the dung heap
Bodhicitta is the most wonderful things
Deep and profound happiness
Even glimpses are transformative
Outer guru - Teacher teachings sadhana
Inner guru - Deep intuition
In cave of the heart
Guidance from inner processes Integration Daemon
Secret guru - Illuminated knowledge in the cave of the heart
Fruition of profound integrating process
talk by Prakasha, notes taken by Suvannavira
Sadhana has a development and completion phase
Completion is formless liberation And skilful means
Using channels chakras breathing
Five bodies, kayas, dimensions
We need embodiment: physical and emotional
Especially in our societies
Embodiment on many levels
Simultaneously
Horizontal and vertical integration
Every meditation
Good posture
Sensations feelings emotions thoughts
Drop conceptual identification
Embodiment in five kayas
Body, dimension
It’s the capacity to function in a particular way
1/ physical body
Bones flesh blood
Tactile sensations
Root chakra, red
2/ energy body
It animates the physical body
Prana chi
Flows through us
Can flow or be stuck
Navel chakra orange
3/ emotional body
Feelings emotions fantasies
Allow them to introduce themselves
Heart chakra green
4/ mental body
Thought memory will imagination rational mind
Express thoughts by voice
Throat chakra blue
5/ psychic body
Holistic: personal memory and collective human history
Embodies myths and symbols
Personal and collective unconscious
Stores cultural resources
Brow turquoise
Physical animated by energy
Animated by emotions
By mental
By psychic
Four bodies surrounding physical
Extending outwards
Like auras
Which have colours
Can sense quality and energy of auras
Expansive or depleated
Other possible auras
Solar plexus
Crown chakra
For the seven chakra model
Model to help us come into relation with them
We function on all levels
Need horizontal and vertical integration on all levels
Each chakra is energetically different
Different associations for each
Practice, awareness gives doorways to each dimension
Deeper and wider awareness
Being more aware of chakras
Resolves tensions and conflicts
Bring them into harmony
Resolves compulsions
Leads to tranquility and insight
Indian tradition
Five elements linked to five chakras
Stupa of five elements
Root and navel is earth and yellow
Solar plexus is water and white
Heart is fire and red
Throat is sir and green
Space all around is space
Brown is the flaming drop
Which radiates rainbow light or consciousness
The central channel is blue
From crown of the head to the base of the spine
Two side channels
To left and right
Red and white
Channels of energy or prana
Can imagine colour light energy movement
Energy can move upwards or downwards
Can imagine auras as patterns of colours
Breathing in fundamental
Can use breathing techniques at start of meditation like
Ninefold Pacification of breathing
It balances the channels
And purifies energy
Or two in and out breaths per minute Relaxed the body
Or breath into root chakra
Energy Up the channel on in-breath Pause
Energy crown to root on out-breath
Awareness of central channel animates it
And attention animates it
Feel more focus, more alive
Imagine central and side channels to bring them into being
Need progress on work of descent
Purification of lower unconscious energies
Biases and compulsions resolved
So energy flows
So karmic knots are untied
And blockages released
In the chakras and channels
So energy flows from the root and navel chakra
To the heart
From the lower unconscious
From a reservoir even below the body
Where the nagas dwell
Images like serpent biting its tail
The cave of the heart opens up
Becomes an enormous cavern
Not only if our physical body
But our psychic body too
Cave of the heart stretches back behind us
If we open the heart chakra
Other higher chakras open too
Subtle energy descends from above
Rein of blessings from the crown chakra
Inner alchemy Integration Union of opposites Higher and lower Masculine and feminine Awareness and energy
Love and war Red king and white queen
We discover the secret guru
In expanded cave of the heart
Crystal cave radiating light
Deep core at centre
Inner guru embodies deep core
Deep core illumined by insight
Inner guru becomes the secret guru
The illumined secret guru
Illumined heart centre
Secret guru embodies how things really are
Not in sense of I know
Not self referential
Complete confidence in that knowing
No doubt at all
Knowing the citta-ta
Vajracitta
Indestructible mind essence
It’s not there all the time
It comes and goes
I lose it
But something to come back to
Open spacious awareness
Marvelling at the dharmadhatu wisdom
Awareness of secret guru = arising of the bodhicitta
Sadhana’s function is to embody the bodhicitta
Using deepest energies
And most subtle awareness
Jewel in the dung heap
Bodhicitta is the most wonderful things
Deep and profound happiness
Even glimpses are transformative
Outer guru - Teacher teachings sadhana
Inner guru - Deep intuition
In cave of the heart
Guidance from inner processes Integration Daemon
Secret guru - Illuminated knowledge in the cave of the heart
Fruition of profound integrating process
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