If you are truly a Truth Seeker then listen to Marc Pasio lay it out. REMEMBER! Listen and watch as the witness. In sharing this I am not saying he is right. We have so much to confront, explore, contemplate, discover and manifest.
Warning!!! I share this video with humility. I have so much “work” left to do…….
We completed our third and final session this past weekend. I like three sessions as an orientation type of ‘training.’
Three is the foundation. It is the formation stage of the process.
There are many areas in the yoga map. What most people think of as yoga (poses and movement and stretching) is but one step of one perspective in one area. Hatha Yoga is about movement and poses and breathing and all that. There is Jnana Yoga which is the accumulation of Knowledge, there is Karmic yoga – the path of action and Bhakti Yoga – the spiritual path of devotion.
We looked at the eight limbed path of Yoga……
Note that the poses – asana is the third limb of this path.
We looked at the chakra system……
And then brought is back to the duality of the two….
We inquired into a few yoga poses and a few pranayama exercises and sat in meditation practicing scanning the body at the sensation ‘level.’
This was an interesting series of sessions. I appreciated that we committed to three sessions. I look forward to the next step in this relationship.
The New Age mystical idea that All-is-God has now been corroborated by religion’s long standing enemy, Science!
Quantum Mechanics has provided all of the necessary data which to present a more solid and persuasive case for God than religion ever could.
The Particle/Wave Debate – For a long time physicists debated as to whether energy of existence could be reduced to basic building blocks called particles or whether it was a wave form. Quantum Theory/Physics/Mechanics finds that energy behaves as both a particle and a wave.
Every Particle contains Information – Every particle in the universe is a carrier of knowledge. Every particle is “conscious.” As humans, we tend to assume that only we are conscious, because only we seem to be self-conscious. The human brain is a receiver of the information contained within each particle. The information received by the brain is stored in every single atom of our bodies. For organic beings, the “filing system” provided for every living molecule is DNA.
Every particle communicates with every other particle – Being, after all, but moving points on some infinite wave, particles are in communication with one another at ALL times. Anything one given particle experiences can be experienced by another particle simultaneously. They are all part of the same wave; the same energy flow.
Ok. So let’s try and bring this all together. Remember the three levels of wisdom? So important. They match up perfectly with the three stages of Kripalu Yoga. Three is the foundation or structure…..of anything. Think about receiving and doing intellectual inquiry into this type of information like you are doing a new yoga pose – First, Right Alignment. Dissolve present knowing by being willing to suspend your current conscious and unconscious beliefs.
When you consciously receive by mastering awareness of the first two “levels” of wisdom then you create a more purified channel to the third level of wisdom – Your Individual Personal Authentic Experience! Time to Wake Up. Perhaps this is a way……
As Above So Below
Since every particle carries information and all particles, no matter how distant, are in instant communication then, it follows, that every particle potentially ‘contains’ all the information in the universe. In other words, “AS ABOVE, SO BELOW.” The particle is the universe and vice versa.
Ok. Now this is where it gets a little funky. Now is the time that I would ask you to suspend, not only your beliefs, but your disbeliefs. They are one in the same, aren’t they?
Once upon a time, before the creation of the universe, there was an infinite positive force of energy that some people have the habit of calling ‘God.” This energy filled all reality. There was nothing else besides this Energy, this Light.
One fine day, God decided to share all His Light, which consisted of love beyond love, bliss beyond bliss, and joy beyond joy. But there was no one with whom to share. So, God created a being to act as a recipient, to receive the goodness that God wanted to give. This being of receiving was one giant soul, which encompassed what would later become all the individual souls of humanity, even yours. This being was The Vessel. God filled The Vessel with infinite happiness, whereupon both God and The Vessel lived happily ever after……….
Well, not quite…..
So, what happened? Not much, really. Only the development of the cosmos, including the entire history of human civilization up to and including the present moment, as well as the events that will transpire tomorrow, leading to the final destiny of the world.
From our perspective, that’s a lot. But from the perspective of God, it transpired in less than a blink of an eye.
What happened? the Big Bang happened and The Vessel shattered into infinite particles traveling across space and time and forming the universe.
Why did it shatter? Why did Happily Ever After give way to Miserably Ever More? Did we do something wrong? Wait! There is was no “we”, there is was only the original vessel. Did God get angry with us? Is this punishment? Is it a joke? Maybe it is some horrible mistake?
Are we each a particle of the original Vessel that was created to receive God’s beneficence. Is there a way back “hOMe?” Or, are we destined to live out our lives in quiet separation?
As above, so below.
Namaste, Michael
In our second session we, briefly, reviewed the 5 koshas and other 5 step processes that we brought into our awareness on the first session.
Then I introduced the 3 stages of Kriplau Yoga –
The 3 Elements of the Vipassana Meditation technique
The 3 columns found in The Tree of Life –
Reiterating the value of flowing information through the three levels of wisdom according to The Buddha –
Then we checked out a few yoga poses and a breathing exercise.
As I am guiding this group I am becoming more and more aware of the potential secret that may be found in The Fibonacci sequence and The Golden Mean – Phi.
I look forward to our 3rd session this Saturday. I am planning on touching on the 2 and the 8.
What do you mean? What battle?
Let’s use some of our “tools” we have been using in yoga, meditation and mapquesting sessions for confronting, exploring and understanding:
First, suspend belief and disbelief
Second, Remember that we receive “information” in three layers. Initially, something comes into our awareness. We hear about it or we read a book about it. Then, we may choose to pursue some intellectual inquiry about this thing. We talk about it, research it, try its ‘practices and techniques. And then we have a direct personal experience with this thing that has come into our awareness field.
Third, we learn through metaphor…..After receiving the perspective offered then compare it to other maps we have experienced. For example, can you locate where the ego lives in the Vipassana technique? Is it in the realm of consciousness? Perception? Sensation? Reaction? The Physical?
Listen to this short video. I have attached the other video he was referring to from the movie Revolver. He is talking about Ego.
The battle is within. The Ego seeks pleasure and avoids pain. If you allow the ego to run free then the momentary reactions of liking and disliking will create formations (Sankharas) of craving and aversion. These creations then mold a perspective through which consciousness flows.
The enemy has been located and he lies within.
Let the battle begin!