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Jun 29 2008, 6:47 AM EDT
What is interesting to note is that many Reiki teachers say that the system of Reiki comes from Tibet and therefore also start to include the 7 Indian chakras.What they seem to forget is that in most traditional Tibetan teachings they only 5 chakras are used! Here is a quote from one of Kalu Rinpoche's books: Situated along the length of these three main channels are five cakras.....with their location in ascending order being genital region, navel, heart, throat and crown of one's head. It is interesting that we often accept what we are told without questioning it. But really, it is worth questioning things! Cheers Frans Stiene 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you?
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Jun 29 2008, 9:57 AM EDT
What amazes me is that these masters - be they from India, Tibet, or Japan -have been able to "feel" these centers in the body through deep meditation. To find out that they correspond so directly to "real" (i.e., physical) human anatomy just makes me sit back in awe.I really relate to the Japanese understanding of energy anatomy. As a practitioner of yoga for many years now, chakra meditation is one of the things I was taught to practice, in order to feel each of those energy centers in turn. I confess that chakra meditation "below the belt" has eluded me. I've always had difficulty distinguishing between the 1st and 2nd chakras, feeling instead a single energy center that seems to radiate out and fill the abdomen. In Reiki - the hara. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Jul 3 2008, 10:42 PM EDT
I have had both of those experiences trish.e. Usually when it happens "below the belt" it's almost all right brain and the idea of 5 chakras seems to be "it". There are other times I have had other experiences that relate to the seven and are experienced as 7 chakras. I have found there are specific things that dismantle the ego through the 7 symbolically (that I have learned). That said most of the time it just happens below the belt as you say and it seems to be 5. There are other times when I don't even think of the chakras (just do it) and there is a tremendous force that I can not explain inadvertantly moving with many sensations felt in many places, heat, occasionally tears, tingling... less than often sometimes insight, manifestation of thought into something and I am not thinking of anything and it pops in; a shastra. The pranic breathing current generated has a definite cyclical like movement, if I can use the word cyclical, as typification is as helfpul as it is limiting. "The experience" of vibrations always seems to be the same in gross matter (my body).
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Jul 4 2008, 5:41 AM EDT
Dear Peter,Thank you for sharing your experiences. I feel that the more we let go of all the technical elements within the chakra system, ie that they need to be a specific color or the need to spin this or that way - the more open we become. Thus in turn we can tap into a tremendous force as you say. All these technical elements can often get in the way and we begin to put limitations on our practice. I think in traditional yogic teachings the teacher would let the student focus on a particular chakra without telling him/her anything about it. Then the student was completely open and would discover what it was all about him or herself. Today we seem to learn in such a different way in our society, We like the teacher to explain everything and then our mind gets in the way when we practice. This is because we have labeled our experiences already from the words of the teacher. So I think it is better to just do it and see what happens. Cheers, Frans Stiene Creator of the ReikiWiki 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Jul 5 2008, 1:31 PM EDT
Thanks Frans, :)you said "I think in traditional yogic teachings the teacher would let the student focus on a particular chakra without telling him/her anything about it. Then the student was completely open and would discover what it was all about him or herself. " After reading that I am reminded of the REM song Losing My Religion lyrics "Oh no, I've said too much I haven't said enough" Discovering in relativism is like walking a tight rope when talking/not talking as disposition or predilection unfolds with and without negation. I just listened to that song on you tube. I have not heard it in a long time. :) Cheers! Peter Do you find this valuable? |
