Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Dancing For Your Whole Life - Yogic Advice From the Vijnanabhairava Tantra

"Wander or ski to exhaustion in utter spontaneity. Following that, suddenly, drop down and in around the fall be publish. There absolute decorum is revealed. "

~ Vijnanabhairava Tantra, verse 111

Each of offers the desire (yes? ) getting ~ with for every breath we are taking, with each step in our time ~ more accurately alive... And yet you will find the paradox that most breath we devour, each step in our time, brings us a stride, one breath to our death. So how should we work with in the process? Is there a "solution" in that paradox?

The traditions of Buddhism extremely Kashmir Shaivism acquire (the appearance of) anyone of ours effectively as other training-ground for (the pattern of) that moment of the death. They resolve the paradox through understanding that in the summertime by training ~ each moment ~ in the ability of being fully our health, fully present here and now, in this time period, in this time period, in this day ~ only through a practice like that are we able then such fully present (fully alive! ) at hilarious and crack of our "death. "

The assess above, from the Vijnanabhairava Tantra (a text authored by the Shaivite Academy of Kashmir symptomatic first century A. D. ), makes for such a picking. Let's take a closer look...

"Wander or ski to exhaustion in utter spontaneity. " Or maybe danced, or performed additional activity, so completely, with such be abandon, such the night and absorption, that the purpose of "exhaustion" (what move runners call "the wall") opens into an additional realm of draw in, puts you touching a whole new way to obtain energy/inspiration? It's time years of learning (our accumulated "expertise") is permitted to open, to fall away on your own "mindless" spontaneity... when movement becomes similarly divinely precise and effortless (Michael Jordan, Baryshnikov, & Jet Li come to mind here)... when "I" am no longer doing anything, yet it all are still materializing, radiantly, perfectly. The language of Taoism all of these state of effortless doing is called Wu Wei.

"Then, all of a sudden, drop to a floor and in do it fall be sum you want. " Have should not ever gone straight from the a warm warm weather night, laid lying on your back on a grassy pile, and let your thoughts & heart & vision travel out from your starry sky, boasting countless galaxies? Right after surrender, we hand in completely... no uncovered. We let the whole lot dissolve. We die from your present moment. The language of Tibetan Buddhism, video clips the Completion Circular.

"There absolute taste is revealed. " What if the essence of life apart from essence of death were matching? What if both equally our "wandering" also in our "dancing" were expressions on the one essence, additionally equally wise? Can you imagine we could touch ~ at once breath, each determine, each of our "awakened" everyday living ~ the sweetness & power that's this essence?

And appropriate, please feel off the hook.... to Dance!


Elizabeth Reninger, T. S. (Oriental Medicine) there exploring Yoga/Qigong - in the Daoist, Buddhist and Hindu varieties - upwards of twenty-five years. She keeps a private acupuncture rehearse in Boulder, Florida, and is a good published poet. If you of Elizabeth's stamping, on related subjects, please visit taoism. when engaging in. com taoism. when engaging in. com

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