kriyas and the works. These are as common as the housefly and is NOT KA. I do not know if such experiences are even related to KA but they are NOT KA. If you need to think after reading the checklist if you have KA, overwhelming chances are that you did not and which means you really should not try insisting whatever view you have is right.
Firstly, let me say that whatever image there is that I/you have of me, especially from this forum IS NOT REAL. I do not know why I need to say this, but I am not writing this to feel better about an illusion of me. So flame me if you wish to but really, do save your bullets.
Checklist:
Read this, she isn’t 100% correct but pretty much there. She cannot be 100% correct because everyone has a different experience. If anyone tells you X will happen after Y, Freeze or Flight are good responses. Anyone who presumes they know and pre-emptively instructs you is likely unenlightened by the experience (or didn’t have it) and cannot help you. Let go of fear (KA will not kill you) and resistance; explore with all the clarity and open-mindedness you can summon with equanimity.
Certainty if you have all: Full-time Off-cushion bliss+pain+ Initial BIG FEAR (unlike post SE, KA is a messy mixed bag of pain/pleasure with greater intensity and permanence); Positive physical changes;
EMF incidences (interference with electronics, noticing that raptures or symptoms go towards the ground, whether you are /standing/sitting/lying on your back or belly - they all go South - an insight to what you really are?); KA is going not just at your head but all your organs too
Religion & Dogma: I a monk and am/am not a Buddhist depending on your definition of it. It is detrimental to my 'career' to associate myself with it, but denial is denial - so I hope you can gain some insight from this lowly monk. If you are Christian or Hindu or decide to be a snake-worshipper, that is really your choice and have nothing to do with how to deal with KA. I consulted a senior monk and he said that what I am going through is facing my karma. If this Thai Forest Tradition’s explanation works for you, to release the fear, accept whatever is happening every moment, investigating mindfully; there is nothing wrong with whatever you believe in as long as you follow the idiot-proof instructions. The difficulties are
only 2, but they are in
BOLD: FEAR + RESISTANCE
FEARThe fear goes away when surrendered to; mine is gone within 2/3 sits of resolving to face it. Resistance is to be consciously dropped, resulting in a rapid-growth equanimity and bliss from love/acceptance of the uncertainty that Life is.
RESISTANCE
"The natural reaction to such a foreign internal take-over is resistance. Trying to fight an invisible, unknown power for never-before-contested rights of sovereignty over our own anatomy can become a terrifying battle. What changes our predicament, from one of being locked into combat with alien forces, to one of a peaceful witnessing of wonders is our surrender to the apparent whims of this newly assigned central-control operator. "If you have sky-high equanimity, you may follow the advice to treat it all as nonsense but you may lose the guidance/highly-attuned perceptive capabilities that when allowed to sensitize, can yield. Also when
continuous treating it as nonsense or just another sensation, results in increasing intensity, resulting in breaches of your upper limits - It will be wise to step on the brakes and turn around to surrendering with trust – there may be truth in the Goddess/Evolutionary Force beliefs or you can expect highly-tuned perceptive capabilities but only you can find out for yourself.
Explanation of KA:
Yes it is a concept just like Nibbana is one. We use the name so that we can refer to it without using 1000 syllables or substituting it with an important-sounding English string and feign divorce. If you have it, after a likely futile search, you will give up and look inwards to what is fondly called the Inner Guru. It may be beneficial to prematurely terminate your thirst for cognition. All the insights are in your own experience. To date, I have not found nor claim to understand it all - so use your time for other pursuits.
The key here is to shake yourself loose of the notion that you can control and know what's up or what's coming up next.
What's Happening? <-Read: Kundalini cannot be charted... Investigate and
Be your own guru! "I believe it is extremely important to honor our own development and not allow others who claim authority to tyrannize us."Those who have had relatively short and easy (and often partial) awakenings frequently make the false assumption that everyone's process should conclude quickly. There is a strong, unfortunate tendency to believe that the way one's own unfolding occurred is precisely the way it should be for everyone else.
Such narcissistic thinking leads to all sorts of useless criticism and poor advice.
Everyone I know who has undergone a prolonged Kundalini awakening has been told by at least one professed "expert" that he or she was definitely not experiencing Kundalini. People who have never themselves had Kundalini experiences are often more eager and evangelical in spelling out what is a "real" process than those who have actually gone through it themselves.
Making sense of the suffering: Our understanding of the process can help us to better cope with the chaos.
Chakras - maybe useful, maybe not.
So why is knowing the difference important? If you have a Fever from a common flu, you deal with it using method X. Chicken Pox – Method Y ; Malaria – Method Z They are all fevers - same same but different!
So why is it that we accept treatment for Chicken Pox but deny the existence of a Snake thingamabob named in India? Check to see if that has to do with your Western illusion of an identity of your Self. One can stay forever in his illusion that he does not have KA, and ‘medicate’ it with whatever resonates with his Self-Image – consider the detrimental effects and how you may be denying THE spiritual experience that others will die for (
BUT you are in no way superior - I like my theory: these people do not need it ha). I have seen a handful of guys in the past months that are likely to be going through KA, one
left without answers and the other went the Western route of
tranquilizing it. I really hope that they are fine now (
And I am regurgitating here because it's such a pity to see it happen again).
Ideal Progress: Clarity – Wisdom (to be open and equanimous) – Self-worthiness - Release of Fear – Acceptance – Trust – Joy - Faith – Happiness – Higher Perception/Receptivity - Reverence/Exploration (
Not sure where enlightenment fits in, if at all - I cannot smell it)
A possible Kundalini path towards Full-Awakening: YMMV
I don’t know what is the deal with “But it is not Science!”, when the methods of deriving the information is the same. Do yourself and others a favor, there are rainbows after the storm, do not rain on your own or another’s parade by dismissing a wondrous experience OR try to reduce KA to X or Y – yes you can call a Tiger a cat, but there is no benefit of treating a Tiger as a domestic cat, is there?
Meditation Practice for awakening to Self:
here Basically it says to merge with Shakti when it is full of bliss. No harm trying.
Exercises that work:
Biology of Kundalini Read Inner Arts Page 410 onwards: NER & PSR works for me - really powers up the KA works, especially the Bliss.
I am trying to be concise, feel free to ask or hiss at me.
Metta + Karuna + Mudita to All & One!