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Nidra Yoga with JamesSound Body ~ Silent Mind James Traverse Being
Yoga is Living Yoga - it means inter~course. It is "Wisdom
dictates that you see Life is a "The secrets of the greatest mysteries of life are revealed and realized by grokking the wave-intercourse of respiration and circulation in the simple process of giving and receiving a quiet breath - the Current of Being."
Motion is the Prime Mover. Most folks have the knowledge that 'Breath is 'Life' yet very few have the wisdom of understanding that 'Breath IS Life'.
SUBSTANCE~ESSENCE
- MOTION and SPACE, like two sides of the same coin, are two sides of
the same thing. The faces of the coin are named Space and Motion - the
name of the coin is PRESENCE. SPACE
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Namaste'
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Yoga
means union. Breathing is the means to see and be the union that is NOW.
Breath is Life and Breathing Awareness anchors you in the NOW.
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Space and Form (Flow) are extremes of the Same Coin - REALITY! ** Don't
believe me, LOOK: Space and Form (Flow) are ALWAYS TOGETHER!
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“Love
is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate
truth that lies at the heart of creation.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
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"Love
is the Substance of Relationship.
Relationship is the Substance of Love" |
"Enlightenment,
for a wave in the ocean, is the moment the wave realises it is water." ~ Thich
Nhat Hanh
"Enlightenment,
for a human being, is the moment you realise that you are the MIDDLE WAY of
SPACE~FLOW
Your Formlessness is SPACE that FEELS FLOW and Your Form is FLOW that FEEDS
SPACE ~ James Traverse
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'Who am I?' - the Yoga Koan You
are empty of a separate self; like
the empty space of a bowl,
You are Oneness. |
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The
LIVING ANSWER to EVERYTHING
© James Traverse |
NISARGA YOGA is Yoga Nature's Way
Lotus Sutra - chanted by Buddhist Monks
Although today's mass media presents Yoga as a physical practice, the ancient masters of Yoga clearly state that its foundation is mental. Even sage Patanjali gives the definition of Yoga as: "yogas chitta vritti nirodhah" (Yoga is the cessation of identification with the whirl of local mind). Understand UNION with Universal Being and you will know the secret. Conscious, Subconscious, SuperConscious "Control of the mind is said to be the highest Yoga. It is like control of an unruly horse which must be made to obey its rider." ~ Bhagavata Purana, XI.20
Patanjali, the father of Yoga, is famous for his ancient eightfold path of yoga. The idea is to follow a path of positive mind control that leads one to the living understanding of Being that is so effective that for the greatest students and masters of yoga - this goal is the ONLY GOAL. Pantajali called it Samadhi. It is also known as Nirvana, Union with the Divine Intelligence, Cosmic Consciousness, Ultimate Bliss, Alignment with Natural Order. "When the agitations of the mind are under control, the mind becomes like a transparent crystal and has the power of becoming whatever form is presented." ~ Patanjali "An improvement in posture and breathing is not the sole nor even the primary aim of yoga. Instead, it is either a therapeutic method of freeing the mind from false beliefs, or the insight into ultimate reality, the dharmas, achievable by this method. Yoga is an intrinsic and integrated system consisting of metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, the theory of knowledge, ethics and the philosophy of language." ~ Patanjali "All impressions and reactions are known as 'mental fluctuations' or 'thought-waves', and yoga is the control of thought-waves in the mind." ~ Patanjali
The Flow-er of Being Space~Flow The Power Within You - Intelligence
Power is the possession of controlling influence. Intelligence is the ability to recognize and establish order.
One extreme of your power is the masculine energy of your willpower; it is centered in your mind. This is Concentration whereby you focus your energy on a particular object or task. A shorthand way of speaking about this is, 'Making it Happen'.
The other extreme of your power is the feminine energy of your natural Being; it is centered in your heart. This is Meditation wherein the pure current of your presence is allowed to flow-er. This current is the river of your Being that you cannot push or stop; it simply is, and its nature is to flow. A shorthand way of speaking about this is, 'Letting it Happen'.
The WHEEL and The WAVE
Intelligence flows and flow-ers The blessed inter-course of these fundamental extremes is Yoga as Living Relationship or Living Yoga. It is the whole that transcends the sum of its parts; it has embedded-corresponding planes of Intelligence and it flows (it flows from higher to lower planes and it flowers from lower to higher planes); it is current as the current moment and it is the eternal current of Intelligence-Being. This current is your True Power as it is Intelligence itself, and your direct connection with it is Conscious Breathing.
The iteration of Conscious Breathing is the secret that reveals the elusive obvious as inter-course coupling that is congruent with all levels of Being from the infinitesimally small to the infinitesimally large.
"The
World is nothing but Mind. All is Mind." from the Lankavatara Sutra The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind. ~ Bodhidharma ~~~
And the greatest texts of humankind say as follows:
The Four Great Vedic statements: (1) From Rgveda-Aitareyopanisad PRAGNANAM
BRAHMAN (2) From Atharva Veda - Mandukyopanisad AYAM
ATMA BRAHMAN (3) From Samveda - Chandogyopanisad TAT
TVAM ASI (4) From Yajurveda - The Brhadaranyakopanisad AHAM
BRAHMASMI ~~~ The Invocation from Isha Upanishad om Om! That (invisible world) is a complete whole. This (visible world) too is a complete whole. From the complete whole only, the (visible) complete whole arose. Even after removing the complete whole from the (invisible) complete whole, still the complete whole remains unaltered and undisturbed. Om Shanti ! Shanti ! Shanti !
Note how the description above perfectly describes Love and Space as Love and Space are always whole. And what comes out of the whole is Flow (energy) as Breathing. Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear. Upanishads, c. BCE 800
Yoga, like all transcendent spiritual sciences and arts, is the union-reconciling of opposites like physics and metaphysics, male and female, your doing and your being as Living Relationship.
It is self-evident that Life is Motion wherein the constant is self-similar change. The wisdom of seeing this fact is the invitation to align the energies of the movement called your doing with the living nature of your being. The process of consciously understanding and honouring this natural union is Nisarga Yoga.
You
are Always Creating You
are not a Creature You
are not a Creation (a noun) Do you create aimlessly or knowingly? Your actions are either based on fear or Love.
You
are Motion as the living stillpoint of complimentary extremes.
You are simultaneously Physical and Metaphysical, Conscious and Subconscious.
Your Health, Well-Being, and Success is determined by the Living Relationship
of these two realms on all planes of Being. The best name for the fractal-holographic
waveform inter-course of these two extremes is: Love
Consciousness
The Living UniVerse is an Integrated Binary Unit composed of Motion as the Living Relationship of its extremes. It is One Integrated Reality that is self-governed by one-set of irrefutable natural laws (like everything else the laws also evolve as they are living expressions of living intelligence) that have and are the binary spirit-nature of metaphysical and physical extremes of Space~Motion that are its Source, Sustainer and Substance. In other words just as Breath is Life whereby you are breathing energy and have life; the UniVerse is Cosmic Breath that is and has its universal living laws. Your direct connection with the Intelligence of the Living UniVerse is the central current of the energy of your Body-Mind called Breathing; Breathing is Living Relationship.
"We
come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars...
RELATIONSHIP
is the SUBSTANCE of BEING SPACE and FLOW are INSEPARABLE
Like
Infinity and Eternity or HERE and NOW SPACE and FLOW are complementary sides of the Same Coin the
hub SPACE at centre
the SPACE within a house ~ Chapter 11: Tao Te Ching
Space
(formlessness) contains Flow (form) Breathing Creates Space
Space Contains Breathing
The
Living Octave of Breathing is the Central Current of Being The
Living Relationship of Respiration ~ Circulation
is the Current of Life.
The
OneSubstance of Being is Motion as Living Relationship Breathing
is your primary source of energy-motion Breathing
is the Direct Approach to Coupling with the
Breathing is the fractal-holographic interface between your body and your mind, your physical and ethereal universes; on the physical level it is the central current of your life as the octave of respiration and circulation; on the ethereal level it is the interdependent relationship of the octave of your nature and your spirit - the difference between realms is one of dimensions; they are the same in essence (this is also seen in the attempt to break down things like a hologram, a magnet, or waves that reveals smaller and larger wholes that are different in dimensions, yet their essence is the same; note what happens when you attempt to break down Silence or Space).
The most startling finding of modern science (especially Process Physics) is that there is no material substance in the UniVerse. Protons, electrons, quarks, and all of the “fundamental” particles that science has discovered all turn out to be various manifestations of motion and in-form-motion or 'structured energy' (information). Everything in the UniVerse is a product of this ever-moving, ever-changing motion. All that you experience physically is simply an interpretation of that Motion using your limited physical sensing. So in the most practical, physical sense, everything that you experience is the result of your mind’s interpretation of the Motion of the UniVerse.
Matter can be converted into energy and energy can be converted into matter because the substance of matter is energy (motion).
Modern scientists have irrefutably shown that the substance of things like your body is a living substance as coherent energy vibration and constant change. And, the facts that your body appears to have substance as solid liquid, gas, and plasma and that space appears to lack substance are simply delusions of human sensing. Thus today there is this grand contradiction between the irrefutable scientific fact that orderly energy vibration (Motion) is the substance of everything, and the fact that folks continue to believe and behave as if things like human bodies exist as material stuff. This leads to the inevitable questions:
Why? Do you believe it because you see it? Do you see it because you believe it? Are both these forms of Seeing Mental Motion? 'Why would intelligent people treat something as if it is solid (stationary) when science has unquestionably proven that it is not? And why do the same people treat space as empty when the workings of our cell phones, radios, information technologies, energy body feelings, and the sensitivity of animals, etc. reveal that space is teeming with inter-dimensional energy?' (Modern scientists say that your body and atoms are 99.9999% space; this space has and is multi-vibratory substance where different degrees of it can occupy the same location in space and time without interference - like different video, audio and microwave channels or waves).
Obviously the answers to the questions above are that this is Mental Spirit-Motion as what human beings experience, and, it demonstrates that there are embedded corresponding planes of being that exist simultaneously; whether it is a delusion or not is irrelevant because this is simply what is perceived within the limitations of human sense doors and brain. And, functionally this works. An example is that I only have to trip and fall on a concrete sidewalk once in order to learn to avoid such encounters with sidewalks out of self-preservation.
This points to much more profound knowledge and wisdom:
The knowledge is the fact that the laws that govern change are so orderly that Materialized Motion appears to your sense doors and brain as that which is labeled: Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma and Space~Flow. The wisdom is seeing that you already knew intuitively that that which is outside the conventional range of human perceiving is the same substance as the perceived (the most extraordinary attribute of human being is that you are self-aware).
This concurs with the findings of our greatest scientists who see that the boundaries of things are simply delusions of limited human sensing; rather edges and being stationary are attributes within the definite realm of that which is seen; ultimately the infinite wave energies criss-cross and permeate each other on definite and infinite frequencies of Being (the motions within the visible range of natural human sensing account for the way things appear and thus our mental conclusions; we see the definite extreme of each other's body and the edges of things like rocks and planets while their infinite extremes and other corresponding planes remain invisible).
The
Ground of Being is Living Ground
The fourfold elements named: Air, Water, Earth, and Fire each have and is dual as spiritual and physical and they are plateau markers on the ascending-descending scale of Motion~Emotion as wave vibrations of change and order.
The fifth element, A-Ether, is an element like the others as it too has and is dual spirit-nature as Aether and Ether, and yet it is unlike the others as it is the most subtle octave of energy as motion-emotion or Being itself. A-Ether is the quintessential attribute of the eightfold wave inter~course of opposing waves that compose the Living Fractal-Hologram of the Universe. (Note: a-ether is not motion-emotion within some unexplainable medium; rather it is motion-emotion itself as self-evident change, or, the constant movement of creation-destruction that is spirit-motion as the essential substance of the Living Universe; Space~Motion is the medium - the WAVE; THE WAVE IS AN ETHEREAL WAVE-FLAME; SPIRIT - THE WAVE (FLOW) IS IN SPACE AND - IT IS SPACE AND FLOW. What is seen and measured by scientists is the Wave Front that is holographically composed of more and more subtle embedded wave fronts [autopoies: is the process whereby an organization produces itself; literally, self-production] - the waves are the same in Kind yet different in DEGREE).
The best example of the dual spirit~nature of your Ethereal and Aethereal Being is experiential as it is obvious that the way you feel emotionally affects the way you feel physically. And although it is not as obvious the reverse is also true - when you are moved physically you are also moved emotionally. In this light the substance of your Being is the living inter~course of motion~emotion that actualizes as the stable human form (planes of being) called you.
Examples of these plateaus (planes) and change are obvious in your bodymind as the following words for and degrees of SPACE~FLOW:
Your 5 fundamental sense doors are yet another illustration of these plateaus and change. Each of your sense doors is an evolved sense of touch; each is activated by the touch of a particular form of motion/prana. The action of your inter~course with the elements that touch you is your emotional response. In this way the living inter~course of motion~emotion is the substance of your Being.
And the illustration that is so obvious that it is almost never seen is: You are Life Itself - a Breathing~Being whose substance is flow~motion. You breathe air, water, earth and fire as you inter~course with these elements in your environment. In each case the flow of these elements is taken into/breathed into your human form (you inhale/imbibe/ingest/inspire); your native bodymind's intelligence extracts the life-giving energy of the vibratory flow; and, you expel the waste products (you exhale/urinate/defecate/give off heat-light).
Being
has a dynamic pattern and yet
In light of all this movement and change it is not entirely accurate to say that you make changes because change (motion) is the spirit-nature of your energetic being; You are a Living Being of constant change. And yet it is completely accurate to say that you have the power to command change by releasing Motion from its present formation and in-forming it (your emotional response) to unfold in a particular order-formation by understanding and harmonizing your activities with the laws that govern the living spirit-nature of things.
The Ground of all Doing is Being On the level of Being You are Spiritually Perfect
Moving Stillness of Being - Breathing Iteration
Being is a given; fractal movement as constant change is a given; and the iterations/flow of your breath is also a given (if either respiration or circulation stop for more than just a few minutes - you're physically dead; note how a body part wherein circulation is restricted is said to be 'asleep' because you feel nothing there and if the circulation remains restricted to that body part - it will die; in other words the principle 'Breath is Life' is true for any part and the whole).
Breathing is the relationship of extremes as Concentration-Energy and Meditation-Energy. Concentration and Meditation are the same in kind yet different in degree; their essence is the same as they are both Mental (ways of Seeing or Awareness).
The OneSubstance of Being is Motion as Living Energy. The consequence of exclusively concentrating on localized movement causes it to appear as separate-chaotic; meditative consciousness reveals that the fractal iterations of the whole have cosmic order. In light of these facts wisdom dictates that you align the movement of your doing with the inherent motion of your Being to realize the Living Union of Yoga and a life of harmony.
The practice of Nisarga Yoga focuses on the exploration of your nearest environment, the embedded multi-dimensional realms of your bodymind. And since your breathing is the inter-face between your body and your mind, then it is self-evident that yoga practice must be centered on the motion and movement of this central current of your Being. Nisarga Yoga honours this by allowing all activities to be driven by your breathing.
OneSubstance
~ FLOW
iceberg-solid
, ocean-liquid, cloud-vapor; ions-plasma; FIRE
is The Element of Transformation: Increase
FLOW as 'heat'; see the trans-form-action: solid->liguid->gas->plasma
The HEART of YOGA Nisarga
Yoga is Yoga Nature's Way Yawn and Stretch Stretch
Your Heart; Stretch Your Mind;
CENTRE
is where all Energies Meet
Dynamic Balance: Relaxed yet Alert In the practice of Nisarga Yoga the movements of your doing are centered on the orderly flow of your breathing as you stretch your breath and see that stretching your breath moves your body in predetermined ways; the balancing act of stretching your body and breath whereby you realize space in three physical dimensions in the NOW is the phase of establishing the stillpoint called the pose; then there is a switchover (also patterned on your breathing) wherein you switch from inhaling and 'making it happen' to exhaling and 'letting it happen', and, now you compliment the physical dimensions of space with mental space by relaxing the surface level activity of your mind; this phase is a period of sustained stillness called holding the pose and it is where the more global connection with Space~Flow is realized (there is no one holding it as you have allowed the surface of your mind to fall silent; yet it is not a collapse as the integrity of the form that you created is maintained by your natural intelligence such that the flow that you stimulated by stretching flows optimally in the space that you have made).
The result of the process described above is the synergistic orderly flow of the movements of your doing coupled with the Motion of your being whereby there is a stillness in their movement - Yoga. Thus your practice is the Way of Harmony as the Living Relationship of your doing and your Being.
At first this moving stillness is realized on the physical level with the widespread practical benefits to your health and well-being; as your understanding unfolds you realize that the same practice and process applies to all levels of Being and that the structure you see in the simple process of releasing and welcoming a quiet breath is the same throughout.
Life is Energy-Motion: Energy-Motion
can never be created or destroyed
You have the power to order change by first understanding that the UniVerse is Motion and that the laws that govern the change that is already and always unfolding are the irrefutable laws of Motion. This understanding is the means that consciously aligns your energies in accord with the spirit-nature of the UniVerse. Thus there is no conflict between your doing as making it happen, and your being as seeing it happen and Being the happening. Once the understanding of this fundamental truth is established, then you use True Imagination as Image + Action to cause the UniVerse to happily create the things you want in Life.
In other words you see that the irrefutable laws that govern change-motion also govern your life such that your life has a very definite structure and yet within the structure there are the countless possibilities of your free choice as what you understand and believe. Thus you have the power to control the direction of your life provided that you honour the laws that govern change-motion while you are actualizing your free choice.
Living means the flow of constant change. The conscious process of ordering change is a matter of in-forming energy in accord with the laws that govern the Living UniVerse of Motion.
Your ability to think is wondrous and yet by itself thinking can never fathom the mysteries of the UniVerse. It is the sacred union of thoughts and feelings that gives birth to the flower of living consciousness that includes and transcends its parts as the Intelligence of your Heart wherein understanding is without limitation - it is spirit-motion-intelligence as its own knowing.
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