Dear friends,
Welcome to stop by to relax and to unwind for a while... and who knows perhaps something might happen in the space between. Feel free to share or open up a theme, or just sit back and enjoy the exchanges.
For the newcomers, this blog is a natural progression of the past eight years of communication with the wide audience made of advanced meditators and beginners alike.
Yours as ever,
Igor
P. S. The current version of the blog is to see how it goes before we'll move it to a more secure web-blog specially build for that purpose.
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Looking forward for your posts
May many come and sit with you on the veranda in the presents of comforting cushions of love and knowledge.
So what subjects do you start with? Are you going to be making the topics or can we ask the questions?
We can start with any subject, it makes no difference as to the importance. What makes it important is the way the subject relates to each and every individual condition.
We'll keep with the usual form of the Satsang, the topics will reflect the questions and mirror back the answers in that manner. So, please do ask.
Thank you very much for the invite, I am looking foward to where this leads.
Hey Igor.
It's great we are finally here...
Rene, Ali, Emma, Luis, Peter, Dato,
Good to have you here. Before enough people gather for the dialogue to unroll in a more dynamic way, don't be shy to pose your questions or themes which you'd like to tackle.
This will only lead to where you want to and as far as you prepared to go.
Perhaps we can talk about physical pain? I have been having pain for the last couple of days. The kind of pain that makes you want to do nothing else then just do nothing.
Just concentrate on my breathing, and a wonderful world is emerging. Even little things as a kid, I never let go of appear and seem to vanish.
Why I am having this pain? So i can let go of old patterns?
Rene, sorry to hear you are in pain. You sound like a true doctor, a healer, who even in pain examines his own body for the benefit of others.
You know that Avicena used to infect himself with terrible diseases in order to understand the symptoms and to find a treatment. The medicine man would tell the disciples the agony of what he was going through, at times unable to talk from the pain, so he would recollect he impressions to pass them on the following day.
Why this example with the ancient physician? Well, the pain of all kinds and physical pain in particular is a natural response of the body towards conditions which could endanger the body where pain acts as a signal of safety net.
Symptoms of a self-inflicted diseases which Avicenna studied so courageously were the signposts of the way of the illness and therefore they also marked the pathways to the recovery. This is one of the postulates of homeopathic medicine, 'the aliment leaves the way it came'.
There is another level to 'pain' and it is inseparable from its twin 'pleasure'. Pleasure and pain are two most important neurophysiological responses in the brain which mark our likes and dislikes and wire the connection between the body and the mind. It is interesting that we recognize the pain as being an opposite of our past experiences of pleasure precisely because of the contrast the experience produces. These is the inner mechanics of worldliness.
Attachment arises from pleasure and pleasure is derived from attachment to the experience it produces. In turn pain gives rise to aversion and thus the circle of attachment and aversion strengthen the psychological conditioning of an individual psyche.
You asking, 'Why I am having this pain ? So i can let go of old patterns?' Try to reverse it now just momentarily, 'Why I am having this pleasure ?'. Do you see now, it doesn't make sense. For when we enjoy the pleasure we take it for granted, as its a natural predisposition in our brain and needs no questioning as for the reasoning.
The wise should accept all states of body and mind without the discrimination, for they follow each other, with the change of the Gunas, as you should probably know. Gunas of Nature (Sattva, Rajas, Tamas) rotate and bring about changes in physical and psychological states of our organisms as well as our mental sways. We should learn to endure them without much analysis, safe for the obvious symptoms which body sends us when we doing something which might be harmful for its balanced state.
This would be it, if not for your unique condition of a sidha. Yes, when the Shakti is active it compresses the karma with the intensity proportionate to the power with which the Energy does its work. Whence not only the illnesses of the past could be purged out of the system, but even those that yet to come. Because the 'normal' frame of space-time is being altered somewhat, that allows for the Star Trek trick within our own physiology. But that is another topic altogether.
"Try to reverse it now just momentarily, 'Why I am having this pleasure ?'. Do you see now, it doesn't make sense"
I did, I see it!
Thank you!
Igor my love, please can you tell me about the feeling of wholeness.
If we are from this whole and part of a whole, why do we feel so separated from this most of the time. Only when it rains and we are silent enough to stop and listen do we connect. The rest of the time we forget who or what we are. Why is the memory so easily erased if this is our natural state to be.
I realize that you have touched upon this as you wrote about frictions, and being all knowing. But can you explain for me in more depth.
Hope you are feeling better now Rene my love, you are in my thoughts.
Emma, that's the question. Well, it's not just a matter of memory in the same sense as we use the word when we talk of recollection of events in our lives. That is a worldly memory. To 'remember' our real Nature does not require any memory at all. That is were the trick is. We will talk about it in depth as you've suggested in one of the next posts.
Good question anyway.
Hi Igor ,
Please can you speak on what you feel/know about the the practice of physical yoga ?
Welcome, Nicole!
By physical, do you mean the current practice of yoga prevalent in the west and especially in the states?
Yoga means Union (of opposites). There are few main branches of yoga each utilizing few principle faculties: intellect/thought, feeling/senses, body/breath, action. Meaning there is Raja Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, etc.
Perhaps by physical you mean Hatha Yoga. Please elaborate on your question.
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