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Shiva Sutras and Patanjali's Yoga Sutra -Watch Your Breath
Breath's Awareness(Vipassana)-The Open Gate to Discover our true identity
Vipassana-is the one and only one technique Buddha promoted -- it is the first technique of Shiva(in Vijnana Bhairava)-and it is described by Patanjali in Yoga Sutra.
Vipassana (Pali) or vipashyana (Sanskrit) means "insight" and is often referred to by Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike as simply "insight meditation". While it is a type of Buddhist meditation as taught by the Buddha it is essentially non-sectarian in character and has universal application. One need not convert to Buddhism to practice vipassana meditation. While the meditation practices themselves vary from school to school, the underlying principle is the investigation of phenomena as they manifest in the five aggregates (skandhas) namely, matter or form (rupa), sensation or feelings (vedana), perception (samjna, Pali sanna), mental formations (samskara, Pali sankhara) and consciousness (vijnana, Pali vinnana).
This process leads to direct experiential perception, vipassana.
In a broader sense, vipassana has been used as one of two poles for the categorization of types of Buddhist meditation, the other being samatha (Pali) or samatha (Sanskrit). Samatha is a focusing, pacifying and calming meditation, common to many traditions in the world, notably yoga. It is used as a preparation for vipassana, pacifying the mind and strengthening the concentration in order to allow the work of insight. This dichotomy is also sometimes discussed as "stopping and seeing." In Buddhist practice, it is said that while samatha can calm the mind, only insight can reveal how the mind was disturbed to start with, which leads to praja (Pali: paa, knowledge) and jnana (Pali: āṇa, pure wisdom) and thus can lead to preventing it from being disturbed again.
The term is also used to refer to the Buddhist Vipassana movement modeled after Theravada Buddhism which employs Vipassana and anapana meditation as its primary techniques and places emphasis on the teachings of the Satipatthana Sutta. Vedana (sensation/feeling) is the primary initial subject of investigation.
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Aforismele Yoga ale lui Patanjali
Instructiuni pentru Centrare
de Dan Mirahorian
Book I:Trance Absorbtion Technology Chapter-Samadhi Pada
introduction:
Devi Asks:
O Shiva, what is your reality?
What is this wonder-filled universe?
What consttutes seed?
Who centers the universal wheel?
What is this life beyond form pervading forms?
How may we enter it fully,
above space and time,
names and descriptions?
Let my doubts be cleared!
Now Shiva replies and describes 112 meditation techniques.
Click on Explanation to read the details instructions for each technique.
Shiva replies:
1.Radiant One,
this experience may dawn between two breaths.
After breath comes in (down)
and just before turning up (out)
- the beneficence.
Shiva Replies :
1. Radiant one, this experience may dawn between two breaths. After breath comes in (down) and just before turning up (out) -- the beneficence.
That is the technique: Radiant one, this experience may dawn between two breaths. After breath comes in -- that is, down -- and just before turning out -- that is, going up -- the beneficence Be aware between these two points, and the happening. When your breath comes in, observe. For a single moment, or a thousandth part of a moment, there is no breathing -- before it turns up, before it turns outward. One breath comes in; then there is a certain point and breathing stops. Then the breathing goes out. When the breath goes out, then again for a single moment, or a part of a moment, breathing stops. Then breathing comes in. Before the breath is turning in or turning out, there is a moment when you are not breathing. In that moment the happening is possible, because when you are not breathing you are not in the world.
Understand this: when you are not breathing you are dead; you ARE still, but dead. But the moment is of such a short duration that you never observe it. For tantra, each outgoing breath is a death and each new breath is a rebirth. Breath coming in is rebirth; breath going out is death. The outgoing breath is synonymous with death; the incoming breath is synonymous with life. So with each breath you are dying and being reborn. The gap between the two is of a very short duration, but keen, sincere observation and attention will make you feel the gap.
If you can feel the gap, Shiva says, the beneficence.
Then nothing else is needed. You are blessed, you have known; the thing has happened. You are not to train the breath. Leave it just as it is. Why such a simple technique? It looks so simple. Such a simple technique to know the truth? To know the truth means to know that which is neither born nor dies, to know that eternal element which is always. You can know the breath going out, you can know the breath coming in, but you never know the gap between the two. Try it. Suddenly you will get the point -- and you can get it; it is already there. Nothing is to be added to you or to your structure, it is already there. Everything is already there except a certain awareness. So how to do this? First, become aware of the breath coming in. Watch it.
Forget everything, just watch breath coming in -- the very passage. When the breath touches your nostrils, feel it there. Then let the breath move in. Move with the breath fully consciously. When you are going down, down, down with the breath, do not miss the breath. Do not go ahead and do not follow behind, just go with it. Remember this: do not go ahead, do not follow it like a shadow; be simultaneous with it. Breath and consciousness should become one. The breath goes in -- you go in. Only then will it be possible to get the point which is between two breaths. It will not be easy. Move in with the breath, then move out with the breath: in-out, in-out. Buddha tried particularly to use this method, so this method has become a Buddhist method. In Buddhist terminology it is known as Anapanasati Yoga. And Buddha's enlightenment was based on this technique -- only this.
All the religions of the world, all the seers of the world, have reached through some technique or other, and all those techniques will be in these one hundred and twelve techniques. This first one is a Buddhist technique. It has become known in the world as a Buddhist technique because Buddha attained his enlightenment through this technique. Buddha said, "Be aware of your breath as it is coming in, going out -- coming in, going out." He never mentions the gap because there is no need. Buddha thought and felt that if you become concerned with the gap, the gap between two breaths, that concern may disturb your awareness. So he simply said, "Be aware. When the breath is going in move with it, and when the breath is going out move with it.
Do simply this: going in, going out, with the breath." He never says anything about the latter part of the technique. The reason is that Buddha was talking with very ordinary men, and even that might create a desire to attain the interval. That desire to attain the interval will become a barrier to awareness, because if you are desiring to get to the interval you will move ahead. Breath will be coming in, and you will move ahead because you are interested in the gap which is going to be in the future. Buddha never mentions it, so Buddha's technique is just half. But the other half follows automatically. If you go on practicing breath consciousness, breath awareness, suddenly, one day, without knowing, you will come to the interval.
Because as your awareness will become keen and deep and intense, as your awareness will become bracketed -- the whole world is bracketed out; only your breath coming in or going out is your world, the whole arena for your consciousness -- suddenly you are bound to feel the gap in which there is no breath. When you are moving with breath minutely, when there is no breath, how can you remain unaware? You will suddenly become aware that there is no breath, and the moment will come when you will feel that the breath is neither going out nor coming in. The breath has stopped completely. In that stopping, THE BENEFICENCE.
This one technique is enough for millions. The whole of Asia tried and lived with this technique for centuries. Tibet, China, Japan, Burma, Thailand, Ceylon -- the whole of Asia except India has tried this technique. Only one technique and thousands and thousands have attained enlightenment through it. And this is only the first technique. But unfortunately, because the technique became associated with Buddha's name, Hindus have been trying to avoid it. Because it became more and more known as a Buddhist method, Hindus have completely forgotten it. And not only that, they have also tried to avoid it for another reason. Because this technique is the first technique mentioned by Shiva, many Buddhists have claimed that this book, Vigyana Bhairava Tantra., is a Buddhist book, not a Hindu book. It is neither Hindu nor Buddhist -- a technique is just a technique. Buddha used it, but it was there already to be used. Buddha became a buddha, an enlightened one, because of the technique. The technique preceded Buddha; the technique was already there. Try it. It is one of the most simple techniques -- simple compared to other techniques; I am not saying simple for you. Other techniques will be more difficult. That is why it is mentioned as the first technique.
The second technique -- all these nine techniques are concerned with breath.
2.As breath turns from down to up,
and again as breath curves up to down -
through both these turns,
realize. Explanation
3.Or, whenever in-breath and out-breath fuse,
at this instant touch the energy-less,
energy-filled center.
4.Or, when breath is all out (up)
and stopped of itself,
or all in (down) and stopped -
in such universal pause,
one's small self vanishes.
This is difficult only for the impure.
5.Attention between Eyebrows,
let mind be before thought.
Let form fill with breath essence
to the top of the head
and there shower as light.
6.When in worldly activities,
keep attention between two breaths,
and so practicing,
in a few days be born anew.
7.With intangible breath in center of forehead,
as this reaches the heart at the moment of sleep,
have direction over dreams and over death itself.
8.
With utmost devotion,
center on the two junctions of breath
and know the knower.
9.Lie down as dead.
Enraged in wrath, stay so.
Or stare without moving an eyelash.
Or suck something and become the sucking.
In this talk Nithyananda expounds on Shiva Sutras(Vijnana Bhairava) which are techniques given by Shiva to Devi to directly experience enlightenment. Breath is the bridge between your body and the mind or matter and spirit. Every single breath is managed by your true Self(Atman). In between the ingoing and outgoing breath, you touch your inner consciousness. Shiva therefore direct our awareness on the breath since it is the easiest way to experience the space where consciousness is our true nature.
In the next videoclip Nithyananda expounds on Shiva Sutras which are techniques given by Shiva to Devi to directly experience enlightenment. According to Nithyananda, if all the meditation techniques were to be washed away and only one technique is available, this is the technique that can keep enlightenment alive on planet Earth. It has produced thousands of enlightenment masters on planet Earth. This the one and only one technique Buddha promoted -- it is the first technique of Shiva.
Find the Neutral Space
Beyond Body and Mind
"We are not human beings on a spiritual path,
but spiritual beings on a human path".
"We shall not cease from exploration
And at the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time"
T.S. Eliot
Joan Osbourne - One of Us
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