time. Through the nose, let‟s
breathe. They teach this stuff right there at the yoga studio across the parking lot. It'scentered breathing. Now, the full breath. It starts with a partial abdominal breath. Then we partially fill the lower chest, then the middlechest, and then the upper chest, raising our shoulders a little bit. Then, on the
exhale, the exact reverse. It‟s more involved
than that, but with practice, it becomes more natural, anyway. We chopped this up into four parts. However, as we practice, and our experience of it deepens, relaxing into the process, then the fragments fall
away. It‟s all one motion.So…
the Jedi Knights, Shambhala warriors, spiritual warriors, fighting monks
–
what‟s it all about?
We‟re only going
to touch one aspect of this, but this one aspect touches upon everything else, too. As mentioned earlier, the intellect isnever going to understand this stuff. True understanding comes only with practice
–
always softening, always deepening.To quote Ammachi,
“God i
s pure experience.
”
We will chop all this into parts: recognizing Divine Intent or
“Common Purpose” (wholeness) in conflict, breath,
grounding, matching the energy,
processing feeling in body, giving up resentment, facing ourselves, etc… These parts ar
euntrue. They serve a functional purpose, as mentioned earlier. The magic glue that binds it back together is practice. It allmoves from spirit into form so that our intellects can grab onto something and, through practice, bring it back to spirit
–
back to pure experience. When we put
it into practice, the fragments fall away. It‟s all one process. Reality is seemless.
Has anyone studied Tai Chi? Push Hands? (The Barber explained some of the principles, on request, of Push Hands,in terms of grounding, keeping centered, connecting with the Earth, as well as the subtle energy circuit between both participants and the Earth, while cutting hair. The barber was cutting hair, that is. )Some forms of push hands are more competitive than others. In some schools, both opponents are rocking back andforth, attempting to exploit a weakness in the o
ther, using the other person‟s
energy to throw them off-balance. Some
instructors call it “S
ensing H
ands”, and prefer a model
of healing partners rather than opponents. When the processtouches upon a little pocket of tension, a non-
integrated weakness in the bodymind, then there‟s a stop in the flow. That
person is then given a chance to breathe into that weakness and soften it, allowing that pocket of tension to integrate itself into the whole. Every conflict can be transformed in this way.In some martial arts tournaments, both opponents bow to each other before whooping ass. This is only an empty shell
of a much deeper process. It‟s like holding
a rosary in your hand and
mechanically uttering “Hail Mary full of grace the
Lord is wit
h thou blessed art thou…” over
and over again. The rosary can be a great practice. The magic fuel that powersit is LSD
–
Love, Surrender, Devotion
–
ever softening, ever deepening.Everyone is both personality and soul. The personality is the self of identity, that which clings and claims a piece of the All for
itself. It‟s the self of duality. Dualit
y leads to tension in the body
mind. It‟s a fierce polarization between
opposite poles
. When there‟s
a little pocket of tension in
the bodymind, there‟s separation, right? It‟s not integrated
intothe whole. That pocket of tension vibrates out into the external in the form of interpersonal polarization and separation.This creates dynamics between people.Whenever someone is attacking us in some way, they are carrying a little pocket of tension within themselves. Theyare latching onto a little pocket of tension within us, by polarity.
It‟s often a common weakness or a similar but o
ppositeweak
ness. There‟s something within
both parties that is not integrated into wholeness. In a relationship, there is somethingthat is preventing communion. There is an unmet need that needs to be discovered.Both parties are always seeking wholeness. This is always the intent of the soul
–
The Divine Intent. Rememberingthe Divine Intent and Common Purpose (wholeness) is the first step to approaching conflict from a point of centerednessand spaciousness. Spaciousness is the goal - the final
frontier. No one can mess with space. There‟s nothing to grab ontowhen you‟re fighting space.
Let‟s say that someone is attacking you, and they‟re calling yo
u on a weakness. Even if their perception of your
weakness is wrong, it doesn‟t matter. No
opinion is true. However, on some level, they are absolutely correct. To find thetrue weakness that they are poking at, we must feel it within our own body. Finding our own weakness is the gateway tospaciousness. Then, our job is to soften it. When we do this, the antagonist is forced, though a mirror effect, to confront
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