Two weeks ago was a lunar eclipse, yesterday the accompanying solar eclipse. This happens every 6 months. Only that these two times I noticed very clearly massive energy changes during sleep. I know my nodal return is about conjunct to these eclipses so that is likely a rare energy occurence every 18 years. Otherwise energy growth is gradual and hard work. This is like Halloween or Christmas depending on how you see it, heaven or hell. I got so much burning last night in my body and did my meditation upon waking and then tai chi afterwards and grounded this energy even deeper. It is like if you feel tight in your gut or your heart bursting then that is stress from emotion. When that goes deeper down into muscles, tendons in neck , belly and causes no emotional results as emotions just pass through then neither love nor anger in even fairly large amounts gets you angry or euphoric. You remain peaceful, observant. So you have gotten control of yourself like the soldier who went through years of hell. Most end up with PTSD however, as we do from daily stress or childhood stress. It sll gets buried deep in the muscles, tissues. Letting it just wash over you like water off a duck' s back would be a neat trick. One reads about deep peace from meditation and assumes that it all has to do with management of brain waves getting habitually calmed over time ( binaural beats, brainwave scanners) but I notice and am of the general opinion after having done laboring work for the past decade after having been white collar 15 years and a long time student that meditation technique and yoga are generally a middle class educateds sedentary technique to reduce mental stress as they hardly use their bodies but overload their minds. If the Buddha were born a lowly carpenter what worries or deeper thoughts would he have had? He would have focused body and mind on something concrete and found satisfaction therein and his mind would never had been so upset, distracted as a prince with little to do with his body and lots of learning to be done. This is logic pure. Work as meditation is called karma yoga( like bhakti yoga of devotional worship, and jnana yoga of study). The saying goes that such a grounded person can stand in a crowded place and feel alone. Or as my father remarked, that as a highly nervous sixteen year old, upon finishing school in the 1930s he went logging as a lumberjack for 6 months. Afterwards if you slapped him unexpectedly on the back he wouldn' t flinch. Before this he was essentially a big city boy nervous wreck. He remained a lifelong labourer and lived till 87. Mental and physical health are closely tied. Taking this one step further of course, as seems to be ocurring in my case, the quietening results of meditation( energies from kundalini awakening from pranayama practice) are being grounded in the body itself ( includes brain of course). Sri Aurobindo discusses this. As my experience deepens and gets shared, spread around perhaps it is like in Aurobindo' s ashram experience where he decided not to just advance alone to perfection as this would create a gulf between him and others which could not be bridged. If you get too advanced no one can grok you so a small group of friends practising the energy practises together and advancing slowly is better than one person on fast track who leaves no tracks. Then this small group of advanced devotees can pass on their experiences in diluted form to the masses. The deeper the transformation the better. Doing things entirely alone can be dull at any rate. My school of yoga emphasizes being in the world and not withdrawal. This is more difficult and neccessarily one has a deeper effect on others than monks chanting in a monastery. How else can we expect positive change in the world?
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