Chakras

[sanjuro_ronin]

So, my little one is watching Avatar, the last air bender with me and asks me about the chakras that Aang is opening:

1# First is the Earth Chakra, located at the base of the spine. It deals with survival, and is blocked by fear. Let your greatest fears become clear to you. You may be concerned for your survival, but you must let those fears go.

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Next is the Water Chakra, located in the abdomen. It deals with pleasure, and is blocked by guilt. Look at the guilt from your past that burdens you. Let them go, or they will poison your energy. Meditate and realize that these things happened for a purpose.
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Next is the Fire Chakra, located at the stomach. It deals with willpower, and is blocked by shame. Recognize the biggest dissapointments in yourself, and what you are ashamed of. Accept that these things happened.
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Now is the Air Chakra, located at the heart. It deals with love, and is blocked by grief. Lay all of your grief out in front of you. If you have lost someone close, you must realize love is a form of energy, and it swirls all around us. The love is still in your heart, and can be reborn in the shape of new love.
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Next is the Sound Chakra, located at the throat. It deals with truth, and is blocked by lies. The lies we tell ourselves. You must not lie about your own nature. Accept who you are.
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Up next: the Light Chakra, located at the forehead. It deals with insight, and is blocked by illusions. The biggest illusion of all is the illusion of separation. Things we think are separate are actually one and the same. Like the nations of the world: we are all one people, but we live as if divided.
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Last is the Thought Chakra, located at the crown of the forehead. It deals with pure cosmic energy, and is blocked by earthly attatchments. Meditate on what attatches you to this world. Let your emotions flow and be forgotten. You must unlock this chakra to gain your energy from the universe.


I don't know anything about that stuff.
Anyone?

[Vajramusti]

On the Chakras.

I don't plan to see Avatar and haven't seen it. I stay away from new ageish interpretations
of profound things.

Sir John Woodroffe's "Serpent Power" still stands as one of the better writings on the chakras.
My late father knew the late Sir Woodroffe. He was a judge in British India but took the time to learn Sanskrit well and delved into various forms of yoga and Indian traditional culture and insights.

But learning from the literature is not always helpful in understanding profound yoga conceptions.

There are many many fake authorities -I had the good fortune of having a very good kundalini yoga teacher who died at age 96 in Tamil nadu, India a cou[le of years ago.. On serious subjects- one needs a good teacher. Without proper instruction understanding chakras and their uses can be misleading and even dangerous to one's health.Kundalini is often corrupted in undisciplined understandings.

Understanding chakras are a way to self mastery. There could be other ways.

The chakras are about understanding "shakti" and it's development stages- after the management of "shakta"-muscle power. Pneumena after understanding phenomena.

joy chaudhuri

[uki]

well done grasshopper, but let's graduate from kindergarten shall we??

http://www.wisdomsdoor.com/hb/hhb-20.shtml

[sanjuro_ronin]

On the Chakras.

I don't plan to see Avatar and haven't seen it. I stay away from new ageish interpretations
of profound things.

Sir John Woodroffe's "Serpent Power" still stands as one of the better writings on the chakras.
My late father knew the late Sir Woodroffe. He was a judge in British India but took the time to learn Sanskrit well and delved into various forms of yoga and Indian traditional culture and insights.

But learning from the literature is not always helpful in understanding profound yoga conceptions.

There are many many fake authorities -I had the good fortune of having a very good kundalini yoga teacher who died at age 96 in Tamil nadu, India a cou[le of years ago.. On serious subjects- one needs a good teacher. Without proper instruction understanding chakras and their uses can be misleading and even dangerous to one's health.Kundalini is often corrupted in undisciplined understandings.

Understanding chakras are a way to self mastery. There could be other ways.

The chakras are about understanding "shakti" and it's development stages- after the management of "shakta"-muscle power. Pneumena after understanding phenomena.

joy chaudhuri

Thanks for the advice Joy.
I was just wondering if the creators of Avatar got the chakra thing right.

[sanjuro_ronin]

well done grasshopper, but let's graduate from kindergarten shall we??

http://www.wisdomsdoor.com/hb/hhb-20.shtml

I got your chakra right here, monkey-boy !

[kfson]

I've taken chakra classes. I'm not very good at that system. I guess spirit is saying, Verboten.