You can take the kundalini from the crown center and bring it down. You can bring it up or you can stabilize them both. When you stop breathing in meditation, the kundalini is stabilized.
The kundalini is raised or brought down. It can be done in several different ways, and as it moves to the different chakras or energy centers in the subtle physical body, it endows one with various powers.
Focus your attention on the top of your neck. Take that energy and transmit it in two lines to your hands. Then from the hands, bounce that energy right back to the heart center and ground it.
What we are doing is taking an occult energy; it’s amplifying in the chakras and the hands. Then we are neutralizing it and spreading it through the being.
As the prana current, kundalini and different energies begin to move through you, you will feel yourself moving and rocking. Keep the body still, otherwise that energy will be lost as it expresses itself through the physical.
All of the previously described techniques can be practiced with your eyes open and closed. Most people find that it is easier initially to practice meditation with their eyes closed.
Use the previous techniques in rotation. It will prevent your meditation experience from becoming stale.
The different techniques will place you in touch with different fields of auric empowerment, creating a balanced development of your practice.
Even if you are focusing on a chakra, you don’t want to do that for the whole period of meditation. There should be a point where you let go. Settle down. Get off the train of thought for a while.
Buddhism is the study of how to be immeasurably happy.
Buddhism is simply a methodology, a way of becoming one with the part of ourselves that is happy.
The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.
From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate.
Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.
The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.
The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there’s something radiant, perfect and eternal.
Even though it’s not perceivable to the mind or senses, it’s there and enlightenment is absolute freedom.
Buddhism isn’t about temples, and incense, and shaved heads, and robes. It’s not about church. There are aspects of Buddhism that involve that. People enjoy that, it helps them, it strengthens their practice.
The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.
Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn’t become his students but whenever he was in town they would go and see him.