Sahaj Energy Healing

A reminder to myself ~ 16th Karmapa
https://justdharma.com/s/ga6sb

With your supreme intelligence, you realized the intention
Of the unsurpassable vehicle, the tradition of Padmakara.
Guru of unequalled kindness, I remember you from my heart.
I supplicate you—bless me with your compassion.
I, Pema Trinley Palzang, a performer of three activities,
From now on, will take control of my own discipline in thought and deed.
I make a firm commitment, as follows,
To avoid thoughtlessness and senselessness.

In physical conduct, I will not allow myself to be rootless and hurried,
Incapable of being still, carelessly following my every whim.
I will always hold my own space
And be adorned by the training in pure discipline.

In speech, whether spiritual or secular,
I will choose meaningful words
And shun unconnected talk of past events or boring discussions
concerning any of the three times.
I will always exert myself in dharmic recitations, proclamations, and readings.

In mind, I will not flutter back and forth like a young bird on a branch.
Not getting absorbed in discursive thoughts of good and bad,
I will meditate, cultivating forbearance and relying on my own perceptions, not those of others. I will reflect on how best to benefit the teachings and beings.

In particular, the vital essence of the thought of all victorious ones
Is the true nature—the uncontrived, innate dharmakaya.
Without ever lapsing, I will sustain it with one taste in equipoise and post-meditation.

In sum, I will hold myself to the sublime, dharmic conduct of the three gates,
Not falling under the influence of others.
Arrogance, haughtiness, or thoughts of self-aggrandizement— whatever of these arises,
I will not let them move me in the slightest.
I will remain firm, dignified, and fearless, like a mountain.

Until this collection of elements has rotted away,
I will not waver from this way of being.
Of this way I will be a fearless warrior—that will be my quality.
This is my vow, like an image carved in stone. May it be virtuous!
Gods and protectors, work to help this come to pass!
May the virtuous signs of auspiciousness excellently blaze!



– 16th Karmapa

quoted in the book "Heart Advice of the Karmapa"
ISBN: B001AVE6DU - https://amzn.to/17rY0m2

translated by Tyler Dewar

16th Karmapa biography:
https://www.kagyu.org/kagyulineage/lineage/kag41.php

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Get hold of your mind!

~ Princess Mandarava

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Whenever I count my blessings, which I try to frequently do, I often begin with the excellent human beings in my life, many of whom are female. I greatly value the close friendships that I have with these women and offer thanks that we live in times when the s*xes can mingle so easily and so often.

And yet – the very ease of our mingling has given rise to the erroneous but widely-held opinion that there are no differences between the s*xes, an opinion that has created some very real difficulties in inter-gender relating.

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My mentor, Sri Vimalananda disagreed:

"Both men and women possess attributes of both Shiva and Shakti, but in different measure. The chief characteristic of Shakti is that She is kinetic, She moves. And this is the chief characteristic of a woman, that she is changeable. Some call her fickle. Shiva's chief characteristic is His immobility. Likewise, a man is, or should be, firm. Often, he is unyielding. Men are creatures of ambition, and women are creatures of emotion. Women have to learn firmness; men have to learn emotion."

It is exciting to me to find Vimalananda’s sentiments echoed in current discourse, for example in the work of John Wineland. As Wineland sees it (you can listen to him discuss this on the Luke Storey's Lifestylist podcast) and as Vimalananda also maintained, the masculine wants to pe*****te, and the feminine wants to be pe*****ted — and not just s*xually. Women innately want to be pe*****ted by deep consciousness, to be ravished by a man who knows how to rest in consciousness and create a condition in which the woman feels contained. Men innately want to pe*****te into deep consciousness, to become stable there where he can make a woman feel “seen,” adored, steadied.

The feminine (in a woman or a man) wants intimacy, connection, pleasure; the masculine (in a man or a woman) wants stability, solitude. The masculine grows in solitude and with other men; the feminine grows in pleasure and with other women. A man who is healthily established deep within himself draws a woman into her feminine just by his deepness; a woman who loves wholesomely propels a man into his masculine.

A man’s ability to be with his own feminine gives him the capacity to be comfortable with and to relate healthily with the feminine in others; a woman’s ability to be with her own masculine gives her the capacity to be comfortable with and to relate healthily with the masculine in others. Too often today a woman tries to compete with a man in masculinity without really knowing her own masculine; this can cause her to become hard, dry, and angry. Too often today a man comes to a woman seeking only pleasure without really knowing his own feminine; a woman will resist opening to a man if she feels that he can’t handle his own feminine.

Relationships between two people who don’t know their own personal masculine and feminine tend to break down when one partner starts to think and say that the other is wrong and shows contempt, or a lack of empathy. Two people who value their relationship and wish to cultivate and nourish it must develop and maintain mutual empathy and open communication.

When the masculine and the feminine in two people meet beneficially is when the magic begins; this is the “relationship yoga” that Vimalananda so prized:

"Yoga is not a system of physical jerks; know it once and for all. Yoga is meant to make every home a happy home. When every family member is giving out his or her best to unite the family and make it a success, that is real yoga."

In my life all too often my own early imperfect patterns of relating (we all have them) have induced me to fail to live up to this standard; and so whenever I count my blessings, I also remember to thank each of my loved ones who have returned kindness for harshness, who have displayed empathy even when I could not, who have never given up on me just as I, under similar circumstances, have not given up on them. May we all strive daily to make our homes happy homes!

[There is still space in Dr. Svoboda, Chandra Easton & Scott Blossom's upcoming course, Shiva & Shakti: The Power of Transformation, April 13 - 15th in Berkeley, California. More info here: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eetrk7huac128d77&llr=zmulvnbab]

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