On The Wings Of The Goddess ...
they floated above the earth ...
hovering it seemed, like dandelion blossoms,
sailing on the most still breeze ...
at the Memorial Weekend Sunday Farmer's Market ...
where the children could not be dragged away from
the spirits/performers -- "I want to stay and watch
Mom!" ... "I want to watch them" --
and the adults & elders had the GREATEST smiles on their
faces. and the cameras never stopped clicking and
whirring ....
the most recurring question -- then and over the
insuing week -- has been, "what does it mean? what
is it about?
and then our favorite question, "how do they move
so..ooooo... slow?!"
The DreamTime Walkers ...
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THE DREAMTIME WALKERS:
. . . performing the Jhana (slow) Walking ...
the 8 Jhanas being inward states of yoga or meditation, consicousness:
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8(9) Jhanas/Samadhis and Levels or Planes of Reality
In each Jhana/Samadhi, the personality is (said to be) fused with:
1st Jhana: First Inward Abstract HeartMind of the Spirit Body.
2nd Jhana: Next Inward Focusing of the Spirit body and the
Universal HeartMind, Unbounded Joy.
3rd Jhana: Buddhic or Enlightened Body, Unbounded Bliss,
Universal Love.
4th Jhana: Atmic Body, Perfect Equanimity, Universal Will/Life,
Transition of Cessation of Feeling.
5th Jhana: Unbounded/Universal Divine Nature, Transcendence of
Form and Diversity
6th Jhana: Monadic Consciousness
7th Jhana: Very beginning of Logoic Plane
8th Jhana: Core of Monad, Spark of Allness, Core Individuality,
last remnant of Individual Self. Composed of 7 Logoic atoms in
the first Logoic Sphere.
9th Jhana: “Cessation of feeling and perception”, Transcendence
of Individuality and Personal Point of View because both feeling
and perception require a Personal Point of View, Identification
with Logoic/Solar Life, Logoic Plane.
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Walking Meditation
February 23, 2005
By the contemplative recluse monk Sotapanna
Jhanananda (Jeffrey S Brooks)
"Can one be in absorption (jhana) during walking or standing
meditation?" The answer is, yes of course, as long as we are
speaking of the material absorptions (rupa-jhanas). I have done it
many times, and I have taught my students to do it. When I was visiting
Millennium Twain last summer, in Santa Monica, we practiced various
forms of walking and standing meditation. I also took the class through
Surya Namaskar (sun worshiper), which is a Hatha Yoga set. We did
the set in a very slow and contemplative form to support entry into
absorption while in movement. We also engaged in some simplified
Tai Chi movement, which I have found is very conducive to supporting
jhana while in motion and with the eyes open.
When I teach moving jhana I begin with the Bahiya Sutta (U 1.10). I
believe the central concept in this sutta is getting to a place were one
does not objectify the objects of the senses. That means allowing
oneself to sense without the mind engaging in the act of sensing.
What I mean by this is simply allowing the sensory data to stream in
without an attempt of the mind to interpret that data.
Bahiya Sutta (U 1.10).
"When (Bahiya) for you there will be only the seen in reference to the
seen ... then, Bahiya, there is no you (there)...When there is no you
there, you are neither here nor yonder nor between the two. This,
just this, is the end of dissatisfaction (dukkha)."
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Comment #1 Posted by: Millennium Twain | June 7, 2006 07:24 AM
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the Dreamtime Devas are next expected
to walk/slide thru/around our lives
this coming Sunday,
18 June ....
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Comment #2 Posted by: Millennium Twain | June 12, 2006 07:22 PM