Kundalini

[Lone Drifter]

Ok one thing first which is off topic how the hell do i get a pic up as my avatar? i cant get one for the life of me...


Anyway, im wondering if any one knows the proper and safest steps to awaken the "sleeping snake". Im doing alot of working on my energy centers, rooting the most making it stronger, and going up along the way. Still finding different answer on which way they spin so im going with the most natural feeling ( clock wise ) for all of them. By me doing this im hoping it will prepair me for what it is im asking for, i hear it can be intens and some times make you sick if your body is not in good shape or in proper balance. Hopefuly some times early Jan of the new year i can get some thing acomplished with this topic.

Its not a race im taking it one day at a time but if someone can point me or lead me in the right direction that would be greatfull, Thank you for your time.

Peace.

[Bentinho Massaro]

Hey Lone Drifter,

If you want an avatar, you just find yourself a nice picture no bigger than 150 x 150 pixels in size.

Then you go to your "User Control Panel" which can be found in the top-left area of the forum, just below the Header/Logo and below "Board Index"

There you will find 6 horizontally distributed Tabs, of which you click "PROFILE." Once there you will find 4 vertically distributed tabs of which you click "Edit Avatar."

Now you can choose to either enter the URL on which you found the picture, or you can browse your computer for the image. In this case you must have first saved the image of your choice to your computer. If you are having any difficulties, you can PM any one of the TEAM-members for further guidance. You can find them easily by clicking TEAM in the legend on the bottom of the board index (Forum Homepage).

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About Kundalini...

I have studied the subject for some time a few years back and I was into it with great intensity. After which I have to say that all the theories about kundalini and the chakra's are too detailed and delicate for any sane person to fully wrap his head around. You see, the most important knowledge in kundalini, in my opinion, is intuitive knowledge. It's all so personal and subtle that there are too many contradictions one will stumble across when studying kundalini. It's just a very personal matter, colored by culture and personal filtering.

So my advice to you would be to not necessarily drive yourself crazy with this matter. Rather, realize that any such process is in fact a part of nature and can therefore be accessed by an human being in one way or the other, naturally without needing to know anything about it and without even having to know it's name.

There is an interchangeable relationship between the raising of Kundalini and your general 'spiritual' development. In other words: If you mess around or meditate upon the chakra's sufficiently, this will bring about a change in how you see and deal with the world. Similarly if you change the way you see and deal with the world, that which you call chakra's are affected by this process in return. So in my experience there are two main ways to approach the rising Kundalini energy:

1) Meditate according to the best information you can find about it, do the practices as they are described and most of all, relax your desires around this and also trust your intuition! Or...
2) Simply relax your perception, your mind, and be present as the open awareness that you are. Continue to rest yourself as awareness until things become more and more clear and peace becomes natural and evident at all times. Be committed to this simple relaxing of all concepts.

I would suggest the second approach since it does not require any sophisticated knowledge nor does it require years of meditation and concentration. Also, the second approach is not dangerous to your body and mind, since you will be as open and present as you are capable of being. There is nothing you can over-do when all you do is simply relax your mind again and again and realize the perfect presence of awareness in which all endeavors are resolved and understood.

It's the most natural, easiest, quickest and most all-encompassing way I know of and have experienced. Kundalini as a phenomenon will also be overseen - with great clarity - to be simply another human creation/phenomenon occurring within perfect present open awareness. All thoughts and feelings you are having in regard to Kundalini, are included in awareness. If you rest as that simple Seeing, and start to rely on that and that alone as your primary source of inspiration and knowledge, you will be more than fine and your understanding will start to include the creation of kundalini. Additionally, all the things that you wish to get out of a Kundalini awakening will be satisfied in due time, naturally and gradually.

Love,
Bentinho.

[netrage]

Om Tat Sat,

It is very interesting that I just got into this topic right now, I have just posted a similar note on another discussion (you can check my posts) about how un-informed arcticles and people are troubling innocent human beings and fooling them into quick Kundalini awakening.

My friend, if I were to help you, I would say, please meditate and calm your mind , that will yield enough knowledge to make your life blissfull and peaceful.
Kundalini is an ancient science which was passed by masters to desciples verbally after the master made desciples attain quiet a substantial level on spiritual upliftment, it was forbidden to even talk about it before a certain level because the masters then realized associated risk to human life as chances of going in wrong a lot higher than chances of making it right moreover it will take you long long years and in some cases many lives.

Don't fall into web texts, and so called masters who will awaken your kundalini in 1 day , that is all I will say, those who know it wont tell you and those who will tell you wont know it, I can only say that 1 in a million will try for it, another 1 in million among those who will try for it will reach at some level, and another 1 in another million of those who reach some level will attain it in onez lifetime.

God bless you.