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Mamaki Rising


Jeroen van Valkenburg

Mamaki raised Schäfer from his bed of sand and, taking his hand, led him into the deep recesses of Akshobhya’s domain. They arrived at a precipice over which Schäfer viewed a large waterfall that spiraled downwards into an icy blue-mist. As if lifted upon the wings of the air his body came to rest directly beneath the cascading water as its tremendous torrents rushed down and over his startled frame. Naked, his body soon became one with the powerful and incessant flow of the water and its accompanying sound that pierced him to his very core. A soothing female voice clarified that his lifeforce was becoming energized with prana (Qi) and that soon he would become part of the cosmic-ocean of mahaprana. Soon he awakened to the realization that he was not some separate and isolated persona bobbling about in the raging sea of samsara, but was indeed raised to a higher frequency of awareness (bodhipower). With this quantum-cognizance it was as if he was AT-ONE-MENT with the force of the water that at first chilled-him to the bone. Now he was able to generate great quantities of inner-heat that enhanced his inner-strength and vitality.  read more

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(24) Vibration

The basis for the sanskrit language is that sound, made up by vibrations, equals energy.

Once a practitioner connects with the energy-field regulating breath (prāṇa), a heightened awareness power arises which then makes it possible to expand with the “body” of this field (riding the wave of spirit) hence sensing the constitution of the room, surrounding people, plants and even spirits. This then leads towards realization that it (samsara) is all of One Energy, one vibration, originating from the One Mind, e.g. your true nature before your parents were born. read more

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Tozen: Dharma from the other shore…3

Master, please explain the difference between Enlightenment and practice [of it],…and the difference between Prajna and Prana?” read more

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