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| Posted By: |
Jim |
| Date: |
17-Apr-2000 |
| Subject: |
Desires |
We find ourselves born into the world. At first, our interactions with others are based strictly on the movement of energy. Slowly we come to terms with our physical environment. We learn to move our bodies in a controlled manner and to communicate using speech and gestures. But underneath it all lies energy of life; the energy that we were born with; the energy that continues to circulate through our bodies.
There are different chakras that lie within our energy bodies. These chakras are doorways that allow us to tap into certain energies. A series of these chakras lie along our spine. These chakras are very important to our ability to perceive. There are 7 of them. The lowest or root chakra is related to very basic instinctual energies of individual survival. The second is related to the energies of sex and procreation. The third spans the ranges of most of our emotions. The fourth, the heart center is related to balance, love and happiness. The fourth, the throat center is related to beauty. The fifth, the third eye, is related to wisdom and the last is the crown center, which is related to enlightenment and samadhi.
Our life energy, called kundalini in Sanskrit, moves up and down along our spine and our ability to perceive the world is based upon where this kundalini currently resides. The difference between a ‘holy’ man who views all of life as God and enlightenment and a serial killer who views all of life from a very closed and selfish perspective is in where their kundalini lies amongst these chakras. The ability to hold your energy at the level of the heart is enough to make you a saint in the eyes of most people in this world.
So, what does that mean about most of the people around you? What does that mean about the people who taught you how to use energy when you were growing up? If we seek to be happy it is necessary to look at what the people of this world are doing with their energy in order to understand why they are not happy. Then we must act within ourselves to change our behavior so that we do not make the mistakes that they are making.
Let me take one example. The physical act of sex is very pleasurable. But the energies that are associated with it are coming from the second chakra. If we become attached to the pleasure of sex and allow our actions to be guided by a need to satisfy this attachment then we are bringing our kundalini to this level. To the level of the second chakra. The desire has focused our attention on the second chakra and away from the balance and happiness that we could experience at the heart center.
So, a man and a woman get together for a date. The woman has been raised to search for a man who will marry her. She needs someone who can help her raise the children that the womb within her was created to produce. She understands the long term commitment that sex entails not only on an intellectual level but also on a very deep physical level because her womb goes through the process of building and preparing for new life on a monthly cycle that she has experienced since puberty. The guy understands the concept of marriage and he knows that the woman has a monthly period. But lets face it, he doesn’t have any first hand experience with the deep seated biological force of creation that is at work within a woman’s body on a monthly basis so how can he truly understand her? Our societies’ taboos can even prevent these two from discussing her reproductive cycles for far into their relationship, if at all.
So, getting back to our hypothetical man and woman. They are both a little attracted to each other but they both have it under control. Lets suppose that they are living fairly content and successful lives. As the conversation progresses over a glass of wine they begin to get to know each other. The woman starts to open up to the guy and wonder if he could be the one who will marry her and fulfill this dream of hers. The guy, thinking that she has nice breasts (desire) begins to forget about his long term goals. She senses his interest and, wanting to keep him in her life for a long time (desire), decides to take a little of the kundalini that is within her womb and she projects it at him. Now, the womb is made to create life. It has the potential to run vast amounts of kundalini through it. Guys don’t have one. Unless they meditate they simply don’t get to experience this level of kundalini flow on a regular basis. So if a woman projects kundalini from her womb at a guy who desires it his energy level is going to get quickly drawn straight to the seat of sexual energy which is the second chakra. His ability to intellectualize his own long term goals now begins to decline as he gets trapped by his current desire. These people have just started building their relationship based on sex and the energy of the second chakra.
Who knows where the story will go from here. Perhaps their desire for sex will lead them into her bed at the end of the evening. But in the morning, with the desire quenched, what will happen. Maybe the guy will remember that while he was secretly admiring her breasts and nodding his approval of them she had been talking about the seven kids that she wants to have. Maybe she will realize that she has just opened up her body to a man who is never going to call her again. No matter how balanced and happy these people were yesterday, their desires can separate them from it in a few hours or moments. Or perhaps from this date will come a long term romance and they will spend many years together. But as long as they continue to base their romance on desires there is the chance that one of them will desire something that the other cannot fulfill and separation will result. Even if they manage to work out all of their differences there will still come a day when one of them will die, leaving the other alone. In short, the world of desires demands that we move our energy to a point that is somewhere below the heart. It demands that we move away from balance and happiness in order to attain the object of our desire. It demands that we give up the very happiness that we all want so very much.
Of course, being repulsed by the things of this world offers as many problems as being attached to them. Repulsion causes isolation and separation. How can you love another if you find a part of them repulsive? How can you love yourself if you find a part of yourself repulsive? Being repulsed by the energies of the second chakra binds you to them as surely as being attached to them.
We can of course run away from the world. There is a stage in a beings evolution, as they cycle through many, many lives gradually learning about life, when it is appropriate for them to withdraw from the world and seek the shelter of a monastery. There are time within our current life when we may find that it is appropriate to draw back from the world in order to develop ourselves. But drawing back into ourselves for a time of development is different from running away. When we run from our desires and aversions they do not go away. Rather they remain dormant and ready to crop up again at a later date. You may be able to bring your energy up into your heart center and live with it there in your seclusion. But there will always be the danger that something will come along and upset your equilibrium by pressing upon your desires.
So how can one live in this world of confusion and be happy? How can one find balance and love in this world? The secret is to let go of your desires and aversions. Find activities to do that inspire you and then follow them with heart. Look within yourself and come to understand who you are. There are no easy answers to this question. If you want your life to be extraordinary then you are going to have to look within yourself and make the changes necessary to make it happen. Over the next few weeks I will try to present some of the solutions that I have found. I invite you to follow along with me. These posts are just my ideas on the subject. I invite you to make comments and suggestions.
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