<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zJ8keMayk1IwdzKV4u7Z1pDxqJcils3N/preview" width="100%" height="80" allow="autoplay"></iframe> We'll do it. Smough, manala. Thank you. 祈祷 Satsang with Mooji Satsang with Mooji So we'll start with the meditation. I know you're pretty squished together in here, but try and find your own nice seated space. Get yourself into a comfortable position and then don't move the body at all. The idea of meditation is that you leave your gross outer body behind, and you can't do that if you're still moving it, you know, because it pulls you right back into the gross body. So get comfortable and then let your body fall still. Close your eyes and focus on the very tip of your nose. Watch the air as it flows out and then back into the body. Thank you. Thank you. Use this beginning practice of watching the breath to focus the mind onto a single point. Then see your body now on the outside is made of light, nothing but light, immaculate, beautiful. Inside the body completely hollow. You can see it filled like the color of the blue sky or filled with a rainbow. inside this outline of light. Go all the way from the top of your head down to the toes of your feet and see inside everything empty, hollow. Then there is a beautiful channel made of red light, translucent. and golden red it's running all the way from your Mumadhar Chakra up to the Chakra at the tip of your head. It is about the size of a large drinking straw but clear you can see through it. So it travels straight all the way down from the tip of your head to the base of your spine where then it curves slightly. See it from the outside and then shrink yourself down and travel inside this tube of light. Thank you. At the lower opening of this channel is a red drop, whose nature is fire? Thank you. Simply focusing on this drop gathers the links there to that door. At the upper opening of this tube of blood is a white drop at the tip of the head inside channel. This nature is bliss. The red trap at the base of this tube travels upwards until it rests just above the base of the spine at the level of the swadhisthana chakra for those of you who know. It's about two inches above your tailbone. and it starts to get blown. so the drop becomes a flame that with each breath burns ever higher through the channel you are down inside them tube of light with this flame so every exhale becomes the wind that makes the fire blaze hotter The heat from your flame starts to rise up to the level of the heart, then the level of tone. The way it reaches the white drop at the tip of the head, which starts to melt down. The drop melts down the inside of the tube of light. When it reaches the level of the throat, you have bliss. When it reaches the level of the heart, you have great voice. more places of earth, more elements, melts down, it falls from the heart to the navel. You are the incredible bliss. And as it falls down to reach the plane, Your mind turns towards emptiness. All the bliss you feel has no nature of its own. He's not coming from your body, it's not coming from your winds, it's not coming from the drop, It's not coming from the fire. It is simply a mental image. Forced on you. By what you've done in the past. And there's nothing beyond that. Your mind is completely a wash in bliss and it's a bliss that doesn't exist. Okay, you can open your hands. So, you might not grasp the full meaning of that meditation, but it's a good seed to plant. Verse 64. Pranapan nao nada bindi mula bhantena chaykatam gatva yogasya sansagin yachatdo natra sansraya. The root lock makes the life wind and the wind of illumination as well as the inner sound and the drop of consciousness become one. With this, the yogi comes to the final attainment. Of this there is no doubt. So we're still on Mula Bandha, right? In the verse it says Mula Bandena. You know the word prana? You know a lot of the words in this verse. You know prana? It's the life wind at the heart. We talked about it yesterday. And Apana, which is the downward-throwing wind at the lower area of the body. Nada, what's Nada? Inner sound. What's Bindu? What is it in the verse? Drop of consciousness. Right. Chaykatam is cha-ekatam, which is, it means as one, it becomes as one, right? So you can read the entire first half of this verse all by yourself, without even knowing most of the Sanskrit. You know all the Sanskrit words, right? Okay. I like to encourage the Sanskrit every once in a while. It's a blessing for your mind. So, we were talking about the root lock, the mulubanda, and the reason we use it, which is... Reverse the flow of the downward moving wind, the apana vayu, right? the main problem with all of these winds and channels and chakras lies in our heart you know the two side channels wrap around the central channel and choke it but at the you know at every single chakra point you know and that's what a chakra is It's like these choke points of the two sides challenge. But the one at the heart, we'll talk about that more, but the one at the heart has three knots, you know, and it's the hardest one to open. And it actually, it divides the body into two halves. So, like, it forces the life wind to stay at the level of the heart and above. And it forces the downward moving wind to stay at the level of the heart and below. It's like this great big knot that doesn't allow the passage of prana upwards or downwards from it. So then we've got two separate halves of our body, you know. You could call it like the male half and the female half. You could say the male half is at the top and the female half is at the bottom. And so there's a division. And that's why this is talking about something becoming one. You know, there's a problem with the division of the two winds in our body. And there's a problem with the division of the... You know, you can divide the body into left and right, in which you have male and female energies. Or you can divide the body into top and bottom, in which you have male and female energies. But either way, they're separated. Either way, there's this friction, there's this division. and so the practices of Mula Bandha and the rest of the mudras that we're going to do all entail reversing the downward clearing wind up reversing the left wind down and letting them come together somehow and merge into one either at the level of the navel or at the level of the heart and then something really amazing and special happens when they do So, the life wind is considered the wind of wisdom. The downward moving wind, the apanavai, is considered the wind of love. Or, you could say the wind of method. You find it in scriptures in different ways. But method usually means compassion and love, external activities of helping others. So we get this combination of wisdom and love. And it's essential that the two are combined. Even in our external practice, it's essential that the two are combined. You could think of the Apana Vayu and the Prana Vayu as just physical representations of your wisdom and your love. But by themselves, they're not complete. What happens if you have wisdom without love? So you're sitting around, meditating on emptiness, and you think, I don't have to worry about this war where everybody's getting killed and people's families are being ripped apart and people's country is totally destroyed and my country is at fault in this. I don't have to worry about that because I'm in deep meditation on emptiness. And I don't have to deal with the pain of other people around me. I'm just going to avoid it. I'm just not going to think about it because I have wisdom. I have emptiness. And I'm just going to go and meditate. And there's a problem with that. There's a problem with that. You won't get very far in your wisdom if your heart is completely locked. You know, because it's the heart opening that allows the wisdom to flow through your body. Because the wisdom channel is the central channel. And if the heart is blocked, like literally physically blocked and tied and knots, then the wisdom won't be able to flow in that channel. So, wisdom needs method. Wisdom needs love. What happens if you have love without wisdom, though? Which is what normally happens, you know, with people. I have to do something to stop the war. I have to do something to stop the pain. I've got to go and stand at the front lines of the war and, like, you know. It becomes impossible to help people. If you have love without wisdom, it becomes impossible to help people because you think that things are happening outside of you. You think that the war is happening outside of you. So you have to do something external to stop it. And there's not enough of you. Like you're just one little person and there's this whole huge big war and like how are you going to stop it? Like how are you going to like stand at the front lines and say no more fighting? Is it going to work? Now tell me, is it going to work? probably not I mean the first Pantan Lama did it but I don't know he did it after a very long meditation it's true but it seems impossible if we have love without wisdom it seems impossible to help people because we just don't have enough of us to go around but if we understand that every single thing in the world that we see around us, all the pain, all the fighting, it's all coming from ourselves. Like it's all a projection from our own mind. You can have so much love for people and say, God, I'm going to do anything I can to stop this pain. And what I need to do is go inside. What I need to do is stop my own violence in my own heart and all the all the ripples that I'm making of pain and violence and suffering in my own heart and that will stop the war and then a single person has the power to change everything you know um and then you can actually use your love to help people so like with either case you If you have wisdom and not love, you won't do anything to help people. You're going to just sit there not caring. Like, yeah, maybe you know about emptiness, but you're not going to use it to help you. But then with love without wisdom, you're powerless. You've got so much in your heart, and you're like, God, I want to help them, but I don't know how. But then you put it together. You put wisdom and love together, and it's like you're invincible. You can do anything. You can change your entire world. You can elect a new president. You can, you know, right? Good job, guys. Good job. Yay. I don't know. When that day, when he was elected, it was like, we were talking about it. It was like the whole country was in joy. It was like this big ripple. We were in the middle of the desert, Diamond Mountain, you know, And still we felt it. I bet it was wild here. In New York, I bet it was like insane. But even in the desert, we felt all this joy of the whole country and the whole world. Like something is shifting for the better. Something really positive and powerful. And you did that. Your own seeds. Your own practice. And you can't think anything less. Or you're not going to be able to help people. Like, you caused that to happen. You know? And that's method and wisdom. That's love and wisdom combined. And that's what we're trying to do when we get the prana vayu and the apana vayu to merge within our bodies. It's a metaphorical example. It's a physical representation of combining love and wisdom within our heart. And then, what actually happens when we, you know, work really hard inside, and we force the, you know, sun tap, we use forceful means to push the prana vayu and the apana vayas together, inside the central channel, inside the heart. A dissolution happens. You actually see the mental images that there are, all the mental images you see around you, your entire world. It's all coming from the chakra inside your heart. It's, they're all projections. You know, everything you see, everything you hear, everything you sense, smell, taste, touch, it's all a projection. Right? When the winds start to gather in the central channel at the heart, you watch your projections start to collapse inside. Like everything starts to dissolve. You watch the entire world, which is your entire world, which is the only world that exists. You watch it just start to collapse inside, inside of you, and withdraw within. It's a very, very powerful experience. And everything withdraws into this drop at the heart. First, you get the winds into the central channel. Then you pull the winds up through the central channel into the heart chakra. And then, you know, everything collapses into the heart. Even your own body, you know. It's a deceptive reality. This is also a projection, right? That's why we can change the body into light. That's why we don't have to live with this dying, decaying, flesh-and-blood-heavy, gross, ugly body. We can change it into something else. Because it's also a projection, and it also collapses when we bring the two winds into the heart, into the central channel. You could call it the drop of consciousness. You know, at the Bindu, that's what they're talking about in the verse. sometimes they call it the drop of spring when all the winds have collected inside this tiny drop at the heart everything has dissolved then you go into the clear light what they call the clear light then you see emptiness directly then you are forced into a completely different reality the ultimate reality the true reality the reality that's around us all the time but we never see and once you have entered into that reality it is only a very short period of time until you change into an angel of light. Because you've witnessed every single thing in your entire world including your own body including what you call you to be just a mental image just a projection. And you've witnessed the collapse of it. And you've entered into the truth. And then once you've tasted that truth, once you've known it, you can't think of the world in the wrong way anymore. It might still appear to you as coming from out there. But you will know. You will know the president was elected because of something you did. And nobody could convince you otherwise. You know, once you see this. And then it becomes really fun. Because then you just start to change your reality. You know, you have the gift, you have the key to start really changing your world. In a radical, quick way. Using these high practices of tantra. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Verse 66, chapter 3. When the wind of illumination begins to move up, it incites the disk of fire. This thing creates a long tongue of flame fueled by the wind. I'm just going to read the English. When the fire and the wind of illumination become like this, then the life wind too burns the same. And with this spreads the light of incredible flame throughout the body as well. And the next verse, This then heats the sleeping inner serpent as she awakens. Hissing like a snake struck with a stick, she straightens out her form. So Lama Christi already covered this. I'll tell you the names for it. In Tibetan it's called bardzak. Say bardzak. Bardzak. Bar means to burn. Zak means to drip. And this is a very famous practice in the yoga tradition as it came into Tibet. So some practices survived longer in Tibet than in India, like Bhardzak. And then some practices, like some asanas, survived longer in India than in Tibet, right? So it's very nice to have both. We're reuniting two lineages that got separated exactly a thousand years ago. So you see all the elements in the verse, right? I think one word you need to know is mandala. You see, mandala, related to the word mundane, right? Or mundo in Spanish, right? It means the world, right? So mandala is the old word for the world because the world was seen as a disk, as a flat disk. So mandala means a flat disk. The sun was seen as a mandala, the moon was seen as a mandala. And then it came to mean a perfect world. But in the study of the inner body, mandala means when you get a red element in the lower part of the body, blazing and flaming up, that disk of fire is called a mandala also. So that's a mandala in the verse. And then as it grows up the central channel, a straight flame, visualize it as a flame. And then there's white element at the top that Lama Christi will talk about. And that melts down. And then according to the text, I mean, what you saw here was there will be some awakening of the inner serpent, right? Kundalini. In Tibetan they call it sandali. Say sandali. Which is the Sanskrit. It's the more pure Sanskrit. Sandali means it's the same root or candle or incense it's all the same root sandba to burn to blaze and then the kundalini straightens right they say that the inner serpent straightens out and I read all these strange like descriptions about oh you know she's like three inches long and then she gets like four feet long and she might bite you or something I don't know There are lots of strange, strange descriptions of this process, of the straightening of Kundalini, right? The opening of the central channel. So what would it feel like? What would it really be like? Do you see a snake? Or is it metaphorical and you have some kind of wind coming up your channel? What is Kundalini? How does it waken when it straightens as if hit with a stick, right? We did it sometimes in three-year retreat. We had rattlesnakes. Sometimes we had three or four in the yard at the same time. And you try to throw them out with an agave scoop, you know, just like an eight-foot pole that you wouldn't touch them with, right? And there's this art to it where you get under them and you flip them over the fence, you know, it's a seven-foot fence, and you try not to have them land on you, you know. And then they straighten up right away. You hit them with a stick, and they straighten up. They can go over the fence, seven-foot fence. They just straighten up all the way and then they'd flop over, you know? And what does it mean when it straightens? So I'm going to tell you a story about straightening of a kundalini. So I was living in a house. I don't know, I was finishing college. And I had gone to Dharamsala. I had studied with many great lamas. And I had come back to finish my degree, right? Because the Dalai Lama told me personally you have to finish your degree. and I said, no, I want to stay here and he said, you have to go back to the United States and you have to finish your degree I had like six months left, right? and he said, no, you have to leave, you have to go back and so I came back and I didn't have a place to stay so I I used to help at the Christian church at my college so I I decided, I will ambush the priest minister, right? And I will talk him into staying in their house, because they had a three-story foundation house. And they weren't using the upper story. And I knew that. So I said, I'll ambush him. Then he just walked into the room one day. And I sat down, and we had a coffee. And then I said, gee, I need a place to stay. And I don't know where I'm going to stay. And then he said, well, we have an extra floor at the foundation. And I'm like, okay. And then he said, but you have to, you'll have to be the nanny for the two kids. So I said, well, I don't have any money, I'll be the nanny. And so he said, just two days a week, you have to be nanny for the kids, and then you can stay in the house. And that was the deal. And you can use the washing machine on Thursdays and stuff like that. And then, so I stayed in the house with their family. And I remember when I was working really hard on Barzak, on Kundalini. And so one day I came down to the living room on the bottom floor. It's a very beautiful study that has been there 100 years or 150 years. It's covered with beautiful books, you know, holy books, and all paneled and wood and beautiful place, you know, like Princeton, you know. And so I was sitting there, and the boy, the young boy, there's two boys, you know, And he's like five. And he's the troublemaker one. There's one sweet one who later played... What do you call it? Christmas girl. He was the star. What do you call it? I don't remember. I don't remember. Anyway, he was the star. He was the good kid. The older kid was the bad kid. And so the bad kid comes up to me. And he says, I've got to show you something. Mike, you know, and I'm like, okay. and he gets a piece of paper and the other kids in the dining room watching TV and I can hear they're watching what do you call it? The Wizard of Oz the annual Wizard of Oz and then the kids he very carefully draws a marble on the paper and by the way when Kundalini is rising in your body you're sitting up straight all the time. Sakyapandita said that. No, it's true. When Kundalini is rising in your body, you just have this desire to sit up straight all the time. Perfect ramrod, west point, edge of the chair straight. You're always straight. Because Kundalini is rising. So anyway, I'm sitting there, and he draws a marble, perfect marble on this, big marble. And then he gets a camera. and he's like five years old and he goes click and I said that's cool you know and then he opens the the film the place where the film is and there's a marble in there and he takes it out and he goes like day. Then he says, come with me. And we go into the dining room and the Wizard of Oz is over. And he's behind the curtain pretending to be this wrathful guy. And then the dog Toto I don't know, you know, he drags the curtain to the side. And so the wizard gets busted. And then the tin man is standing there, right? But you said, you know, you said you're a wizard. You said you could give me love, you know. So the younger brother is saying, sit down, Mike, look at this. And then the wizard explains to the tin man that he always had love, right? You always had it. And I didn't give it to you. It was just inside of you. And I am a faith. So, I think, if your Kundalini rises, it's not impossible that the world around you would shift slightly and that people all around you would be teaching you about emptiness about where things come from and about love and I think if your kundalini rose I think you might be having special experiences in your life that don't have anything to do with your you know, with being in in a certain asana you see what I mean? so I think you have to be open to think that the rising of kundalini might affect your whole life and every experience you're having around you. You see? It will make your body straighter. But then radical changes will occur in your life. Right around you. With supposedly normal people. And that's the rising of Kundalini. ¿Ok? So, Some of these practices found in the third chapter, like the one we just talked about, some of them have to do with just sitting down in meditation on your own and visualizing certain things happening inside your inner body. Other practices, and these are going to be covered in the next couple of days, have to do with working with an outside partner in order to induce the same kind of things within your inner body. And I don't know. In this society, there are really strange cultural mores around that. And so, before we get into those weird verses of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika that some people don't even... Like, some people have actually taken those verses out of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika and printed books without it because they said, oh, these are impure verses or something like that, you know? And it's because they weren't fully explained and they weren't trained in the practices and they didn't quite understand what was being talked about. So what we're hoping in addressing this is that just to talk a little bit about what we're going into now and mainly talk about the motivation for these other verses, you know. Like, there will be some really, I don't know, strange stuff maybe you've never seen before. And to put it in perspective in your mind, like, what's the reason that Master Swatma Rama, after writing about yoga asanas, after writing about pranayama, after writing about all those kriyas, after writing about all those different mudras, he puts in something about practice with a partner. Why does he do this? And why is it in the place that it is within his book? It's again what we were talking about, this wisdom and love. I went home to see my family a year ago, And my dad, his heart was having trouble. And, like, I don't know, two out of the four valves of his heart stopped working. And he had to get it artificially started again. And then, like, you know, they just, like, do some sort of electric thing. And then if it works, it's okay. And if not, they have to put you on all these drugs. And, like, I don't know. It was really disturbing to me because my parents are always, like, untouchable. You know, these beings that took care of me. And then now the situation is reversed and they're getting older and my mom starts to get diabetes. And then all this stuff is happening to the people I love. I'm seeing them in pain and I'm seeing them start to die, really. And I love them. And I want to help them more than I even want to help myself. Like I can deal with my own pain. I'm sort of in denial about my own pain. I'm like, yeah, yeah, pain's pain. But if I see people I love, you know, really, really hurting, that just braced my heart. And that just makes me want to work so hard in my practice to help them. It's like, okay, I love you. I love you, Mom. I love you, Dad. I'll do anything to help you. You know, I'll do anything. And then, you know, you start studying the scriptures. And you start learning about, well, what's the different ways you could help your parents, you know? What's the different ways you could help the people that you love around you? And once you get to the higher teachings, they level with you. They say, you know, actually, working with your inner body and emptiness is the very fastest way to help people. Because it's the fastest way that you yourself can change into a holy angel. And that's the only way you can truly help another person, is by changing yourself, is by evolving into the being you're supposed to be yourself first. So then you can really help people. And of all the methods of working with your inner body and channels and working with emptiness, the very fastest way is with a partner. So, if you were somebody who really loved the people around you, and if you were somebody who really wanted to stop your own parents' pain, as quickly as you possibly could, you would have to learn this practice. You would be driven to learn this practice. And you would be obligated to practice it to the best of your capacity. As soon as you could, because you love them. Because they need you. Because they're waiting for you. And because you're the only one who can save them. In your world, you know. It's all coming from you. So, this practice, the practice of working with an external partner, is the most powerful way to affect your inner winds and channels. And it's also a very, very powerful way to open your heart, you know, and learn how to love somebody. And learn how to get real devotion in your heart. And it's also the best, fastest way to trigger the direct perception of emptiness. Because it's so powerful, you know, your inner body and the winds, The practice of the winds are so powerful. But you do need to be trained. You do need to have a lot of training in order to practice this. And you need to learn how to meditate. You need to learn how to get your mind on a single point when you're watching your breath without it leaving and going to somebody else in the room or going out the door or going to your house. Like it needs to be here for a good period of time. in order for you to be able to practice higher teachings like that. And then you need to learn how to, you know, you need to study about emptiness a lot. A lot, a lot, a lot. Thousands of hours, you know. So, they call this practice the blissful path to bliss, right? This practice of a partner. because you're, like in the meditation that we did, you're using a state of bliss within your own body and you're using that as your meditative object. And, you know, as the central channel opens, of course it's going to be blissful, you know? Of course. As you start turning into an angel being of light, of course it's going to be blissful. What else did you think was going to happen? You know, they're in total bliss all the time. But it's hard for us to wrap our minds around that. Most of us feel like when we are within that state of bliss, we're not helping other people. That's not a cultural thing that we can grasp very easily. It's hard for us. It's hard for us to realize that putting ourselves in the most blissful situation in the whole world could actually be the most beneficial to every single other being on the planet. But I will tell you something that will maybe make it easier for you to grasp. What happens in the world as your own anger starts to diminish? What happens? The violence in the world starts to decrease. And the anger of the people around you, you stop seeing people angry around you. Right? So if you eradicated anger in your own heart completely, what kind of world would you live in? You would live in a world where there was no violence at all. So, what's the implication of that when we're talking about putting yourself into a state of total bliss? And when you're talking about putting yourself in a state where you understand emptiness better and better and better? Right, right. The world is just a mirror. It makes perfect sense, actually, that to get ourselves in a state, to get ourselves to complete, total, enlightened bliss would be the best thing that the world has ever seen. Because you're going to take them all with you. Right? I mean, if it's true that I can eradicate anger in the world, I can eliminate all violence by eliminating the violence in my own heart, then it's true that putting myself in a state of total bliss will help every single being. Right? You need some training to do it. But, like, that's the basic theory. Like, don't just like, I don't know, love what Christy said. You know, like, don't do that. Don't do that. Like, you have to learn how to do it. But it's the general principle behind these teachings. And it's hard to, it really is hard to wrap our minds around that saving my dad's heart. I could save my dad's heart. I could change my mom's health. problems with her diabetes by, um, by doing a practice that makes me totally happy, you know? Like, usually you think, uh, in order to work for other people, you gotta, like, sweat and slave, and, you know, it's like, yeah, there's some of that too. It's, it's not a, um, partner practice is not easy, you know? And when it comes right down to it, it's not easy. But, uh, but it's, There are those blissful moments. Sometimes in the stress of day-to-day life. You and Farb between. Just kidding. So that's our motivation. When you start to see these weird verses in the next couple of days, Remember, you know, they are written down with the motivation of bringing our own selves to total enlightenment so that we can bring the whole world to enlightenment with us. And keep that in mind so that your mind doesn't go off onto some weird place about them. And, you know, it's not like we are going to be telling you, like, you have to practice them or this or that or the other thing. but we do want to cover all of Master Swatma Rama's verses in the Hatha Yoga Pradipuka to make it a full teaching. And we don't believe in skipping those particular verses. So we will cover them in like a light way, you know? And we just don't want you to freak out and run out the door when we do it. Okay? All right? So, like, just keep in mind that there are very deep practices. They require a lot of training. And the motivation for putting them in that book is totally pure. It's to get to a state of enlightenment as quickly as possible. Okay. "Kantam ākun ca hrdāye sthapayas cibukam dargham bandho jamandara kya yam jaramartya vinasyaka Jara means old age geriatrics this is now reading 2 chapter 3 verse 70 first page of reading 2 which was Tuesday I like the Jara murk dear he's telling you you do this one bandha and you can get rid of Jara which is related to geriatrics meaning old age and mirtyu like mortuary mortal death worth okay so how does Jalandhara do this? let's talk about Jalandhara the Tibetans have an interesting translation for Jalandhara they call it Zalandhara okay Dronunciation, a thousand years ago. It wasn't ja, it was za. Say zalandara. Zalandara. And you see two spellings, which is important, because one is jalanbara and one is jalanbara. And I used to struggle with it, because they mean completely different things. Jala, if you say long a jala, It means a net or a network or a trap, sometimes a trap. A net used as a trap, like that, or a network of light. It's called a java. And then dhara means to hold, right? Like dharma means to hold. The word tree comes from that. The word true comes from that. The word farm comes from that, because they were all holdings or they were firm in the ground. The word true comes from tree. Druid comes from that true vid one who sees the dru but then there's jala like what's ganda jala water from the holy ganges right like you go to Varanasi and people are running up to you they want to charge you 10 rupees for ganda jala they just took out of the ganda you know so jala short aid means water I think, and you see both spellings in the text, and you see both explanations. I think it's jala short A, because it's accusative, jalan. Like, there's a good example in, what's bhujangasana? Bujangasana. What's bhujanga? But what's bhujanga mean? Yeah, bhujangasana means arm. and ga means to go so in Tibetan they call langdo to go on the arm why? because the snake has no arms they travel on their arm you see? they're called bujan ga or langdo in Tibetan to go on the hand so bujan is accusative going on the and you want to say buja anga and it's wrong it's bhujan ja right and it's jalan dara you see so it means to hold the water right that it it holds the water and we'll see later why like this lark or this seal is meant to hold the water some kind of nectar in your body okay jalan dara say jalan dara okay uh to say how to do it? Yeah. Okay. We have three-year retreat, right? Which is a really good time to memorize the text and you don't have anything else to do. And also you can try all the weird bandhas and kriyas and mudras because you've got all day. You've got nothing else to do. You can spend three weeks on jalandhara and you don't feel like stressed at all. Because there's absolutely nothing else to do. Just eat and meditate and explore your inner body. So three years is a really good time for that. Because there's absolutely no stress. Like you've got to get somewhere in a thousand days. You know, so... You know, now you can waste a couple of weeks on Jalandara. And so, you know, I would just say some practical things about my own experience of Jalanda, right? In retreat, because we worked on it for a long time. What you... Jalanda is a chin lock, right? So basically you can think of it as moving your chin to your sternum, right? I like Jiva Mukti, David and Sharon often say, don't lower your chin to your sternum, bring your sternum up to your chin. And that helps a lot. that's a nice advice and then there's this tendency I think with most of us you know when you hold your breath to go underwater you have an underwater contest with your brother and you're like and then you dive under and you see how far you can get try it it's from the neck up it's air in the sinuses, in the cheeks, in the head. Try it. Now, there's a tendency to want to do that with Jalandana. Then you get all this prana, all this physical breath connected to the prana. You don't fill up your chest, you fill up your head, and your sinuses, and your cheeks. And you go, Oh! And then you get these incredible prana headaches. if you haven't had them you'll learn and because the whole thing is wrong the place where the retention is is wrong you're trying to do what with a Jalandhara I'll give you a clue Mula Bandha was to reverse the flow of the downward clearing wind by pressing on the perineum so what's the purpose of Jalandhara? Yeah, to reverse the flow of the prana vayama and try to force it down somehow. So if you get all the air up here and then you go like this, you're just keeping it up. You see what I mean? So you have to think of, for me, what I learned after months of trouble is this very beautiful thing of, it's like in ballet, and they teach you like a plie is only a few inches of movement with your knee, right? Like you're going down just a few inches. But it takes a whole breath, right? So they're drilling into you. Don't go, you know, go match the breath to the movement, right? Even if the movement's only a few inches, you see? So it's harder when it's only a few inches. Like to go from, what is it, Dandasana to Chaturanga or something, to go down in one whole breath, gracefully, is almost impossible for people. You see? To run out of breath when your chest is an inch from the floor or something, instead of going like that and then let the breath out, you know, is very difficult. People can't do it, right? So that's the idea with Jalandara. Try to time the movement of the chin to your exhale. or if you're doing an inhale to the inhale so it would be like this instead of going like it would be something like you see and it's a ballet thing almost But what happens is, the prana gets exactly in the right place for your body. Instead of getting in the head, if you time the breath, try, okay? We'll do an inhale together. On three. E, do, ting. And then it's right, okay? Then it's right. And then the retention or the prana is being held between the throat and the heart. So try to think like that. If you feel a headachy feeling, if you feel a throbbing, they call it nakamkam. Say nakamkam. Nakamkam in Tibetan means prana headache. Kamkam. It means a dry headache. And it's a feeling you get because the prana is being held in the wrong place. So for Jalandhara, you're trying to draw it here, and then trap it, Jalandhara, like that. That's about all I have to say about Jalandhara. Oh, one more thing I was thinking to tell you. I like to do Jalandharas. You can press on your Mula Bandha, right? and both of the Mula Bandhas are reflected in Guruji's first series where? Jumrasya Shasana in the first two of the three Jumrasya Shasanas one is the first method of Mula Bandha which is you're pressing your perineum with the heel or the side of the foot and then one is where you're sitting on the sometimes I sit on the ankle bone you can feel the ankle bone sticking up into your anus and that's the second Mula Bandha so he's got it built into the series but consider that you could do a Mula Bandha and the related Jalandhara how? more cool than that I like to do it the second way I mean what would be a good way to put a lot of pressure on the throat chakra at the back of the middle. A shoulder stand. And then what happens to the downward clearing wind? It's reversed automatically. I like that. I think it's a lot more fun. Gravity's working for you. You don't have to do anything. You don't have to like press your head down or anything like that. So think about that. It's a perfect it's a perfect jalandhara and a mula bandha. much easier for me much easier I can sit there all day and just enjoy it right so think about it okay verse 71 This lock seals the network of channels in the downward flow of rain from the sky. Thus it is the water catcher, and it stops all problems with the flow in the throat. Before we go into the verse, just because I was just looking at all these beautiful Sanskrit verses, there are a couple people in the class who really worked very, very hard to put this reading together. One of them is Andrea Lemon, and she's in the back over there. Raise your hands. She basically laid out all the reading, every single verse in the Sanskrit, and made sure that it was all perfect for you. and wrote the pronunciation for everybody. And it was really, she did an excellent, excellent job. And it's the second time? Third time. It's the third time that she's done it. It's the third course that she's done this for. So please, like, if you see her, thank her. Give her a big hug. We could never have done it without you. So, okay, thank you. and then yeah Lama Maru helped her check it so we didn't have to go through so much anyway so thank you for that who is Andrea's Sanskrit teacher anyway so it's all this nice little marriage and then Ian helped with the key words so I'd like to thank him for that there's a lot of people helping with the homeworks and quizzes and masters Ian's also helping with that or is helping to archive the whole course so that you guys can teach it later once you become YSI certified teachers and you can get all the materials and Narayani and like a bunch of other people are helping to print it every day for you and I just like to thank... Narani and Nicole Sanderson and Mira and Alyssa are helping to get the materials out to you every single day. So I'd like to thank them also. They get it at like one in the morning and they've got to go run around. I know we should wait to thank them all at the end but I just... There's no harm in thanking twice I just really think that you guys should all know who's doing all the work for you and appreciate it. And I think it's important to say that we were turned on to this book in the beginning by David Leifenshire Gannon. And they're not here, but we'd like to thank you. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't know if you know, but John Brady, Christina, they have, ACIP has a project at Kaivalya Dham. which is the oldest traditional yoga school in there. And they're inputting like 20,000 Sanskrit texts on yoga. And so we have 17 editions of the Hatha Yoga Padivaka to work from. So that's because of their kindness. So thank you. Okay. After that little tangent. So, this is talking about kanta. Say kanta. Kanta. Kanta means the throat in Tibetan. It's Jympa, and that's your key word for the day. And we're going to talk about the throat chakra, which is, I don't know, it's a little bit of a review for you guys, but it's fun anyway. So, throat chakra in Sanskrit is called Vishuddha chakra. Shud, do you know Shuda? It means pure, right? It's from a root, Shud, which means to purify. That originally came from the words Fad, which means sweet. And you get the English word sweet and persuade and hedonistic. All these things relate to pure, right? then V means very much then in Tibetan what's the throat chakra called? some of you in this class have got to know chakra experience, that's the English it's the English translation of the Tibetan I was not looking for that, I was looking for the actual Tibetan And if anyone knows it, you can just feel free, shout it out. Thank you. Long Choo Ki Korlo. Say Long Choo. Long Choo Ki. Ki. Korlo. Korlo. And that means chakra of experience. Why do they call it chakra of experience? Because in the most basic sense, this is where we experience the different tastes of our food. You know? Then, the reason they call it the chakra of purity, you know, is because this is where you take all the food and you separate, the body separates the dross from the pure essence of the food. And it then, from the throat chakra, starts to deliver the pure essence of the food to the rest of the body. it's the purifying, you know, it's like the level of where the food passes and it gets purified, the essence. They call it dhamma in Tibetan, the purified essence. It's a beautiful word. Gets distributed to all the different cells throughout the body and then the rest of it goes down and gets eliminated, right? So this is the point in which that happens. And that's why they call it the Vishuddha Chakra. The Vishuddha chakra or the longchukkola in Tibetan is connected as the people who came with us in some panchosa with a certain angel, which is Amitabha. Amitabha. And what is Amitabha's specialty? Amitabha is the angel that purifies our ignorant desire. And there's a connection between the chakra and the throat and the nanis or the channels that run within our legs. As we saw some of you in the series. I know some of you are learning this week, the Tibetan Heart Yoga Series 7. So you'll start to talk about that. how there is a connection between the chakra at the throat, which relates to purifying your ignorant desire, and the specific channels in your legs that also relate to maybe where you hold all your ignorant desire, and how to purify that. So, the Shuddha chakra, how many petals does it have? 16. Thank you. What does it mean when we say petals? I mean, I don't know if everybody in this audience knows. The, um, the, we'll talk about how the side channels wrap around the central channel, But that creates a knot, and that makes certain channels kind of poke out, like, from that area. From that knot, like, it's because of that tension between the three channels. Like, other channels start to shoot out. And, like, the first four channels will shoot out in these directions, and then four will shoot up from there. And then, like, a channel, you know. Eight more shit out from those. I can add, okay. And then you get 16. And all the chakras are kind of like little umbrellas. So, like, the chakra at the tip of the head, the spokes of the wheel, which we call petals, but really they're channels, you know, that come out from the knots. The ones at the top of the head, they turn slightly down. And then the ones at the throat, they turn slightly up. Right? So they kind of, this area kind of forms a network. And actually the channels go out farther than just those, you know, you just see them as pictured like this, you know. The reason that they're pictured, all these pretty petals, it's from a point of view of maybe looking down through the central channel from the tip of your head that's when you would see them and they would look like these pretty little channel petals really they're like spokes and they come out all the way to the ends of your body and beyond, I mean if you want to say that you're creating the entire world I mean your channels go beyond that but that's a little bit much for today But, no, they, so, they start from all the crucial points at your body, from all these different chakras, and then they spread, and that's what created your entire body, right? The chakras came first, the channels and chakras came first, and then the body formed around it, like an outer shell, around all these networks of channels. So it's very interesting to start at the source of your body and learn the different chakras and how they were formed and what they look like. Because it's this essential part of you and what makes you up. So Vishuddha chakra is triangular, which is to say if you were staring from the tip of your head and you look down at it, the shape of the petals as they came out of it, the shape of the channels would roughly look triangular in shape as they branched out. Versus like the one at the tip of the head, which looks roughly round in shape, right? As it branches out. And we're going to talk about the red and white elements, but this particular chakra has a predominance of red element. And this particular chakra is also the chakra that's related to the dream state. So if you wanted to fall into some kind of semi-conscious, dream-like state, one practice in the Tibetan text and the Indian text sources as well, say you could focus on this chakra, on this particular chakra, and you could drop your consciousness down to it, And then that will give you a certain different kind of consciousness. It's like a dream state consciousness, which is useful for certain types of meditation. Like you could go into a dream state consciousness, but still maintain your awareness. And that would be a desirable thing. And we're sort of training someone in that, with certain meditations at Diamond Mountain. We're having fun with that. What else do I have to talk to you about? This is an exciting throat chakra. It's related to when we do om ah hum. You know, the chakra at the throat is related to the ah, which is enlightened speech. So, if you were thinking about being a teacher, you know, you'd want to, for instance, like work a little bit on your throat chakra. And like, so that the wisdom that you had in your heart would be able to flow out better. And that's what they say is the most valuable quality of an enlightened being. Like, if you met an enlightened being, the thing you'd want to bow down to most about them is their ability to teach you, right? Their ability to pass on the knowledge from their heart to yours, and they can only do that through their speech, right? So that's, like, the most valuable thing. So, you know, when you are thinking about yourself, maybe in the future, as that holy enlightened angel, sometimes stop and think about how, like, what it would feel if your throat chakra was completely open, and you had this power of divine speech. Like, what would that be like? To have wisdom pour out effortlessly from your mouth, to every living being in exactly the way that they needed to hear it at exactly the time they needed to hear it. It's a beautiful city. It's a beautiful quality, spiritual quality to have. And that's all encased in the throat chakra. Okay. We're going to take a break. I have two small announcements. And if you're having a class, and you're teaching a class in the next month or two, and you'd like us to announce that, please feel free, okay? But there's a Shantideva on Wisdom, ninth chapter, most difficult subject in the universe. Anabal Chisholm has the, has the, what do you call it, courage to take it on. And she'll be teaching it Friday, December 12th, Saturday, December 13th, Sunday the 14th, and Monday the 15th. You don't have to come to the mall. It's free. It's at the three jewels in the evening. And Venerable Ningbo, who's right here, is offered to teach Buddhist Debate, a crash course on murdering ignorance, at the New York Center for Alexander Technique on Broadway. And that'll be November 23rd, Sunday, 7 to 8.30. And that's also free by donation. So those are both out there and you can pick them up. Yeah. Yesterday we were... I know. Oh, okay. Maybe that? Thank you. I just wanted to make sure. Yeah. We have to get the C-A-K-E ready. You're too S-L-O-W, Anatole. Anatole and I are great. Let's talk about something else. We're on the same time. Right. Anatole. We quit, quit. Let's start. Oh. Can I have an announcement? Can I make an announcement? We have an announcement. We have a vital, important announcement. Oh, the suspense. all those of you who have Vajray Gini initiation have to talk to Rob Haggerty before he leaves tonight that's all that's it? that's the vital order if you're in Austin of the week of December 5th you want to catch where's Kelly? Kelly Roadhouse is doing a Tibetan Heart Yoga training. If you want to know the schedule for ACI New York, these are all, these are 18 different courses that we study in the monastery for 20 years. And they are doing them in New York City for free. So if you want to turn out like us, That was a joke That was a joke You can pick up one of these schedules Outside? Right? Yes Yeah Okay Alright Alright we're going to do a little more actual class British debate We finished that Okay Dve na gyaos tamvay durdam Madhya chakram miram zneyam Verse 73 Shoda shabdara bandhanam It's page 5 of your reading. This same contraction of the throat, meaning Zalandara firmly. One then gains an experience of that middle center for it locks the seat of the sixteenth. What's the seat of the sixteenth? Yeah, Lava Kristi just covered it, okay? It's the Vishuddha chakra or the long chukki korda. I wanted to talk about freezing up the two side channels. Those of you who have the Vajrayogiri initiation, you're doing this eight verses, right? Om Stam Mani Mohani Okay? that stump bunny came into English as stump and it means thick thick and thick like a stump in the ground sorry you have to explain to the people who are not we have a director named David Stahl but anyway so if you stump bunny something you freeze them In Tibet it's rangba. It means you literally freeze them. Like they were moving and now you stamba them and then they stop. So stambani for the two side channels means when you take a proper zalandara, you can freeze the two side channels. So what are the two side channels? We're going to do a little side channel review, okay? Say ida. And pingala. Iida. Pingala. So, Ida, Ida means, which side is that, left? Left. Left side. Your left side. Ida, there's a big debate about it, but I found it in an ancient scripture. It means a sheep. In Tibetan, they call it a lukta, and it means colored like a sheep. So, Ida means a dull white color like wool. And then, that's on the left side. In the Tibetan, they call that kyanma. or Roma. Khyangma. Khyangma means the solitary channel on the left side, running down the left side. A dull white color. And then on the right side, you can say pingala. Pingala. Pingala. Pingala. Which is related to the English word pink, which means it's a rusty red color. They call it a rusty red. An orange red color. But the idea is to think of them as matte color. They're not lively. They're not exuding light. They are like painted red and painted white. Whereas the central channel, as Lama Christi gave you in the meditation, is this golden red that you can picture it as a golden red like a fire, like a flame from a campfire. Okay, like that. Then the two side channels, they come up alongside the central channel. central channel in the Tibetan tradition is considered about half an inch in front of the spine. And then two side channels come up on either side of it. And then, do you have a rosary? Anybody have a rosary? I have a dagger. I know. I need, you know, so in the monastery they always teach it with the Yeah, yeah, I know. No, underhand. Okay. in the monastery they always teach it this way they wave a rosary in front of your face and they say there's the idola there's the pingala and there's the central channel and then they start crossing then they start crossing so in the monastery they start doing this there's where say they would cross at the throat at the throat chakra and they create the chakra right spurts out because of the choke of the two side channels. At the heart, there's a triple knot. Three times around, and then it goes back to that side. If this were the ida, it would cross over the central channel, and then around, and then back again to the side. So that's what's happening with your channels. Inside the channels, prana is... I learned that from Rob Haggerty, but I'll tell you that later. Think of all the prana in your body as a limited amount of prana. There's only so much prana in your body. The two side channels and the central channel, you can think of as joining in a flange four sores, four finger widths below the navel and back, towards the back. You can think of them as joining like pipes under your sink, hot water, cold water and then the main pipe, right? And they join there. So prana is shared generally between the side channels and the central channel. If prana starts to slide out of the central channel, the two side channels get fatter. If prana goes out of the side channels into the central channel, the two side channels get thinner. And then that's desirable. So when prana runs into side channels, you have negative thoughts. By definition. Because the prana carries the thoughts. Say lung, sem, jupa, chipa. Lung sem, jupa, chipa. very, very famous when you study prana in the monastery. Your prana and your thoughts are jupa-chipa, means they are linked like a horse and a rider. They are linked together. Where one goes, the other will go. You can use that principle to control your emotions. If prana in the side channels means that you're having negative emotions, then if you did physical asanas that forced the prana into the central channel, you could become kinder, For a while. Alright? For a while. And that's what a yoga session does for you. After two hours of yoga, you feel more relaxed. I try to sit down and shove asanas sometimes at the beginning, and nothing happens. Like, I don't feel anything. Like, I just sit there, thinking, you know. And then you sit down at the end of the session, and you feel all this bliss, you know. So, it's because yoga asanas are designed to move prana, out of the side channels into the center channel. What kind of thoughts are running in the two side channels? Yeah, anger, jealousy, upsetness, running through the right-hand channel, a male energy. And then through the left-hand channel, possessiveness, desire, wanting things. So, if I get angry at somebody, if I feel jealous of someone, then prana is physically leaking out of the central channel and moving over to the right-hand channel, right? And like a children's balloon, you know those balloons where they make an animal out of balloons, and you squish the leg and then the head gets fatter, right? So if the central channel, if prana goes out of the central channel into the side channel, what happens to the knot? It gets tighter. It gets worse. then more prana gets choked out of the central channel into the side channel, then what happens it gets knotted up, worse we call sansara, say sansara sansara means a downward cycle you get a little jealous prana moves into your right hand channel it tightens the knot then more prana is forced out of your central channel more prana goes into the side channel it creates a worse knot so then jealousy builds on itself and then like three days later you can't sleep you know like that, so this is how prana is moving to your body now what did he promise about this stambami thing what did he say in the verse you can stambama you can freeze the two side channels do a good zalandhara lock I like I prefer a shoulder stand if you're having negative emotions, you can freeze them. Temporarily, you can freeze them. And then, you know, as soon as you come out of the shoulder stand, it's going to start flowing again on the side channels. But it gives you a breathing space, right? Like, I had a friend who had really bad depression. And I was, like, coaching her and advising her. And then she finally said, I'm just going to a... What do you call it? Psychiatrist to give her a job. No, we spent a week there. Uh-oh. you know, like a rehab yeah, she went to rehab and they gave her all these heavy drugs and I was really upset because I'm like I'm a good Buddhist teacher, I don't cost anything and you know, you're going to take all these drugs and you know you can all do it yourself, you know you can do it with your own mind, you know but then she came out and she said it was a good thing and the rehab worked for her because it gave her some breathing space you know like for one week on the drugs she wasn't depressed you know and then she broke out of the depression like the samsara she got enough wind into the central channel that she could break out of the depression so what happens stambani when you freeze the two side channels okay so it's not going to last forever you can't stand your shoulder stand your whole life although some people have tried but it gives you some it allows you to break the cycle It helps you break the cycle. Stumbani, the side channels, a little bit. And then maybe when you come out of the yoga that afternoon, you can control your jealousy for the evening. And like that. And then you create an opposite sun sign. You create an upward cycle. More product moves into the central channel. It gets fatter. The other two start to atrophy. And in fact, enlightenment is sometimes called Tishin Jong. Say Tishin Jong. Abba Duti. Abba Duti. Abba means off. Duti means throw it off, get it off. It's like, this is Abba Duti. What is Abba Duti a name for? That central channel is called Abba Duti. You will learn there's Abba Duti Gita, right? There's a whole song to Abba Duti in Sanskrit. It's the central channel. But the name of the central channel, you can call Sushumna, but you can also call Abba Duti. Abuduri means, get them off of me already. Throw them off. Meaning what? Those two side channels. Which are called chishing also in Tibetan. Chishing means ivy. Like it's crawling up your central channel. And you have to rip it off. You have to get it abuduri-ed. Abuduri-ed by stumbunning a little bit. With a jalan dung. Got it? I think there's a rap song in there. You guys get going on it. I can't do this in five minutes. I can't do this. Yeah. Do it tomorrow? Maybe. Do you have anything else to say? No, it's like huge. All right. We're not going to even try to do the white element because it will take too long. So we'll do it tomorrow. One last announcement. To remind you again, we're having a party here a week from Saturday to release a really beautiful, huge 500-page art book. And we would like you guys to come, but you've got to RSVP because it's almost full. And there's a card that they're going to hand out after this class. And that gets you, I don't know, it gets you to the party RSVP. And then there's an after-party party. But you have to go to the party to go to the after-party We're not telling you where the after party is now. Shami's doing this thing where he's blackmailing everybody, and you don't get to go to the after party unless you RSVP for the main party. But I think the after party's going to be more fun. And it'll probably go until dawn, I suspect. So anyway, the other cool thing is this card has a pure yoga, offered all of you a free yoga class. Yay! And it's on the cards. It's on the cards. You have to give the card to somebody, you can come for a class. Otherwise, you have to pay a $400 more immersion, $120. There's also a poster, and if you like, they're going to give these away. If you have a yoga studio or someplace you can hang it, you can give these for the exhibit. The painting you see is an interpretation of Jetsakapa meeting his spiritual partner, and it was done by Ori Karen. Thank you. Can you say one thing about yoga classes? No. Thanks for coming, everybody. And those of you who are registered for the full course, you can buy for an additional $100 an unlimited pass for yoga classes here at Pure throughout the duration of this course, which is a great deal because they're $35 a pop. So that's also available for people taking a full course. Makes you want to work here, right? All the yoga instructors are like, hmm. You're yoga, huh? Right? I knew that's what you were thinking. Yeah, we'll do a mandala. Oh, by the way, just before we start, A lot of people have been coming and telling me that they're teaching all of this stuff that we teach inside of their yoga classes. And I'd really just like to thank you for that. Because the thing that we want most in the world is just to pass on this information to other people so that it can really benefit their lives and change their lives. And make the world a better, purer place and make everybody happy. That's really all we want. And you're facilitating that mission every time you speak about it, you know, in any kind of small way. You know, if you can talk about the inner body or if you can talk about karma and emptiness in some way. As you're teaching, I know so many of you have that opportunity. Some of you are teachers. And, yeah, I'd just like to thank you for that. Thank you. Okay. Shabbat Shabbat Shalom 성령의 신도 믿음이 이루는 Satsang with Mooji So now, yes, she's so so she's. So now, yes, she's laid on way. Dhamma kundi toparsho.