Recap: Healing and Meditation Workshop at Yoga West with Hari Nam Singh 2019-05-03 – The Projective Meditative Mind Part 2

The Projective Meditative Mind part 2

We held a workshop at Yoga West on May 3, 2019.  In this class, we stabilized and developed the projective meditative mind.

In our healing tradition, healing begins when we can adjust our awareness to a specific aspect that we call the projective meditative mind.  Other names for this are shuniya and the sacred space.  Once we stabilize that position of awareness, we begin to relate with the patient (event) in a way that produces healing in the event.  We call the aspect projective because in that position of awareness our intention becomes projective, in that it manifests in our relation with the event.  Our intention to heal impacts the relation.

Literally, shuniya describes an aspect of mind that is empty.  Not void as in nothing, as there is always activity in the mind, rather empty of any tendency to move or direct the experience.  Sitting in shuniya, our mind  allows the flow of our experience without interfering with it or imposing any bias or preconception onto the experience.  See Milarepa’s Song to Lady Palderboom.  Shuniya is a most profound state of being.  It is most effective for healing.

Arriving at this awareness is not an accident.  Nor is it likely that we should recognize it without preparing the mind with certain exercises, or kriyas.  Of the many kriyas that come from the tradition of Kundalini Yoga, many deal directly with the development of shuniya.

If we could arrive at shuniya by thinking it or by verbal instruction, we would.  Instead, we allow our practice of the kriyas to instruct our mind subtly.  The kriya tricks our mind into moving our awareness toward shuniya, giving us a direct experience of being empty.  With the repetition of kriyas, we practice accessing that place in our awareness, ultimately allowing us to stabilize it at will.

In this workshop, we performed two meditations.
Meditation: LA950 A00214 20000214 Develop Self-Reliance
and
Meditation: KYB117-19860822 – Achieve an Experience of God

Instability in the meditative mind comes from several sources, among them doubt, fear, unconfidence, insecurity and preconceived beliefs and prejudices about the forms of perception that are presented to us by our sensory experience.  Our sensory field includes everything we feel, physical, emotional and otherwise, all ideas and thoughts.

Practicing the first meditation offers us a chance to rely on our perceptions without question or judgment, as they are.  It connects us with the sacred energy known as prikirti.  Prikirti helps us to transcend any struggle with accepting our perception as reality without adding anything to it.  We can direct our attention to the flow of perception without agitation, anxiety, or  distraction.  We can then abandon tendencies for interrupting the flow and any other self-motivated movement of awareness.  We can sit in shuniya.

The second meditation purifies our limited awareness, allowing it to extend infinitely within to achieve an experience of God.  We merge with infinity.

Listen to the workshop audio, which picks up after the second meditation.  The group performs healing exercises with their partners.

See a recap of other workshops,
posts related to the meditative mind
and posts related to shuniya

“We just have to wait.” – a reading from the I Ching

We just have to wait.

Lecture and Meditation: Patience Pays – LA-19831020

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#5
WAITING is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal. Such certainty alone gives that light which leads to success. This leads to the perseverance that brings good fortune and bestows power to cross the great water. One is faced with a danger that has to be overcome. Weakness and impatience can do nothing. Only a strong man can stand up to his fate, for his inner security enables him to endure to the end. This strength shows itself in uncompromising truthfulness [with himself]. It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are, without any sort of self- deception or illusion, that a light will develop out of events, by which the path to success may be recognized. This recognition must be followed by resolute and persevering action. For only the man who goes to meet his fate resolutely is equipped to deal with it adequately. Then he will be able to cross the great water – that is to say, he will be capable of making the necessary decision and of surmounting the danger. Clouds rise up to heaven:
The image of [calculated] waiting.
Thus the superior man eats and drinks,
Is joyous and of good cheer.


WHEN CLOUDS rise in the sky, it is a sign that it will rain. There is nothing to do but to wait till after the rain falls. It is the same in life when destiny is at work. We should not worry and seek to shape the future by interfering in things before the time is ripe. We should quietly fortify the body with food and drink and the mind with gladness and good cheer. Fate comes when it will, and thus we’re ready. 

Today: “The strength of the man does not lie in what he has. The strength of the man lies only in what he can give.” Yogi Bhajan

“The strength of the man does not lie in what he has. The strength of the man lies only in what he can give. Only those can give who have the capacity to tap into the universe. If the universe is not in your mind, your heart cannot give.” Yogi Bhajan

Meditation: NM142 19940615 – Bless the Planet Earth and Let the Heavens Descend in You

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