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Jim and His Karma
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 Posted - Sep 15 2010 : 11:32:42 AM
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He doesn't call it kundalini, but kundalini-awakened yogis will understand what he's saying, and appreciate (and relate to) his insight. It's from "In Search of the Miraculous", and the rest of this section on "the energy of the sex center" (i.e. kundalini) is pretty uninteresting:
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Gurdjieff argues that "excess or perversion... are comparatively innocent forms of [the] abuse of sex."
What he considers to me be more serious, and suggests may be the cause of a great many of our psychological problems, is the other lower centers co-opting the energy the sex center--which is inappropriate: every center should work with its own energy and in its own "natural" way. He describes the result of other centers co-opting the energy of the sex center:
"The energy of the sex center in the work of the thinking, emotional, and moving centers can be recognized by a particular 'taste,' by a particular fervor, by a vehemence which the nature of the affair concerned does not call for."
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Edited by - Jim and His Karma on Sep 15 2010 5:17:01 PM |
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manigma
India
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Posted - Sep 17 2010 : 08:30:47 AM
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As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust, or as the embryo is covered by the womb, the living entity is similarly covered by different degrees of this lust. Thus the wise living entity's pure consciousness becomes covered by his eternal enemy in the form of lust, which is never satisfied and which burns like fire.
The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust. Through them lust covers the real knowledge of the living entity and bewilders him. Therefore, in the very beginning curb this great symbol of sin - (lust) by regulating the senses, and slay this destroyer of knowledge and self-realization.
The working senses are superior to dull matter; mind is higher than the senses; intelligence is still higher than the mind; and he [the soul] is even higher than the intelligence.
Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to the material senses, mind and intelligence, one should steady the mind by deliberate spiritual intelligence and thus -- by spiritual strength -- conquer this insatiable enemy known as lust." (Bhagavad-Gita, 3.36-43)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lust#Hinduism
Be still, know!
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