On Jun 16, 2005, at 9:45 PM, Patrick Gillam wrote: > Related to this topic and the short but recent Hitler > thread, I just finished reading Chapter 3 of Robert > Perry's _Path of Light_, which describes the levels of > the mind according to the Course in Miracles. It > describes in brutal terms how the ego protects its > turf. It's not pretty.
In the tradition I practice in, when one feels the need to work through ego issues one works with a practice called 'the Chod', which means 'the cutting'. It's a way to directly cut the ego at its root developed by the great yogini Machig Labdron. While different yogic methods might have descriptions such as 'the unification of bliss and emptiness' or 'the unity of luminosity and the ground', directly working with the grasping of ego could best be described as working with 'sheer terror and emptiness'. When I first began this practice some of the visions were just so utterly terrifying as this repressed material came forward, I would have to do walking meditation for several hours just regain some sense of normal awareness. But from that a sense of utter spaciousness and freedom and fearlessness arose. The ability to do things or go places you would never let your mind touch upon comes about. For example I found it gratifying and easy being around people who were dying or in extreme agony. Other purification practices might even bring about healing or removal of diseases. I've been watching a friend who is undertaking Vajrasattva purification go through some radical changes. She had developed a number of siddhis from her practices which had created a number of internal obstacles. The removal of those obstacles have been a horrible sometimes even medically challenging situation for her. So this happens on a number of different levels but it is important to go through some deep purification. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
