--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Aug 6, 2006, at 12:10 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: <snip> > >> In traditional yogic flying, > > > > Huh? > > > > There's a Yogic Flying Tradition???? > > > > One that goes back before 1976 and the TMO? > > > > Sure, I understand there was yogic flying in the caves and the > > rare monastery in India probably always...and back in the Vedic > > period thousands of years ago...but there was an on-going Yogic > > Flying Tradition in India? > > > > Please tell me more about it... > > Not much I can say.
Gee, what a surprise. There's extant traditions in the anuttara tantras. > > Have you ever heard of Udhilipa? His tradition continues. As do others. > > THE SIDDHA UDHILIPA > THE Flying Siddha > > > "Following after wandering thought is madness; Resisting that > tendency habitual karma is restrained. Abiding nowhere, mind is > centered; Nothing is to be found by seeking elsewhere." > > > By virtue of his previous generosity, an aristocrat of Devikotta > possessed a vast fortune. In the luxury of his palace he enjoy every > pleasure that his imagination could conjure. Gazing from window one > day, he watched five-colored clouds forming various animal shapes, > and continuing to look he saw a swan and fly across the sky. "What a > joy it would be to fly!" he thought himself, and he became obsessed > with the idea. When the Guru Kanaripa came to his palace to beg alms, > he offered him the food he could provide and then entreated the yogin > to teach him fly. He made prostration to him and offered him the > price of the teaching. > > Karnaripa gave him initiation into the Catuspitha-mahayogini- tantra > and told him to visit the Twenty-four Great Power Places collect the > twenty-four panaceas of the twenty-four Dakinis recite the mantras of > the Dãkinis ten thousand times each. > > The pilgrim accomplished that task, and then he went back Karnaripa > and asked him how to prepare the elixir. "First place the panaceas in > a copper pot, then in a silver pot and finally in a golden pot. Then > you will be able to fly," the yogin told him. > > After twelve years the elixir was perfected, and through his arduous > preparation he could fly through the sky. He became know as Udhilipa, > The Flying Siddha. > > After proclaiming his realization bodily attained the Dakini's Paradise. > > Sãdhana > > We cannot be sure whether Udhilipa was given an esoteric > interpretation of Karnaripa's precepts. He may have criss-crossed > India in an extended pilgrimage, and as a method of maturing the mind- > stream such a kriyayoga practice is incomparably effective, but > anuttarayoga-tantra purists would despise such a course, insisting on > a hathayoga interpretation. The Catuspitha-mahayogini-tantra, a > sahajayãna text, treats the four power places (catuspitha) as the > four upper cakras, naming the atmapitha, parapitha, yogapitha and > guhyapitha. The twenty-four pithas) are the minor junctions or cakras > in the Body of Samvara (Heruka). Each of the eight spokes of the > heart cakra, which carry the materializing energies of the five > elements and the five sense objects, divided into three--red, white > and blue--channels, connecting the heart center with the twenty- four > pithas. The twenty-four pithas ha are divided into three mandalas of > eight each, mai lalas of Body. Speech and Mind. From each of the > twenty-four cakras, three channels diverge, each of those seventy- two > channels dividing into a thousand capillary channels; thus the twenty- > four internal power places are control boxes for the entire psycho- > organism. At the essence of each of the twenty-four cakras is a red > and white seed, which is the cakra's panacea, and each cakra is > represented by a Dakini or yogini who may be propitiated by her > mantra and her panacea thereby obtained. "Gathering the panaceas" > through recitation of mantra is a process of purification of body, > speech and mind, and an identification with the absolute reality of > being in its separate parts. "Pouring the panaceas" from copper to > silver to golden pot is to transform the mandalas of body, speech and > mind into the nirmanakaya sambhogakaya and dharmakaya. With > attainment of the dharmakaya not only can a yogin fly and perform the > eight great siddhis, but he has also attained mahãmudra-siddhi.337 > > > Historiography > > The external references of the four principal power places according > to the Hevajra-tantra are Jalandhara (North), Oddiyana (West), > Purnagiri (South), and Kamarupa (East) (see p. 278 for locations of > the entire twenty-four pithasthanas). > > Udhilipa with its root uddiya, "flying," or "soaring," has been > corrupted in many ways (for example, Otili, Odhali, Udheli, and > Udhari). To the Tibetans Udhili is The Flier (Phur pa). If Karnaripa > (18) is Nagajuna's disciple, Udhilipa lived in the ninth century but > if he is Goraksha[nath]'s disciple, known also as Vairagi, and > certain elements of the legend, particularly the hatha-yoga > terminology and concepts, not least the siddhi of flying, indicates > nãth associations then Udhilipa will have been alive in the eleventh > century and will be found in nãth lineages. > 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/
