--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Aug 6, 2006, at 11:12 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > > > "Really has a lot to do with not knowing what you're doing and using > > people as guinea pigs. > > > > In traditional yogic flying, the entire first stage is from a > > standing, bent-knee position and done as a step/jump kinda thing. > > Instead of injuring one, it builds strength, stamina and numeorus > > yogic benefits." > > > > Very interesting. It sounds more like martial arts movements. > > It's combined with a style of yogic running. In many old Tibetan > biographies--of course this was before telegraph, radio or telephone-- > the Tibetan kings used yogic runners/flyers to dispatch messages. > There are contemporary accounts of witnesses who've seen these yogis, > called "lung gompas": "air yogis". > > The training does resemble, in some aspects, martial arts training, > where moving asanas are linked to breathing and visualization. > > > Lung-gom-pa Runners of Tibet > > The Marathon monks of Japan are quite similar to the Lung-gom-pa > runners of old Tibet. There have been many records kept of these > amazing running monks who appear to fly when they run. Across grassy > plains, they seem to float apparently in a trance. They are said to > travel nonstop for forty-eight hours or more and can cover more than > 200 miles a day. Many are said to be faster than horses and at times > they were used to convey messages across a country. > > In order to qualify as a lung-gom-pa runner, the trainee must first > learn to master seated meditation. They had lots of emphasis on > breath control and visualization techniques. They had to be able to > imagine their own bodies as being light as a feather. > > Other techniques they had to master required them to watch a single > star in the sky intently for days, never allowing themselves to be > distracted. When they have attained this ability of moving > meditation, they are able to fly like the wind. > > The term "lung-gom" is used for the kind of training that develops > uncommon nimbleness and gives them the ability to make > extraordinarily long tramps with amazing rapidity. They run at a > rapid pace without ever having to stop for days. They do not run > short, quick races but have the ability to go far distances in a > quick amount of time. > > "The Way of the White Clouds" by Lama Anagarika Govinda explains that > the word Lung, pronounced rlun, signifies the state of air as well as > vital energy or psychic force. Gom means meditation, contemplation, > concentration of mind and soul upon a certain subject. It has to do > with the emptying of one's mind of all subject-object relationships. > This means that a lung-gom-pa runner is not a man who has the ability > to fly through air, but one who can control his energy, re- channel > and concentrate it in a new direction. These lung-gom-pa runners > follow the ancient practice of pranayama. They follow the idea of > completely anonymity and therefore no one is allowed to talk to them > or see any part of their bodies. >
This sounds like an interesting technique, but has nothing to do with the flying technique from Patanjali. 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/
