--- In [email protected], 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.
