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Energy is Awareness
How much are you learning lately?  Are you learning enough?  Have you learned that you're not a body composed of cells and tissues?  Have you learned that this world as you know it, doesn't even exist?  Do you know that there is not a beginning or an ending, that there is no today or tomorrow?  That all of the relative appearances that you see don't really exist as you think they do?  The kundalini gives this knowledge and awareness.  It frees you. It frees you from duality, the sense of right and wrong, good and bad, love and hate, beauty and ugliness, winning and losing.

Everything depends upon perception.  We are perception. Kundalini is an alteration of perception.  I try and describe kundalini in a schematic sense, saying that there are chakras and that there is an energy flow, and so on, and it's true, it's true, it's true, it's true, it's true, it's true, sort of.  It's not completely true.  Nothing is completely true.  Nothing that can be expressed can be completely true, because anything that can be expressed is a partiality, and yet something can be transmitted.   Awareness.  Awareness of eternity.  That's all there is. 

I'm here at 10,000 feet, on the island of Maui.  The clouds are moving and shifting beneath me; huge, billowy clouds.  And so our lives shift.  The characters in our lives come and go.  Our emotions, fleeting, beautiful, agonizing.  Kundalini is control.  Perfect control. Control of everything, from within.  Most individuals try to control their lives from outside of themselves.  They seek to influence and affect their environment.  So human beings have shaped the world to fit their own image.  Yoga, kundalini yoga, is the science of shaping attention, awareness.  We're not so concerned about the world around us as we are the world within us, because we realize that the world within us is the world around us.  

Every perception we have, everything we see, feel and experience, is dependent upon our state of mind.  Mind is relative.  It changes constantly.  Control of mind is control of destiny, control of life, control of awareness.  Control of mind is not gained simply by battling desires, but rather it is gained through energy.  Energy is awareness. 
 
- "Kundalini Yoga, Haleakala, Maui", On the Road with Rama 
 
Challenges of living
How do you deal with a boss who tells you to produce more and more and to use pressure techniques to sell, when you're interested in God and liberation? Where is that beautiful pine forest grove for meditation as you're sitting on the 405 Freeway at 5:00 o'clock, and the traffic is definitely not moving? What do you do with the violence, when someone pulls a gun on you inthe street, when someone breaks into your home and rips everything off?  How do you deal with the incongruities of existence, of a world of people who are cruel to each other, sometimes without even realizing that they're cruel? How do you deal with it?
 
Very, very skillfully.  Living and working in the world.
 
It is necessary to be part of an organic fellowship. This is the advice of the I Ching, that ancient, venerable Chinese book of wisdom to which I subscribe so heavily. The I Ching counsels us -- the sages who wrote the I Ching a long, long time ago -- that the wisdom of the self-taught is heavy and ponderous. While you may make a certain amount of spiritual progress on your own, it's lacking in something. It's heavy, it's ponderous.
 
Something occurs in learning with others that's marvelous. The edges of our egotism are slowly worn down. 
 
- "Living and Working in the World", The Lakshmi Series 
 
Risk and your life will get brighter!
Your life is either getting brighter from moment to moment or it's not.  If it's not getting brighter, it's because there's no risk.  There's no risk in sitting thinking instead of stopping your thought.  There's a lot of risk in stopping your thought.  You might experience ecstasy.  You might enter new dimensions.  You might see yourself or reality differently.  There's no risk is doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all.  There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable.  There's a lot of risk in the world of enlightenment.  There's the risk of perpetual freedom.


- "The Natural State", Tantric Buddhism
 
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Paradise is not the place you go when you die. Paradise is when your mind is in a perfect state.