Hacking the Hara
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ส.ค. 2017
- In many traditions, breathing is an essential consciousness hack, enabling control over the mind through the body. But how exactly is that accomplished? And how can technology facilitate this age-old tradition?
At this month's Consciousness Hacking speaker meetup, Professor and Zen Priest, Ken Kushner, will share with us his story of learning to 'hack the hara.' Hara is the Japanese word for the lower abdomen, and is viewed as the seat of ki (chi, vital energy). In Kushner's tradition of Zen, practitioners learn to control the mind through the body; and, the key to this is the hara. He believes that the changes in consciousness associated with Zen-particularly samadhi-are enabled by hara breathing and that the hara is the intersection of the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the human experience.
Kushner has studied Zen for 40 years, at first struggling with the concept of the hara and how to breathe with and connect to his hara. It took Kushner years to master, and now, he wants to make hara breathing -- and, thus, the Zen experience -- easier to learn and accessible to more people; to hack hara development, if you will.
Kushner created an analogue biofeedback device, the HaraMeter®, that makes it easier for beginners to learn hara breathing and to deepen it once they have acquired it. Kushner is now creating a digital version of the HaraMeter®, which has numerous advantages over the analogue model.
More on Ken here: www.haradevelopment.org
If you all want to know about any religion any mediation please try reading osho's books these things are explained brilliantly there
Exercises at the end, life changing. And the beautiful flute musuc as I felt the energy, wonderful, thank you.
Pretty Rad stuff! I have heard of Martial arts masters talk about how 6 packed abdomen weakens your real strength, because of the increased tightness around the belly region. With this video on Hara, and Prof Ken's live demonstration of the Hara through the Hara meter, I now finally understand what the martial arts master meant. Thank you Mikey for organising the lecture.
xaotiko hence why buddah has a fat belly
. etc 100%- u should have strong core bt fluid void .f unorthodox prolongd strain. lol th magazn doped us to try n mimic reptiles^
The Hara folks should talk to the HRV people and they would see, that they’re taming the horse from behind. Anyone interested in deepening their insight in this domain might have a look at the work from dr. Gervitz who explains well the connections between deep abdominal breathing at a slow pace and the variations in beat-to-beat heartrate and what implications that has on the autonomous nervous system -> meditation hacked
. 100% love this. rght on^
Thank you! I am reading Sekada's book, Zen Training, and you seem to have answered all of my questions. Very helpful, thank you again!
Mikey, thanks for sharing!!
Thank you ❤️☀️
Amazing!
Thank you !
Where are all these mature leaders connected to their hara? We need them now. Way too many people without character and maturity (Kings without clothes) are leading human race towards disaster. Where are all these wise people? This is the time to speak the truth in the face of deception and cognitive dissonance and lies.
Ilzite K Yes! Hang in there.
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Right here this is very similar to black magic in our Aboriginal culture
We call it maparn and a Aboriginal who has a very strong connection with it we call them a maparnkarra (Witchdoctor/healer/sorcerer)
Our stomachs makes a loud crackling popping sound like a clock
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Thanks!
Very good, Sir. 🙏
This reminds me of bamboo breathing found in Katsuki. Sekida's book "Zen Training." Shodo Harada Roshi calls it sussokhan breathing.
Thank you!! As a Reiki Master this has been enlightening 🙏👑🙏
Thank you so much
The Meetup where Ken presented this lecture: www.meetup.com/Consciousness-Hacking-San-Francisco/events/240927582
Thankyouu
Very Good ideas
QUEStion:
Does the belly stay out naturally when Hara breathing, or do you just stick it out there and maintain it while breathing?
Question please and first thank you for helping extend my knowledge. When sitting or standing meditation should the abs be contracted? I am confused. Peter NY
my name is Hara and I am breath
wtf is happening at 32:48 ?
SAMADHI NOW!!
Awareness alone suffices. I don't get the need for a meter or holding one's abdomen open. The engine of the hara is always there, just be curious, quiet down, tune your awareness to detect energy and you'll find it's brilliance.
wise words
. nod spot on- bt i feel as if his vid is 4 those who are complete novice to operating hara in breath etc- u r rt tho it should never b strenuous ^
Start 33:00
Hi you have, HARA - CENTRE VIRAL DE L HOMME PAR - karlfired graf durckheim
Hi
Samadhi is not absorption / Concentration. Jhana (or Dhyana in Yoga) is absorption / Concentration.
No observation /concentration is "dharana" Dhyan is just awareness of self or being
I lost myself on youtube again
Satori is not enlightenment; only the state of illumination, which can be part of enlightenment, or not. There are so many different layers of satori, the ultimate satori being complete self realization and god realization... So many different realizations in between;) and even that can be through glimpses, not the ultimate enlightenment.... a person who experienced ultimate satori is not necessarily an enlightened one. He or she might just "travel" to the state and came back, and became "normal" again.
5:00 "I found my hara" !
NO !you found your aging ! that's tight skin you will never see again!
Does hara help ADD 😂
Yes immensely
you're not suppose to breath into your abdomen, that's damaging! and that's because :
1- there is no lungs in our abdomens
2- our lungs arent supposed to extend to our bellies
3- abdominal breathing will cause aging in your entire body because it will extend the lungs down and drag everything down with it! the heart - the diaphram - the blood vessels and nerves and that in turn will cause aging in the neck and face because everything is pulled down now !
abdominal breathing teaches you to contract your belly on a exhale and release on an inhale and that's a VERY VERY bad programming of your breathing and your abdominal cavity because when you breath down to the belly first you're depriving the top of your lungs of good air and good breathing second your teaching your belly how to accommodate the vast pressure that's coming from the inhale.
if anything your supposed to do the opposite, you need to breath to the top of your lungs and if like then you can contract your abdominal muscles and then release them on an exhale .. that the ANTI- AGING way to breath
So what about children they naturally do belly breathing.....
You know nothing about breathing. Diaphragm moves up and down not front to back.
@@You-dt3ou belly breathing is not harmful to children because aging has not accumulated in their bodies
@@infinitebeing1119 when did I say the diaphragm moves front and back .. I would never make that mistake