SATSANG THEATRE av LOKA DEVADAS 240712 Ljusbacken 50 år

SATSANG THEATRE av LOKA DEVADAS 240712 Ljusbacken 50 år
CENTERING
TRANSCRIBED BY PAUL REPS
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ZEN IS nothing new, neither is it anything old. Long before Buddha was born the search was on in India, as the present work shows.
Long after man has forgotten such words as Zen and Buddha, satori and koan, China and Japan and America - still the search will go on, still Zen will be seen even in flowers and grass-blades before the sun.
The following is adapted from the preface to the first version in English of this ancient work. The Vighyan Bhairv Tantra
Wandering in the ineffable beauty of Kashmir, above Srinagar I come upon the hermitage of Lakshmanjoo.
It overlooks green rice fields, the gardens of Shalimar and Nishat Bagh, lakes fringed with lotus. Water streams down from a mountaintop.
Here Lakshmanjoo-tall, full bodied, shining -welcomes me. He shares with me this ancient teaching from the Vigyan Bhairava and Sochanda Tantra, both written about four thousand years ago, and from Malini Vijaya Tantra, probably another thousand years older yet. It is an ancient teaching, copied and recopied countless times, and from it Lakshmanjoo has made the beginnings of an English version. I transcribe it eleven more times to get it into the form given here.
THE SHIVA TANTRA SUTRAS
OF 112 MEDITATION TECHNIQUES
Shiva first chanted it to his consort Devi in a language of love we have yet to learn. It is about the immanent experience. It presents I I 2 ways to open the invisible door of consciousness. I see Lakshmanjoo gives his life to its practicing.
Some of the ways may appear redundant, yet each differs from any other. Some may seen simple, yet any one requires constant dedication even to test it.
Machines, ledgers, dancers, athletes balance. Just as centering or balance augments various skills so it may awareness. As an experiment, try standing equally on both feet; then imagine you are shifting your balance slightly from foot to foot: just as balance centers, do you.
If we are conscious in part, this implies more inclusive consciousness. Have you a hand? Yes. That you know without doubt. But until asked the question were you cognizant of the hand apart?
Surely men as inspiritors in part, known and unknown to the world have shared a common uncommon discovery. The Tao of Lao-tse, Nirvana of Budha, Jehovah of Moses, the Father of Jesus, the Allah of Mohammed all point to the experience.
No-thing-ness, spirit - once touched, the whole life clears.

DEVI SAYS:

O Shiva, what is your reality?
What is the wonder-filled universe?
What constitutes seed?
Who centers the universal wheel?
What is the life beyond form pervading forms?
How many we entre it fully, above space and time, names and descriptions?
Let my doubts be cleared!

SHIVA REPLIES:
[ Devi, though already enlightened, has asked the foregoing questions so others through the universe might receive Shiva’s instructions. Now follow Shiva’s reply, giving the I I 2 ways.]


1. Radiant one, this experience may dawn between two breaths. After breath comes in (down) and just before turning up (out) --- the beneficence.




2. As breath turns from down to up,and again as breath curves from up to down -through both these turns, realize.

3. Or, whenever inbreath and outbreath fuse, at this instant touch the energyless energy-filled centre.