Whitney Edwards

The nine tastes of breath may be practiced with or without the following visualization of the energy-channels. Visualize your body empty like a balloon. If you have received a tantric empowerment for a particular Buddha-figure, you may in addition visualize your form as that of the figure; otherwise, you may not. Visualize your central energy-channel as parallel to and slightly in front of your spine, hollow, the thickness of a medium-sized bamboo, white on the outside and red on the inside. Its upper end curves like an umbrella handle, passing over the crown of your head and ending between your brows. Its lower end is four finger-widths below your navel. Visualize your right energy-channel (ro-ma, Skt. rasana, pingala) as red in color, the thickness of a stalk of wheat, starting six finger-widths below your navel, running close to the central channel and ending at your right nostril. Visualize your left energy-channel (rkyang-ma, Skt. lalana, ida) as white in color, the same thickness and length as the right one, and ending at your left nostril. When doing the first three breathings in through your right nostril and out through the left, visualize the bottom end of your right energy-channel inserted into the bottom end of the left. When you breathe in, imagine your breath in the form of white cleansing rays of light passing down your right energy-channel and accumulating in the left, in which the energy-wind of the disturbing emotion of longing desire (‘dod-chags, Skt. raga) is blocked and frustrated. When you exhale through your left nostril, visualize your longing desire leaving you in the form of black rays of light. During the second three breathings in your left nostril and out the right, imagine the bottom end of your left energy-channel inserted into the bottom end of the right. When you breathe in, visualize your breath in the form of white light passing down your left energy-channel and accumulating in the right in which the energy-wind of the disturbing emotion of anger and hostility (zhe-sdang, Skt. dvesha) is blocked and frustrated. When you exhale through your right nostril, imagine your anger leaving you in the form of black light. During the last three breathings in and out both your nostrils, visualize the bottom ends of both your left and right energy-channels inserted into the bottom end of the central energy-channel. When you breathe in, imagine your breath in the form of white light passing down both right and left energy-channels and accumulating in your central one in which the energy-wind of the disturbing emotion of naivety (gti-mug, Skt. moha, closed-mindedness) is blocked and frustrated. When you exhale, visualize your naivety leaving you from between your brows in the form of black light. Once you have completed a round of nine tastes of breath, do not repeat it with further rounds. If the first round fails to eliminate your gross mental wandering, another method is as follows. Breathe in and out both nostrils silently, not forcefully, with your in-breath the same length as your out, and without holding your breath. Concentrating totally on your breathing, count in your mind each round of in- and out-breaths as one for twenty-one rounds. As it is normally difficult to concentrate on even one thing at a time, by concentrating both on breathing and on counting, little room remains for extraneous thoughts. https://studybuddhism.com/en/advanced-studies/vajrayana/mahamudra-advanced/commentary-on-root-text-for-mahamudra-geshe-ngawang-dhargyey

Yamuna river in flood right now. Sad.

I can definitely see Shiva as nag

In August there will be Nag Panchami.

I've also discovered Nandi, the holy cow and Ling which means form

@Amit thank you so much. You give me lot of support. Om Namah Shiva. I've been following Sadhguru and Shiva and since then I have been very calm. Sanatan Dharma. Jai Shree Mahakal.

Such beautiful poetry. Lots of love brother.

@Amit I'm having a lot of anger inside me because similar things have happened to me.

Exercise causes glands to generate endorphins. Endorphins cause relaxation. Such relaxation is also experienced similarly after sex(although much more potent in that case). If it's statistically significant, it's not weak. By movement. Exercise causes heart to pump harder thus forcing the heart to pump. Every minute of exercise requires muscle movement, muscle movement needs nutrition, energy, blood, this flow is automatically started by heart once the signal is received that movement is required or initiated the same way an animal predator jumps into action to catch prey. Any movement is a reflex and motor indicator to the brain which is connected electrically to heart and other nerve endings.

It increases blood flow. This replenishes muscular cells. It increases elasticity of blood vessels. Increases oxygenation. Obviously these are key to cardiivascular

Funny

Everything is a part of growing.

Definitely not like dmt. But it's good for my weak heart.

I want to go insane, like alien insane.

This is beautiful. I mostly take hawaiian baby woodrose seeds. Just 5. You're good at what you do.

Most historical pictures of ghosts and orbs were with normal cameras. No need of special equipment.

Any regular normal camera can do that. And get an EVp recorder and thermal heat sensor.

Sorry no moon pics. Maybe next time.

On 3rd July. Waiting.

So I went out naked to click a picture of the moon. And boo. No moon. No moon. Lol. No worries. It's alright.

From last month (taken from my notes) I took 5 hawaiian baby woodrose seeds. Crushed it to powder. Soaked in lemon juice. And than drank it. Hawaiian Baby woodrose Seeds, as fresh as possible. I basically took a light dose and I want to slowly up from there. Side Effects I felt - Nausea vasoconstriction and cramps flat, slow heartbeat It was an extremely long trip (50hr+until back to baseline) One hour after I drank the juice, I began to feel nausea. I began to feel stuff after 4 hours. For the first like 2 hours after this, It felt like a more euphoric trip. I really enjoyed the substance so far, and thought I already reached the peak. Zero visuals. In about let's say 6 hours later, I felt tired yet the trip still felt potent. I experienced dissociation from life and stuff. I did feel like I was dying but I quickly dissociated from it. I layed down and just went with it. I had thoughts about enlightenment being a bad joke, my "work" towards it utter nonsense, watching actualized.org videos and starting psychedelics as a foolish mistake, me having permanent brain damage now and so on. It came from a very scared, weak place... my guess: pure ego talk, unfiltered. I felt sleepy. I woke up 3 hours later, still tripping considerably. I felt wide awake. I felt more focused. Things started to get really bright, colors started sticking out a lot more than usual. Kind of felt like it helped me hack into the matrix so to say. First thing I started noticing was how robotic I live my life. I have all these desires and urges that feel coded in me. I felt like I was some sore of software that was coded to act a certain way. And when I had the trip it felt like I realized something else was running my entire life and I had no control over it. Almost as if there were two "entities" in me, one being an ego that ran everything and the other still remaining unknown. It felt very confusing to say the least. I started noticing things I did not notice before such as certain patterns and colors. I tried not to get to absorbed in visual phenomenon though and sat down and closed my eyes. When I sat down and closed my eyes I started realizing some stuff that felt so obvious and right in front of me but I could not see it before. Two big things I learned was unconditional love for everyone not just those around me but even strangers! I felt this insane amount of love for everyone and everything but I noticed more about how I don't love myself enough. An issue I've had trouble tackling in the past years, has been with self love. The biggest take-away from the trip was, the love I was giving to everyone including strangers, to also give that love to myself. I felt it was easier to give myself love, when I started realizing more about how life isn't as serious as I thought it was. Everything I thought was so true, started feeling illusory. Many of my beliefs started crumbling. My monkey mind completely shut up for long periods of time and I wasn't even aware that it shut up until the it wore off. In some ways, I felt like a child again who was just in love with everything. One of the funny things about the trip was, at one point I looked in a mirror for like a long time and was confused what I was looking at... I'm like holy fuck is that what I am? LOL I feel like I know what I need to do in life more than I did before. I knew what my career path was heading down towards, but I feel like it has become more clear than it was previously. Overall, the trip was well worth it. Patience and love are two of the biggest components I took away from the session. This went on for two days in total, with declining effects of course. I wasnt back to completely normal, or "baseline", until around 50 hours after ingestion.