Namgyal Rinpoche – CRYSTAL CORE MEDITATION – First Draft Only
Tape-Recording Waldorf #2, Partial Transcript, (Working Day 2), a.m. sun. mar. 17/91.
Sabbe Sutta Sukhitha Hontu 3x
That’s the ancient language for, “May all beings be well and happy!” So, we’ll start that way… Before we begin with an exercise, if you’ll bear with the usual palaver? I just want to share personal thoughts with you, I have been concerned recently, not only with men’s work but women’s work and with references made in the ‘New Age’ type of thing.
There are one or two things that concern me which I believe in the intellect are incorrect. They’re beautiful mistakes but ultimately they are nevertheless, mistakes. For example, when people are speaking about Gaia, its got a feminine ending, its a sort of Great Mother thing and doesn’t really leave any space for the male, so I’m going to put this in…
I’m not suggesting Gaius by the way but the viewing of the earth as the creator principal, (not male), but a creating principal that incorporates all the different possibilities. And so its both male and female. I don’t know what kind of an ending you would put to that word. Maybe ‘Gaio’ or something. Its because of a sort of archetypal prejudice that goes in – and trying to transcend this possible one-sided orientation.
And even transcending putting the Gaia principal as some sort of great Adam or great Eve. You know, a great mother human embodiment, but see it as that force or intelligence that could be put in bird form ,or salamander form, or tree form – there’s the entire body of the intelligence and so on…I’m a little concerned intellectually that one would get one-sided.
The other thing is that I’ve noticed certain phrases… and please accept this, its meant fairly well, there is a phrase now about raising women’s consciousness and you would think that raising human consciousness is a very good thing – but there’s a little thing that concerns me and that is, why not speak, not of mother earth and father sky – but why couldn’t you have father earth and mother sky, you know, just change your ideas around? Why not lower consciousness?
So this is what I’m going to do, give you an exercise to lower consciousness… Can you get a few tinkles about this one? I’m rather concerned that beings have this orientation and get cerebrally spaced out – what was classically a kind of male number and get way out, raise your consciousness , because of course we’re on the edge of going into outer space. However, there are maybe some problems in the conceptualisation.
What I have found in working with beings directly is that… never mind the auric bodies being out, but in the aura the main manifestations of chakras – (by the way of which there are not an unlimited number in the body but say, take a hundred thousand chakras in the body, from the very minute to vaster ones) – the main chakras are out basically from the bottom upwards. And there is this kind of prejudice that maybe everything from the waist up is somehow holy and everything below is, ’Well, we don’t mention it, you know? Its a little awkward and all that type of thing…’
Nevertheless, it is involved with that primordial base, that primordial energy. So, just to change and help, in the correction of the number one distortion of the auric and chakric manifestation, which is lack of contact with the earth. In most teaching the general preference is to clear an empirical ego, you know, the experiencing being from the crown of the head downwards. That is simply to clear the conditioning of the being. The standard orientation is that after you’ve cleared the upper chakras etc, all that, you will now be experiencing ‘good formations’… then we can deal with all that ‘stuff down there’ which is much more primordial. In fact the lower chakras are sometimes called the primordial energy chakras.
I think that although that is a reasonably safe approach for beings that are working on their own, there are other possibilities for example, with beings that are working together in a star group formation.