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| Kaya - Body |
Start with breathing. Nostril breath - tapping? Humming breath. If not clear herbs. Breath in all parts of body. |
Full breath access - align dukkha using 10 points of alignment bearing in mind state of health. [1] |
With full breath access, release dukkha in sinus, dukkha with heart, dukkha with digestions |
Calming Kaya - one body. Quenching dukkha. ASK kaya if it's OK. |
| Vedana - emotions |
Breathe in deep cooling love from deep in the earth up the taichi. |
Releasing vedana attachments from daily life inc vedana-dukkha. Check for past feelings - Sacred Wound. Love cools feelings, let go of any feelings of heat. |
Express brahma-viharas of metta, karuna and muditta |
Feeling love - vedana conditioner. Quenching dukkha - any Nibbana-dhatu of cooling? ASK vedana. |
| Citta - mentation |
Bring wisdom down from the heavens combining with love in the Taichi |
Wisdom as citta conditioner. Using focus and mindfulness, any mental attachments? Humility. Integrate equanimity - love-wisdom balance. |
Focus on NOW. Use chakra alignment to balance vihara [2] |
Vihara conditioner - one body, vedana and citta. Check that all restrictions have been released from the vihara, and hold space for consciousness of tetrad 4. ASK vihara. |
| Dhamma - Consciousness |
Reinforce atammayata and confirm holding space. |
"bringing in" 5 directions of love, wisdom, sila, truth and creativity and 3 skills of mindfulness, focus and embodiment. Consciousness spreads from Taichi |
Feel, know and see consciousness as gabiK's cocoon, and align with Unity-consciousness |
Abiding in Unity-consciousness see tathata and look towards zeer-vision. |
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[1] In Tai Chi bill learned about the 10 points of alignment, he is going to develop these Tai Chi alignments to help release dukkha - full explanation here. 10 points for practice are:-
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Head |
Keep the head straight and relaxed, using the mind to lift upward without physical force. |
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Chest and back |
Keep the chest slightly sunken and the upper back slightly bowed out, which helps the breath sink to the lower abdomen.
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Relaxation |
Maintain a relaxed state with no tension. Keep elbows and wrists relaxed and sink the elbows downward.
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Center of movement |
All movement should originate from the center of your body.
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Harmonise the body |
Coordinate the movement of the upper and lower parts of the body so they work together as a single unit. |
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Body unity |
Move the entire body as one connected unit.
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Smoothness |
Perform all movements in a smooth, flowing manner |
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Substantial? |
Not sure about this |
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Breath |
Breathe deeply and naturally from your lower abdomen, in harmony with the movements. |
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Mind |
Use your mind to lead the body's movements rather than brute force. |
This 10-point alignment is far from complete but it is helping - he feels it s needed. Hopefully if the body and its movement aligned in this way, the dukkha will come in, do its work and be released without attachment.
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[2] This alignment is adapted from chakra embodiment used in ZPAP. With the chakras aligned in this way it will help with "bringing in" the directions and skills of consciousness in tetrad 4.
Create the chakra ridgepole. Use any chakra model but zandtao uses 7 chakras - root-red, sacral - orange, solar plexus - yellow, heart green, throat - dark blue, forehead - light blue, crown of head - lavendar. These 7 chakras create a ridgepole from the root to the crown. Using colours or otherwise bring in healing to each of the chakras in turn.
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Not dealing with dukkha 