Chakras

Written by Tract Elise Friday, 09 July 2010 03:00

CHAKRAS by TRACY ELISE, Center Holder, Phoenix Goddess Temple

My system is a 'self evident' teaching based on what I experienced in my many
many hours of hands on practice (the laboratory :)

In this sytem, the 1st chakra is the red ray and is called Survival / Creation,
and is also (obviously) the 'sex' chakra.

When people have called the second chakra the sex chakra they then do the belly
and then skip over / leave out the solar plexus (at least that is some systems
I've seen where the first chakra is the perineum..)

any-hoo, I teach 'self evident' 'gateway' chakra system, based on Osho's work.
I believe that the system you teach is a different and possibly advanced work.
I have read through the Korean system briefly and don't know much about the
differences between Hindu and Buddhist. The Egyptian magnetic tantra I teach is
from Drunvalo Melchidezek 's work, the Flower of Life.

xxxoo
Tracy Elise

http://www.messagefrommasters.com/Spiritual_Quotes/Osho/osho_chakras_quotes1.htm

Osho Quotes on Chakras

Most people die from the lowest chakra, the sex center. There are seven chakras
in the body from where life can go out of the body. The last is on top of the
head, and unless you are enlightened life cannot go out from that chakra.

As you move more and more into the present, inside you will come across seven
lights -- what Hindu yoga calls seven Chakras, Buddhist yoga calls seven lights,
seven lamps. As you become more and more detached from the body, detached from
possessions, uninterested in desires, your energy starts moving upwards. The
same energy that is contained at the lowest center, at the sex center.

Indian music is more concerned with sahasrar, the seventh chakra. Western music
is more concerned with the sexual centre, the muladhar. If western music
overpowers you, you will feel sexually aroused. If indian music overpowers you,
you will feel spiritually aroused.

Music is a very subtle meditation. The seven notes of music are concerned with
the seven chakras of the body and each chakra has its own note. If you
concentrate on that chakra, you will start hearing that note arising within your
body. The second chakra has two notes, the third, three. One is important, the
other two are just part of it but create a harmony. It goes on becoming a
greater harmony, rising higher with each chakra. On the seventh chakra it is an
orchestra. Each chakra has its own form, its own music, its own taste, its own
smell. The deeper you move inside yourself, the more you find the whole world,
because if it is not within you, you cannot see it without either. Something is
needed to correspond.

All this so-called esoteric knowledge about chakras, energy fields, kundalini,
astral bodies, is dangerous as knowledge. As experience it is a totally
different thing. Don't acquire it as knowledge. If it is needed for your
spiritual growth, it will come to you in its right time, and then it will be an
experience. And if you have an acquired knowledge, borrowed knowledge, it is
going to be a hindrance.

For example, Hindu yoga believes in seven chakras, Jaina scriptures mention nine
chakras. And Buddhist scriptures say that there are dozens of chakras, that
these are only the important ones which have been chosen by different schools.
They don't give any fixed number. Acquired knowledge will be confusing: how many
chakras? And what are you going to do with that knowledge, whether there are
seven or nine or dozens? Your knowledge is not going to help; it can only
hinder.

Energy fields, chakras and all esoteric things should be experienced. And keep
your mind clean of all knowledge, so that you don't have any expectations;
wherever the experience happens, you are ready to accept it.

It happens exactly like that. There are seven chakras but they don't exist in
the same Places for all people. And there are experiences but they never happen
in the same way to two persons -- they happen very, very differently. So there
is no need to know the physiology of the kundalini, and there is no need to know
the chakras, and there is no need to know what happens finally -- because if you
know it you will start hypnotising yourself, and by and by you will start
getting into the ritual. And you will create a kind of dream around you. And
when there are many people doing the same thing, you tend to fall into the
crowd-mind. You start swaying with the crowd.

Once awareness has made the third eye function, once awareness has moved in the
third eye and the third eye starts functioning, becomes alive... That's why
Hindus call it a CHAKRA. CHAKRA means a wheel. The wheel needs energy; once the
energy comes in, the wheel starts moving. By 'movement' is meant that it starts
functioning. Then a great revolution happens in your being: immediately the
lower heart bows down to the higher heart.

The muladhar chakra has to be relaxed -- relaxed from constipation, relaxed from
diarrhoea. The muladhar chakra has to function at the optimum, one hundred
percent, then energy starts moving.

Energy is needed, and energy is always beautiful. If you don't know how to use
it, it becomes ugly; then it goes on running astray. The energy has to go
higher. Sex is the lowest center of your being -- but that is not all: you have
seven centers of your being. As the energy moves upwards, if you know the key
how to release it upwards, as it moves from one center to another, you feel so
many transformations. When the energy comes to the heart chakra, to the center
of the heart, you become so full of love you become love. When the energy comes
to the third-eye center you become consciousness, awareness. When the energy
comes to the last chakra, sahasrar, you bloom, you flower, your tree of life has
come to a fulfillment: you become a Buddha. But the energy is the same. Don't
condemn; don't suppress. Transform. Be more understanding, alert; only then will
you be able to enter in totality.

Each chakra has its own colours, so when you concentrate on a certain chakra you
will have certain colours in your dreams and visions. As you move upwards they
change. In fact in yoga psychology, a person's dreams, fantasies, visions, can
indicate where his energy is exactly, at what centre.

Sometimes you are deluded by the body. And somehow, if you manage to go beyond
the body, you are deluded by the mind, which is more of a deluder. The first
three chakras belong to the body. The next three chakras belong to the mind. And
the seventh chakra is beyond both. Ordinarily, the people who indulge remain in
the first three lower chakras -- they hang there. Those first three chakras:
MULADHAR, SWADHISTAN and MANIPURA are earth-bound. They are earthly chakras,
they are attracted by gravitation, they are pulled downwards. The next three
chakras: ANAHATA, VISUDDHA and AJNA are sky-bound. Gravitation does not affect
them. They are under another law called levitation; they are pulled upwards.
These three consist of the mind. The body is pulled downwards, mind is pulled
upwards. But you are neither. You are the seventh, which is neither body nor
mind. So the people who indulge live in the first three chakras. And the people
who repress the first three chakras start living in the second three chakras.
But they create a dream-world.

The center around which one's life has revolved is the center from where he will
depart. The place where he dwelt the whole life will be the place from where he
will depart. Therefore, a yogi can leave from the agya chakra, and a lover from
his heart chakra. The life energy of an enlightened man would leave from the
sahasrar, the seventh chakra -- his skull will break open as he departs from
there.

When the energy moves upward you become more and more silent. Silence is the
by-product of energy moving upward and tension is the by-product of energy
moving downward. You will be more and more in anxiety when energy moves down;
you will be more and more silent, quiet, calm and cool as energy moves upward
and inward. And these words downward and outward are synonymous, and inward and
upward are synonymous. And when you have become silent, that energy is moving
like a flood, it is passing through all the chakras, all the centers. And when
it passes through all the chakras, it cleanses them, it purifies them, it makes
them dynamic, alive, and the flood goes upward, upward to the last chakra.

Sex is the first chakra, the first center, the lowest -- and we exist at the
lowest. That is why we know life only at its minimum. When the energy flows
upward and reaches to the last chakra, to the SAHASRAR, energy is at its
maximum, life is at its maximum. Then you feel as if the whole cosmos has become
silent: not even a single sound is there. Everything becomes absolutely silent
when the energy comes to the last chakra. You know the first chakra; it will be
easy to understand through that. When the energy comes to the sex center, you
become absolutely tense. The whole body is feverish, your every cell is in a
fever. Your temperature goes high, your blood pressure goes high, your breathing
becomes mad. Your whole body is in a temporary delirium -- at the lowest. Quite
the opposite is the case at the last chakra. Your whole body becomes so cool, so
silent, as if it has disappeared. You cannot feel it. You have become bodiless.
And when you are silent the whole existence is silent because the existence is
nothing but a mirror: it reflects you. In thousands and thousands of mirrors, it
reflects you. When you are silent the whole existence has become silent.

There are seven chakras, and the anahata is just in the middle; three below it,
three above it. The three below are muladhar, swadhisthan and manipur. Those
three belong to an extrovert personality. In the west, the majority lives
through those three chakras. And now in the east also, the majority is moving
towards the western attitude of life. These three chakras are very easily
available. They have a certain given function; you need not work much on them.

Without them, life will become impossible. They are survival measures, so nature
has not given you a choice between them. From the moment you are born, those
three chakras start functioning. They go on functioning until you die. The whole
life is covered by those three chakras, and the extrovert person never comes to
know that there is anything higher than these. Sex, money, power, prestige,
respectability, name, fame -- they all belong to those three chakras.

And the centre of all those chakras is sex. People seek money in order to seek
sex. People seek fame and power and prestige in order to seek sex. Sex remains
the centre of the lower three chakras. Sex remains the centre of the extrovert
personality. His whole mind revolves around sex.

Above the anahata, the heart, there are three chakras: visudha, the fourth
centre, then ajna, between the two eyes, the third eye centre, and sahasrar, the
last centre, the centre of samadhi, of ultimate unfoldment.

Between these two is the heart. Between the introvert and the extrovert, the
heart functions as a door, it is a bridge. Just as sex is the centre of the
extrovert mind, prayer -- or call it meditation -- is the centre of the
introvert mind. But to call it prayer is more relevant. Between these two --
when a person is just in the middle, on the fourth chakra, at the door -- love
happens. Love is between sex and prayer.

When sex is a little purified, it becomes love. When love is also purified, it
becomes prayer. So it is the same energy, the sexual energy, which goes into
higher formations. In the east people have tried to live an introvert life; they
have tried to live above the heart. But both are lopsided. The western extrovert
mind and the eastern introvert mind are both lopsided. To become a total man,
one needs the functioning of all seven. It is not a question of choice. It is a
question of being capable of living in all the centres without any conflict.
There is none -- we create the conflict.
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TANTRA LOVERS LINK ALL CHAKRAS Sasha Lessin, Ph.D.

Treat yourself, beloveds and clients to All-Chakra Total Tantra. Total Tantra
blends ancient, shamanic, and modern consciousness-growth practices to help you
lovingly connect with each of your own and your beloved's energy-centers, your
chakras.

Here's a summary of the chakras with the body parts and tantric tasks for you
and clients you facilitate. You first experience the work indicated yourself,
then your facilitate others–individuals, heterosexual and same-sex
lovers--opening their chakras to each other.

1. Perineum, Rectum. Align perennial (base, root) chakra energies with your
sweetheart's; reinforce each other's sense of belonging, safety, health and
security.

2. Genitals, Reproductive organs. Connect and pleasure each other's second
chakras with touch, intention and breathing techniques. Boost each other's
sensuality, creativity and sexuality.

3. Solar Plexis. Empower yourself and your lover.

4. Heart. Open your love and courage to each other.

5. Throat. Speak authentically and kindly; listen actively to each other.

6. Brain. Help each other think, intuit and envision; put your heads together
as a mutual mind.

7. Crown. Flow energy between your crown and your beloved's. Rise above your
separate, individual self-sense and merge with each other. Transcend your
personal pairing and merge with pastlife lovers, with the lover archetype, with
all humanity, Earth and the Universe.