GATEWAY
Stillness
reveals
a whole other world
when
it inflitrates the body
and
all restlessness
dissolves.
Whether
sitting, standing or lying
meaningful
refinement of balance
comes
almost of its own accord
as
our born-with symmetry returns
restoring
a forgotten inner place.
And
fine balance of the head
acquires
a more profound significance
when
we recognise that
the
two hemispheres of the brain
in
that moment
become
equally light
and
then
can
become equally soft.
Softening
the hemispheres
opens
a gateway
into
the Subtle Domain.
It
dissolves the hardness
of
intentionality
of
effort, of striving
and
brings a release
in
the muscularity
of
the physical body
that
opens this subtle inner space
where
awareness
spreads
its pure immediacy
and
its soft light.
ATTENTION
Out
of the mindscape
of
thought
intention
sparks volition
and
volition drives
our
personal aspirations
towards
fulfilment
of
plans and projects
towards
achievement
to
sucess or failure.
Go
through the gateway
into
the Subtle Domain
and
we step out of this arena
of
personal volition
into
a space where
awareness
concentrated
into
attention
becomes
the agent
of
consciousness.
And
this acuity of focused attention
purposeful
and precise
empowered
as it were
with
its own intentionality
becomes
an alternative source of action
able
to ignite
the
wonder of intelligence.
Beyond
the personal lies
a
connection with
and
a deication to
the
project of consciousness
the
grassroots of being
the
ground
of
our common humanity.
ELONGATION
Streth
and grow goos
the
saying goes
an
intuition of benevolence
both
physical and mental
(ethical
too)
a
moment of embodiment
connecting
with being
keeping
flexible
resilient
fibres
of
muscle and joints
freeedom
of movement.
Elongation
however
is
of a different order
lenghtening
without contraction
is
something of a mystery.
How
does elongation
lift
the wight of the head
off
the top neck?
Or
free the sacrum from its impaction
or
make space in the knee joint?
Elongation
belongs
in
the Subtle Domain
depnends
on the wondrous ability
of
focused attention
to
transform
to
alter shape; straighten, open space
and
transmute
to
change quality:
imbue
with the brightness
of
intelligence.
In
order to elongate
muscle
tone must lessen
stillness
must infuse
intentionality
be less cerebral
to
empower attention.
Elongation
is a kindness.
PATHWAYS
Not
veinsd snd arteries
nor
they capillary connections
not
lymphatic ducts
the
channel of fluid circulation
permeating
our bodies
with
nourishment supply
and
cleansing returns.
Nor
the myriad nerve tracts
passageways
for impulse and respondse
sensation
and co-ordination.
But
coursing through the subtle body
and
other less tangible routes
not
found on dissection
pathways
for
the flow of intelligence.
Along
the way are landmarks
locating
essential nodes
that
link the paths into a framework
forming
a structure of intelligence:
two
mounds in the ball of the foot
a
ring around the heel
a
lesser trochanter
wings
of top sacrum
a
front edge of the glenoid
the
foramen magnum.
Structures
of intelligence
are
without rigidity their stability isn`t muscular
but
have a soft fluidity
gently
holding
a
luminous space.
AXIS
The
Subtle Domain insists
on
fine balance
so
the poise of awareness
as
permeated with
even
immediacy.
The
geometry of balance requires
a
midline around which
symmetry
can unfold.
The
midline of the hand is
defined
by the third ray
while
the axis of the foot
coincides
with the second.
From
the tailbone to the foramen
the
spìne defines the axis of the trunk the median sulcus of the brain
the
midline between the hemispheres
the
nasal septum
the
wall between the passageways of the nose
balances
the breath.
When
focused attention defines
intelligence
suffuses the axis
guiding
the form of
inner
peace.
PLENITUDE
Intention
to free
enables
intelligence
to
build
inner
frameworks.
Created
and guided by attention
intelligence
forms
structures
of balance and stability
incorporating
pathway
landmarks
the
purity of ideal forms
circle,
ellipse and arch.
From
foundations in the base
the
assemblage grows
to
a moment of completeness
when
intelligence
arrives
at an open foramen
and
passes through
into
the inner sanctum
of
the cranium
there
comes a coalescence
into
the wholeness of
a
serene plenitude.
Honoring
this ancient consciousness.
Open
to its blessings.
ALIGNMENT
Freedom
of movement
is
the birthright
of
the entire animal kingdom.
Co-ordinated
movement
of
flexible joints
and
powerful muscles
with
purposeful and precise intention
as
a swallow swoops
to
beak a fly
the
deer leaps
to
clear the fence.
The
Subtle Domain
is
more an exploration of stillness
a
trascendent other
where
focused attention creates
structures
of intelligence
that
align and integrate.
The
flow of intelligence aligns.
Not
some notional imposition
of
muscular intent
but
the very coherence of flow
removes
distortions
locates
and holds the line
of
straightness
brings
both stability
and
free-flowing movement.
Alignment
channels
the
life-enhancing
luminous
flow
of
consciousness.
INTENTION
There
is
a
real difference between
the
intention to control
and
the intention to free.
Control
is cerebral enforcement
an
imposistion on the body
freeing
is
an
enabling of intelligence
and
a liberation.
In
the Subtle Domain
where
cerebral authority
is
devolved to the attention
control
becomes a gentle hand
of
guidance
intimately
co-existent
attuned
to and enhancing
the
unfolding of intelligence.
The
ability to open space
enlarging
inner volume
of
the heel, of the knee joint, of the pelvis
is
the gift of intelligence
enhanced
by
an
intention to free.
When
attention imbues
the
movement of the breath
with
intelligence
the
intention is not to control
but
to free.
And
in Pranayama
when
we do impose on the breatch
it´s
with the very lightest touch
of
guidance.
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