I wanted to kind of finish my observations of the chakras for others here who are interested in the inner mechanism. This entire area of study is really not related to spirituality as such. It's sort of like an infant discovering it's physical fingers and toes for the first time. That is not spirituality either. That notwithstanding, I would like to continue and maybe finish off some observations for the readership of kind of my major research interest in life, that has developed over the last eight years as a result of my yogic and meditative practices. I try to only include direct personal observations in all these posts because what has been written on this subject in old dusty books may or may not be true, often steeped in misunderstandings and ritualistic interpretations that are culturally flavored, and cloaked in odd terminology. So a couple of additional footnotes:
1. Muladhara Chakra: This is a huge chakra with a hole in the center, same as Ajna has in it's center(As they say "As above, so below") Always symetry. It is below the sexual constellation of chakra centers, and infact melts into them. It is indeed root shaped as it's name implies. The roots of Muladhara extend down into the legs and feet, forms a pancake loaf of energy vortex over the buttocks, sacrum, extending into the perineum, hips, and up into the sacral plexuses, prostate gland in the male, and fuses with the lower aspect of the sex chakra Swadisthana chakra. It has much less sharp edges than most of the other ones because it is so very large.
It is closely associated and fused into Swadisthana's components and could even be considered as a single structure with Swadisthana, though for our purposes as procreative creatures, we enjoy reveling in the sexual chakra, dwelling on that, drooling on that, obsessing on that...That's OK, we are sexual beings and so naturally feel so.
2. As noted in my last post and implied in the quotes by another author regarding Tibetan terminology, there are three component parts of Swadisthana in both men and in women. See above note. Incidentally, there are no variations of chakras between one person and the next of the same sex, except to the extent that some of us have different facial characteristics, and even between men and women surprisingly little difference to those who "see" these things.
3. So Muladhara is a very large, irregular, even amorphous structure, and Swadisthana is the top pancake on top and fused into its upper part. Manipura, the abdomen is also very large, filling the abdomenal cavity, but totally separate from the two lower ones.
4. Anahata is very large, filling the chest completely and bursting out into infinity on occasions in my experience, It has concentric features like peeling an onion, containing the soul with a chamber there(Hrit Padma). The latter is fleetingly visible as a little flame. It is our true "center" in every respect,if we have true dispassion and don't dwell with awareness continually at the two lower ones just mentioned. In fact that's the great risk of the "Hero's Path" of sexual tantra of never seeing the trees from the forest because dwelling alot on the sexual centers causes a fixation that interferes with further meaningful psycho/spiritual development. The latter requires total dispassion in that respect, so be advised, you left handed ones.
5. Kala chakra above Anahata is smaller, but very worthy of awareness development of course.
6. Vissudi and Ajna I will skip over, escept to say that Ajna has a hole in it's center same as Muladhara. So we are actually a hollow tube filled with vital energy, but as the Buddhists say, we are "empty."
7. Sahasrara is not a chakra, but a display of lights against the sky. This is our destiny, later on.
8. And finally, there are no chakras really, at all! Just one seething energy structure, with our awareness roving here and there within that. With meditative practice, we learn to develop "one pointed awareness" which focuses our awareness(like a ball of refined energy" upon this chakra or that. If we have been thinking about sex all day, at night while we sleep, our awareness stays seated in that chakric field. If we spent the day with awareness seated at the Heart, with caring, loving , compassionate thoughts, and doing acts of kindness to others all day, our awareness will be seated in the chest, and we can experience that energy center at first awakening from sleep. But meditative practice gives us the one pointed focus to make these perceptions in the stillness, at 3 AM! Hey it's 3 AM in Portland Oregon, where I sit typing. Time for the first meditation of the day. God bless. (The above was typed in ten minutes without corrections nor looking back.)
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