Bodhicitta Meditation III

Mark Griffin states at the beginning of this meditation:

“When navigating tempestuous waters in your life, in your sadhana, the Bodhicitta is the absolute, fail safe, Go-To position of consciousness. It will integrate you deeply at the level of awakened heart and awakened mind, entire architecture of the four bodies and the SoHam. The infinite ocean and the infinite creation. It lends completely dynamic and functional stability in absolutely any situation. When you are moving in intense waters of purification and clarification you should generate the Bodhicitta daily. It will clarify and purify afflictive emotion, confusion, unclear views, misunderstandings. It will lend clarity to any situation. It also kindles the angels of love, generosity, kindness, patience, and it lights the lamp of courage in the heart.“

After the meditation, Mark had these additional comments on this particular meditation (these are not included on the CD itself):

“This way of meditating on the Bodhicitta is a form of “Vase” sadhana where the energies and polarities, the polar opposites, are brought into a point of equilibrium with the heart mind. By bringing the red and white energies, the kundalini and the white Bodhicitta to a point of focus in the heart, you can deliberately drive that energy into the karma-producing channels, capture them, make them of one flavor, stop them and draw them into the center. In this way the forces of the cycling of life and death are brought to a point. This also draws energy to the center.

The seat of the Bodhicitta, the seat of the heart, is the center of the human form, with three higher and three lower planes in almost total equilibrium. After this meditation, as you cycle the SoHam you’ll find a very large reservoir of energy at the center of the rising and falling energy. You’ll also find that the space of emptiness and the space between the breaths have become dramatically amplified. This is one of the kinds of meditations that really benefits from duration because you’re quite literally pressing the electrical force of the creation through the formation, and as it does so it purifies and clarifies. All of the hemispheres of the human form become very clearly articulated: the descending and ascending energies of front and back, left and right, red and white, and you’ll find a very sharp division begin to form at the cardinal points and at the diagonal points, in which the pranas are constantly flowing. You are articulating the true shape of the egg, drawing the energy up from the Earth. The rising force of the kundalini and the descending force of the ocean, the white drop, align at the heart. It becomes easier to become grounded and operate with a clear resonant vibration. It begins to spontaneously throw off the vibrations of afflictive emotion and mental confusion. As you sit in this mode for hours and days it has a very intensely accumulative magnetic force and will quite literally begin to bend reality.”

This is a 60 minute guided meditation Mark led on August 7, 2008. It’s followed by 20 minutes of music for an extended meditation, for a total length of 80 minutes.

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