I been emailing Shiva Ki over the past few months. I have one of his Mercs and he is currently working three other knives for me. He has lead an incredible life and has experienced many things that most people will never face. He has been extremely generous with me in sharing some of his experiences and some of the wisdom that he has acumulated during his life. I have his permission to share some of this with the folks here on Blade Forums.
There are many lives that we live, but we cannot carry these
memories from life to life as these are stored in the brain within
this form, and these die along with this form. We do however reach
a point of evolution where we do have memories of these previous
lives, within our spirit. These take place only in forms that have
evolved through many lives. I remember a number of past lives.
Thus beliefs are illusions, reality is, stick your hand into a fire
and it hurts.
How do you know something about your past lives? What most
facinated your youth? Cowboys and indians; Knights in shining armour;
Chinese life; Japanese life; Hindu philosophy? The jungles of the
world.? You carry these interests, most strongly, from life to life.
Meditation is the simplest and the hardest to do. Easiest because
meditation is the cessation of all doing, thinking. Hardest because
in the process of training your mind all your life to figure out and
control and maipulate your life. Now you can`t shut it up. This is
called the monkey mind, always jumping about, chattering, habitually.
When you are calm and quiet, your mind at peace, at rest, this is
the state of meditation. The quickest way to get there, to quiet the
monkey mind, is to make your attention single pointed, only one thing
to do. Watch your breath as it flows into and out of your nose. Make
that breath deep and slow and purposefull. Feel it flow in pause flow
out, pause. Rimbaka is four equal lengths. All four sections of your
breathing should be equal. In, pause, out, pause. Slow and
purposefull.
Now the monkey mind has a single point of attention. One step from
meditation. In Zen, they sit and focus on a single rock in a pile of
rocks. That is outside and easier for distraction. Watching your
breath turns your attention within and easier to maintain that
single pointed mind calming state. In time, you will learn to not
think unless there is a problem or such to deal with. The rest of the
time, be quiet inside, let the mind be still and quiet like your
car just sitting in your driveway, doing nothing untill you need to
use it and go out and turn it on, untill it`s work is done, then you
shut it off. Meditation is not something you do, is the cessation of
all doing.
If you do Blade Forums, you should post these bits of teachings
in this and previous e-mails. I am sure there are others who would
learn much from these wisdoms.
Thats why they call me a Masters Master. Because I can so casually
teach those greatest challanges and secrets of the inner world.
Now you know, the greatest challange for you is to now follow these
teachings, practice these and let them become a natural part of your
being.
Meditation is not something you do; It is the cessation of all
doing. A quiet mind, an empty mind, happens naturally when you cease
all thought. Is a bi-product of not doing, not thinking; And the
sneakyest thought to overcome is you thinking; I`m not thinking.
There are many lives that we live, but we cannot carry these
memories from life to life as these are stored in the brain within
this form, and these die along with this form. We do however reach
a point of evolution where we do have memories of these previous
lives, within our spirit. These take place only in forms that have
evolved through many lives. I remember a number of past lives.
Thus beliefs are illusions, reality is, stick your hand into a fire
and it hurts.
How do you know something about your past lives? What most
facinated your youth? Cowboys and indians; Knights in shining armour;
Chinese life; Japanese life; Hindu philosophy? The jungles of the
world.? You carry these interests, most strongly, from life to life.
Meditation is the simplest and the hardest to do. Easiest because
meditation is the cessation of all doing, thinking. Hardest because
in the process of training your mind all your life to figure out and
control and maipulate your life. Now you can`t shut it up. This is
called the monkey mind, always jumping about, chattering, habitually.
When you are calm and quiet, your mind at peace, at rest, this is
the state of meditation. The quickest way to get there, to quiet the
monkey mind, is to make your attention single pointed, only one thing
to do. Watch your breath as it flows into and out of your nose. Make
that breath deep and slow and purposefull. Feel it flow in pause flow
out, pause. Rimbaka is four equal lengths. All four sections of your
breathing should be equal. In, pause, out, pause. Slow and
purposefull.
Now the monkey mind has a single point of attention. One step from
meditation. In Zen, they sit and focus on a single rock in a pile of
rocks. That is outside and easier for distraction. Watching your
breath turns your attention within and easier to maintain that
single pointed mind calming state. In time, you will learn to not
think unless there is a problem or such to deal with. The rest of the
time, be quiet inside, let the mind be still and quiet like your
car just sitting in your driveway, doing nothing untill you need to
use it and go out and turn it on, untill it`s work is done, then you
shut it off. Meditation is not something you do, is the cessation of
all doing.
If you do Blade Forums, you should post these bits of teachings
in this and previous e-mails. I am sure there are others who would
learn much from these wisdoms.
Thats why they call me a Masters Master. Because I can so casually
teach those greatest challanges and secrets of the inner world.
Now you know, the greatest challange for you is to now follow these
teachings, practice these and let them become a natural part of your
being.
Meditation is not something you do; It is the cessation of all
doing. A quiet mind, an empty mind, happens naturally when you cease
all thought. Is a bi-product of not doing, not thinking; And the
sneakyest thought to overcome is you thinking; I`m not thinking.
