Eeyore's Dream · 21 January 2008

Singers and dancers and running backs work it for a living, but ashtangis would make it a mystery.

It is hydraulic-pneumatic. It switches on and off. It exists in the world. 

It is the flopping fish in a wise man’s throat, and the Boschian flowers that sprout from his down-dog when the coccyx does the thing that brings delight.

It is the source of earthly bliss? (Is it more than earthly?) 

Some teachers will tell you it is the source of delusion! The maker of unconscious dead dreams. A temptress, perhaps?

It’s wound up in snake lore, for sure.

What is it?

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Oddly today ESJ sent this:

The mind is like a serpent, forgetting all its unsteadiness by hearing the nada, it does not run away anywhere.

Hathayogapradipika 96

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P.S. For those who have written to say that reading this journal makes you crazy: Well, writing it makes me sane. What do you do?

It's really not that weird. And if I open the text by force, it’ll become an energy drain for me instead of an energy release. You know how that works.

Don’t get me wrong: it is only hyperactivity and good intentions. No truth-claims! Nothing serious. And nothing suspicious except for other people's secrets. (Lauging.)

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1. “what is bailey’s”?

   esj, i like yours better, my svatmarama has, “upon hearing nada, the snake of the mind qiuckly forgets everything, becomes absorbed, and doesn’t slither anywhere.” but, it’s v.97 in my akers translation. v.96 is totally about mercury mind and sulfury nada.

   Posted by: eor · Jan 22, 12:24 AM · #

2. “what is tequila”?

   Posted by: eeyore · Jan 22, 12:33 AM · #

3. amazing that your words are so strong that they could drive someone crazy!

   tequila is the soul of margarita. tasty.

   Posted by: cranky housefrau · Jan 22, 03:22 AM · #

4. You drive me nuts on a regular basis….And the answer is performance enhancing steroids.

   Posted by: Susan · Jan 22, 07:03 AM · #

5. Susan, you really should take it easy on the steroids?

   Posted by: (0v0) · Jan 22, 08:48 AM · #

6. How can your blog drive some other person crazy? I don’t get it.

   Posted by: Carl · Jan 22, 02:35 PM · #

7. Off topic – those are some cool photographs you have there!

   Posted by: Anna · Jan 22, 03:52 PM · #

8. Thank you. If you create a flickr account and send me a friend request, you can see the personal ones.

   Posted by: (0v0) · Jan 22, 03:54 PM · #

9. Answer: the subtle body. The forgotten ground of earthly delight?

   Here is a podcast, mentioned by Karen, that might bring all these matters—the RF’s image of fish in the throat (or in the hollow of the belly), the nada, the serpent, the “master key,” all together. Well, probably not by interwoven explanation, than at least by association. I haven’t listened to this one though.

   Posted by: (0v0) · Jan 23, 09:56 AM · #

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