There is a clarity of awareness which functions
at the back of the human brain as consciousness of the here
and now, the living present. It
does not go into the conditioned memories of the past in the
midbrain nor does it project the future in the forebrain. This
center of clear awareness at the back of the head is associated
especially with the faculty of seeing, of visual perception. Neurocognitive
investigations of the functioning of the human brain have shown
the location in general where the brain assembles the information
of light and color from the eyes. The
eyes do not see, but bring the visual information that becomes
what we see at the back of the brain, which our cognitive faculty
then projects in the front hemisphere of our bodily environment,
which gives the surrounding world the character of something
like a brain-generated holographic movie.
Do
you want to go into this incredible subject of neurocognitive
non-duality? If you can keep your attention at the
back of the brain with an intense focus, the forebrain (the
Future) and the midbrain (the Past) will be mostly quiet, still. Krishnamurti
went to great lengths to describe experiences of greater awareness
that he would have with this kind of attention. Tilopa called this Mahamudra,
the Great Position, which in several verses brought out a perspective
of natural effortless Superconscious awareness. This
text is preserved in the Kargyudpa Sect
of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism. These
same Tibetan Yogis call this the process of Lhag Thong,
which means Seeing More. In the teachings of the Naqshbandiyya Order
of Sufis, this organ of advanced seeing is called the Khafi subtle
faculty, which is one of the five subtle faculties that Dervishes
are advised to “activate” and develop. In
the school of the Nagual lineage of New Seers of Mexico as
transmitted by Juan Matus to Carlos Castaneda, this kind of
practice is called Stopping the Internal Dialogue in
order to Stop the World and unfold the experiences of Heightened
Awareness or Dreaming Awake. Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras right from
the start points out that the deliberate cessation of cognitive
functions will immediately reveal the actual nature of our
Spirit-Self, Purusha. So it should be perfectly clear that there
is this extraordinarily important center of Superconscious
awakening potentially existing at the back of the brain. In
fact, the Mahayogis of India call
it the Lalana Chakra,
the Secret Wheel or Vortex of conscious energy of attention, Chitta. No
tradition has an exclusive handle on this center of potential
greater awareness of the sheer living present at the back of
your brain, but all good teachings about it are useful and
inspiring. Krishnamurti
adherents or exclusive followers of course do not like it that
people of Ancient traditions and lineages have achieved his
level of self-realization and even more and better, but that
does not matter for you or I. Krishnamurti’s
particular contribution to all this is welcome and even rather
inspiring. We can take the positive essence of his
teaching without having to become trapped in his exclusive
and dogmatic anti-traditional ego trip he created around himself
over his illusion of being the World Teacher or the most liberated
person on Earth. The old Indian Buddhist Siddha, Tilopa, was far more liberated and superaware than
Krishnamurti was ever able to become. If
you want a really impressive example of superhuman heightened
awareness, try Tilopa and get yourself out
of the Krishnamurti cult.
Now,
assuming that you are deeply and sincerely drawn to extended
awareness of seeing in the present without the brain activity
of the past and future, it might help you to watch the world
enter the back of your head from the surrounding front as the
seed-syllable, “HUHM” when you inhale, followed
by the generation of an objective outer scene from the back
with exhalation of the seed-syllable “SUH”. This “UH” in
each seed-syllable rhumes with the U in words like luck or butt. So the mantra Hamsah (Huhmsuh)
of the Indian Yogis is actually a universal cognition of non-duality
because HUHM in cosmic language means subjective
space or concept and SUH means objective space or concept. Initiation of early Aryan Yogis into Hamsah was given originally by Extraterrestrial Yogis,
in fact. So this
particular important Yoga is actually practiced throughout
the Universe by uncountable extraterrestrial practitioners. In
actual cosmic fact, extraterrestrial practitioners are instructed
to visualize the SUH outbreathing as
also being the expansion of the quantum universe and the HUHM
as the contraction of the quantum universe. Very
few of the Yogis of Earth have been intelligent or cosmically
knowledgeable enough to sustain this kind of cosmic Hamsah of
mental mantra with the watchfulness of breathing, and the poor
Buddhists generally never got into the mantra itself because
it implies belief in Selfhood, Atman. Dogmatic anti-mantric ignorance did not
begin with Krishnamurti! And
of course the Sufis in general would not touch a Sanskrit Mantra
with a ten-foot pole, but have to have something “holy” in
the form of an Arabic Dhikr which
eliminates the cosmic breath for the most part in order to
maintain Islamic neuroconditioning. So, if you can grasp it, which I doubt,
you can do Hamsah breath-watching
at the back of your head as a genuine cosmic yoga without danger
of becoming an ignorant Hindu or identifying with exclusive
Indian Yoga or developing the illusion that Hindu Yogis have
all the answers. Your
innate Buddha-nature is not a mere Buddhist and your Shivatma,
Godself, is not a mere Shaiva Hindu. You
can go ahead and go cosmic with your cognitive non-duality
of perception without having to be either traditional (Hindu)
or anti-traditional (Krishnamurti) or New Age (Da Free
John). You can realize extensive awareness of
the living present even better by transcending all the sociological
turmoil of petty authorities and anti-authorities and quasi-authorities. You might even become incredibly clear
and happy without having to try to prove it to anybody. It could be your first step to the stars
and getting entirely off this wretched planet of proud, ignorant
and neurotic believers and disbelievers.
So
there is this extraordinary center of potential awareness at
the back of your brain where seeing expands beyond the past
and the future in a limitless now which is simultaneously both
Here and There. Do
you understand this personal opportunity? When you put a stop to the past and future
in your brain, you enter into the vast unknown. In
this state of extended awareness, the brain activity is no
longer constricting your consciousness to the pattern of pathetically
normal sensory materialistic so-called practical reality. You can then learn to pick up or lay aside
the stupid “practical reality” at will. You
can act normal with your dumb relatives and neighbors, but
you are no longer personally trapped in their emotionally disturbed
little world of dullness, which is so unbelievably boring and
draining. You can learn to be patient and sweet on the
emotional level but ruthless and cunning on the cognitive reality level, which is
what the Mexican Seers call Controlled Folly of the art of Stalking. This gives you psychological support for
developing heightened awareness. It
is the path of liberation from superficial pseudo-reality without
having to destroy what you personally, physically need on the
everyday level. You leave dull normalcy far behind with
your ruthless cunning of
pretending to remain normal and stupid, while the dull normals are
unaware that you have left because of your patient sweetness. You then have the awakened heart, Bodhichitta, of a Vajrayana Seer, of Void-Wisdom and Merciful
Compassion, which the Sufis call Ruh,
Spirit and Qalb, Heart, which they learned
from the Buddhist long ago in Central Asia, but will never admit because
the Orthodox Muslims would be upset.
So
what is it that actually suspends the cognitive functions of
midbrain (the Past) and forebrain (the Future)? It
is simply the force of attention in the backbrain (the
Present). That
is where the Vast Darkness of the unknown gets lit up. Armed
with non-dual cosmic insight of Huhm-Suh breathing
at the back of your brain, there is no limit to your seeing
if you will sustain your intent for brain stillness and seeing.
Enough of theory. Now get on with it directly
for yourself and see what happens. What
others have realized is possible for you too.
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