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File: 1416694903145.jpg (163.71 KB, 934x534, 467:267, Dharma.jpg)

 No.2[Reply]

http://www.redicecreations.com/radio3fourteen/2014/R314-141119.php

He’ll tell us about Bodhidharma, the blue-eyed, red-bearded barbarian who had tremendous influence over the Orient. We’ll also discuss the link between Europeans and Ancient China as Caucasians roamed China’s Tarim Basin 1000 years before East Asians. Ali talks about how “red bearded barbarian” was a common monikor for foreign monks who proselytized Buddhism among the Chinese. We’ll talk about modern depictions of Buddha as Mongoloid vs. the more ancient sources that depict him with Nordic features. We cover many subjects from the swastika, to Aryans, Nordic warriors, martial arts, Zen meditation and much more.

 No.9

>>2
Listening to it right now.

 No.14

>>2
Really interesting.

 No.23

>>2
This is fucking great.

 No.24

>>23
Finished it. This guy is pretty fucking dumb. The premise of his book is fine, and I am a subscriber of the prevalence of the general ancient aryanism, but Christ, there's no better way to prove someone a retard than to give them a microphone and let them speak for an hour.

 No.48

>>2

I buy that Bodhidharma was european - possibly celtic or swedish. I drew that conclusion on my own.

However, I do not buy that an indian prince was from Europe, and I'm not wasting an hour to listen to such a ridiculous theory.



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 No.15[Reply]

Advice and stretching to achieve Padmasana and Siddhasana: http://zenmontpellier.voila.net/eng/lotus/lotuseng.html

Padmasana is better suited for Zen. Siddhasana's benefits are for yogis (mainly brahmacharis) who want to raise their kundalini.

>By forcing the lower back straight due to the position of the hip joints, the back can finally become completely straight. Padmasana, when perfected, feels as if the Yogi is sitting upon a throne.[…] It allows the yogi to maintain an upright sitting position with no physical effort during deep meditation.
<Extract from: Yoga. It's Method and Practice by Fra Veos>

 No.16

The following will also be an extract of the previous book:

Padmasana:
By far the most popular Asana. It translates as “lotus pose”. The Yogi sits with his left
heel against the hip on the right thigh, with the right heel against the hip on the left thigh. The
heels should be high enough so that the strain in the ankles are minimal. At first, most westerners
will have a hard time with this pose. You will feel pain in your knees. This is due to inflexibility
at the hip joints. There are some exercises to help you gradually reach Padmasana:

1) Put the right heel into the crevice of the left elbow and pull it up infront of the chest. The right
arm reaches around the leg and grabs the left hand. This resembles the cradling of an infant, with
the infant being the leg. Slowly cradle it left and right so that you feel the stretch in the hips and
hamstring muscles. Do the opposite with the left leg.

 No.17

2) Place the right heel on the left hip in half-padmasana. The right leg should be on top of the left
leg. The left leg should be folded in as if sitting cross-legged. Sit with spine completely erect. If
the stretch is not felt in hips and thighs, then keep back straight while slowly leaning forward to
place the forehead on the ground or against the knees. Make sure that the right leg is flat on top
of the left leg. The knee should not be up in the air due to inflexibility. If this occurs, take the
right hand and slowly push the right knee down. Do the opposite with the other leg.

 No.19

3) Take the right heel and put it on the left thigh as in half-padmasana. This time, the left leg
should not be directly under the right leg. Instead, the left leg is placed (still bent) slightly in front
of the right leg so that the knee of the right leg and be pushed down to the floor without
interference from the left leg. This being done, stretch forward and place the forehead against the
left heel, which should be a few inches in front of the right knee. Hold this for 20 seconds, or as
long as comfortable. Do the opposite with the other leg.

 No.20

Once steps 1-3 can be done comfortably, then the heels will be able to be placed in full
padmasana. At first aim for 20-30 seconds. After a week or so, try to get a few minutes and
gradually increase the time according to common sense.

 No.46

Translated from sanskrit:

>Advice and stretching to be able to sit in the Lotus position and the Accomplished pose: http://zenmontpellier.voila.net/eng/lotus/lotuseng.html

>

>The Lotus position is better suited for zen meditation. The benefits of the Accompished position are for yoga practitioners (mainly those who wish to practice sexual self-restraint) who want to activate the primal energi which resides in the base of the spine.

Now when we have vacuumed up all the occult/mystic hindu terminology from your sentence, we can examine your statement. I mean why use the sanskrit "asana" instead of the english term "meditation" or "sitting"? Zen uses the term "zazen", which is just the japanese word for seated meditation.

The Lotus position can result in hip joint infections and knee damage if the sitter lacks flexibility in these joints, probably because the body simply isn't meant to bend that way, no matter what indian or japanese "wise men" tell you. The position is also meant to cut off the bloodflow to your legs, so you better get comfortable to doing lots of sitting, because soon enough, with your crippled legs, that's all that you will be comfortable doing.

…and as for the existence of primal energies, that's a hindu concept. The closest japanese concepts would be thq "qi" referred to in taoism and martial arts.



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 No.22[Reply]

Hello /zen/,

I am the new board owner of >>>/psy/. I have rebranded the board to encompass the entire shamanic tradition and the mystical as well as the obvious first topic. I do believe most of the topics covered on this board would be more than welcome on /psy/.

This considered, I was wondering if you'd be interested in a board friendship of sorts. If you ever get a board sticky I would be willing to trade referral links in them.

 No.26

Buddhism has nothing to do with drugs or mysticism.

 No.27

File: 1418228748780.jpg (29.38 KB, 320x318, 160:159, image.jpg)

Buddhism hardly has anything to do with zen.

 No.36

>>26

Would zen not be about mysticism, the masters would answer their students questions with plain words. Figuring things out on your own, is what zen enlightenment is all about. "If you meet a man, tell him the three quarters of the Way, and never tell him the rest.", Mumon wrote.



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