Kundalini in the Supermarket
February 15, 1998
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Meditations
"The best way to take care of the future is to take care of
the present moment...everything that is wonderful must be touched
in the present moment."
--Thich Nhat Hanh
"Our capacity to love is an unstoppable essence that when
nurtured can expand without limit."
--Pema Chodron, March 1998
Shambhala Sun
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Walking into the Albertson's store, the words of Pema Chodron
I have just recently read are simmering within me. "The capacity
to love has no limits..." The music over the loud speakers must
be a valentine's treat, for they have imported concert hall
speakers. It hits me like a wave of eddies and currents. "I can
fly high as an eagle...", the woman is intoning.
This mixes with the brew just fine. I can fly. I can fly high
without limits. I can fly, fueled by the power of UNLIMITED
LOVE. I can fly...
This love wells up within me. A great wave of happiness washes
over me. I have come to this ocean's edge before, certain that
nothing greater could lie before me in the horizon. Surely I
would sink downwards in love-happiness, death coming in a flame
of glory. A flame soon consumed by eternity.
But perhaps not... Maybe I don't have to worry about that. Love
is unlimited. My heart can just expand and expand.
"THERE'S NO END TO THIS!"
I burst into orgasmic brilliant joy. I have never felt so
illuminated. Midway through a mundane supermarket, I am
distantly aware of corporeal reality. Me in the long brown skirt
and sweater, floating down the aisle, ...how am I perceived by
others? Is this rapturous glow visible? They are all unaware.
I must pilot this flight slowly down to earth, or I incinerate.
I breathe, floating to a gentle landing by the time I reach the
other end of the store. Bottles of expensive draught are
stacked in neat rows. Liquid libations to raise spirits. I do
not need these. I breath deeply once more. Plane is securely
landed, pilot still somewhat stunned.
Later thoughts on this. . .
When I experienced this yesterday, I didn't know what it was. I
thought it was just hyperemotional me being extrasensitive. So
I filed away the transcendent emotional experience to memory. It
was by reading one of the books we got earlier yesterday at the
Barnes and Noble that I discovered it was Kundalini, a
treasured and sought after mystical experience. A T Mann and
Jane Lyle in Sacred Sexuality describe it thusly:
Kundalini is simultaneously a spiritual force and a sexual
force latent within every human, which sleeps at the base of the
spine, where it remains as a potent energy. When activated
through meditation or aroused by sexual activity, it rises up the
spine until it approaches or reaches the crown chakra, at which
point the yogi or sexual initiate will experience samadhi
or bliss. When kundalini is understood and its potency properly
channeled, it is a powerful force for spirituality...
It's nice to know it has a name, other than "mental orgasm"!
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