Ra Thursday Evening!

There was a wren chick in the hut in the allotment today. It had feathers and all that, but not skillful enough to go out yet. Couldn't fly very well. It kept falling off the walls and landing on the floor. Eventually, it got up on top of the old clothes horse thing and sat about four feet away at shoulder height (when sitting). One of its parents (0r one at a time!) came and fed it. When I was going out to dig, I checked the nest which is right above the door frame. Nobody left at home.

There is only about four hours of solid digging time left in the allotment now. I did just a little bit today. Didn't matter. Still knackered.

Reading Gopi Krishna's book "Living with Kundalini" has really been good for giving me confidence in the Tibetans. Gopi's has basically got into kundalini yoga though I don't think that's what he was trying to do. Maybe this is the whole point of yoga ... to get the prana (or kundalini) from the bottom of your spine to the top, or into your brain. When the boy had a kundalini arousal which did just that, although he seemed to have asked tons of people, he couldn't find anyone who had actually lifted their kundalini to the seventh centre. This is, I assume, the crown chakra. So there's all these joes going on about kundalini yoga and he can't find anyone who has actually achieved this. He seems to have asked the whole of India and got nowhere.

He should have tried some wee fat baldy guys in the claret and amber. In Tsongkhapa's Three Inspirations, you're told not to use the crown chakra and don't do the vase breathing until you can clearly visualise the three tubes. Gopi nearly died because he was using the crown chakra and the kundalini went up the wrong tube. The Tibetans are also clear that you shouldn't be doing this juju without the help of a qualified master. Gopi had no one to ask or help him when the shit hit the fan.

There are other correspondences. Gopi says when the kundalini starts to flow correctly through your body, you can see it. Well, he could see it doing stuff to his internal organs. This kundalini seems to get in about your body and change it somehow. This reminded me of something I read about Milarepa and Gampopa, the Tibetans at the beginning of all this a thousand years ago. Milarepa sent him away at one point to let these changes in his body go on.

Skillful means is what the Kagyus say they have. Having got this far with this juju, I have to really take my hat off to them. I think it was thirteen generations after Naropa that he said should pass before anyone wrote about the Six Dharmas and then thirteen generations later who showed up but Tsongkhapa, who did write about them and got rid of the dross that had built up in the interim. And now anyone can read about it and the folk who can help you do it are right here in Scotland. How amazing is that!

Here's a nice thought for us here in chilly Jockoland. The sixteenth Karmapa, the head boy of the Samye Ling sect, told some people, including Dr Akong, one of the Tibetans who set it up, to go to the west. Tibet wasn't so good now for practising dharma and the juju needed to move. It moved to Scotland. The sixteenth Karmapa came to the Samye Ling and left a footprint on a stone. This says we're here. If the rest of this juju is correct (I have no doubts about the kundalini/deity yoga stuff at all now), then buddhist saints should start reincarnating here in Scotland, or hereabouts. Wouldn't that be brilliant!

I'm a couple of weeks off finishing a first draft of a book. I just thought of something that's made it a far better idea. I'm going to be filthy rich now of course. Just have to get an agent.