Practices like this underline the fundamental importance of the ability to attend in self-cultivation. The premise of this is that there are these divinities - that is, life thats inside you. And one easily can become distracted. So, the practice of meditative visualization is: you imagine the different parts of your body, you imagine these crucial organs and you visualize the presence of these divinities within each of these organs. Because there are all of these things that are distracting you, that are pulling you out, that are pulling these divinities out of you. And the danger is that as you get distracted, these divinities will depart from you and leave you depleted. This is probably the single most fundamental paradigm of Chinese medicine - that theres a life force within you and as you get distracted, various things pull this life force out, so that this distraction leads to a kind of loss of self, to self-absence. And what happens when you become depleted is then you have all these spirits that invade you. These evil spirits invade you because youve lost yourself. -Shigehisa Kuriyama
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 02:43:41 +0000
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