Awakening the Sacred Body
by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Berkeley, San Francisco
by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Berkeley, San Francisco
In the second session of Rinpoche's teaching on Five Tsa-lung exercise on October 29, Rinpoche introduced the first two tsa-lung practices. The
practice is important to keep the five sacred chakras in our body clear and
healthy in order to have the wind [prana] flow unobstructed. The five chakras
are: crown, throat, heart, navel and secret chakra. The first Tsa-lung exercise
is “Upward moving wind”; connecting the throat chakra with the crown chakra,
i.e. throat to brain. The exercise is good to develop clarity and to enhance
memory. Sit in a meditation posture, breath in and store it at the throat; turn
or rotate your head right to left five times and left to right five times,
coming back to the original position, breath out instantly from nostril. Mental
aspect of this exercise is clearing the pain-speech. Here the visualization could
be done on pain-speech. The concept of pain-speech is the negative stains due
to bad speech: complaining, back biting, abusive speech, lying etc. Be aware or
conscious of any pain-speech and do the exercise; when let out the breath from
the nostril at the end, imagine all the negativities of the paid speech
clearing out from the crown like a chimney smoking out.
Note the five chakras |
The next Tsa-lung exercise is Inner tsa-lung. This activates and
keeps the life force wind healthy and vibrant. Life force wind in Tibetan is
sog-lung. It holds the life-force, and empowers our mind. Sitting a
meditational posture with your hands on the hip, and breath in deeply and store
it at the heart. Holding the breath raise your right hand and circle it over
your head five times, and do it same by the left hand. Coming back to the same
position, twist your right shoulder five times and your left shoulder five
times; then breath out in one go from your nostril imagining all the obstacles
and obscuration smoke out from the crown. [See the video]. Mental aspect of
this exercise is clearing the pain-mind. All kind of crazy thought you have gets
cleared. Positive result of this exercise is physically it keeps our heart
healthy. Mentally, it enhances our confidence, mindfulness and energy. If the
life-force is weak or gone, we become sick and we die. Drawing clear open
attention to our heart is important. The exercise connects our heart chakra
with the crown chakra; connecting heart and mind.
In the next two sessions in the month of November and December,
Rinpoche will teach on the three Tsa-lung to awaken our mind and body.
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and Geshe Dangsong teaching tsa-lung practice |
Note: this is a student’s note. Error and omission cannot be ruled
out. Serious students are advised to study the book “Awakening the Sacred Body”
by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
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