Through
the cultivation of love, one can stop the relentless commerce of
hostile interaction, transmute negativity into love, friendliness, and
toleration and as a result achieve a true perception of ' the other '
rather than a scared reaction. This is a much more joyful way of
dealing with social stress rather than being subject to
reactionariness. The more this practice is cultivated and realised, the
greater and more immediate is the hearts power to do this. Tong Len
makes real forgiveness an immediate, easy and joyful practice.
Citi-Zen uses Tong Len meditation as its basic method for realisation of, and practice of the power of love to transform fear based conflict .
This realisation is unfolded through the scientific structure of
mediation discussed above. An understanding of this science prevents
the practitioner from a detour in ineffective, rhetorical idealism.
Tong Len is a Buddhist meditation, however its basic structure is
similarly found in other spiritual paths like Christianity, where Love
and forgiveness are the core elements. Tong len presupposes a certain
consciousness of love with which to begin. This is facilitated through
Basic Kriya Yoga meditation (see Kriya Yoga, in the role of Self
realisation), indeed as the Christian way is to love God first, then on
this strength to love those around you as yourself. As in Hindu Yoga
where harmlessness based on an awareness of the divine in all things is
a foundational principle. The word Islam means peace and its
foundational principles are peace, tolerance and compassion.
In
Citi-Zen Tong-Len meditation the object to realise is the same non-dual
energy field of the soul, however, through its utility 'in
relation' to conflict, power and the world, etc. In other words how to
practice using the non-dual energy of the
soul. Through the realisation of the souls energy and it relationship
with the world brought into conscious alignment, one can then transform
the problematic nature of the world in relation to, and into the
transcendent peace and power of the soul. Citi-Zen provides a
practical, direct and astute means of its realisation, through using
these immediate social problems and their transformation through love
as its core structural concern in realising the practice - and therein
the value and meaning- of spiritual love. This is not an abstract
ideal, but a viable means of transforming an emerging crisis field into
a field of joy and laughter. In Citi-Zen tong Len one has a practical
tool through which to experience, train and master the principle love
practices contained in many religious path, however in a non-religious,
non-sectarian format. Practical tools help make ideologies tangible.
Citi-Zen Tong Len can indeed arrive at the realisation of the souls
non-dual bliss by using the contemporary world problems as the means,
in the same way that a fire consumes rubbish blocking a road, becoming
brighter, clearing the way and the view.
Tong
Len, as employed in Citi-Zen, uses certain unique structures of
unfoldment, practice and development guiding one to respirate as the
soul in everyday contexts. The human energy field can be easily
cleansed and lovingly maintained via Tong Len which develops more
intensely the power of the heart energy to transmute suffering into
love and joy. In the same way that one must light the fire in order to
burn the rubbish, so must one ignite the hearts love in order to
transmute suffering into light.
Every
mass of matter is a mass of energy. Whatever physical matter/energy,
energetic/matter, emotional energy/matter or mental energy/matter,
which are held in focus by some dualistic relationship, can be
transformed by collapsing their dualistic disposition thus releasing a
non-dual light energy. So with vital, emotional and mental energies
which are the material of conflict.
The
microcosm being but a refraction of the macrocosm also means that if
one masters a principle within oneself then one has also mastered it
everywhere else. The Vedic sage Patanjali, stated in his seminal work,
'In the presence of one perfected in harmlessness, all hostilities
cease' (yoga sutras of Patanjali book 2:35), and on these premise and
physics certain Buddhist and Taoist mediations also function. Conflict
is a question of relationship, or rather conflict exist in relationship
of one or more things to an or more others. It is a question of
duality. Thus if one resolves duality within oneself into a non-dual
energy one has mastered conflict potential and in the embodiment of
this through the circumstantial world, becomes perfected in
harmlessness and a protagonist of peace. To develop such skill is
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