hi friends
events and happenings are the things which make us feel the time is flying.... these are landmarks of our hopes, plans and achievements... we live in them as we happen to live in past and in future, and this concurrently goes on with us as in the present moment too... the passing of time and occurrence of things is somethings which we make the essence of our physical life...
yet there are things which acquire the character of immortal, which we often refer as 'ever-green', things which dont pass by passing of time.. things which remain alive, and which make us feel that somethings are outside the grip of so fastly moving time moments.... such things, for example memories, associations, and a lot more... are the essence of our feeling good about them... such things are our recollections, treasure, an d a lead to the link of our divinity, of our immortality....
these things are the imprints and may be physical, metnal, emotional, spiritual, and so on... what i really want to ask all across board, is how many times you have been to such events, things, moments, etc. which you feel have imprinted immortally on the basic fabric of your memories, your relations, personality and so on...
it would be a real favour if you could share somethings about your loved ones who have long been passed away, but whose presence you still feel with you, and the fragrance of whose memories make you feel smile (or tearful at the same time).... those who live with you without being living with you in real life...
on the same note, some impressions, some encounters, some blissful moments are such that they never wither away with time... would be great if you could share the experiences of visiting some sacred, holy place, of visiting some spiritually evolved personalities.... anything that you feel has spiritually imprinted on your soul (and heart)
but first of all, take care!
Edit:
in understand the reason after reading your edited post Wayne....lets just see the article in our preferred scenario now Smile
spiritual imprint was a word that caught my thought process when i was thinking about reiki initiations... i have still to find a clear image of what actually happens when we are initiated into reiki... we hear that symbols are placed in us, in our aura maybe, in our energy centers... the thing that i dont understand instantly that how a thing like symbol would be placed anywhere in us which has a different realm...
we have energy centers, that we know, and something to be placed in our energy center, needs to be of the same species... everyday logic... but do symbols have innate energies of their own ??
about a year ago or so, you sent me some material where CKR and SHK were linked up with earth chi and heavenly chi, inferring that each one has a specific energetic signature of its own... that might not exactly mean that symbols generate energies per se... do they ??
symbols (please correct me) are a definition.... an de-encryption code that lets our inner correspond and interact with something hitherto not accessible... concentrating of symbols has always given me a feeling of being connected to Usui, instead of being connected to any energies....
as a matter of their own right, symbols are characters, nothing more nothing less, but since they have been empowered by Usui Sensei to do a specific thing, they do that (i.e., initiation)
it is very strange that we use the words "initiation" and "attunement" when we talk about objectives of symbols.... and both words pre-suppose that there is a live thing with which we are going to be attuned or in which we are going to be initiated... but what that thing is ?? energies or Usui's atmosphere ? i think symbols make us borrow spiritual atmosphere from Usui, and then make us readjusted to develop our own faculties of spirituality and divinity, withought losing thread of Usui's spirituality as a nice sweet accomplice Smile
so symbols are the spiritual imprints that have been imprinted to a specific area of the spiriutal universe, and so, they are immortal like every other spiritual imprints, but not as a matter of their present existence, but to the moment of imprint in Usui's life when they were imprinted by him......
i know i m lacking propoer exposition of my thoughts here, but things are too complex for me to explain correctly Smile
when we invoke symbols, we invoke that particular moment when Usui empowered the symbols with his spirituality... this is in quite contradiction of the phrases that we live in the "now", but honestly i cant help myself since the phrases of past, present, future lose signficance when i try to talk about things like that Smile
NON-REIKI EXAMPLES OF SPIRITUAL IMPRINTS
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--- signature / feelings felt on shrines of saints
--- feelings / sensations felt on certain points while walking through the woods
--- the feeling that the same event has passed already, and we have been through the present moment already...
--- the feeling of a channel being developed when trying to address/tribute prophets, saints and other spiritually evolved people
--- talking with the dead ones (their souls maybe)
--- different halos of items made of clay, wood and iron... each one having a specific feeling, not shared by other...
oh, i m boring myself too Smile Smile
take care
salman
events and happenings are the things which make us feel the time is flying.... these are landmarks of our hopes, plans and achievements... we live in them as we happen to live in past and in future, and this concurrently goes on with us as in the present moment too... the passing of time and occurrence of things is somethings which we make the essence of our physical life...
yet there are things which acquire the character of immortal, which we often refer as 'ever-green', things which dont pass by passing of time.. things which remain alive, and which make us feel that somethings are outside the grip of so fastly moving time moments.... such things, for example memories, associations, and a lot more... are the essence of our feeling good about them... such things are our recollections, treasure, an d a lead to the link of our divinity, of our immortality....
these things are the imprints and may be physical, metnal, emotional, spiritual, and so on... what i really want to ask all across board, is how many times you have been to such events, things, moments, etc. which you feel have imprinted immortally on the basic fabric of your memories, your relations, personality and so on...
it would be a real favour if you could share somethings about your loved ones who have long been passed away, but whose presence you still feel with you, and the fragrance of whose memories make you feel smile (or tearful at the same time).... those who live with you without being living with you in real life...
on the same note, some impressions, some encounters, some blissful moments are such that they never wither away with time... would be great if you could share the experiences of visiting some sacred, holy place, of visiting some spiritually evolved personalities.... anything that you feel has spiritually imprinted on your soul (and heart)
but first of all, take care!
Edit:
in understand the reason after reading your edited post Wayne....lets just see the article in our preferred scenario now Smile
spiritual imprint was a word that caught my thought process when i was thinking about reiki initiations... i have still to find a clear image of what actually happens when we are initiated into reiki... we hear that symbols are placed in us, in our aura maybe, in our energy centers... the thing that i dont understand instantly that how a thing like symbol would be placed anywhere in us which has a different realm...
we have energy centers, that we know, and something to be placed in our energy center, needs to be of the same species... everyday logic... but do symbols have innate energies of their own ??
about a year ago or so, you sent me some material where CKR and SHK were linked up with earth chi and heavenly chi, inferring that each one has a specific energetic signature of its own... that might not exactly mean that symbols generate energies per se... do they ??
symbols (please correct me) are a definition.... an de-encryption code that lets our inner correspond and interact with something hitherto not accessible... concentrating of symbols has always given me a feeling of being connected to Usui, instead of being connected to any energies....
as a matter of their own right, symbols are characters, nothing more nothing less, but since they have been empowered by Usui Sensei to do a specific thing, they do that (i.e., initiation)
it is very strange that we use the words "initiation" and "attunement" when we talk about objectives of symbols.... and both words pre-suppose that there is a live thing with which we are going to be attuned or in which we are going to be initiated... but what that thing is ?? energies or Usui's atmosphere ? i think symbols make us borrow spiritual atmosphere from Usui, and then make us readjusted to develop our own faculties of spirituality and divinity, withought losing thread of Usui's spirituality as a nice sweet accomplice Smile
so symbols are the spiritual imprints that have been imprinted to a specific area of the spiriutal universe, and so, they are immortal like every other spiritual imprints, but not as a matter of their present existence, but to the moment of imprint in Usui's life when they were imprinted by him......
i know i m lacking propoer exposition of my thoughts here, but things are too complex for me to explain correctly Smile
when we invoke symbols, we invoke that particular moment when Usui empowered the symbols with his spirituality... this is in quite contradiction of the phrases that we live in the "now", but honestly i cant help myself since the phrases of past, present, future lose signficance when i try to talk about things like that Smile
NON-REIKI EXAMPLES OF SPIRITUAL IMPRINTS
==========================================
--- signature / feelings felt on shrines of saints
--- feelings / sensations felt on certain points while walking through the woods
--- the feeling that the same event has passed already, and we have been through the present moment already...
--- the feeling of a channel being developed when trying to address/tribute prophets, saints and other spiritually evolved people
--- talking with the dead ones (their souls maybe)
--- different halos of items made of clay, wood and iron... each one having a specific feeling, not shared by other...
oh, i m boring myself too Smile Smile
take care
salman
Last edited by Milarepa on Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:46 am; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : merging posts to make concise)