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Anahatta
Anahatta
Anahatta
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Anahatta is the Heart chakra and is located behind the
heart and lungs, the thymus gland, cardio-pulmonary plexus and the
the skin and sense of touch. Anahatta works through the balance of
heaven and earth (the mind and beyond-the-mind) and the dynamic of
being. It has been called the muladhara above the diaphragm. From
limited self; it is love that is the cause for us to reach beyond our
eternal, divine.
higher chakras have their basis and beginning, root and support in
sense there is no love without fear – we fear losing love, or losing the
object of our love, or not being worthy of love and so on. Of course, we
can learn to love beyond fear – and this is the lesson of anahatta. The
chakras from the ego. In that space of profound good humour all the
chakras come into a natural balance and vitality – they are empowered
and they evolve. This is why it is said that the best healing practice is
is so?
sense, the love of humans and gods. With this love, though, there is
still selfishness – the ego still has an agenda and a say. This love and
compassion is still good – it is the path we are walking and it holds the
can be) expressed in anahatta, which transform your very being – from
the most rarefied or subtle level of spirit to the very cells of your body.
limited self, the fractured and distorted ego-I. We step from human
Buddhas.
the limited mind; the very nature from which the limited mind arises.
warmth, which is the very nature of tongba-nyi. It is not the end of the
the right track and it also gives us the ability to be naturally good
Just as it is said that our true nature is wisdom and love &
wisdom.
how you feel at the end of your shamatha session. Sometimes there is
a special kind of feeling – everything has just settled and you are very
awake. You feel almost like you are sparkling; you feel very alive.
Everything looks wonderful and even the people and situations that
might usually bring you down or cause you to react negatively – even
they are seen in a new light – it’s not so bad, not so serious, not so
This state of shamatha is, you could say, a spark of the energy of
anahatta. Your heart centre has opened and energized a little more
and in there you find a wonderful warmth for yourself and for everyone
and everything you bring your mind to. And it is easy and spacious and
quite stable and firm – without being stuck or dead in any way. This is
showing us what emptiness is, and how quite naturally, love and
qualities are already present and that stilling the ego-chatter through
Because there is no one there to strike it! In other words, you don’t
have to force or manipulate anything (in fact, you can’t anyway) – all
passion, power and lust into compassion and love. This does not mean
anahatta vitalizes them and releases them from ego’s thrall. Passion,
the fire of the soul burns brighter and with greater enthusiasm –
released from the contraction of ego’s horns-of-dilemma, from ego’s
negativity.
anahatta and raises the vibration of the lower chakras. The greatest
enlightenment.
This allows the energy of Heaven and Earth to meet. The heart is the
bridge between our love and cosmic wisdom, universal love. Our heart
is the bridge from the relative mind to beyond the relative mind. As
such both compassion and devotion as spiritual paths are found here.
more fully one opens the heart and the heart centre, the more fully
to the nature of the heart, we open to the greater in us, the greater-
greater than the ‘I’ that we really see what is there to be seen, really
possible. Without heart, the world and all the people in it are no more
than extensions of your ego. You never really see, hear or touch
anything or anyone. And you, in turn, are never really seen, heard or
touched. While the heart is imprisoned within the fortress of ego you
participating in life. You see, as from the window of a tower, while life
goes on beyond the walls of the fortress. Maybe you feel a sort of
‘safety’, but you also feel cheated – like you and your life are
in this you also feel vulnerable – and you are: vulnerable to your
weaknesses and also vulnerable to your strengths. You are vulnerable