BEYOND LIFE AND DEATH

生死を超える

BEYOND LIFE AND DEATH

「BEYOND LIFE AND DEATH」

 

ビヨンド ライフ アンド デス

ビヨンド ライフ アンド デス

 

 

CONTENTS

PREFACE In Search of True Happiness …vii

PREFACE to the Second Edition …xi

PREFACE to the Revised and Expanded Edition …xiii

 

PART 1

FINDING THE KEY TO THE ULTIMATE HAPPINESS

The Origination of the Twelve Conditions

 

Chapter 1: To Those Who Seek True Happiness …23

◆ Kundalini Beckons Happiness …23
◆ I Have Found It! …23
◆ Welcome to the Spiritual World …24
◆ The Path to Enlightenment Which Buddha Sakyamuni Left …25
◆ Everything Begins with the Awakening of Kundalini …26
◆ Chakras, Which Control One's Spiritual Level and Supernatural Powers …27

 

Chapter 2: Ease Begins with Suffering …30

◆ The Origination of the Twelve Conditions Is Everything! …30
◆ There Is Suffering; Hence There Is Faith …32
◆ The Awakening of Kundalini …33
◆ Kundalini Brings Incredible Ecstasy …34
◆ Arousing the Nectar of Immortality …36
◆ Scriptures Describe Only Up to Ecstasy …37
◆ Ultimate Happiness - the Stage of Joy …38
◆ Calmness Is the Key to Meditation …41
◆ Ease - the Source of Infinite Energy …44

 

Chapter 3: Samadhi, Which Makes Everything Possible …45

◆ What is Samadhi? …45
◆ The Heat Yoga - The Inner Fire …46
◆ The Bardo Yoga - The Experience of Death …47
◆ The Moment of Death …48
◆ The Termination of Past Life Karma …50
◆ The Death of the Practitioner …51
◆ Jump into the Light! …52
◆ One's Previous Karma Determines One's Rebirth …55
◆ What Bardo Yoga Makes Us Realize …56
◆ The Dream Yoga - You Are the Creator of the World …57
◆ The Yoga of Illusory Body - Transcending Time and Space …58
◆ The Light Yoga …59
◆ The Akashik Records …59
◆ The Disintegration of the Ajñā Chakra …60
◆ Everything Is Made of Light …62

 

Chapter 4 Toward Enlightenment …65

◆ Omniscience - Knowing the Truth …65
◆ Retreat and Detachment …66
Enlightenment Is the Passport to Nirvana …66
◆ The Yoga of Transferring Consciousness - Pho-wa …67

 

PART 2

THE SPECIFIC TECHNIQUES

How to Awaken Your Kundalini in 4 Months

 

1. Āsana is the Base for Everything …71

● Vajrāsana (The Adamant's Posture) …72
● Vīrāsana (Heroic Posture) …73
● Swastikāsana (Favorable Posture) …73
● Siddhāsana (The Adept's Posture) …74
● Padmāsana (The Full Lotus Posture) …75
● Śavāsana …79

 

□ The Bending Forward Āsanas …80

● The Gas-Releasing Posture …80
● The Heron's Posture …82
● The Head-to-Knee Posture …84
● The Posterior Stretching Posture …86
● The Frog's Posture …88
● The Knee-to-Nose Posture …90
● The Black Bee Āsana …92

 

□ The Stretching Āsanas …93

The Locust Posture - One Leg …93
The Locust Posture - Both Legs …94
● The Full Locust Posture - The Whole Body …95
● The Cobra's Posture …96
● The Bow's Posture …98
● The Camel's Posture …99
● The Bending Posture Using a Wall …100

 

□ The Twisting Āsanas …102

● The Alligator's Posture - Both Legs …102
● The Alligator's Posture - One Leg …104
● The Spine-Twisting Posture …106
● The Triangular Posture with Twisting …108
● Bending Posture with Twisting …110

 

□ The Āsanas Meant to Make the Neck Flexible and Strong …113

● The Spade's Posture …113
● The Spade's Posture - Variation 1 …114
● The Spade's Posture - Variation 2 …115
● The Inverted Action Posture (Viparītakarani) …116

 

2. The Breathing Exercises to Awaken Your Supernatural Powers …120

● Anuloma Viloma Prānāyāma …120
● Nādī Śhodhan Prānāyāma …122
● Agni Pradipta Prānāyāma …124
● Dīrgha Shwasa Prashwasa Prānāyāma …126
● Shanmukhi Rechaka Prānāyāma …128
● Sarva Dwāra Baddha Prānāyāma …130
● Vāyavīya Kumbhaka Prānāyāma …132
● Bhrāmarī Prānāyāma …134

 

3. The Mudrās, Which Makes One Closer to Gods …135

● Mahā Pūraka Mudrā …136
● Mahā Rechaka Mudrā …138
● Mahā Pūraka Bandha Mudrā …139
● Mahā Rechaka Bandha Mudrā …140

 

4. Meditation - The Four Doors to Happiness …141

● Meditation That Brings Happiness …141
● The Four Stations of Mindfulness …142
 1. This Body Is Impure …142
 2. All Senses Are Suffering …144
  ○ The First Step: Knowing the Suffering When Senses Become Weak or Lost …144
  ○ The Second Step: Knowing the Suffering Which Results from the Changes of Things …145
  ○ The Third Step: Knowing the Suffering of Seeing and Hearing the Things You Don't Like …146
 3. The Mind Is Transient …147
 4. Fixed Ideas Are Not of the True Self …150

 

PART 3

FROM AWAKENING TO ENLIGHTENMENT

The Process to the Final Stage of Enlightenment

 

◆ Faith - The Basis for All Things …156
◆ Awakening - The Door to Other Dimensions …169
◆ The Horrible Devil's Abode …181
◆ The First Dhyāna, Bliss - Strong Ecstasy that Penetrates the Body …191
◆ The Second Dhyāna, Joy - The Joy and Ease That Rise Up from the Bottom of the Heart …203
◆ The Third Dhyāna, Ease - The State of Perfect Relaxation …213
◆ The Fourth Dhyāna - Pure Consciousness and Respiratory Cessation …224
◆ Divine Legs - Transforming at Will with the Incarnation Body …232
◆ Divine Ears - Listening to the Voices of Gods …240
◆ Divine Mind Reading - Seeing through Other People's Minds …247
◆ Divine Knowledge of Past Lives - Knowing Our Past Lives …253
◆ Divine Knowledge of Future Lives - Knowing our Future Lives …259
◆ The Extinction of Flux - Perfect Understanding of the Afflictive Desires of Others …269
Tantra Yoga …273

 

日本語版 Japanese Edition

cf.

「生死を超える」(日本語版)

「BEYOND LIFE AND DEATH」(Japanese Edition)