Showing posts with label mind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mind. Show all posts
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Hello,
Here is the next section of theory on ancestral ceremonial practise.
Regards,
Innersound Ancestry
Nowadays we can think of body, mind and spirit like water in its solid, liquid and gaseous states respectively. The solid state is dense, visible and has a finite shape and form; the liquid state is fluid, formless and the dynamic equilibrium between solid and gas; the gaseous state is invisible and eternal. Both the solid and liquid state can melt and evaporate away, but the hydrogen and oxygen atoms that make up the gaseous state never disappear. The hydrogen and oxygen atoms are made in the universe and combine in the material world under the right conditions to make water. The solid, liquid and gaseous states are composed of the same atoms vibrating at different frequencies. Likewise, spirit, mind and body are the same, and whatever affects one will also impact on the others.
The mind, like water in its liquid state, is the dynamic equilibrium between spirit and body. If the mind is flowing, adaptable and non-resistant, spirit can communicate with the body to support its life and guide it to follow the laws of nature. The mind greatly influences spirit and body, and plays the most crucial role in changing and evolving spirit and body. Change can only take place during physical life when spirit, mind and body are together, for after their separation, no more change is possible and the state of body, mind and spirit is fixed. Life is the training ground for the evolution of spirit, mind and body, and whatever we do in this life is what we take with us.
Sunday, 8 April 2012
Introduction to Ancestral Ceremony
Hello,
As an introduction to those who are unfamiliar with the idea of Ancestral veneration through ritual, today I am going to introduce a little of the theory behind the practise.
In the West this practise has mainly died out but throughout the rest of the world from Eastern Europe to China to South America and Polynesia the concept is readily understood. It is my intention to regularly update this site with information both spiritual and anthropological from around the world including my own practise of Ancestral Healing through ancient Taoist ritual. The following is according to Taoist ideas on life and death.
Regards,
Innersound Ancestry
We are born as a result of the union of our parents’ opposite energies of yin and yang when mother’s yin and father’s yang come together, which makes the spark that creates light. This is the original light of creation that we carry in us throughout our lives. Life is the movement and harmonious relationship of yin and yang where body, mind and spirit coexist as one. Death is the separation of yin and yang, and the return to nature of the material elements of earth, fire, water and air. Body returns to earth, spirit should return to its origin, and the mind, if light, rises up with the spirit, or if heavy, sinks down with the body. Depending on the state of the mind, spirit either returns to its origin or remains on the earth.
Eternal life is to live without a physical body and outside of time and space, as material things exist within time and space, but non-material does not. To exist within time and space means that change is only possible when living with a material body and with a mind capable of adapting to life’s movement and changing circumstances. When the mind is fixed, so are body and spirit. A mind that cannot let go of its passions, sorrows and attachments will remain bound to its earthly existence.
People in the past used to think about birth and death differently from the way we do now. They were joyous occasions to be celebrated, as birth represented the incarnation of spirit in matter, and death was the return of spirit to its
original abode and reunion with its source. Spirit was the light of creation and what animated matter, for without it, matter was lifeless. Spirit was the cause and reason for the material world, and what created the body, supported its life, and healed its ills.
As an introduction to those who are unfamiliar with the idea of Ancestral veneration through ritual, today I am going to introduce a little of the theory behind the practise.
In the West this practise has mainly died out but throughout the rest of the world from Eastern Europe to China to South America and Polynesia the concept is readily understood. It is my intention to regularly update this site with information both spiritual and anthropological from around the world including my own practise of Ancestral Healing through ancient Taoist ritual. The following is according to Taoist ideas on life and death.
Regards,
Innersound Ancestry
We are born as a result of the union of our parents’ opposite energies of yin and yang when mother’s yin and father’s yang come together, which makes the spark that creates light. This is the original light of creation that we carry in us throughout our lives. Life is the movement and harmonious relationship of yin and yang where body, mind and spirit coexist as one. Death is the separation of yin and yang, and the return to nature of the material elements of earth, fire, water and air. Body returns to earth, spirit should return to its origin, and the mind, if light, rises up with the spirit, or if heavy, sinks down with the body. Depending on the state of the mind, spirit either returns to its origin or remains on the earth.
Eternal life is to live without a physical body and outside of time and space, as material things exist within time and space, but non-material does not. To exist within time and space means that change is only possible when living with a material body and with a mind capable of adapting to life’s movement and changing circumstances. When the mind is fixed, so are body and spirit. A mind that cannot let go of its passions, sorrows and attachments will remain bound to its earthly existence.
People in the past used to think about birth and death differently from the way we do now. They were joyous occasions to be celebrated, as birth represented the incarnation of spirit in matter, and death was the return of spirit to its
original abode and reunion with its source. Spirit was the light of creation and what animated matter, for without it, matter was lifeless. Spirit was the cause and reason for the material world, and what created the body, supported its life, and healed its ills.
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