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meditation on the rhythm of breathing

inspired by The Radiance Sutras, a
new translation of the vijnana
bhairava tantra

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bharita: nourished, full, lled with

Beloved, show us how incarnate beings

can know innity. This is the request of
Devi, The Goddess who is The Energy
of Life, to Shiva, her eternal and
inseparable partner.

Shiva In case you have forgotten all

those lifetimes you had in India is
short for The One in Whom We All
Dwell. Devi is denitely Shivas better
half. She loves bodies, and sometimes
places herself in the position of a yogi,
to evoke teachings from Shiva for the
benet of those of us in bodies. The
songs they sing together, of love and of
life, are always resonating in our hearts.
Thevijnana bhairava tantra is the lyrics
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Devi adds with a smile, How can I

know you, be lled with your
nourishing essence?
Shiva begins his reply:
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Through direct living experience.

The way of experience begins with a

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breath
Such as the breath you are breathing
now.
Awakening into luminous reality
May dawn in the momentary throb
Between any two breaths.
As the breath is released and ows out,
There is a pulse as it turns to ow in.
In that turn, you are empty.

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Enter that emptiness as the source of all

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The breath ows in and just as it turns

To ow out, there is a ash of pure joy LikePage Share

Life is renewed.
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Awaken into this.

urdhve prano hy adho jivo visargatma

paroccaret |
utpattidvitayasthane bharanad bharita
sthitih |

There is always more to Sanskrit than

the surface meaning of individual
words: the resonance and cadence of
the sounds, plus grammar, puns, and
alliteration. The Bhairava Tantra is a
manual of practices, so each word
alludes to a series of meditation
practices. You have to start somewhere,
though, so here are shortened
denitions from the Monier-Williams
Sanskrit-English dictionary. Terms
marked with an * asterisk are
summarized from technique-oriented
Tantric literature.

Urdhve upward moving, rising or

tending upwards; raised, elevated,
erected, erect, upright, high, above,
height, elevation; anything placed above
or higher, to go upwards or into heaven.

Prana the life-force, lled, full, the

breath of life, respiration, spirit, vitality,
life, a vital organ, vital air (three or ve
in number prana, apana, vyana,

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samana, udana), breath (as a sign of

strength), vigor, energy, power, (in Ved?
nta) the spirit identied with the
totality of dreaming spirits, poetical
inspiration.

Adhah downward movement.

Jiva the principle of life, the breath,

vital breath, living, alive, healthy,
causing to live, vivifying; any living
being, existence, individual soul, the
living or personal soul (as distinguished
from the universal soul; one of the eight
Maruts (the storm gods, wind gods,
children of the ocean), the earth; a
bow-string, and in geometry, the chord
of an arc.

Visarga creation, birth, sending forth,

letting go, liberation, emission,
discharge, voiding, evacuation (of
excrement), opening (of the closed
hand), getting rid of, sending away,
driving out the cows, dismissal, letting
loose,, giving, granting, bestowal,
scattering, hurling, throwing, shooting,
casting glances, producing, creation (in
the concrete sense), product, offspring,
membrum virile (penis).

Atman to breathe, to move, to blow;

the breath, the soul, principle of life and
sensation, the individual soul, self,
essence, nature, character, peculiarity;
the person or whole body considered as
one and opposed to the separate
members of the body.

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Paroccharet the manifestation of the

Supreme Goddess, the transcendental
utterance of the breath mantra, upward
thrust of the breath, buoyancy, upward
rising. *

Utpatti origin, creation, generation.

Dvitayasthane at the two places. *

Bharanat attentive awareness, close

observation, *

Bharita nourished, full, lled with

nourishment.

Sthitih state, situation.

This sutra suggests hundreds of

breath meditations. Here are a few
ways in to practice:
Exhale and release yourself into the
ocean of air in which we live and
breathe. As you become empty, savor
that emptiness. Merge with it. When
you breathe in, AH! What a wonder, a
delight, to become lled again with the
nourishing surge of life.
Revel in the ow of the exhalation up
through the throat, and out into the
innity above. Dissolve into the
vastness of prana. Then there is a
turning, and as the breath ows in you
condense again into individuality again,
your jiva.
As you exhale, think prana, and just to
add texture, tilt your head upwards
slightly, turn your face to the sky and be

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grateful for the innity of air above and

all around you. As you inhale, tilt your
head downward slightly and think jiva, I
am a living soul.
As you breathe out, think the word
purifying. As you breathe in, think
nourishing. In each of the turning
points, think pulsation (or rhythm or
turning). So through the four parts of
breath it would be, Purifying . . .
pulsation . . . nourishing . . . pulsation.
Exhale with the inner sound sah. In
the turning, mmm. Inhale with the
sound ha, then mmm again in the
turning.
Pick one of these practices, and for
three to ve minutes, be lightly aware
of the technique Think the words gently
in your inner world. Then let go and just
enjoy the ow of breath. Feel the magic
of it, as you are renewed and
rejuvenated by the energy of prana,
breath by breath. Meditation is not
pranayama, so do not use any effort at
all. Discover your love of breath and let
that be the power source of your
practice.
We breathe in and out every few
seconds, an ever-present way for an
individual to feel nourished by innity.
This is the ongoing rhythm of life. With
each breath, we have the freedom to
receive this ambrosia we call breath.

The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra describes

112 Yogas of wonder and delight
touching the divine in the midst of daily

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life. Dr. Roche does one-to-one

coaching with individuals wishing to
evolve their daily meditation practice
and trains Yoga teachers how to teach
meditation. For more information call
(310) 570-2803.

Dr. Lorin Roche has been practicing and

teaching from the Vijnana Bhairava
Tantra since 1968. He has a PhD from
the University of California at Irvine,
where his research focused on the
language meditators generate to
describe their inner experiences. The
Radiance Sutras, a new version of the
Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, is available
from Lorins website: lorinroche.com or
email questions/comments to:
lorin@lorinroche.com.

Lorin Roche
Dr. Lorin Roche began
practicing with the
Vijnana Bhairava Tantra
in 1968 as part of
scientic research on
the physiology of meditation. He has a
PhD from the University of California at
Irvine, where his research focused on the
language meditators generate to describe
their inner experiences. He is the author
of The Radiance Sutras and Meditation
Made Easy. With his wife, Camille
Maurine, he wrote Meditation Secrets for
Women. A teacher of meditation for 46
years, Lorins approach centers on how to
customize the practices to suit ones
individual nature. Lorin leads the
Radiance Sutras Meditation Teacher
Training, a 200 hour certication

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program registered with Yoga Alliance.

Lorin teaches regularly at the Esalen
Institute and around the world.

http://www.meditationtt.com

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