Chakras 7 Spiritual Sourdough: We have written in the past that learning to bake will help us understand our yoga practices. When it comes to understanding chakras, we can learn more from not looking at them or trying to influence them. If we are trying to open the apertures, we are barking up the wrong tree. In the West yoga does not work the same as in the East. If we believe that a few poses or stretches can change our karma we are very much mistaken.
Karma, now this is an interesting aspect. If we are not particularly nice, can a few stretches open the heart, can a few stretches change how we speak to people? This is an individual question. If this was the case, there would never be any gossip or misrepresentation of others in our yoga studies. Think about it.
How does this tie into making sourdough? We shall explain. Sometimes to understand something we need to look at it a different way. Before we do, we will digress for a moment. There are many worthy people to listen to who help us look at things in a different way. A positive way, I like Sadhguru. He tells a very interesting story about karma; he explains that good people always have karma. If they didn’t, they would just float away! We will come back to this.
Chakras 7-Spiritual sourdough
There is also Alan Watts another interesting person to listen to. Alan tells the story of a person going to find a guru, and when they do find him and they find out that he smokes, they were shocked. Then they find our he has a girlfriend! Shocking we know! Lol. Alan explains about this being considered salty and gives the guru better flavour. A little bit of salt isn’t bad!
Why are we sharing these stories, because these stories will help us shine or reflect. They can open the mind to a new way of thinking, just like understanding sourdough. They can open our minds to the God consciousness within, the life within.
To get our sourdough started we need to make a starter, a little ‘flower’ and some water in a jar left open, we let the spores in the air and environment create the chemical reaction to bring life to the starter. We then nourish this daily, we feed it daily, until it becomes strong enough to leaven any bread that is to be made from it.
We then, when our starter is strong enough, add it to more flower and water. What we must not forget, the right amount of salt to add. I have done this, and the dough burst out of the container. Let us now think back to Sadhguru’s story.
What has this got to do with chakras? We need to understand the role of salt in our sourdough first.
The salt controls the rise of the sourdough.
Those who practice yoga can understand much from salt, again at some point we will write on this. If we think back to Alan Watts story about the guru, the salt makes the guru more salty (we will explain shortly). It will also make our bread taste better. However, we are still missing something.
Chakras 7-Spiritual sourdough
It is only until we add these pieces of truth together can we glean more truth, and that is Alan is talking about the karma of the guru. Sadhguru is talking of the importance of karma or salt, but also what anchors him to this life. Yet there is more to this.
A few stretches won’t change our karma, going to pay someone to open our chakras doesn’t work as well as having someone trying to balance our chakras. This is interference. The stretching, the expansion of thought is the test to see if we have learnt the lessons which have been taught.
1 limb is useless without the others. Poses without spiritual discourse, without sourdough, wasted. An hour workshop, someone waving their hands over our chakras will not change a thing.
Looking to our sourdough, the word starter, let’s change that to spirit. It is the spirit which leavens the bread, the spirit transforms, it becomes the influence that modifies, it becomes the agent that transfigures the bread. Only through transfiguration, does it alter our karma. Let us consider the word alter now in a different way.
We are the bread. Can a few poses really open our chakras. I could be the best at headstands in our class, then leave and be horrible, nasty, greedy to name a few. Does that headstand counteract or atone for my behaviour. Think about it?
Chakras 7-Spiritual sourdough
Now going back to the stories that we mentioned, we can look at salt in a new way. The salt, our karma controls the rise of our spirits. We continue to add salt we slow the rise. If we do not have enough salt, we will burst our container. Again, the gospel of Matthew put this in a simple way.
What this tells us, is that our vessels, us as people must change. We cannot hold the rising of the spirit, new wine, until the vessel has refined, has been strengthened. We have improved as human beings. Until we overcome our own karma, actions and deeds, nothing is going to open without self-change. Here in the West, there is a word that means all our chakras are open. That is, to be,
Christed.
When our brother, friend and teacher Krishna returned home, the source of light changed. It moved from an external position to that of within. He had brought balance to the spirit and physical form. Only through Krishna could the spirit now communicate. This meant we are now taught from within.
The spirit is the broker of change.
External poses are now no longer needed. Battles can be now thought from within. Negative thoughts and action that increase the salt – karma and slow the rise of the spirit can now be challenged and overcome internally. This being said our spirits are following a path of soul evolvement with many ups and downs. The spirit is in control, all we can try and do is feed our starter, our spirit, our flowers.
We give them what they need to bloom. Yet again salt is important, it was once used to stop meat going bad. In other words, to preserve the meat. Salt prevents corruption of the flesh, again the story of the guru has more significance. We can be ambivalent; we can hold opposite views. Just as a fleck in the eye stops us seeing clearly, it also helps us understand not seeing clearly.
So just as we may want to open a chakra, it is just as important that it is closed. Closed for a reason. A closed chakra can help us see clearly and if Krishna’s flute has taught us anything, closed ‘wholes’ are necessary to create beautiful harmonies. It is symbiotic, it is our own karma, dharma. It is our own behaviour, our thoughts which act as poses. The teacher is within, the Christ is within.
Change comes from within, the starter, the spirit, the broker, the agent, the alchemist.
We hope you have questions?
LB
Our next Day of Healing is this Saturday the 12th of July at Crosby Library, 10am-1.30pm. If you wish to know more about these topics, come along for chat. The team will also be offering help and healing for any that may need it. Any that may be grieving, lost, battling addiction, suicidal thoughts, in pain or suffering. Problems in mind, body and spirit then these days are here for those.
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Yogic lessons. Krishna’s flute