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THE SERIES --- The idea I have, is what
would a rigorous approach to Organizational Development
Consulting look like if it was from Jaina Ethics
perspective? How would such a perspective help get us
further along with the 17 Sustainable Development
Goals? How are ideas from 2500-3000 years ago
relevant to OD practice. I explain the
consequences of continuing on the path we are on.
I am working through theSacred Texts (read them yourself) https://www.sacred-texts.com/jai/sbe22/index.htm
This is volume 22 of the Sacred Books of the East, Part One of the Hermann Jacobi translation of the Jaina Sutras. This volume includes the Akaranga and Kalpa Sutras…Gurudev Chitrabhanu, a Jain Monk who walked with Gandhi in decolonizing India from British rule, practiced Ahimsa (Sanskrit for Non-violence) that was adopted by Gand hi.
I merge with Gurudev Chitrabhanu (1922-2019), a Jain monk who walked with Gandhi in decolonizing India from British rule. He gave me my Jain name, ‘Arihanta’ in 1994, which means conqueror of inner enemies, and I have only friends, no enemies.
Gurudev
Chitrabhanu, a Jain Monk who walked with Gandhi in
decolonizing India from British rule, practiced Ahimsa
(Sanskrit for Non-violence) that was adopted by Gandhi.
Above photo with his wife Pramodaben, who leads the Vegan
movement in India. I a a practitioner of Jain Philosophy
and Jain Divination.
Jainism Chakra
practices. If you do not practice Jainism, this page is
not for you. Qshamanism invites you to develop your own
individual practices from you spiritual walk in the
Matrix World and the Mythical world of your
calling. We don't impose our teaching on
anyone. I know these two people personally. They
gave me my Jain spiritual name.
I merge with Gurudev
Chitrabhanu (1922-2019), a Jain monk who walked
with Gandhi in decolonizing India from British
rule. He gave me my Jain name, ‘Arihanta’ in 1994,
which means conqueror of inner enemies, and I have
only friends, no enemies.I
journey many times to merge with Gurudev. He is in
Upper Level, level three. I started in 1st
3-year event to sing the Sanskrit song while
drumming. I have been doing it since. Over the
years, I developed my own variation of the Namokar
Mantra Song:
Namo Arihantanam -
I bow in conquerors of inner enemies, I
have only friends.
Namo Siddhanam - I
bow to souls who reach perfection
Namo Ayariyanam -
I bow tosouls who practice before teaching
the masters
Namo Uvajjhayanam
- I bow to souls who experience the true,
the teachers of mankind
Namo Loye Savva
Sahunam - I bow to all saints who follow
their Spiritual Path
Eso Panch Namoyaro
- This five-fold salutation
Savva
Pavappanasano - Destroys all sins
Mangalanam Cha
Savvesim - And amongst all auspicious
things
Padhamam Havai
Mangalam - Is the most auspicious one
With the above
invocation repeated several times
every day the Jains bow with hands
folded in anjali (worship) in the four
cardinal directions, East, West, South
and North.
The following
is based on the books written by Gurudev Chitrabhanu who
in 1995 gave me my Jain name, Arihant, which I
took to mean, 'conqueror of my inner enemies'. There
are also biographical accounts.
I came back to Gurudev 10 years later,very exhausted from
meditating daily on my inner enemies, and asked for a new
name. He said, 'you misheard me, Arihant means You
Have No Enemies, Everyone is Your Friend.' This
changed the way I meditated ever since. He gave me a coin,
with Sanskrit writing on both sides, and said, "You and I
will meet next time and I will explain the Sanskrit
words." He died and we did not have that conversation.
So now I journey with drumming to Upper World to have those
conversations.
Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu. (1978). Realized What You Are:
The Dynamics of Jain Meditation. NY: Dodd, Mead, and
Company.
Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu. (1979a). The Philosophy of Soul
and Matter. Ahmedabad, India: Published by Dhanjibhai P.
Shah.
Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu. (1979b). The Psychology of
Enlightenment: Meditations on the Seven Energy Centers. NY:
Dodd, Mead, and Company.
Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu. (1980). Twelve Facets of
Reality: The Jain Path to Freedom. NY: Dodd, Mead, and
Company.
Dr. N. P. Jain. (no date). Ahmedabad, India: Published by
Swadhyay Mandir Charitable Truest.
Clare Rosenfield. (1982). Gurudev Shree Chitrabanu: A Man
With A Vision. NY, NY: Published by Jain Meditation
International Center.
Figure of the way 7 Chakra
interface with my understanding of Critical Zone of Earth
and the socio-economic, eco-business modeling,
multi-species of Triple Bottom Line (3BL) way business
storytelling is done. November 12 2020 FIRST ENERGY CENTER,
EARTH
The symbol of first energy center is the Golden Lotus on a
square, symbolic of the four elements: Water, Earth, Fire,
and Water.
Question: Who Am I? Is my energy in 'I am' of a family, or I am 'my
position' in society, or I am NATURE (the Earth, Water, Air,
& Fire elements of the BODY). I sit on Earth foundation,
and stand on Earth, in balance. I set on the four elements:
The answer to 'Who Am I?' begins our
exploration of the grounding in the Root Chakra energy.
Question: What is
Earth-Balance of Root Energy?
Answer: Harmony and Balance of Microcosm and the Macrocosm.
Body is 37.2 trillion living cells, in CONTACT with
environment. Body is composed of earth, water, air, and
fire in CONTACT with environment of these elements. A
teaspoon of soil, has 10000 living organisms, millions of
fungi and bacteria, and all the nutrients of earth, plus air
and fire.
When we are in Earth Health, our Body can be Healthy.
For My son, Raymond:
The snake is in contact with
the ground, the energy of the Earth.
The snake is a common shamanic power animal.
The snake does not have fear of the future.
A snake does not hoard, is not greedy, is not attached, is
no insecure.
A snake does not acieve security by accumulation of things
or wealth, etc.
A snake is grounded in their truth.
The task for Level 1: Root, is let go of
insecurity, let go of hoarding stuff, and let go of emotional
programming of desire for stuff.
November 19 2020 2nd Energy Center, WATER
2nd Energy Center WATER Art
by Claudine DesRosiers Gurudev describes the 2n Energy Center symbols as the
Silver Crescent Moon, that becomes a boat. This is
about water element, and how to watch the waves and feel the
currents, and the floods, debris, and pollutants that affect
the Lake of Tranquility. This relates well to Shamanic
Drumming Meditation Journeys to Lower World. Then, to manage
the five Water Gates. Paddle your Silver Crescent Moon Boat
to inspect the Streams of inflow into the lake. There is a
gate on each of the five inflow streams.
The symbol of 2nd
Energy Center, Water, is the Silver Crescent Moon Boat and
5 Gates (Sanskrit words) and meanings Art
by Claudine DesRosiers.
The Five Water Gates (summary from 12 Facets book):
1. Kashaya Gate (Sanskrit) - means inner
passions, attachments of anger, greed, deceit, enter this
gate. The EGO becomes more powerful, Greed of
collecting somethings, essking higher posts, and getting angry
when its not happening. Open this gate to fresh Rainfall,
close it to the debris floating into the Lake of Tranquility. 2. Yoga Gate
(Sanskrit) - a special context of Yoga, getting glued to
enticing things, that pull you in. Example
window-shopping, then getting anxious to or frantic to get the
$$$$ to buy more and more stuff. Anger if cannot have it now.
Lots of collecting $$$ to get more and more stuff, when this
gate left open. 3. Pramada (Sanskrit)
- means indecisive, wishy-washy, and lethargy consciousness,
of going in all directions, push and pull in conflicting
ways. "There is never enough time" so tasks get
rushed to keep up with so man directions of the waves and
currents across the lake. Result" Not caring for one's own
Self. 4. Aviratai (Sanskrit)
- failure to limit things one needs and using in life. This
gate places a limit on possessions. Our body needs 3 hours to
digest anything. Limit food intake. Take in water, 8 to 10
times a day. Balance spices on foods, to not overwhelm taste
buds. Make a limit on your wealth. When is enough enough?
"This is enough" (p. 90 12 Facets). 5. Mithyathva
(Sanskrit) - means "Truth mixed up with lies" (p. 90
12 Facets). Lust taken to be love. Right undifferentiated from
wrong. This is ability to discriminate between compassionate
and hurtful thought and action. "Truth... is all light, it
frees you" (p. 90).
November 26 2020 3rd Energy Center,
FIRE, the Empowerment Meditation
The symbol is fire (red and yellow
flames) that burn the logos of Ego. The fire and logs are on a
10 spoke wheel emitting and radiating rays of light and heat.
This is enclosed in a Triangle. Today I drum for fire energy
of empowerment. The Sanskrit word for it is Manipura.
Mani means Jewel and Pura is City. The 'Jewel
City' where the Indweller, the Invisible Self of Hidden
Em-power-ment dwells. It dwells in the Body, in the
region of the Navel, where the umbilical cord fed us air,
water, earth, and fire for nine months, in the womb. The
element of Fire, is moving every upward, spiraling, radiating
light and energy, called Agni. Agni does not allow
the Intellect of this professor to set limits on ideas of
possibility.
Why 10 spokes. In Jain
Philosophy, Chakra means 'energy wheel. Each of the 7
energy centers has a chakra with different number of rays
of light and heat emanating from each spoke.
7th Chakra - 1000 rays
6th Chakra - 64 rays
5th Chakra - 16 rays
4th Chakra - 12 rays
3rd Chakra - 10 rays
2nd Chakra - 6 rays
1st Chakra - 4 rays (aka the
cardinal directions of Medicine Wheel in Indigenous Ways
of Knowing, IWOK)
Third Energy Center (with its 10 rays
of light and heat) Imagine a small flickering flame.
Yogis do this to raise or lower the heat of their body, to
make it warm let the fire grow upwards. Bring your
attention to the navel (Manipura), the Jewel City (mani
and puram) of inner empowerment. See the fire
flickering, and burning more brightly, sending out streaks of
red and yellow light, and radiating heat through the spokes,
with more rays of light.
It is how to realize your life's mission by not escaping your
own answerability (responsibility) for your participation in
the world. Empowerment is possible by buring the ego logs of
desires, greed, insecurity, attachment, and all the drives for
power-over, the controlling and manipulating to get one's way.
The 3rd Energy Center is about consciousness that can be
trapped in a valley of ego-fog, so the empowerment of peace,
tranquility, serenity cannot be seen. In Intellectual
Shamanism, I burn away the intellect in the fire, in my
particular practice. The Intellect is still there, I am just
on a journey of Self-Empowerment, while buring away the
ego-Intellect, in illuminating fire.
We can drum in shamanic mediation to burn away the power-over,
by being quiet, sensing the inner Being. These are some
questions to help with this meditation:
What is my true need?
Am I copying what others are doing?
Am I seeking to impress others"
Are my mental states, the actions I
swe, a way to impress a circle of friends?
Do I fear others' opinion?
How do I free myself from power-over
influences?
How do I experience an empowerment,
higher state of Being-in-the-World?
Am I stuck in the past, and being
dragged downward, spiraling away from Self-Empowerment?
4th ENERGY CENTER - December 3rd, 2020
the 4th Energy Center Chakra is the Air, how our
Heart expands into an Oval, but inside and outward by the
Breath (the spirit).
My inner conflict corrodes my energy, and conflicts absorb
all my energy of mind, body, and speech. The breathing helps
to clear the Karmic so there is glimpsing of a wise path,
life-style, and creating a pleasant atmosphere of Being and
conversation storytelling. Going into this energy of
Space is about how to be Giving Space to others in our life,
in our conversational storytelling. As I give space to bein in
storytelling-listening of others, they are able to share and
when ready, better able to hear my story. When their space if
full, no listening or hearing occurs.
Silence in between the story sharing is a way to give space
for the listening and reflecting before launching into
replies.
Forcing my story onto people does not give space for them to
express their story or concern. And it bounces the
energy back through space onto me.
The first three energy centers,
the Earth (root & grounding), the Water (Moon boat on
Lake of Tranquility), and Fire (the 10 spoke wheel of heat
and light, with Triangle flies red and yellow).
Each Indigenous Way of Knowing has
its own colors and images. These are ones I have been
studying. The first two were drawn by artist Claudine
Desrosiers. The energy elements are moving around us, and in
us. We can feel the awareness expanding, when we are in the
flow. Each event in our life brings new depth of
understanding.
The Sanskrit word for 4th energy center is Anahata
(that which is ever new) and “that which is constantly
resounding without being still, and “that which is
self-sustaining” (p. 43 in the 7 energy centers). Other
traditions call it by different words. The heart beats
continually and so does Real Love. It is ever-flowing.
The image is a heart expanding within and without, in
an every widening blue-sea, called a zero-point, by my
teacher. Others have different imagery. The meditation is on
a dot of light, of expanding blue light, the spiritual
breath, as the perfect Self within, breathes in and
out. Love is the divine element, there breath of
life (breath is often translated as spirit). “Love is
acceptance and acceptance means giving the people around us
room in which to live, to ponder, to learn” (p. 42). It is all
about finding balance in the energy centers. “Balance is
bliss” (p. 81 the 12 R’s). “Our real state isto be in balance”
and Bliss is “Being with one’s own Self” (IBID). Without
balance of the energy centers, It is like being in a story sea
with waves in all directions. I like these meditations
because, it is a way to connect with what is true internally
and externally.
As David Attenborough put it in Life on Our Planet “We are
ultimately dependent upon and bound by the finite Natural
World”. To me, that is all about understanding the quantum
energy of the elements of Nature, and that we are
Nature-bodies
4th and 5th energy centers are closely intertwined.
December 10th, 2020 the 5th Energy Center, Heart (love) expanding into Space The mantra, is Aim, links to vibrations of wisdom that evolve in love and heart (and relates to AIR, the Heart Chakra. SPACE OF THE VOICE is grounded experience of practice, instead of abstract book knowing. Words and stories spoken with Love and heart energy Space. It relates to our giving space to not only our telling, but giving space for others to listen.
In the 5th Heart Chakra, love expands into a space of
openness. If my storytelling is filled with anger,
resentment, jealousy, and other such attunements, then it is
not possible to do storytelling-listening with Love and Heart
space of 4th and 5th energy centers are intermingling
energies.
December 17th, 2020, the 6th Energy
Center, Third Eye. An orange color is two inter related 3rd
Eyes, on a narrow vertical opening and closing eye, or our
ego. The vertical, a more spiritual eye, also opening and
closing. The mantra Sanskrit word it Ajna. Gurudev
Shree Chitrabhanu describes this energy center as a sort of
watch tower with the two overlapping 3rd Eyes. Out of the
watch tower a rainbow of lights shine forth. These two, 3rd
eyes of control of my incoming thoughts (words, concepts) and
its a way to control thoughts that keep me awake at night.
Each Third Eye opens and closes on the inflow and the innner
monkey mind of thoughts. Gurudev taght me to watch my
thoughts, as they flow on a the waters of my consciousness,
and this is a way to let them go, and closing and oping both
eyes works as self-controls of my thinking process, clearing.
I create my own worlds. I observe the whole world I am in.
I sow what happens in happiness or in misery, and I reap what
lies hidden in this crystallized-thought world, and can
discern and detect eh outside influences, as I meditate on my
own reactivity. I am not there yet. I am learning to discern
and detect by observing my thoughts through the two 3rd eyes.
In sum, the vertical eye of wisdom and the horizontal eye of
ego looking out with its attunements. I would like to propose to do this as part of the annual
Quantum Storytelling Conference (https://davidboje.com/quantum)
as an option for participants to experience Shamanic Drumming
and this 6th Energy, the Third Eye.
December 24 2020 7th Energy Center - the Crown with
thousand rays of light and energy
Seventh Energy Center
This is the place of oneness, conjoining.
Separation is pain, union is peace. A place you are no
longer pushed and pulled by the waves.
Sanskrit
word: Sahasrara – Pure Consciousness of Self
Symbol: Thousand petals/ thousand rays
emanating from the center of the chakra (hub of the wheel)
Quality: Higher Consciousness
Area: Crown of the head
Color: All the colors turn White
Mantra: Om Arhum Namah “I bow to the
worthiest energy which I am:
Element: Consciousness of Self = divine love
energy
Source: Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu, 1979, The
Psychology of Enlightenment: Meditations on the Seven Energy
Centers).
In this meditation you see the oneness of
the universe, with o difference between people, all in unity
with them. All duality merges into oneness. No separation
between subject and object.
Be still. Experience the seventh energy, the
waves and ripples of life’s surface subside until only “I
am” remains. Divine energy.of your oneness with life-force.
Receive and shre this oneness energy. Visualize thousand
petals as rays of white lotus light, welcoming the sun. All
the colors which costume life turn into pure white light.
Repeat mantra: om arhum namah (I am the worthiest energy,
pure energy; I am nothing but absolute energy” “I bow to
that absolute energy which I am” (p. 75). My life’s
mission is to receive and share this divine energy. I am sohum (that), the divine love.
You see yourself in others. You are one with
the changing physical world. Problems have not become
smaller; you have become bigger. Dwelling by finding
security in material things will see strange at higher level
of awareness. Things become visible that were unknown when
you dwelled in lower energy. Doubt that once engulfed you
will evaporate from new outlook. Old habits of negative
thinking fade away. Love from heart energy center will begin
to be noticed as by others around you. “They will wonder
why, in the presence of such a free outpouring of love, they
remain so closed” (Chitrabhanu, p. 66). The mission in life
is to receive divinity and share it. Share without
attachment. No ‘my’ or ‘mine.’ Division between ‘mine; and
‘thine’ disappears. No attachment to what the majority does.
Not wasting energy on anxiety on others definition of you.
Their perception limited to their background and their
blindness. “People’s actions are dictated by the way they
perceive themselves and the world” (p. 71). See all living
beings as our brothers and sisters. Express pure flow of
love. “Touch the hearts of all you meet” (p. 72). Experience
oneness with the universe. My energy is no longer consumed
in criticism or pursuit of approval.
Observe how you live, act and react in
relationships. Understand the world from highest level of
consciousness from state of balance. This is your Real
Nature. “Our whole future is contained in the present
moment: (p. 73). So there is no need to worry about the
future.
The are several meanings of dharma. One is truth, to live your
inner truth. “If an action fits with this truth, then you
do it. If it does not, you reject it. It is not
justifying; it is acting in accordance with your inner
measuring rod. Truth becomes your permanent inner
companion: (1980: p. 150, 12 reality facets). Another
meaning of dharma, to see things as they are. Our nature is to be loving,
caring, uplifting, and truthful. To maintain balance on
the waves that are ever-moving (samsara). Truth is my inner teacher
Shamanic
Drumming is a way to experience the surge of empowerment
energy spiraling upward, a way to go between several worlds.
As you mediate and drum on your intention, your attention to
self-empowerment, can melt the fog and let you experience the
Indweller, and let you sense the Highest State of Inner
Clarity, as a storyteller. Taking the path of the upward
empowerment spiral, is a journey out of bottom level
confusion, indecision, and irresponsibility, to the
Do-Be-Do-Be-Do, of answerability, in spontaneity.
What follows are some ways I am applying this energy work:
Antenarrative On the empowerment
spiral upward path, you can drum to see the end of the road
BEFORE you started this journey, and the goal-beforehand, with
clarity. This is about a prospective sensemaking (by the five
senses, plus a 6th sense, the BEYOND, an intuitive-world
sense). It is possible you have already traveled this future
path, now arriving (BECOMING of Care in spacetimemattering)
and its BETS on the FUTURE (choice among so many futures
arriving here & now). You can have an antenarrative sense
of deja vu, that the BETWEEN of this networking has
been traveled again and again. BENEATH the words and thoughts,
a senseing of a spiral-upwards to Self-Empowerment, learning
to rise to a level of awareness of the spiritual path, by
embracing the whole of consciousness, you may see your own
living story has been evolving.
Who animates this body?
Could it be the Indweller? Who leaves my body when I die? Is
it the Indweller doing in the planning, organizing, and
managing, all the Do-Be-Do-Be-Do?
4th Energy - Air - the beating heart
orb that expanse in limitless ways of caring
3rd Energy - Fire - Burning ego logs
of power-over, and the worry, anxiety, and fear go up in
smoke
2nd Energy - Water - the Silver Moon
boat on Sea of Tranquility
1st Energy - Earth - the Earthly
Body, on foundation, ground of 4 elements.
I have a Jain name, Arihant. and this
mantra 'Om namo arihantnam' which means "I bow
to those souls who have conquered their inner enemies" because
everyone is my friend, and I have no enemies (p. 25, Gurudev,
7 Energy Center). Example of Finding Common
Ground of Empowerment-With For the East Mesa Trails
(EMT) project, I did this morning meditation today (Nov 26
2020). As I approach the many organization participants and
neighbors in a state of peace, joy, love, and serenity, with a
caring heart, then by Self-Empowerment the Indweller who by
Shamanic Drumming, journeys to Upper World and Lower World,
and Between is there. My Invisible Self, the Indweller,
remains after my body decomposes and the living cells die
away.
This is the common
ground of Core Shamanism and my Eastern Philosophy of Jainism:
the indestructible energy of the Indweller, Mike ThreeBears
named 'Surrenders to Spirit' and Gurudev names 'Arihant'.
I have annotated the
triangle to re-imagine the usual Triple Bottom Line (3BL) from
a Terrestrial Ethics and True Storytelling approach to
bringing about habitat restoration of 'East Mesa Trails' where
I live. It is something I am considering to present for the
Intellectual Shaman presentation I give on December 4th 2020.
It extends from the Water conference presentation Sabine
Trafimow and I gave on 18 November 2020, on moving from story
of separation to story of conjoining. The Triple Bottom Line
resituation was presented with Grace Ann Rosile to Kenneth
Jorgenson's conference in Aalborg, on Storytelling and
Sustainability, on Tuesday 24 November 2020. And
Professor Mogens Sparre and I (2020) just published an
article on Organizational Development Journal on how to
revitalize habitat using a reconstructed Triple Bottom Line
approach to participative action research. The image I
integrated in today's meditation:
I had a dream Nov 26 2020 AM, about how to approach the East
Mesa Trails (EMT) habitat restoration project. It could be a transorganizational
development network of many agencies, non-profit
organizations, and neighbors bringing about a transformation
using a process, Michael Jones (folklore & mythology
professor) I call ICEND
(Interactive, Communicative, Experiential Network
Development). ICEND is something I worked on as a
professor at UCLA between 1979 and 1986. ICEND is a process of
transformational restoration to habitat cycles, in what Latour
calls the 'critical zone' (that Earth's crust, water, and
atmosphere where life takes place). My name 'surrenders
to spirit' now means energizing meditation practices to be a
change agent for critical zone restoration in New Mexico.
The Critical Zone for
Restoration of East Mesa Habitat is the Lithosphere,
Hydrosphere, and Atmosphere. The Water Cycle is
interpetetrating with the Nutrient, Sulphar, and
Phosphorous Cycles that interconnect the Critical Zone
spheres so Life Happens on the Desert of New Mexico
This is
breathing In and Out Air between Self/Body and Nature, in an
ever expanding energy of Love, in Mauve color. An orb at the
center that we expand outward Loving energy. I will invite Claudine
DesRosiers to do a wondrous image of this.