Permission to have experiences = wealth * BP Lama Jyotishavidya


	Jyotishavidya Practice Prajna-para-mita Buddha	tadyatha om gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha Healing the Money Space cintamani mani * money* *Acquiring the Money to Accomplish Authentic Goals* Strategic and Tactical Aspects of Spiritual Planning Money = a type of Permission to Create from https://www.lotussculpture.com
	" Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness." ~~Ram Dass
	"Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use." ~~ Charles Schultz, cartoonist, "Peanuts"
	God Says Yes To Me by Kaylin Haughi " I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic and she said yes I asked her if it was okay to be shori and she said it sure is I asked her if I could wear nail polish or not wear nail polish and she said honey she calls me that sometimes she said you can do just exactly what you want to Thanks God I said And is it even okay if I don't paragraph my letters Sweetcakes God said who knows where she picked that up what I'm telling you is Yes Yes Yes." ~~~ " God Says Yes To Me" by Kaylin Haught, from The Palm of Your Hand. © Tilbury House Publishers, 1995.
		Acquiring cintamani mani * money* =s like acquiring groceries at a supermarket. As you know from experience, if you go into the supermarket without a shopping list, you are likely to (a) buy a bunch of stuff you don't need and (b) forget a bunch of stuff that you do need. The solution, as your mother has probably emphasized, is to always go shopping with a list. In other words, you need to have a plan. Acquiring money to support and develop one's life goals= remarkably similar to acquiring foods for eating. Without a plan, one is likely to (a) spend what money one does have on a disconnected assortment of random things and experiences (b) exhaust the funds before one has bought the things and experiences that are truly needed and wanted. The solution, not surprisingly, is to have a plan. What is Surprising = one does not need a financial plan (at least not in the beginning). One needs a spiritual plan. A spiritual plan is necessary because of the nature of cintamani mani * money* . Money is not a fixed substance. Money is magnetic spiritual energy. This spiritual energy is attracted to positive spiritual goals. Like attracts like. Money = energy which travels along the channels which interconnect one's spiritual goals. A Spiritual Plan can serve to consciously establish a hierarchical network of spiritual goals, which feed and inform each other. Similar to the way blood flows through the pathways of the earthen body , cintamani mani * money* can be understood as a nutrient energy which flows between and among those positive goals. Money is magnetically attracted to authentic, positive goals. Money will not flow toward negative concepts. cintamani mani * money* will not flow toward goals which others have set for you on your behalf, but which are not authentic to you (will not make you happy). If you treat money as a way of solving problems, the money will be repelled by the negative fearful energy of the problem s, and will not flow toward the problems. cintamani mani * money* is permission energy, not problem energy. Conversely, if money is directed toward a pure positive goal such as service of the divine, acquisition of knowledge, expression of freedom, fulfillment of happiness, enjoyment of health, service to humanity, etc. it flows beautifully. Here is the spiritual blockage underlying most adult money problems in this outwardly healthy economy: most modern persons were socialized to interpret money as a part of the adult problem-set. Thus, financial problem validate one's dignified adult status. Typically, the model states that that kids have fun, but adults have responsibility. Adults are trained to associate money with social-class obligation, rather than with creative fun. Although artists, musicians, and other creative adults may re-educate themselves to think creatively with available assets, for the average adult that is childlike behavior. It is irresponsible. Fun is for kids. Adults use money as a way of validating their responsible sober lawful mature status - which is to say, we understand cintamani mani * money* as a type of problem. Even the most capitalized adults think of themselves as carrying a burden of responsibility in regard to the socially proper use of money. The nature of the proper use depends upon social class rank. Typically, the generalized expectations by class = working class = money is for spending on immediate needs middle/commercial class = money is to be shrewdly managed upper/entreasured class = money is for maintaining privileged connections Since conventional financial planning is problem-oriented, it contains quite a bit of negative thought. Phrases such as protection against illness and death, or security in bad economy = common slogans of professional financial planners. That is why people who are stuck in seeing money as a problem rarely benefit from conventional financial strategies until the subject of money loses its negative psychic associations, and their positive spiritual goals are clearly established. Of course, a few people in each generation are born into exceptionally high-capital-entreasurement families. These persons are given superior educations which train them to perform high-level ministries of service. Due to the confidence [faith] embedded during their upbringing, their lives are brimming with worthiness and they live essentially free of financial anxieties. They may have some important personal emotional puzzles to solve, but they are not blocked financially. Every enrolled student in the School-of-Earth receives the same weight of learning burden = karmic taskload. The quality of learning experiences does vary; the details vary; but the quantity is approximately the same for everyone. If Money is not their Shani-fear problem then some other situation = designed to enforce the repeating lessons which eventually transform ignorance into [akashic memory patterning]. Every enrolled student is working through their own carefully crafted, exquisitely individualized Learning Curriculum. Unfortunately, you may have trouble finding a Certified Spiritual Planner . You will probably need to form your spiritual plan * alone in meditation * in consultation with the ishtadevata god of your heart. (Or with a capable Jyotiṣika!) If you are interested in doing that, you may want to know some basic principles of money-energy management and the steps to recognizing that you have all the *resources* that you need Determine your ultimate life goals. Be in the spiritual Center, where view is clear. Marshall all of your resources behind those goals. Be on the spiritual Offensive - advancing toward your Goals! Be very, very diligent about other people's energy blocking your progress toward your goals. Be on the spiritual Defensive - warding off threats to your troops as they advance toward their objective!
		*Step One:* Meditations on Being Rich, in which you Determine your ultimate life goals. The absolutely most difficult step = to Escape the Victim Space . "Victim" = "victual [vittle]" = "food". Victims were originally human sacrifices to appease the angry/hungry gods. The victim/predator paradigm presumes the passive acquiescence of one who has been chosen to be sacrificed. Using the victim lens, it is only possible to see that things are happening "to" you. One needs to be willing to believe, perhaps only tentatively, that you are actively co-creating your reality, in partnership with compassionate divine forces. If you can step up to the belief that you create your own reality with every breath you take (every leaf you rake) then you can start to create more mani-money. Unfortunately most people cannot proceed beyond step one. Most people will suffer huge money worry for their entire lives because they do not have permission to make a shopping list. They believe that they must remain trapped in fear and chaos. Therefore, they will not allow themselves to make a spiritual plan. We wish them well, but we now leave them behind. Are you still with us? Yes, you can leave your punishment space behind? Excellent! You are ready to set up a network of prosperity channels that can guarantee a steady flow of resources and opportunities throughout your life, with no grueling effort on your part. You have done the single most important job on this project. You have given yourself permission to have a spiritual plan! OK, the first thing to do is relax. Imagine you are fabulously rich. It doesn't matter how you got that way - could be winning lotto, inheriting mega-bucks, being born rich, or selling your dot-com at peak market. Really doesn't matter. Pay no attention to how you got rich. Just *** feel* how validating it feels to be rich. Oooooh. Yes, it feels deeply satisfying and balanced! [Shukra] So, why does it feel so aligned, light-filled, and optimistic? Because, in the imagined feeling, you are having the experience** that you think being rich can bring to you. Focus way deep on that feeling. You are experiencing PERMISSION The FEELING: For some people, money would give them permission to stop their mind-numbing job, and indulge a much-loved hobby. They may feel self-respect and passion. The FEELING: For some people, money would give them permission to stop living in pain, and start healing. They may feel safe, grounded, and nurtured. The FEELING: For some people, cintamani mani * money* would give them permission to stop working compulsively for short-term goals and enjoy more meditation time. They may feel spacious, joyful, and free. Your rich feelings might be precious emotional security, tremendous love for self and others, deep union of your human aspect with your divine aspect, useful and lasting contribution to world peace, et-cetera. These are profound, extremely meaningful feelings -- and they are validating your Ultimate spiritual goals. Now, write down your Ultimate spiritual goals as "I want to feel _________". [not --- I want to have, I want to possess, I want to flaunt, I want to control....] PRACTICE THOSE FEELINGS. Like attracts like. The universe will match your feeling signals. Another name for Money is "Permission."
		Step Two: Orient your plan to the goals. Marshall all of your resources behind a set of practical activities which lead directly to your highest spiritual goals. Be on the spiritual Offensive - advancing toward your Goals! Sit in your favorite chair or floor-cushion. Imagine you are suddenly allowed to write bank-cheques in any amount for any activity you desire. To whom and for what service provided, are you writing bank-cheque? What is it you want to do with your loot? Let's say that one of your primary spiritual goals is to experience high levels of self-esteem and passion. Since you no longer need to perform my mind-numbing office job, you are free to pursue the studies that you truly enjoy. Let's say you love old, dead languages. You notice that you are writing an imagined bank-cheque for tuition costs in a PhD program in Ancient Civilizations. This bank-cheque to the university reveals that as soon as you have permission, you passionately want to study ancient languages. Let's say you write another bank-cheque for a twice weekly full-body massage. The bank-cheque announces that as soon as you have permission, you passionately want to enjoy ongoing health and wellness. Let's say you write another bank-cheque for your child's education at the finest tertiary and professional schools. The bank-cheque declares thatas soon as you have permission, your child will have the best schooling to prepare for a bright future. Finish writing all the bank-cheques. Some will be longer term and some will be shorter term. Think strategically. Usually you will need to accomplish the shorter term aims in order to reach the longer term goals. For example, you will probably need to achieve or maintain a steady state of balanced health before you embark on a major travel adventure. INTENTION Organize the bank-cheques in tree-style graphic, with your ultimate goals at the top, branching (rooting) down into shorter term, practical activities which intentionally support those achievements. Everything you do, everything you buy, everything you read, everything you dream, everything you eat, should intentionally support one of these goals. TACTICAL THINKING Consider the section of this strategic plan based on the positive spiritual goal of providing a child with a superior education. The positive channel leading to child's prosperity is open and flowing. The child is currently in elementary school. The child asks for educational software, which the teacher confirms will help the child to learn. However, the family budget is tight. Dad is tempted to say, No. Wouldn't it be better to put the $15 into savings, rather than buy the kiddie software? No, it's better to buy the software. That purchase contributes active, intentional, positive energy toward this cherished goal. Consider the section of the strategic plan leading toward realization of the positive spiritual goal of studying ancient languages. After establishing this spiritual life plan, the positive channel leading to advanced study is open and flowing. The family budget is tight. However, there is big-discount sale on lawn-mowers, and the home lawn-mower won't last more than another two years. Such a deal! Should we upgrade? No! Think: Intention to support. Unless lawn mowers have some critical role in advancing your spiritual goals, abjure. This cintamani mani * money* move would weaken the network by diverting resources to places they were not really needed. Keep the goal-focus strong and clear.
		Step Three Be very, very diligent about other people's energy blocking your progress toward your goals. Be on the spiritual Defensive - warding off threats to your troops as they advance toward their goals! Other people's problems can easily block your spiritual progress, often with what is often ironically called // the best intentions // . Others may judge that the goals you have set for yourself are unrealistic, wasteful, or dangerous to the group. Others may hold a belief, part of their own belief system, that morally they must block you. Biggest interference may come from your own family. Consider the section of his strategic plan leading toward realization of the positive spiritual goal of health and wellness. He might want to pay for a yoga class or an Ayurvedic massage series. No, says his wife, that's unnecessary and too expensive. We need to spend your health money on sports equipment for the kids. Here you would be advised to think like a great general in a spiritual war. Of course you love your kids and of course they need sports equipment. Should you say oh, oK, i'll give up my wellness so my kids will have short-term advantage? Like any military general, you have limited resources, and there are time you need to set priorities should save our money for old age. Is she really saying // your health is not important to me// ? Or is she projecting her own scarcity fears? Is she using an outdated picture of old age as a weak, fearful time? You'll have to find out, and encourage her to invest in your health goal. In marriage it's helpful (but not required) to ask one's spouse to support one's spiritual goals. If the lifepartner continues to block you, it may be valuable to question whether they are really your ally. Consider the section of his strategic plan leading toward realization of the positive spiritual goal of studying ancient languages. Perhaps, rather than a packaged airline vacation, he might prefer to spend his time at a university summer session studying ancient Aramaic. But his family objects to the expense, saying it's too much time away from them - and they would rather sip umbrella drinks in Cancun! Should he go for the Aramaic? Yes! Like re-framing many outdated social practices, prioritizing one's own well-being requires stepping away from antiquated indoctrinations. It is a new process for many. It requires a new focus through a new lens. New evaluations, new assessments, new viewpoint that is distinctively not informed by guilt, grief, or expectation of social punishment. Experiment.

		IMAGINATION before ACTIVATION awareness of core-beliefs, emotional turbulence Any self-aware decision to grant permission may be realized easily, so long as the caveat is observed: before the person acts upon the claimed entitlement, permission must be psychically validated in meditation Psychic validation of the permission Give your desires a test-drive, to see whether the pathway to realization feels smooth and secure. Notice whether various emotions that fuel the action may be in conflict due to a gap between your authentic desires vs. your deeply embedded, indoctrinated expectations [a.k.a., core-belief] Conflict between what the entrenched core-beliefs allow vs. what the person wants, can result in internal churning and ungrounded impulsive behavior. Be alert to the possibility that what one "wants" is in fact what parents, teachers, or religious authorities have dictated that you should want. This is a major source of blockage. Note that when others are using you as a conduit to get what THEY want [psychic vampires] the interior awareness of meditation can detect a toxic and predatory feeling. Mentally, expect a surface narrative of respect for elders or mandatory moral behavior. But in the meditation test, the icky feeling will expose the truth that this goal is not authentic to you, and thus it cannot manifest. Invoke forgiveness, and "return to sender". Also, the issue of self-worth affects virtually everyone. Be alert to this vigilant gatekeeper. Without doing a meditative inspection-check of the alignment between the gate-keeping core-beliefs - especially checking beliefs about worthiness -- the act of granting self-declared permission may become a delusion of mental trickery or fraud. If there is anxiety about one's foundational worthiness to have the goal, then bullying the mind by making a "decree" may become an exercise in futility - and self-harassment. Every thought is attached to an emotion. Every action carries both a thought and an emotion. The logical thought usually presents in the form of a grammatical sentence. Logical claims are easy to recognize. However, the emotions which attach to every thought are not obvious to most people. It is unexamined emotion - not faulty logic - which can so often sabotage the successful execution of self-granted permission. Permission = gently, peacefully, internally revealed - never demanded. In a neutral self-observing state of mind, request for permission should be validated to ensure that it is self-generated and not a reaction to other people's judgment, criticism, or anger. Conditions of successful permission = revealed in meditation or reflective thought. The proof of alignment = a feeling of calm and pleasantly positive expectation with no urgency. The green-light moment = sensing that self-granted permission has matched the core-belief. Usually the gate-keeping core-belief is felt to be confirming that yes, you are worthy of the desired experience. Fear of public opinion fades away. Usually when the alignment is confirmed, a feeling of warm protective energy can wash-over one's nervous system. [this is your guides, gushing with love] By this point, one's inner certainty is well established. There is no longer any entry point for Superstitious fear of reprisal to destabilize the permission. In quietude, one may recognize the natural state of freedom, abundance, and openness to new opportunity. Trust wins over Fear - but slowly Shani First Although He blesses society with lawful material structure, fear-monger Professor Shani = not the righteous lord of truth. Shani's domain = external environments and the outside voice of public opinion. Shani's lawful script imposes human obligation to satisfy the material terms of incarnation (food, clothing, shelter, safety, eduation, finance, health) Then Guru Spiritual consciousness is provided by Professor Generous Guru the Grower. Brihas-pati answers prayers [brihas] After Shani's material rules have been acknowledged, Shri Guru can grant permission to access the higher awareness. It's important to remember that Permission always starts from within. As Shani's reign of fear-driven greed is slowly (slooooowly) eradicated while ignorance is consumed by increasing wisdom, then the superstition of external restrictions and external punishments = exposed by the bright golden light of wisdom. In the legacy fear of ancient days, one may have honored the Survivalist Shani by dutifully replicating His rigid restrictions and enforcing one's own cruel punishments. It doesn't happen overnight, but culturally inherited superstitious fear can be replaced by individual trust in divine interior wisdom. In that state of trust one may grant oneself permission to BE A PIONEER. One may experience previously fearful things as being newly permitted and newly confirmed as positive and safe. It is fairly easy to see the fear-trust balance in the Jyotishavidya nativity, via the balance of graha-amsha favorable to Guru vs graha-amsha favorable to Shani. *********** Moral book-keeping: unresolved [akashic memory] cooks the books The term /karma/ from dhatu = /kri/ = [English] /action/ The word /karma/ can connote obligatory action Although /dharma/ is the core cultural concept of lawful action in ancient teachings, /karma/ can be used to denote the same idea of lawful action by denoting action-reaction pairs. /karma/ is often used to emphasize the /reactive/ member of the pair when social-control systems [moral, religious] engage this concept /karma/ is often framed as a historic debt maintained by guilt and requiring payback for some unremembered crime. Despite being a concept that works brilliantly as a social-control tool, /karma/ [drenched in guilt or not] remains a paired-action system. Obligatory re-action (and re-re-re-action) can just as easily be framed as a positive consequence of unremembered previous action. For example, the karma [akashic memory patterns] following upon an act of charity is that, by law, the person acquires credit in the akashic record. The legalistic, moralistic use of /karma/ is based in linear time which presumes a framework of past-present-future occurrences. /karma/ also presumes the permanent framework of duality. The historic imagery of the idea of [akashic memory patterns] /karma/ is based in human record-keeping practices. The tally shows equivalences in two columns. Acts which benefit others go on the credit side of the ledger and acts which harm others go on the debit side of the ledger.Acts which neither help nor hurt will carry no value< in either column. Wisdom = Faith in Divine Providence Wisdom = having what one needs, when one needs it. Wise permission (bhaga, Guru) is elegantly simple and requires deep trust in the all-permeating Divine intelligence. Unresolved [akashic memory] may be resolved when intelligence [Surya] outweighs fear [Shani]. Generally this happy outcome is the result of pragmatic experience: one comes to see, after many repetitions of misfortune originating in some harmful action of a parallel life , that one is indeed creating the polarizing catalysis . Fearful experience is perpetuated by holding a belief that those polarizing catalytic experiences** are required in specific configurations -- exempli gratia, one always fails the exam. Mother always prefers the sibling. et cetera. Expectations Exposed As soon as the self-consciousness is sufficiently nourished by positive expectations, one may begin to (1) identify and (2) release the negative expectations. If a new level of wise permission has opened because the native has paid off a akashic-memory debt caused by ignorant and harmful action in a parallel life , that is a very nice feeling of opportunity and lightness. It is slow going at first but soon there is a landslide of sparkling golden permissions! Fear is a heavy, grey, oppressive energy and when it is lifted there is a light, golden, liberating energy revealed which was there all along and its gloriously happy in the presence of the Divine. So in this glorious enlightened state, one will act. The act is wise. It has consequences of course = [akashic memory patterns], but the pre-incarnationally planned effect is beneficial as wise actions increase compassion. The key as always = conscious awareness of the core motivation. Most of the time, conscious self-granted permission is the direct result of the spiritually intentional release of fear which was temporarily obscuring the natural entitlement to live well, live free, and serve others with compassion. Permission is revealed not demanded. Potential for emotionally driven compensations masquerading as spiritual permissions, egoic-mind driven false entitlements masquerading as permissions, and immature unwise inadequately thought-through assertions masquerading as permissions. If one seems to be granting oneself permission to do something more harmful than helpful, it is worth a second look at the internal trust meter . For example: the Busted Budget An interesting case involves a young woman who gave herself permission to dramatically overspend her modest, first-job budget in pursuit of a fashionable new wardrobe. She is not a professional fashion model and she does not earn income via prestige clothing. The period of the lagnesha, ruler of 12th-from-2nd, is notorious for over-emphasizing the body appearance (1) while draining (12) the savings account (2). When this nice young lady was asked wha she was thinking when she went on the spending spree (which ended up damaging her bank credit) she said that she wanted to feel good about her appearance. Right there, the permission motive is suspect. True permission arises from a positive self-concept, one of generosity and abundance. A feeling of absence and lack of self-esteem that she was reporting is a RED FLAG signalling reactivity. In addition, she confessed to wanting to be more attractive to partners while also being in the center and getting attention from the group. Again have a look at the contradiction: balanced partnerships are naturally not sustainable when one person is always in the bright center (Surya vs Shukra). Finally she was asked her how much meditation she had done on the image of the shopping, buying, wearing, and paying the monthly charges? You won't be surprised that the answer = none. She had not meditated on the psychic pictures to calm and smooth and validate the energy, to confirm that the whole process felt balanced and natural, and that no major hostile energy was present. None at all. Fakes and Frauds * Rahu : impulsive compensation behavior So, it was a case of compulsive-reactive unexamined impulse compensating for low self-esteem, material rights asserted but not validated at their roots in the astral plane, and the result was self-destructive karma of debt and frustration. The whole problem could have been cleared up in a 10-minute meditation, where permissions get validated by running the scene through the imaginative consciousness just as if one is watching a movie. Validate, validate; meditate, meditate Ask oneself: how do I start this scene, what actions, do I feel good doing this thing, how does it progress, and at the end of the scene, how do I feel about what just happened? Feelings are the key to validation. Every picture is tagged with a feeling. She was probably afraid to check her feelings before barging into the shops and thus her understanding of permission was profoundly untested. Oy. True permission is revealed, as a fear lifts away. Permission cannot be simply asserted like a toddler demanding a sweet. Permission must be validated in meditation or in a state of concentrated, reflective awareness. Always validate a permission to experience good feelings. Ensure that the permission endures from beginning to end of an undertaking. Compassion Wins The results of properly grounded and validated acts of self-permission = always pleasant [akashic memory patterns] True freedom is granted by divine intelligence; it is both wise and compassionate. Compassionate actions are confident, sensitive, and thoughtful, and they always generate pre-incarnationally planned merit on the credit column of the Big Book. Wishing you and your family every happiness, healing from sorrow, guidance by inner light, success in all of life's endeavors, and continuing engagement in your study of the samayavidya, Sincerely, BP Lama Jyotisha
		QUOTATION from Tenzing Gyatso, Answers: Discussions with Western Buddhists Question: How do things exist if they are empty of inherent existence? His Holiness: " The doctrines of emptiness and selflessness do not imply the non-existence of things. Things do exist. When we say that all phenomena are void of self-existence, it does not mean that we are advocating non-existence, that we are repudiating that things exist. Then what is it we are negating? We are negating, or denying, that anything exists from its own side, without depending on other things. Hence, it is because things depend for their existence upon other causes and conditions that they are said to lack independent self-existence."

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