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Thank you Jonathan. I have been thinking of sKu as simply equating to the ‘subtle body’ (‘between’ the gross physical body and wisdom body as it is often taught in the 3 body explanation). However it seams from this last sentence above, bringing in ‘Kaya’ in Sanskrit and the wording ‘before we conceive of the perceived object as a body’, are we considering both subtle body and wisdom body combined when referring to sKu? (perhaps at least depending on the level of recognition of the practitioner and relationship with beyond concept?).
I was hoping to hear your answer to a question after the UK class recording that was unfortunately lost. You gave a wonderful explanation of the subtle body and relationship to experiences when we talked about the heart chakra and a class member’s experience of opening at the heart during the practice. I don’t suppose you can remember that question that came up and how you responded and described the ‘energy’ body and chakras to summarise again here please?
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AdeleHello Adele; I think that you’re on the right track about sKu in your first comment.
With regard to your second comment, in the book ‘Tibetan Therapeutic Massage’, by Dr Lobsang Rapgay, the point is made that it is important to distinguish between two types of channel systems (nadi), or energetic pathways, in the body. One system relates to the medical pathways that are engaged with by Tibetan doctors (and presumably their equivalents in Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine). These channels and their associated pressure points would be what we work with in the massage section of Tarthang Tulku’s Kum Nye book.
The other “system” of channels and chakras is, I think, what I was referring to in the Q&A part of the class you asked about: they’re latent and are activated by the yogic practitioner. I probably mentioned them as being “made” of light, but not light in the sense that is understood in science, but rather the “light of awareness,” such that we “construct” or “activate” the channels when we imagine or visualise them in the body with our Kum Nye yogic practice. Let me know if I’m going in the right direction here, and if you’d like any clarification.
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