Yogic flying

Yogic flying is the purported ability to levitate which is a capability one gains through advanced practice of transcendental meditation (TM). While sitting cross-legged, yogic flyers can move around in a hopping kind of motion. This actually represents the earliest part of levitation, the "perfection of leaping like a frog". Proponents of yogic flying claim world peace can be induced by thousands of simultaneous yogic flyers spread world-wide.

History of Yogic Flying

Yogic flying traditionally stems from the Vedic rishi Avatsara, "the flying-one". Later yogic texts also describe this siddhi ("perfection") in varying degrees of detail, most notably the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali.

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Vedic - Siddhi - Yoga Sutra - Patanjali

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A system of yogic flying also exists within the inner tantras (anuttara-tantras) of Tibetan Buddhism as a system to attain enlightenment. In this system the practioners work at the dissolution of the vital airs, prana, into the centermost part of being, the avadhuti or "central channel". In the initial stages this is used in a system of yogic-running where the practitioner is able to proceed across the ground in large jumps. Some of kings of the Himalayan kingdoms kept speed-runners from this tradition to carry messages over long distances.

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Tantra - Tibetan - Buddhism - Prana - Himalayan

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Once perfected, the adept of this school (rlung-gompa) can then work for the attainment of simultaneous bliss and emptiness (in Sanskrit, shunyata). Ultimately one attains mahamudra siddhi, total non-dual realization, and is able to radiate bodhichitta, the thought of enlightenment, for all sentient beings.

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Adept - Sanskrit - Shunyata - Mahamudra - Bodhichitta

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