I started reading this old scripture and I am utterly fascinated by it. It is amazing. Probably the most beautiful text I’ve seen. I also love the way it inspires to use daily life and activities (mentions when eating, singing, making love, staring at the summer sky) as a doorway to the infinite. I guess this is the tantric approach and I like it!
I haven’t finnished reading it but I got fascinated by this verse:
27. When in worldly activity, keep attentive between the two breaths, and so practicing, in a few days be born anew.
I just noticed this was true. Because of meditation I have become more attuned with the infinite or breathless state and, even in daily activity, if I bring attention to the space between the breaths I feel this ecstasy rising! Divine joy! 
And now…back to the reading…and to the in- out- and in-between breath of course! 
Yep… it’s all about the gap.
Maybe you will enjoy these:
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/shiva-sutras-integrate-and-evolve-wwlifeblissorg/2349792937
I wasn’t searching for this topic in particular through the web, but it seems that actually yes! I wanted to find more about it unconsciously! I found an interesting answer from Osho about the breathless state…
So, if you have time, please share my joy:
You’ve explained that increased oxygen intake helps us be more alert. When I enter deep meditation, my body becomes inert and the breathing shallow, which is likely to cause less oxygen in the body.
Actually, when breathing has reached its full intensity and a gap is created between you and your body, when your sleeping and awakened parts seem to be separate from each other, then you will begin to move to your awakened part. At this stage the body ceases to need oxygen any more. Now it is good that the body goes into sleep, that it becomes inert, as good as dead. Now your life force does not move toward the body, instead it begins to move toward the soul.
It is the body that needs oxygen; the soul has no need for oxygen really. Do you follow what I say? The body needs oxygen; and when your life force moves toward the soul, the body needs a minimum amount of oxygen – just enough to keep it alive. It does not need more than the minimum, and it will impede your progress if the body receives more oxygen at this stage.
So it is as it should be that breathing slows down and becomes thin and feeble. Breathing was useful to awaken the energy and, once the energy is awake, breathing ceases to be useful. Now your body can do with the minimum of breathing. and so there will be moments when it will come to a stop completely. It has to stop.
In fact, when you reach the point of right balance, which we call samadhi, breathing will cease.
Oxygen was necessary at its initial stage. It is as if I turn a key in the lock to open a door. Need I continue turning the key even after it has done its job? Now the key is useless. It hangs by the lock and I am inside the room. You may ask why I don’t use the key when I am in the room. No, the key has served its purpose; it was only meant for entering the room.
As long as the kundalini does not awaken, you will have to use the key of breathing with all your strength. But as soon as it is awakened, breathing becomes unnecessary. Now, as you are on your inward journey, your body will demand very little oxygen. Then you don’t have to use your volition to stop breathing; it will slow down on its own. It will slow down to a halt, and a moment will come when everything will seem to have come to a standstill. In fact, this is the moment – when breathing stops halfway between inhalation and exhalation – when you are in a state of utter balance, when you are in ecstasy or samadhi.
In this very moment you know existence – not life.
Osho: “In Search of the Miraculous”
Right at the same spot!
Namasté,
Roman
Sorry Goddess. Just checking back again after long time. How did BSP go?
Hi Sushman!
Well, it’s been 1 week now…
it was terrible! I mean physically, mentally, emotionnally…
it was just suicidal!
Personnally I had tough moments of emotional release, tons of tears and the second day I just wanted to quit! I just rebelled and said “enough!”
But still, I said to myself, in last push, “just give it a chance! just hold on!”
the 3 days were equivalent to 1 year or so! No time for thinking, completely disconnected with my previous life, just enough time to eat… food was not food…all was energy, vibrations…
It was so condensed I could touch it with my hands…
I went wild in the dancing part… although I hate dancing in public! But I just went wild! I felt so beautiful!
The last shambhavi just blowed my mind! Personnally, all the homework part, the past stuff, didn’t affect me that much cause I had already worked on it before BSP…
This last week was weird…and still is.
I feel totally disconnected…I’m dealing with tough relationship issues and my heart chakra is just paralized…
So, I don’t know what’s going on and what’s coming next…
I feel so insensitive…taste for nothing…
the bad feeling is to realize my limitations, especially my ability to have love inside and to love and be loved…
Right now, it’s just dead!
I did pranayama and meditation (AYP) this morning, forgetting about my other practices cause I just had no energy to do them…
Those 2 AYP practices were so simple, yet so soothing and relaxing for the mind and the heart…
I felt a bit better.
Tomorrow, just wana do them again…
For other people in BSP, there was tremendous emotional release;
they were like children just crying/laughing/playing all around…
to me, BSP was difficult: I found it difficult to share my feelings w others (I hate the sharing part!)…
I guess there were many things and processes of unknown dimensions that took place without our minds beeing aware of it…
So, I’m just witnessing everything that is happening to me…
I feel I’m coming to a turning point in my life…
Let’s see what’s waiting for me next!
In the early fifties, Paul Reps was studying under Swami Laksmanjoo when Laksmanjoo was beginning the effort to translate the Bhairava Tantra into English. Reps in Zen Flesh, Zen Bones noted two inaccurate things: that the text was 4000 years old and it was the basis for Zen. Fortunately, the person (Jaideva Singh) working with Swami Laksmanjoo on this translation into English project correctly noted the 7th Century origin for this tantra. The text is a product of Kaulism tantrums (of the Kula System). Singh’s book came out about 12 years before Swami Laksmanjoo died in 1991.
Around four thousand years ago there were probably concentrative type practices that included breathing exercises by wandering bands (and solo folks) associated with the Vratya Brotherhood. Warrior ascetics. The 112 forms of meditation focusing here are a much more elaborate “system”.
A beautiful piece of work.
You don’t hold your breath. Just feel the thought free space between the inhalation and exhalation, and enjoy that primal “pulse” or throb or vibration of Consciousness Itself.
http://www.oshoworld.com/tantra_medi/. Felt like sharing [OM]
Moderator note: Topic moved for better placement