Small bump on the crown point

[dwai]

Curious if any have a small bump (about the size of a pimple) on their crown point (where the fontanelle would have been as babies). If so, has it always been there (or how long as you have been aware of it)?

[Taomeow]

I think Max Christensen mentioned some symbiotic alien entity there.

 

I don't have any bumps in that location but I have a birthmark to the right of the fontanelle.  I seem to recall Buddha did too (there's a tradition that maintains that a reincarnation is supposed to demonstrate 7 signs on the body, for starters, don't remember what the other ones are).  We also share the date of birth.  I don't know the significance of that for a taoist. 

 

Why?   

[forestofclarity]

Ba hui opening? 

 

[steve]

I have no such bump.

In the Tibetan practice of phowa, one trains to express one's consciousness through the central channel out the crown of the head. It's said that one sign of a successful practice is an opening developing at the crown leading to the central channel. At the end of a phowa retreat, the lama will stick a piece of kusha grass in that spot to make sure the practitioners have achieved success. I believe there is a comparable practice in Shaivism but not sure which particular branch.

 

 

The mark of a successful Phowa is that after death, there is visible hair loss, a bump or some yellow liquid seeping around the vertex. These marks serve as proof of successful rebirth. If these symptoms are present, the subsequent guide for the practice of the intermediate state will no longer be needed. 

from Khenpo Tsultrim Lhodrö in The Handbook for Life's Journey