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It’s nothing to worry about. But you must leave all spiritual practices behind for a while. For now, let daily living be enough in itself, learn to appreciate the mundane. Focus on grounding. Eat healthy. Go for walks in nature, do more exercising. No porn. Try doing voluntary work. Your mind is playing you tricks, do not feed the problem by giving it attention and the problem will disappear. Be well.

That's awesome! There is little more valuable in life than being able to do that.

However, the Dalai Lama defies China to say successor will be chosen by Tibetan tradition. " "The Dalai Lama has declared in a direct challenge to China that the centuries-old spiritual institution bearing his name will continue after his death and that only his inner circle, not Beijing, will have the authority to identify his successor. ...ahead of his 90th birthday, the 14th Dalai Lama said the Gaden Phodrang Trust, which manages his affairs, would oversee the search for his reincarnation. “No one else has any such authority to interfere in this matter,” he said in Dharamshala, the northern Indian hill town that serves as the seat of the Tibetan government in exile. “In accordance with past tradition, the search for my reincarnation and the naming of a 15th Dalai Lama will be carried out.” Also: "The new Dalai Lama will be born in the free world.” source

'Glamour' is generated by all sorts of practices and is dependent on specific 'energy voids' in the receiver .

Hello, I'm very interested in spirituality, emotional healing and health and I find it quite difficult to find my path when there a so many teachers with so many different opinions and experiences. I hope that I can get some clarity through this forum. All the best Kasper

We have a family of Ukrainian Russian speakers in the village. Everyday I try to say something in Russian to them ( cos they don’t speak the local lingo). Privet, kak dela? Is getting bit old now- so what are some easy phrases/ normal pleasantries one might say in Russian. oh and please transliterate from Cyrillic cos I can’t read that 😎 thanks

Ha har ! I did that with a PNG guy at work . I knew a little and introduced myself in pidgin and also said I can only speak a little bit of pidgin ( 'Dis pella he savvy lik lik talk boi ' ) ... only to get a barage of enthusiastic sentences assail me at high speed - " Whoa ! lik lik ... lik lik ! " ( little bit ) Besides ... how you gonna get the pronunciation ? " KhoROshaya poGOda ... BUdet dozhd " Ukrainian man to wife : " What did he say ?" Wife; " I am not sure , I think his pagoda got crushed and a bulldozer wrecked his bidet ."

I'm starting to think that human stupidity is more dangerous than evil. Like the old saying goes, "You can't fix stupid" And there's no end to it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/discovery-living-beings-emit-a-light-that-fades-upon-death/ar-AA1Ft6BS?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=f735769c33344b5187cfa6020618dcfa&ei=83

"third eye making death threats" doesn't sound like it's the third eye

What does your lifestyle look like. Do you indulge in any bad vices, bad habits on a daily basis? Are there any existing issues going on in your life situation? Level of caffeine intake daily? It is very often the case those things are where the problem is. Little to do with the practice itself. Good Experts will ask you these same questions, and you will have to be honest about it, but more importantly honest to yourself where the problem is. I have friends who have experienced things you are going through. They are good people in general. But when we dig down to it, the fault is always not in the practice, but due to existing/ past trauma in their lives, and their aversion/clinging and unresolved feelings and views around it. Bad habits etc.

They say what sounds like zharka for hot … is that a regional accent?

It's perfectly fine to do it the English way -- i.e. drop statements about the weather. SeVOdnya ZHARko -- it's hot today. KhoROshaya poGOda -- the weather is nice. BUdet dozhd' -- it's going to rain. Or you could get curious (the American way): OtKUda vy? -- Where are you from? Iz kaKOvo GOroda? -- From what city? Vam zdes' NRAvitsya? -- Do you like it here? Actually, if you give me a sample list of things you would say to a neighbor who does speak the language, I can try to come up with a Russian situational equivalent.

What can’t be changed, I let go of (I learned to be in control of my own mind).

There are certain emotion that people need to progress in this world. Anger is usually not one of them. Of course, there are exceptions. However, I was taught that one needs to spend much time is self observation. Watch how and when the anger arises. Then watch to see how the mind will then defend and encourage the anger with thoughts that one identifies with. When one finally sees this and can release its hold then the anger doesn't take control. Yes, one still feels the anger but it is much easier to be released. It is like .... not identifying with the emotion or thoughts that give the anger strength. When I sit in practice, I do not have emotions. There is an observation of the self and mind. Anger comes when there is a strong identification with the situation. When someone cut me off in traffic, I feel violated by such actions. But when I let go of identifying with this thought or emotion. Everything returns to normal. I keep my self calm. So, in my daily routine, I try to keep my self here, now. Yeah, I know it doesn't always work. But, I am trying.

There is a beautiful film I highly recommend to anyone interested in the topic of forgiveness called Rubaru Roshni. It was directed by Svati Chakravarty Bhatkal and produced by Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao. @Annnon's point about the real value and mechanism of forgiveness is a central theme in the film. It stimulated some very lively and meaningful discussion about the topic among my family members and may have even shifted some perspectives.

The Buddha actually had only one direct advice to resolve hate. And that to practice "non hate". Love is not the antidote to hate. It is non hate. How that looks like in practice, is executing restraint in your actions and behavior. Anything that you KNOW you are doing out of anger/hate/ill will, you do not do. That is the deliberate practice of abandoning hate at the level of action. When you practice that, depending on the individual, the mind will tend to rebel, increase its pressure, throw mental tantrums, shout and scream in your head all the hate it can summon. It can be painful. But you work hard to restraint yourself. Eventually you start to see how the untamed mind betrays you, and how unusual hateful thoughts arises on its own. And how it HAS to because we have been agreeing to many of its unwholesome tendencies for so long, and validated it with action, both subtle and obvious. You realize you were responsible for its current state. And this kind of restraint also allows deep rooted emotions to surface, and pressures you often cover up from habitually acting on it. And you start to be able to restraint pressures closer to the roots and tiny embers of anger. Work hard, and the wild angry mind cools down.

I can’t stop grinning Crystals sit in my pocket kings deep in the whole wide world

The more sensitive and refined your energies become, you recognize how poisonous the flavour anger is. And realize how often we partake in that poison with or without a perpetrator. So from training and knowing the flavour of this poison. You can start to make better decisions, adopt better views to cool down such tendencies of ill will. Cooling it down at a more subtle and subtle level. Anger does not suddenly arise. It shows its signs and features, patterns very very early on. Small poisonous bubbles that gradually boil and explode when not attended to. Use energy to your advantage to sense these things within you 🙏. The energetic poison of anger is really sick, acidic, and painful on the joints.

I will venture to say that from the woman's perspective anything interesting about a man could prove to be ...... interesting . . . so she might be 'interested' . From the man's perspective ? 100% sexual attraction m without a doubt !

Forgiveness is not about who is right or who is wrong, it's just about healing yourself and letting go of this energy, so YOU can heal. People often keep these things "he did this to me" and end up with some sort of illness because of the somatization.

All that glowing 😇 had to put on some shades 😎

I haven't visited for a loooong time . I have .... had ? ... a selection of posts and discussions there . It was a bit of a 'specialists' forum and didn't seem to have much traffic or feedback . It got slower and less active and I just stopped visiting there . Also I am out of contact with Earl Grey . I cant locate it now either . Maybe it didn't have enough traffic to sustain it ?

If you have volume 2, try doing Monk Serves Wine 2 before sleeping, or even do Monk Holds Pearl lying down right before you sleep

That's why it is universal. Just as you say, because there are so many religious traditions out there. Don't you find it strange that regardless of where we're born, or what religion that we're born into, there is always that niggling question as to what makes this all tick? When you say there's a spark of Divinity in everyone, I couldn't agree more. This is our universal consciousness, our one shared soul. And, as you say, "there is no place where God is not". That seems to infer that it is all One, which would mean that God is contained within us....is us. I think if a person looks to the ethers for something coordinating all this that is not us, that one hasn't taken the time to think about the ramifications of "there is no place where God is not". I do see the purpose of our brain is to figure this out on our own. This is what self-realization is. Religions can only take you so far, as the master pointing to the moon indicates. He can only point the way, and there is a fairly large gap between his fingertip and the moon.

Reminiscent of the Kirlian photography and the aura photography that used to be popular here (I think it was in ‘the 90s’).

In eastern religious philosophy , God is considered the same as love. Brahman is the name for the Absolute or God in Hinduism, who in turn is equated with consciousness, with pure consciousness being considered the same as pure love. Nisargadatta Maharaj further elaborates on this principle of God being love... https://selfrealization.blog/2020/04/17/nisargadatta-maharaj-on-love-2/

New post, on the ol' site: The Diamond Trap, the Thicket of Thorns

No doubt you have deduced that the Shambhavi Mudra does not connect to your third eye. The point between the eyebrows is commonly within the range of an external intelligence that dominates the personality for its own purposes I have yet to find a spiritual movement amongst humans that is not contaminated