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I think you get the daobums award for the most selfies ever posted here . Haven't you got a 'selfie gone wrong' to show us ? An example of a selfie gone wrong ;

Thank you. I thought you were being sarcastic -- my mistake, but you often are, so... Anyway, all is forgiven and I'm flattered by your paying attention to my meows. That's the problem with claims -- too many boys cry too many wolves. In my case -- and I don't even remember if I told the story here, must have, I was bursting with this desire to share things ayahuasca for a while but not finding anywhere near adequate words to do it -- but I tried. I talked to everyone about that stuff for a while, even strangers... this only happened to me once before, after my twins were born -- I felt the world needed to know what it was like. Ha! I'm a lot more restrained now about whatever might shake me to the core on impact. But, briefly about what I was referring to. SHE spent 8 hours straight teaching me to control the rainfall, of all things. I never thought it would ever be used after that night, but there was no arguing with her, and while it was going on I sort of got the knack of it, turning the rainstorm in the rain forest on and off many times. By the end of the lesson, it was as easy as turning your shower on and off in your bathroom. And then some time later I had to travel to New York (an unplanned and unexpected necessity trip) and right after I arrived, there was this hurricane Irene warning, a big deal it was supposed to be, they ordered mandatory evacuation for 2.5 million people and issued dire warning for the rest. The night it was to make landfall, I stood outside, remembering and applying stuff ayahuasca taught me. The hurricane totally fizzled out compared to what was predicted/expected. I'll never know if I played a part. All I know is, it seemed like that was precisely what she taught me that stuff for. Interesting. WLP's rationale was, it was for not letting an attacker hit you in the liver should they aim a strike there. He taught us how to move qi wuxing style between five organs first, and then how to increase mobility of the organs themselves. He asserted it's a modern, and abnormal, thing for internal organs to be "stuck" and "glued," similar to (but harder to tackle than) any other manifestation of stiffening, hardening, loss of freedom of movement and control of one's mobility range.

If you are immortal could you promise never to rhyme Wimbledon and owned again…ever?

This is what Pauli and Jung were trying to prove without success though, so it's not clear if the observer effect is related to synchronicities. which is impossible to know, synchronicities can almost never be distinguished from unlikely coincidences. It can always be a story our minds made to explain a coincidence. I'm not saying synchronicities do not exist, as they're also impossible to disprove. But given the above, how much of our time are they worth...

It is more of a problem of dishonest claims they make during teaching to sell/push their info-business product to the masses. Even worse, they get knowledge from public books/sources and resell it as if their name has copyright on the tradition itself. If people would sell Qigong classes casually for what it is. But, no they have to add that energy cures cancer/all kinds of diseases and grants enlightenment and immortality. It is the same as saying that burnt paper is extremely valuable resource because it is literally same as diamond. Indeed, same carbon material, but not nearly the same quality. I mean seriously, there are people around who think that simple body moves and simple qigong can turn you into an immortal, enlightened being and cure all ailments. Fragrant qigong? How much more delusional can it get? Self-development is not in the same dimension as annunaki, homeopathy, astrology, flat earth, and ctulhu. People who believe any of that stuff are pretty much hopeless cases to teach. How exactly would elixir make you immortal? @Taoist Texts what kind of immortality do you expect from "internal alchemy" practices?

I have an anti-desire to appear in photographs . I usually use this guy instead and claim he is me ;

ok i apologize for being a little quick to the punch back there. I've seen a lot of the thing Maddie explained where something posed as a question, but amounts to "why do you believe the wrong thing?" inevitably ends up in an exasperated facepalm. I don't think anyone is saying that it does. This. This right here might be at the core of a majority of vexation with regards to the topic. For individuals who have not personally experienced a significant enough decoupling of the societally enforced equivalency of the two, i guess i can see how it might be inconceivable that such a thing even exists.

Yeah... that's a different thing. I was different after experimenting with LSD in my teens and twenties in much the same way. I was thankful for it, and would meet people at parties and often know intuitively that they had also had that experience. Also, when I discovered that taking an entry level dose of Klonipin could erase my anxiety it was quite an eye opener. The realization that most people didn't walk around in anxiety was a revelation... but not the same kind of eye opener that realizing that all appearances are empty of "self" and other... just not in any way comparable in scale. It is the second that permanently cured the off and on generalized anxiety I had enjoyed from childhood, not first and the associated therapy. I am NOT invalidating therapy, which I have found helpful in other contexts, merely talking about my personal experience. I'm curious, why are you meditating when you don't believe in the central premise for its existence - what it is supposed to be according the tradition (Zen) you say you practice in? It is INTENDED to dig up your personal stuff, and would actually train you to notice with curiosity when you become fixated with attachment or aversion. What? Nah. Self is a story you tell yourself moment to moment. Which of your "selves" is the true one? The one you inhabit when you are with your partner? Someone in a shop? With your parents? With an officer of the law when you have been pulled over? Self comes and goes, shifts and changes. It is possibly the easiest object to see impermanence in. This is not my experience, and I daresay that of many of my teaching peers. I am being honest here, not gaslighting you. Oh definitely therapy is helpful in working with conditioning for many people. Thank you for your service to them. Had to look it up, though I did enjoy reading Jung a bit in my 16 credits of psychology in college: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unus_mundus That's what I'm talking about (at least the part that I italicized)! Have you read Dogen by any chance: The restoration of the original state is the Tao. The behavior of a Buddha is "wu wei", alignment, presence. It is alignment and synchronization with everything, as it is happening moment to moment. It would be a little tough if there was a "self" in there thinking it had agency, wouldn't it?

Only a Xian can teach ? Wow, thats quite a steep hurdle. Does this mean only winners of Wimbledon can teach one anything about tennis? The tennis lessons must be quite expensive.

Probably you are forcing it too much - but I’m not sure what you mean by mental violence.

ehm, I took it as a veiled message that everything we can talk about is just symbols, trying but failing to convey underlaying reality. or just a joke of course

My first recollectible memory of this life was an out of body experience induced by an intense dream. It indelibly imbued the gift of vajra knowing that my essential nature is awareness. The body, manifests as a semi-persistent experience, which arises within a field of awareness. The mind... another aspect of semi-persistence, though vastly more changeable and vacillatory moment to moment than the body, also arises and persists only within a field of awarneness. Body is not the I am. Mind is not. I am. Awareness is... all else rises and falls away within this. To rest as awareness is to open the door to true nature in this one's experience.