TheSongsofDistantEarth

Seven minutes well spent. Thanks, MPG.

Realize this every day. There is no tomorrow.

The Zhang. It is too sloppy, no?

Do we believe in you?

I wish Blasto were with us to comment...*sniff*...Film Master that he is...

Many people are waiting for "." to happen. Don't need to live like it's your last day, just Be Here Now. Easy to say, important to remember, easy to forget.

He states that awakening slows the aging process. He sure doesn't look 64. Good genes or ...?

While I appreciate the effort towards more civility, the bans have gotten a bit heavy lately.

bumpity this most helpful thread.

Do you consider your school "corrupt"? If so, why are you there?

Right on, well put.

Are you learning anything?

Groan...another post on women by non...

What does this video show or prove? Chinmoy was a very controversial figure, and although I can see how some people might want to have followed him, I don't think this video demonstrates much of anything other than eyeball movement.

I don't think we will ever convince each other My view is that Siddhis are an attachment, just (as BodyofLight pointed out) like women and money. (Thanks for making that point for me). Until one is unattached to anything, one is not free. Because Siddhi threads are popular means only that siddhis are fascinating for many people and sexy. They are the Sirens which one must get past by lashing oneself to the mast until their lure is past. Siddhis may or may not occur on the spiritual path...so what? If you pay attention to them you can become attched to them. You guys make some huge assumptions. Siddhis can be lost once gained. Tiger Woods lost his golf siddhis. Then what? Are you unenlightened? I think siddhi-seekers are strongly attached to power (thats what siddhis are), and this reinforces the ego. Lets then skip to the essential point of our discussion: What is the role of the ego in awakening? I believe that one must 'become as nothing' in order to reach awakening...where the 'little self' becomes a mere artifact of reaching the bigger Self. The taobums forum is heavily weighed with Siddhi seekers, not enlightenment seekers.I realize that there are many who are much too attached to their pursuit of powers that it will take several more lifetimes to get beyond this attachment. It is attachment that causes suffering. You are back where you have started from.

Side effects are NOT inevitable, and roads to awakening are not always paved with chi practices. BTW, Darin Hamel had an experience of something. I am not ready to classify him as an awakened being. Your logic in these instances, Dorian, is facile.

Well, he just made you write that post, for one.

Why are powers "inevitable"? You really equate 'spiritual achievement' and 'powers'? Spiritual achievement and powers can be linked, but are not necessarily so. I suppose you must scoff at the teachings of advaita as being mere intellectual masturbation because they do not seek to develop powers but rather, to uncover the true nature of reality. It seems to me that a very immature way to look at spirituality is to equate enlightenment and spirituality. Does the Buddha urge the development of powers?

'Enlightenment' or 'Awakening', occurs when reality is perceived directly, as in Awareness aware of Itself. Siddhis may or may not accompany it, but Siddhis are a separate thing. One may certainly have siddhis and not be enlightened. One may be a Black Magician and accrue negative karma. Dorian Black, is your name an allusion to 'Dorian Gray'? Is your name a hint of the nature of your spiritual pursuit? The Portrait of Dorian Gray; The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfillment of the senses. Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian (whimsically) expresses a desire to sell his soul to ensure the portrait Basil has painted would age rather than himself. Dorian's wish is fulfilled, plunging him into debauched acts. The portrait serves as a reminder of the effect each act has upon his soul, with each sin displayed as a disfigurement of his form, or through a sign of aging. -wikipedia

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) has a lot of teaching and techniques that deal with timelines, which are supposed to be quite powerful. NLP Timelines, Rewriting Past and Pre-writing Future

I think I sounded like Andy Rooney in my last post. Aw, come visit Arizona, it's nice and sunny here, you sexy old thing..

Muun walker

I just had a friend tell me a bunch of things got screwed up in her life because "Mercury's in retrograde". Wooooooaaahhh, watch out! Might as well just stay in bed for 6 weeks. What is it with these people that like to announce to you that your life is about to get a lot more difficult because of this planetary aberrancy? I mean, why talk about it? Even if it does have some screwing up effect on the world, what can you do about it? I'd rather not know about this phenomenon, thanks very much.

I'm all for it...by the way, I was into cloaks before cloaks were cool...

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