wilfred

greetings sir dank

depends how your awareness is distributed. too much in the head then that's amplified that when retaining. cultivation is more about balancing energy and getting grounded than just upping energy levels. there's only so much retention you can do without negative consequences if your energy is disorganized. namely too much in the head, like most people these days.

also from what you're describing it sounds like too much energy in the central channel. it's good to do practices that work energy around the entire body, all the organs, than just focus on things that build it down the middle. then you'll feel lots better and be able to retain more chi in general. but part of the process of getting grounded and balancing energy is you have to work through/release a lot of blockages. this is where the value of a real life teacher comes into play, it can be difficult territory if you're poking in the dark and reacting to stuff without really knowing what's going on. context helps.

nice username!

the fake news push has a lot to do with a certain conspiracy, if you catch my drift.

asl?

the path begins and ends with virtue. purification of mind is about refining virtue, through wisdom and insight, until there are no longer grounds to act in any selfish or ignorant way. and ignorance as we know is a rather large field. can't believe what i am reading in this thread. if people don't fully understand the heart but look for higher practices etc then you kind of miss the point of a spiritual path altogether.

sorry for taking it off-topic again but in my experience this is an irrefutable aspect of any path. i find people on the internet generally overlook how refinement of character is integral and it's to their detriment. they would be better served by getting the basics straight, forget any chakra or energetics stuff for a while. and you can practice, receive teachings for years even decades and get nowhere in relation to this without proper guidance. i've seen it and keep seeing it. so if people want to dick measure as to how long they've been going at it etc, it's totally meaningless, lol. likelyhood is they've actually gone backward or at best sideways most of the time. and those who keep jumping from teacher to teacher etc, trying lots of different practices, it nearly always comes from their own restlessness.

*drops mic

take out the 'your' part and it's already perfect.

as i understand it the grounds for people doing things is deeper than can be interfered with and if you do there are always consequences, often unintended. and if you could actually see how deep this process was you wouldn't want to try and change things anyway.

we'll generally butt-in regardless. it can be impossibly hard to let things unfold around us without feeling the need to interject. but that's our own kamma/conditioning at work. the real love comes from being able to let things happen without a hint of reaction or needing to change anything. it's something that's resonated hugely on a personal level since receiving dhamma and an insight that matures over time. as you increasingly let go, stop gripping the experience so tightly, you get a better feel for when it may be appropriate to lend a helping hand and when you're actually being prompted by delusion, wanting to change the world etc. this can take a great deal of discernment, as we're extracting ourselves from the web of personal reactions to reside in a state of pure equanimity. it's kinda like the prime directive in star trek but applying it to every aspect of life.

reddit has just banned the pizzagate sub, main hub of investigations away from the chans. i'm seeing blatant shills pop up in all sorts of places with the 'crazy conspiracy' schtick. they are despately trying to silence this one. interesting that the whole 'fake news' angle started being pushed at just the same time as...

assange is also off the radar since the set of emails when curious minds became aware of spirit cooking etc. likely wikileaks is now compromised, massive DDOS attack & mismatching keys for some of the latest leaks.

he had a $65k hotdog & pizza party.

pizzagate is gaining a lot of steam and going viral. lots more evidence and connections being found, as well as moves to censor and remove the information from the interwebs. seems obvious this conspiracy is for real and sickening to the core. has to be the biggest scandal of all time, implicates all levels of western government in ritual child abuse, pedophilia and trafficking. david icke was right!

Aaron Black(from Project Veritas) Spotted at Anti-Trump Protests! The Bird-dogging Continues!

Anti-Trump Protesters Were Bussed in to Austin #FakeProtests

time to extradite Soros to Russia!

meanwhile on the hillary side

last one for today, night peeps

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U10yKDDvIdc

if you take everything trump has been campaining on in the context it was intended, then yeah it's a positive message.

problem is hardly anything has been and therefore he's a racist.

for context the Tampa Bay Times (PolitiFact) is a tradtionally left leaning publication. there's even a whole site dedicated to disputing much of their 'fact' checking:

http://www.politifactbias.com/

sorry i couldn't resist

Really??  Those other 'main stream' media aren't preaching the coming nuclear war or the round up of Americans by the Military that should have taken place last year, with internment camps under Walmarts etc.,   They're 'acceptable' cause they may be wrong but they're not crazy.

 

Undoubtedly they make fun of Trump, but unlike Alex Jones they're not saying he's literally a demon as Jones does.  There is a difference. 

 

If I'm misinformed it in a way that allows me to predict the future relatively well (at least in terms of probability), whereas, seems like wacko sites are stuck replaying 'coming apocalypse' and 'they're all satanists and demons'.. over and over.  I believe in watching a wide variety of news sources and I'll catch the Jones show every now (confess I can't watch a whole one) and then, read some Icke to find out how the Space Lizards on the hollow moon, are making out lately, but most of the time, they're repeating - impending doom, satanists working against us. 

 

Since this is the Hillary and Trump thread, I think the crazed hyperbole like Alex Jones, doesn't hurt Hillary much.  Only True Believers will see it, and they're unlikely democratic voters.  I consider myself an independent I sincerely believe 4 or 5 of the Republicans running in the primary could beat Clinton.  Not by saying she's a hag or demon or drinks childrens blood, rather with straight policy talk.  

 

This stuff reads to main stream America in the same vein as a wacko site saying Trump is a real vampires and showing Jones style pictures of him flying as a bat.  Maybe the most gullible will buy into it, but in the real world, it won't sell.  Not well.  Rather adult discussion and normal politics would be enough.  Not Jail (or hang) Hillary, rather talk about Obama care rate hikes or immigration policy.. They never need crazy blood soaked images in a bath tub to win.  Matter of fact it probably marks them as a little crazy to the average American.

 

 

If Hillary wins and its pretty likely (not assured) all the True Believers are going to expecting doom, even more then delivered under 8 years of devil Obama.  And they'll miss opportunities.. It's probably no fun expecting collapse every other month and living under the sword of Damocles all the time. 

just a slow grind into collapse, i'm sure most of us will get on with our lives in the meanwhile.

the spirit cooking thing is actually something these people get down with in their spare time though. these are things coming out in the emails, not crazy theories.

Honestly youre probably less "informed" by watching cnn than infowars in my opinion. Unless your idea of being "informed" is the story being shaped to fit a certain narrative.

or web content like the huffington post/young turks. that's just propaganda for the left, as much as infowars is for the right.

Do people really believe things on Infowars?  Consider them a 'reputable' source of information? 

I'd expect they'd be basket cases, <ie world ending, Black helicopter roundup, financial collapse every 2 months>  very very gullible or both. 

 

He repeats this shtick every 4 years, laying it on even thicker then the quarterly calls for the coming end.  If you're really worried just watch from 4 years ago, or 8 years or 12 and you'll see the same thing.. in some cases word for word.. I think they were even longer winded back then, an hour or two. 

 

I'm not telling you to vote Hillary, but Infowars is moronic on so many levels.

alex jones is generally hyperbolic but an informed person will look at as many alternative sources of information as possible to get an idea of the bigger picture. this should be obvious given the leaks pertaining to media collusion and their lack of reporting on many important stories this election cycle. to discount the things infowars are reporting on because 'infowars' is just as bad as believing everything alex jones is yelling about. i've found this to be an increasingly common reaction from left leaning people as of late, to attack the source when information is presented that conflicts with their world view. particularly when it comes to all the information leaking about criminal activity in the DNC/clinton foundation. people just don't want to hear it.

from a certain perspective AJ has a good track record, example he called obama being a fraud before the 08 election when this wasn't a popular opinion. obviously it's debatable, but a much larger amount of people now hold this view after 8 years of his policies. all depends on your perspective. certainly the fact that infowars is bigger than ever isn't because they've been dead wrong about things. he'd been banging on about the clintons and the clinton foundation long before the leaks showed a lot of the conspiracy 'theories' to be facts.

I appreciate the post, and I agree with most of the aims of the plan there, but do you really think any of this is within the realms of likelihood? Do you think any of it will actually happen? Do you think Trump is the man who will make it happen?

 

I'm not saying that because it is unlikely you should not support it. You've highlighted one good point about the man -- at the least, he has a desire to make some positive changes. But so did Obama, and I see people on here claiming he's ushered in the end of humanity. So... is one reason, one unrealistic 5-point plan, a good reason to be pro-Trump?

 

 

 

Well I said I'd stay out of it but it's pretty damn good theatre..

i think there's more chance that someone who isn't already a career politician could follow through with curbing the influence of money in politics, than the alternative. he's a unique candidate in that sense, largely self-funded and has maintained a consistent view on incompetence in politics for decades. it isn't just stuff he's pulling out of a hat, he's literally been saying it since the 80s.

the case for trump is largely economic. some of it involves the assumption that the system as it exists today is unsustainable and needs to be torn down and the pieces picked up in a way that will be productive. and that some type of big crash/dislocation in the IMF$ system is inevitable. you see how trump's experience with handling bankruptcies and debt might be relevant? he certainly seems to have a better grasp of economics than many of the top 'experts' in this field, no doubt from his real world business experience https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4544001/donald-trump-1991-house-hearing-us-economic-recovery-depression-vs-recession

you kind of need to read between the lines when he talks about renegotiating international trade, he can't give it to people straight because to say default is political suicide. take away trade deficits and you take away the grounds for much of the debt, which is the parasitic banking system's lifeblood. he's also dropped hints like mentioning how the fed is politicized and ZIRP is a huge bubble, but doesn't go into too much as it's over the average person's head. but this is what he's effectively proposing, trigger some sort of default/recalibration of the global economic system, lots of pain the short term but will allow the US to come out stronger in the long term. weed out an inefficient, fradulent financial system by letting the chips fall. the alternative to keep going along as things are is a far more dangerous path, both politically and socially.

that's my 2cents.