blue eyed snake

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  1. The Cool Picture Thread

    Noh actor, second half of 19th century
  2. How does it work?

    oh yippie, i am free to believe what i want.
  3. How does it work?

    that's a preconceived notion, no concentration needed, what opens it up is a quality of the heart. You do assign meaning, i don't
  4. How does it work?

    yes, you put that very well, there is a bit of overlap, like a venndiagramm. But the mysteries are vast and the overlap is small. Furthermore a lot of psychology is not very scientific or useful either.
  5. How does it work?

    course not, i have zero trust in psychotherapists, they can lay on their own divans and analyze their own shit seem to remember they do not probably psychoanalytics wow, can you be more dedainful
  6. How does it work?

    Several reasons, apart from methodological problems, every single westerner is steeped in a culture that denies that reincarnation can exist. It goes against the grain, it's a paradigm hard to uproot. Christianity says it does not exist, we are born, live and then we go to heaven. literally, the onceborn One does not go squarely against the church, apart from being bad for your immortal soul, it could have repercussions on the amount of bread you could bring to the table. It's always the safer thing to lay low and conform to the groupnorms. That mister Stevenson had the guts to stick his head above the parapet, i perceive that as laudable the other thingie I mentioned was near death experiences, very intereesting
  7. How does it work?

    grin the discussion above is sort of what I meant that i try to stop interpreting and storytelling about 'practice' or 'spiritual development' the Dao that can be talked about is not the real Dao
  8. How does it work?

    MB types meh low validity
  9. How does it work?

    in your earlier posts you are clearly talking about interpreting, which to me is useless, storytelling. indicative of meditative progress i was born with that white light shining its clear light on me. But it's no matter to me, you can see it as you like and I see it different. that's the beauty of all those different people down here, all those different ideas
  10. How does it work?

    there's quite a bit of research on near death experiences and reincarnation nowadays, you may want to read up a bit before judging
  11. How does it work?

    Schrodinger's Luke speaks wisdom here, thank you
  12. How does it work?

    ah, I see were you're coming from. I am coming from the other direction, western medicine has several times endangered and abused me and I regard energetic work, to choose some words, as the biggest gift I got in this life. energetic healings are no spells either. and regarding any addiction, I would always advise a threepronged route. Body, energetics and mind/mental things should be targeted. My trust in doctors and psychotherapists is close to zero, with good reason.
  13. How does it work?

    they gave or give me a dejavu feeling
  14. How does it work?

    "right view" well, sounds a bit empty to me so something happens, an 'experience' lets say you became aware of light shining from above, as if you sit under a lamp. I recognize that. now you can attach some terms to it, i am not good at terms, Buddhists will have a name and a concept for it, Daoists will, I've known a shaman who called it the white light from above, or maybe the high white light, something like that. Then we have the Christians who may think of the holy spirit. No Idea how Moslims and Sufi's would look at this phenomena. What more do we have, all of the Hinduism related philosophies of life. Aboriginals, maybe Nungali knows about that. The indigenous peoples of America, the Egyptian cultures from long ago et cetera Probably I left out most lifephilosophies but this will do. An endless list of names and concepts for being aware of a light shining above your head. Now please tell me, what is the right name, the right concept, the right view?
  15. Stranger things

    My son liked to play one of the early versions as a kid. I remember explaining this to him a bit.
  16. How does it work?

    we'll never know about the original poster but his self cobbled practice was the nicest setup to get fucked up with too much energy going up and now way to get it down. there are several online teachers that have good reputation, you can find some threads here on the forums. They teach safe practice, building foundation first and, as I understood it, you can contact them ( or probably their senior students ) when problems arise
  17. How does it work?

    Now that's a perfectly neutral intervention, well done and thank you _/|\_
  18. How does it work?

    am also uninterested in the judgment from other people regarding what I experience, I'd rather not speak about in fact. bu what is the use of that? what does it matter whether you call it this or that, some years later you will see you interpreted it wrongly anyway, we seem to have different ideas on that
  19. How does it work?

    i try not to interprete anymore, interpretation is useless mindtalk, just be
  20. How does it work?

    I 've not made a mockery of any religion as far as I am aware
  21. How does it work?

    what a sweet lady
  22. Stranger things

    wow, thanks for posting
  23. How does it work?

    not really, would be a book so you'd better read one of the books already written point is I used to be like you, at least what I read here from you. you are a smart young lady that is very rational in the way she perceives the world, I was in academics too and that sharpens the mind to work like that. That's a good quality but it's not all there is. ehm, you read the golden flower? no matter, here's a link.https://thesecretofthegoldenflower.com/index.html Its the most well known and reasonable accessible text but when you read it many parts read like total hogwash, some of that is because its shrouded in terms, but another part turns out to be quite literal. I started training before I did read anything, so when i read this for the first time for instance chapter 3 paragraph 3 3. Only after concentrated work of a hundred days will the light be genuine, only then will it become spirit-fire. After a hundred days, from a point of real yang in the light, suddenly a millet pearl is born by itself, I have been aware of the birth of that milletpearl, had at the time no idea what happened until reading this, it's a very literal description. and there are more literal descriptions in that little book. this one was a very clear recognition too, this is an exact description chapter 6 paragraph 6 6. , when one has entered the state of meditation, it is like one`s spirit is in a valley. When one hears someone else talking, it is as if one hears it from about half a kilometer away, yet clearly. It sounds like an echo in a valley. One definitely hears it and yet it is not oneself that hears it. ----- but when you have not had those experiences you would regard the birth of a milletpearl as hogwash/ delusional. being just as rational an animal as you are I was quite happy i had been training before I read this ( and other) books. Neither is a story about a spirit in a valley especially elucidating. there are some things you cannot learn with the rational mind, it needs to be set aside for awhile. Just like learning to ride a bike, you can know everything there is to know about riding a bike, about balance and vectors and such things. but to learn it you have to climb on and put your body to work. and after you've learned to ride that bike without even having hands on the handlebars you cannot explain to someone how you do it thus is it with cultivation, the only way to find out is to do the practice and to empty the mind
  24. Looking for help

    this thread won't be locked and the disturbance has nothing to do with you or the topic of the thread. You're not the first and sadly won't be the last that comes here with problems like you described. be welcome
  25. How does it work?

    some of you should write a hundred lines " i must not ridicule the religion of others" " i must not ridicule transpeople"