rideforever

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  1. Yes ... you have to consider animals. 

    If you watch squirrels in the garden, see how mindful they are, their heads constantly moving mindful of this mindful of that ... they have 100% mindfulness of the external world ... 

    But this is not a practice that leads to self-realisation, squirrels are not self realised.

     

    Self-realisation is when the subject develops a new relationship with the subject ... it enters itself and a new form of intelligence is born, an intelligence that knows itself.

     

    The subject has to BE inside the subject.   Not look at it but Be in it, and certainly not look at any objects.

     

    The bones are interesting because they are external subjectivity, they have an organic subjective ... it is quite an easy practice and accessible, it's a very good bridge.

    It also has very strong energetic and health benefits, and esoteric powers are associated with the bones, all round an interesting practice.

     

    But self-realisation and  the true subject of course comes from the centres of consciousness, of the heart and of the dantien etc.., which are the true internal of the soul.

     

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  2. It's very simple, so I will explain it for you.

     

    Mindfulness is when you connect to objects, for instance in the list of White Skeleton "Meditation" skin hair nails etc...

    This is a practice using where your attention rests on objects.

    This is not meditation.

     

    Meditation is when the subject (you) rests inside the subject.

    If you embody your bones, for instance the bones of the tips of your toes of fingers, you will find that it is possible to be inside the bones as they are part of your external subjective structure.

    The subject rests inside the subject.

    This is a significant practice.

     

    Resting your attention on any object be it those listed in the WSM or on a lamp post is not a significant practice.

    Birds for instance spend their entire day being mindful of many things, and it's not a spiritual practice.

     

    Now Virtue, you can kiss the ass of as many authorities as you wish to, kneel down ... but that is different to knowing anything.  You should wake to the fact that the a spiritual seeker can not cling to the apron of some authority and hope they will do it for you.  Similarly other of your friends talk endlessly about lineages and mattress FaJin.  You guys need to wake up, that is not cultivation ... that is asking somebody to do your work for you.

    You are lucky that I trip up your small mindedness, nobody else will bother with you.

     

    About Bodri, I never heard of him ... but what he has said in that book, and this practice is not good ... perhaps he has other things, perhaps not.

     

    It seems to be inspired by a misunderstanding of the yogic tradition of watching bodies burn on a pyre.  But that is not mindfulness.

    If you go to a pyre and rest your attention on different objects, like the Ganga, or the wood, or the flames, or the skirt of the girl over there ... you are doing exactly the wrong thing.

    To see death is supposed to wake you the fuck up. 

    It's not a time to avoid what's going on.

     

    If you want to do an actual meditation on the skeleton, then it has to be subjective and involve ... the skeleton ... meaning the bones !  These are available and are very good.

     

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  3. Bodri ... seems like another modern charlatan, in the synopsis of his book on Amazon he says :
    "There are many possible different final objectives for spiritual practitioners"

    This is not correct, there is only one path of development for a human soul.

    Seems that he does a White Skeleton Meditation ... which is a strange label for it ... because it is not meditation and it is not about the skeleton, he has some mindfulness of different body parts in the instructions : pus, faeces, hair, nails etc...

    This is not meditation.

    True meditation on the bones ... not the skeleton ... is to embody the bones, which means you feels them as your self.  Therefore it is subjective "I am inside".  Rather than mindfulness ... "I notice that object".

    Mindfulness as it has degenerated of late is not meditation as it is objective (of objects) ... it is about noticing things, rather than being inside the bones.

    Being inside the bones is a very good practice.

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  4. 16 hours ago, Nungali said:

    Yep .... thats the spirit  ... as usual 

     

    You old timers are the spirit of tdb ... ... how does it go, some young fool arrives in the website and you and your friends grind them down, then head to the bar for a XXXX and hug each other.

    Later one of you opens up a thread ... ... and tells your (yawn) ... tale of woe ... the internet is unfair !

    Wow, what exactly are you cultivating here ... knicker twisting ?

    Gooday mate !!!

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  5. 18 hours ago, Nungali said:

    The amount of times I have tried to engage this guy  ^   reasonably , even when he started a topic and asked questions and I responded on topic relevantly

     

    Sorry, I didn't notice.  Where your questions any good ?!!

    Don't worry it's a bit late now.


  6. 24 minutes ago, silent thunder said:

    I'm sure the feeling was mutual mate.

     

    Not really, I got some nice books from Greenpeace after I left and some mugs with tigers on them.
    I had worked hard for them, I just realised they were going to fail.

    That's not of interest to most people, who live as straw dogs, have families ... and all of them die as straw dogs.


  7. 2 hours ago, Walker said:

    Sir

     

    At ease Walker ... there is no need to call me Sir on the forum.  

     

    Yeah, you know I used to be a liberal, radical liberal.  When I was young.  But then I realised how stupid it was imagining money grows on trees.  I worked for some NGOs for a few years in London, I was pretty passionate about saving the world back then.  But after working shoulder to shoulder with these guys ... I started realising they were cowardly worms, with statistics.

    Ultimately I realised that they would fail because they were gutless cowards.
    And so it has proven.

    Glad I left when I did.


  8. 11 hours ago, Bindi said:

    Actually, most of the moderators were directed to leave by the owner of the site for holding right wing views.

     

    If you want to isolate yourself from 95% of the universe because they are "right wing" ... then CV19 is the least of your problems.


  9. 1 hour ago, C T said:

    Fauci

     

    I am not American, but I heard Fauci has served the last 6 presidents of all colours and is therefore very much a trusted person.

    If you are sore about Trump ... and I assume it is simply because as you say you do not spiritual practice and are therefore one of the robots on the left ... then you will be sore for a few years more.

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  10. You lot are so stupid.

    You do the same to Heartbreak as you do to ... other members ... other personalities and other issues.

    It's the only thing you do on this forum.

    Maybe ... you are the problem.

    If you haven't noticed everyone else left ... even the moderators.

    You are like those ghosts in the hotel in the Shining ... you just keep on ... finding someone to do the little dance around.

    ... it's all getting too much ... 


  11. 5 hours ago, C T said:

    Why do always come across as majorly angry & bitter?

     

    Anyone who is striving for the real is in mortal conflict with this world.  Many of the sages condemned this world and everyone in it as hollow insincere and parasitical.  It is anti life.  And they condemned it to burn to the ground without mercy, and forecast an apocalypse to punish everyone here.

    But maybe they had no sense of humour ... opinion is divided on the subject.